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How To Read Premium Online News Articles For Free

January 9, 2010

Some online publications like Wall Street Journal requires premium membership for their news articles. In other words, you can read their publications only if you subscribe for it. Although Wall Street Journal has some free content too but all the premium content is behind a “pay-wall” and you should be a paid subscriber to read [...]

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Create Shortened Goo.gl Links (Bookmarklet)

December 18, 2009

The new URL shortening service Goo.gl by Google is only available for Google products for now, and it is not available for broad consumer use. However, Matt Flaschen has created a bookmarklet that you can add to your favourites bar and use it to shorten any long URL you want.
Goo.gl This Page! <— goo.gl bookmarklet
Just [...]

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Declutter Your Gmail Page With “Minimalist Gmail” Firefox Extension

November 18, 2009

If you are a Gmail user (which you should be if not) and access your account from a browser, then you are probably sick of some clutter in your page that you never use, stuff like the invitation box, banner ads, the chat box and etc.
Minimalist Gmail is a Firefox Extension that selectively lets you [...]

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How To Control Your Mac With Tweets

August 30, 2009

TweetMyMac while still in beta is a free app for your Mac that will let you remotely control your machine from anywhere with your tweets.
TweetMyMac will let you take screenshots, shutdown your computer, capture iSight images and many more commands. You just have to send a DM to one of your special Twiter account that [...]

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How To Safely Share Large Files With Encryption

August 30, 2009

Many people need to share large files, but with the limitations of email attachments, they use services such as SendSpace, YouSendIt and many more instead.
Streamfile is however a different service as it encrypts the files you share with a 256-bit AES SSL encryption, so the files you share are very secure. It also does not [...]

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How To Hide A Password In A Floppy Disk

August 30, 2009

If you want a very low-tech but practical solution to remember your password, then one option is to hide it in a floppy disk. Literally.
Yes this means, writing your password on a peace of paper and then hiding it behind the spring load cover in a floppy disk. You were thinking, who uses those sucky [...]

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Adding A Retweet Button To Blog Posts

August 19, 2009

Update: Wow! to be completely honest, I actually  never noticed this until I hit publish and visited Retweet.com. So when I have already done it, then why not enter? I am no longer a participant.
Retweet.com which just launched today afternoon is a direct competitor to a popular digg-like site based on retweets TweetMeme. Even though [...]

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