If you tend to keep up with current news you will no doubt have come across the multitude of stories regarding the European Court of Justice’s recent decision to award individuals the ‘right to be forgotten’. The Right to be Forgotten – Background First off, […]
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Perhaps you’ve read or heard about how coding is the cool thing right now. Kids should be taught it in school; young ladies and gentlemen should be encouraged to get together and start software companies. Everyone should have a go, right? Including you, so read
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Pioneer – Space Adventure/Simulator Pioneer is a space adventure game set in our galaxy at the turn of the 31st century. The game is open-ended, and you are free to eke out whatever kind of space-faring existence you can think of. Look for fame or
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The actual extent of the eBay hack remains unknown at this stage but eBay is in the process of sending out notification emails to all its members advising them to change their passwords. eBay currently has 145 million or so registered users worldwide so this
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AT&T Set to Acquire DirecTV for Almost $50 Billion Seems most transactions these days are counted in the billions. Rumors of the DirecTV acquisition have been circulating for the past few weeks and AT&T has finally confirmed the details. The deal came together at roughly
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Online marketplace eBay has released a statement urging eBay users to change their passwords. The company said hackers attacked between late February and early March with login credentials obtained from “a small number” of employees. The hackers then accessed a database containing all user records
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It amuses me no end whenever I come across rants aimed at the evil Microsoft. I doubt there is another organization that has been as much maligned or the subject of as many conspiracy theories as Microsoft. Money hungry, uncaring and dictatorial are just some
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Chips Challenge – tile based, highly addictive puzzle game. Chips was originally released as part of a Microsoft Best of Entertainment Pack in 1995 and became wildly popular and addictive. It’s a tile based, top-down puzzle game, where you as Chips have to navigate your
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If you have recently upgraded your Windows XP computer to Windows 8, you can still access your Outlook Express messages on your computer and move them into Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird. Windows 8 and Windows 7 should have saved your messages in a folder
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The ability to record and run macros has been a wonderful feature in Word and continues to be in the latest versions of Word. Macros are recorded commands and keystrokes that allow us to save great amounts of time instead of doing the same thing
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E-mail Encryption for Private People Millions of people every day send messages to friends, colleagues, and business contacts, written on postcards. Electronic postcards, but still readable by anyone who cares to pick them up. Would you send a letter without an envelope? Every time you
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Softpedia and Aomei Technology have collaborated in a giveaway of the excellent Aomei Backupper Professional Edition. Aomei Backupper Professional would normally sell for $49.00us but is available free right now through this collaborative offer… expires 26th May. Aomei Backupper – The Software Check out my
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Emulation and Virtualisation For many people, getting older programs to run in newer systems is more about the means than the end. After all, once you finally get the program or game running half way decently, it will need to have the life tweaked
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BlazeVideo is currently running a Memorial Day promotion which includes a giveaway of its very good DVD Copy software. BlazeVideo DVD Copy would normally sell for $49.95us but is currently available free for everyone… offer ends 31st May. BlazeVideo DVD Copy – The Software BlazeVideo
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