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BBC Director General Mark Thompson said that YouTube was “a key gateway through which to engage new audiences in the U.K. and abroad.” YouTube attracts an estimated 70 million users each month. One new channel, “BBC Worldwide,” will show clips from hit BBC programs including motor show [...]

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Microsoft is not just encouraging PC owners to use Microsoft, now, they’re encouraging those who would want to explore programming to do it with them.
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center - a site that offers lessons and “how-to” videos on programming using Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.
You can start even [...]

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TechPwn wrote this great reminder on how to save time when reading stuff on your Mac. It can be found in the Services menu. Here’s something on how to use it, courtesy of TechPwn.
Here is how to use summarize…
1. Open the program that holds the text you would like to summarize (it doesn’t work [...]

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The Apple Gazette launched this cool service that allows you to make your own Apple Rumor.
It’s a great chart that’d help you create credible sounding rumors. But I assure you that our sister blog doesn’t base their own rumors from anything too unfounded.
Create your own Rumor here.

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CSS is a skill any web designer, even newbies, should learn off the bat. Here’s a post from a while back about 53 important CSS techniques.
It’s a really great list of various techniques that you can use in customizing your website’s visuals and functionality.

Here’s the link.

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Project Gutenberg has helped a great many of us obtain open domain texts. Practically free books online (some priced at $20 in print, take five books and that’s a good hundred bucks). But reading plain text can be really a bore.
Here’s yet another good freeware that lets you read those plain text e-books book [...]

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Now this is absolutely a killer home office set-up I found on Digg. This is Stefan Didak’s home office.
Now my home office rig seems so… so pitiful compared to this rig. It makes me cry.
Anyway, you can view the gallery here and his FAQ (yes he has for this rig!) here.

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Yet another turn in office productivity suites. Corel’s long-running word processor (which has long been overshadowed by Microsoft Word in terms of popularity) meets a milestone in its release of WordPerfect Lightning Beta.
WordPerfect Beta Lighting offers built-in access to online services which includes collaboration and storage that free users from browser dependence. It [...]

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Here’s a valid question from a reader. I previously posted the freeware Pivot Stickfigure Animator and and he asks:
“How do you put your Pivot videos on YouTube? Whenever I try it says invalid format. I want to put it on.”
To answer that, first of all, Pivot Stickfigure Animator can only save animation as an [...]

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Malicious websites and hackers exploit the browser’s capability of running apps and scripts like Java, Javascript and other executables to wreck havoc on your computer.
Here’s a helpful Firefox add-on to help you stop malicious scripts from running - NoScript. It allows you to filter from which trusted sources your browser will allow to run [...]

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Sometimes some good clean fun can be made with your own pictures and a photo editing software. Now this one’s more than a toy rather than anything else - Distortit.
It’s pretty much similar to the sphere effect in Photoshop where a section of the photo’s magnified, creating a “bulging” effect.
It functions from a stand-alone [...]

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Saw this article from Digg.
Now Speedtest.net used to be a pretty boring site with your common speed stats displayed. But they’ve revamped the site including a pretty snazzy interface and comparison data.
If you’re wondering how your Internet connection matches up with the rest of the world (or if your provider duped you with all [...]

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Firefox 3, which is due out later this year, will probably contain a slew of new features. As as Firefox junkie, I’m all too anxious to get my hands on the final version.
As news has it, 3 will probably include features like offline support for Web applications. One thing they’re also looking at [...]

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Starting a small business may force you to beg and borrow rather than invest immediately on high-end stuff. And there’s a good reason for that. You really have to manage you cash flow first.
But what if you workers will be sitting on worn-out chairs? Sooner or later, they’ll be complaining about bad backs. Discomfort, [...]

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Kids and computers go well with each other nowadays. And many software are really designed for them featuring kid-friendly intuitive interfaces complete with bulging buttons. Anyway, here’s a paint tool that’s designed for kids - Tux Paint.
It’s got enough features to keep kids interested ages 3 and up. It has paint effects, bucket [...]

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