People will pay loads just to look good. Isn’t it true? Nowadays, there’s a long lineup of different treatments and services, all promising to enhance appearance. People want to look good! This is why if you do it right with the salon business, you can get rich, baby! Thinking of putting up your own parlor? […]

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10TV did an interesting undercover bust operation on three of the popular PC repair centers in the US. And it was very interesting what they eventually found out. What they did was they took a laptop, tweak the BIOS to create an error (a fairly easy fix), and they took it to three leading repair […]

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Nope and it’s not because they’ve won, but it’s because they conceded. It’s not like the case of the Betamax and the VHS where the adult industry was the deciding factor. Almost a year of following this issue and it seems like we have a winner in Blu-ray. Good news for Sony indeed after […]

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We haven’t really raised the issue here but this was big news everywhere else and it should be. A week ago, Microsoft decided to buyout web-pioneer Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. And recently, reports state that Yahoo!’s board decided to reject Billy and his boys’ unsolicited bid.
The bid, apparently places Yahoo!’s shares at just $31 […]

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Oh how enterprising scammers are. While the economy is still reeling from the brunt of the recession scares and with everyone trying to take advantage of the stimulus plan that the congress has been kind to issue the kind populace, scammers have launched ways on how to exploit computing noobs using the stimulus plan as […]

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Speaking of wellness, BBC posted an article about caffeine contents of coffee and tea can do people suffering from type 2 diabetes harm as it increases blood sugar levels. Four cups of joe (or their equivalent in caffeine content) can raise blood sugar levels by 8%.
This effect was shown to be strong after meals rising […]

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So you still put in 60-hour work weeks and you eat reports for breakfast, meetings for lunch, and a lot of paperwork for dinner. Come on. It doesn’t take a medical degree to say that stress kills. But to reiterate that point, BBC has this great article on how Work Stress ‘Changes Your Body.’

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As a discourse analyst by trade, I have been fascinated by language and the Internet. For me, leet has always been the register of gamers and of hackers. Blame it on new and traditional media perhaps but these specialized registers have now become accessible to those who have access. Math jargon have now become popular […]

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Uh… Okay. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google’s storage service is just around the corner.
Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people […]

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This time, the bill’s focused on victim restitution. Sponsored by Democrat Patrick Leahy, the new bill allows:
…victims of identity theft to seek restitution for the time they spend to fix the problems. The bill would allow prosecutors to go after criminals who threaten to take or release information from computers with cyberextortion, and it […]

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I envy my friends who are still riding out the Vista wave, comfortable computing with their PCs and lappies still on XP. Quite honestly, save for one guy who’s running on a rig with a 5.7 Windows Experience Index, everyone’s doing just fine. Be it for daily office productivity, gaming, and the Internet, XP […]

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Keyboard ninjas might have had a hard time trying to adjust to the new search bar. While I have to admit that it has made it easier for me to run programs using the keyboard, some power users might just miss the powers of the Run command. And coming from XP where the Run […]

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Office politics doesn’t only involve people with varying levels of authority. So it’s not just your relationship with your boss that demands attention. Most of the politics involved in the workplace is with your co-workers. Basically you have two types - your friend and your foe. And it’s always the latter who’d give you a […]

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Traveling does have its risks. Not because you’re safely in a hotel, you’d be lax with your things. While a lot of hotels boast of beefy security, it’s practically impossible for them to cover all rooms and all hallways. Thievery, both petty and grand, almost always happens right under our noses. It always pays to […]

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You really have to applaud how the UK is approaching they could service their citizens. Their latest move? Provide a one-time payoff of 200 quids to pregnant women from the 29th week of pregnancy. This is aimed to address the concerns of infant mortality and health inequality gaps.
Poor diet among expecting mothers is the leading […]

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