10 Best Ways to Use Your PC While You’re Sleeping or At Work – There’s only so much a processor can handle at once. That’s why we keep our home PC powered on while we’re at sleep or at the office. Forget about energy savings—a powerful PC is meant to be utilized!
The Secret World of Private BitTorrent Trackers – Somewhere on the web is the ultimate music site. It has virtually every album, EP and single ever released in a variety of high-quality formats with insanely fast download speeds. You’re probably not allowed in.
30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark – We’ve put together a list of 30 of our favorite web apps and services. We’ve tried to keep them on the lesser-known side, but a few of the classic have snuck their way in.
Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters – Microsoft’s powerful home theater centerpiece, Windows Media Center, is easily one of the best applications that ships for free with Windows. But you can still make it better—and take it into new realms—with these plug-ins, helper apps, and tweaks.
DRAM Market, Prices Expected to Jump – If you haven’t stocked up on DRAM lately, expect to pay more for the privilege. A Thursday report from iSuppli predicts that the memory market, and prices, are on the rise.
The Security Threat Within: Social Networking and Web 2.0 – Small and medium sized businesses know they face security threats, but aren’t sure what to do about them, according to a recent survey of IT professionals. Here are the top threats looming in 2010 that threaten to derail business operations.
25 Decade-Shaping Technologies – The products and technologies were chosen based on the impact they had not only on the decade that was but on the decade that will be.
FTC Shuts Down ‘Work From Home’ Scammers – Commission ends operations for some 70 online job scams.
Off Topic:
Google Probably Not Making You Stupid, Report Says – Does the plethora of information available on the Internet contribute to our overall knowledge, or do the bite-sized snippets of information the Web provides make us less likely to read or search out more in-depth content – essentially making us stupid?
Talker Starts Crap With 67 Yr Old Man, Gets Ass Beat (Video) – An ignorant man on a bus gets what he deserves.
Why Credit Card Companies Will Own Your Grandkids [CHART] – For decades, credit cards have been a means by which large banks have loaned money to poor people at interest rates approaching infinity.
Homeopathy Successfully Treated Flu Epidemic of 1918 – Homeopathy was successful in treating the flu epidemic of 1918 and can provide answers to questions about the 2009 Swine Flu. (submitted by Dar).
Today’s Quote:
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly”.
- Michel de Montaigne
Today’s Free Downloads:
Nuance PDF Reader – Nuance’s first free PDF reader is a strong entry to the growing field of zero-cost Adobe Reader alternatives. It has a reasonable set of features, including free document conversion via the Nuance Web site, and a crisp interface that should be accessible to anybody.
Any FLV Player 2.03 – Any FLV Player is a basic program that allows users to play and publish Flash video files. Because the average media player can’t handle FLV files, Any FLV Player is a useful program to have around if you frequently download videos from sites like YouTube.
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