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Clickbait Headlines

I’m happy to report that the tidal wave of clickbait headlines — infuriating, manipulative teaser headlines whose writers will do anything to make you click — seems to have peaked....

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Money

Money. We all love it. But do you actually know what money is? What is its value? What are the policies that govern the monetary system? The monetary system is the most misunderst...

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Language

Language as a definition is “A set of spoken, written, or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate a meaning.” Perhaps we should change that definition to include “...

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Why are there too many Linux Distros

Linux (/ˈlinəks/) is An open-source version of the UNIX operating system. It’s kind of a big deal for Servers Mainframes and Super computers. More than 90% of today’s super comput...

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Stephen Hawking

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Intro to SEO

Everyone nowadays seems to be interested in SEO (Search Engine Optimization). On most of the interviews I went to recently I was asked... 'Do you know SEO?' On many occasions I en...

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Samsung bringing AMOLED displays to tablet market

South Korean electronics giant Samsung might be launching the world`s first tablet to feature an AMOLED screen, according to recent reports. Samsung has been a pioneer of AMOLED d...

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Speed up Windows boot time

Every time I install windows on my computer I notice it's booting up and starting up really fast, might be done in less than a minute actually. Later, about a month or 2 (Or somet...

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Installing PHP on Windows 7

PHP is one of the most common web languages out there, Windows is the most used operating system in the world… So I’ll take a wild guess and say many PHP developers use Windows, th...

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4 Killer SEO Tools and How to Use Them

After the fun parts of designing a website, comes the often painstaking process of optimizing it for Search Engines. The good news is aside from the proliferation of information on...

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A Complete Guide on How To Do SEO For A Website.

What is SEO? SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the practice of making your website attractive to search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. Search engines regularly read ...

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How To Do Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Yourself

Basic SEO The basic steps of search engine optimization can and should be carried out by all webmasters as a matter of course. In less competitive markets doing this alone is oft...

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On Page SEO Optimization Techniques

Definition: On Page SEO: "On Page" SEO simply refers to the text and content on your web site pages. Basically editing your page and content so the Search Engine can find your w...

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List of Best and Worst practices for designing a high traffic website

Keywords 1 Keywords in <title> tag This is one of the most important places to have a keyword because what is written inside the <title> tag shows in...

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Blog Stats

Well, I've decided to share the stats (May - October 2010). As you can see the majority of my visitors are from English speaking countries and my native country (Jordan). I find it...

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Facebook Facts

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Reigning Pwn2Own champion: "The main thing is not to install Flash!"

With the Pwn2Own hacking contest coming up at Vancouver's CanSecWest security conference later this month, Italian computer security blog OneITSecurity took some time to intervi...

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Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity

The most productive programmers are orders of magnitude more productive than average programmers. But salaries usually fall within a fairly small range in any company. Even across ...

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Microsoft Security Essentials. How secure is it?

Well, I’ve been using the Microsoft product ever since it was a private beta. I liked it, because it was smooth and light on my computer. Today is occurred to me. How secure is act...

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The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade

With only a few weeks left until we close out the 'naughts and move into the teens, it's almost obligatory to take a look back at the best and not-so-best of the last decade. With...

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How Fanboys See Operating Systems

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I wonder Why !

websites like facebook and twitter have a huge success although no one can deny how stupid and silly they both r ! teenagers can spend 2 weeks talking about movies like twilight a...

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10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

Over time certain conventions and best practices have been developed to help improve the general usability of websites during their design and build. This roundup of ten usability ...

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How To Force Extension Compatibility with Firefox 3.6+

If you’ve already upgraded to Firefox 3.6, you might have noticed that many of your extensions no longer work, and the old checkCompatibility trick doesn’t work anymore. Or does ...

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The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many...

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Windows 7 already bigger than Snow Leopard and Linux combined

It's only been a couple of weeks since Windows 7 was released, but Microsoft's new OS has already captured a larger percentage of the market than Apple's OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard a...

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You spend more time on MSN Messenger than ANYTHING else

To some of you, this might be a shock. To the rest of you that prey on poor, unsuspecting girls with webcams... not so surprised. Apparently 14.5% of all online time is spent ...

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Opera 10 beta 3 speeds up, drops Unite, tweaks interface

Opera 10 beta 3 speeds up, drops Unite, tweaks interface: " Late last night Opera pushed out the third beta of the upcoming v10 . There are plenty of feature updates and changes ...

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.Net Obfuscation

For everyone out there looking for good Obfuscation for Microsoft .NET binaries, You might want to try Eazfuscator.NET . It’s really good, really easy to use and FREE

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Programming Quotes

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug...

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Windows x64

I’ve re-installed windows on my computer this week - (Reverted back from Windows 7 to Vista x64) so I had to install all the software I’m using. I’ve never used Windows x64 before...

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The top 500 worst passwords of all time

From the moment people started using passwords, it didn’t take long to realize how many people picked the very same passwords over and over. Even the way people misspell words is c...

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Another cross platform post

About a couple of months now I’ve decided I was going to make my transition from Windows XP to Windows Vista (A bit too late, I know) So I got my Windows Vista upgradable version t...

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Fix Unresponsive or Frozen Linux Computers using Shortcuts

Linux systems are known for their stable operation, designed to be operational without reboot for years. However if you still manage to pull a string and freeze up your computer th...

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Stupid Geek Tricks: Hide Data in a Secret Text File Compartment

In today's edition of Stupid Geek Tricks (where we show off little-known tricks to impress your non-geek friends), we'll learn how to hide data in a text file that can't be seen by...

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Apple receives patent for the OS X dock

Apple has received a patent for the dock utility for launching applications in OS X. Yes, the dock has been around for the better part of a decade, but Apple applied for the pate...

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Browser battle: Firefox 3.1 vs. Chrome vs. IE 8

Mozilla's second alpha of Firefox 3.1 is upping the ante in the next-generation browser battle. So how do the main contenders stack up so far now? One thing's for sure, the Firefox...

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Ten commandments for developers

In order that applications and operating system shall not drive users insane thou shall: 1. Allow immediate termination I hit the wrong button. I changed my mind. I didn...

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Why Linux isn’t the best option for me

Linux, specifically Ubuntu, is a brilliant operating system. I’ve used quite a few distributions of Linux. Including: Ubuntu Kubuntu OpenSuse DSL (Damn Small Linux) ...

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More reasons why Linux has failed on the desktop

Linux enthusiast Gary Nielsen has listed a few reasons why his desktop is still running the Windows Vista operating system and not an Open Source alternative. His top reason reall...

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Desktop search engines

When the topic of desktop searching is brought, Google desktop and maybe Microsoft "Windows Search" are the only 2 competing software available both for windows only. ...

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Tips for maintainable Java code

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that ...

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Windows Vista experience (installing, uninstalling)

Before I start I just want to make an announcement: "I don't hate Microsoft, I just envy Bill Gates". I've been hearing bad and good things about Windows Vista for ...

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Artificial QuickSort

People, there is a new sorting algorithm in town.. well it's not that new it's been here since 2004 but I've just heard about it It's called the "Artificial QuickSort algorithm" a...

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Another great place for free computer related e-books

Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes Hope you like it, in case you're looking for other sites try searching my blog

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GJay

GJay (Gtk+ DJ) generates playlists across a collection of music (ogg, mp3, wav) such that each song sounds good following the previous song. It is ideal for home users who want a n...

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Audacity - The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about ...

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Free Online Computer Science and Programming Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes | FreeTechBooks.com

No catch. Absolutely free Free Online Computer Science and Programming Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes | FreeTechBooks.com

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Software Engineering Proverbs

Below are some of my favorite Software Engineering quotes. A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein André Bensoussan once explained to me t...

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Popup blocker tester

As you might know, all modern web browsers contain a built-in popup blocker. But the real question is "Does it really work?". This is where our friends at PopupTest.com ...

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Microsoft puts its mouse in Mac clothing

Microsoft is looking to make its Bluetooth notebook mouse more Mac friendly. The emphasis in that sentence is on the word "looking." The software maker hasn't made any software o...

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.NET Framework Library Source Code now available - ScottGu's Blog

The .NET Framework source is being released under a read-only reference license. When we announced that we were releasing the source back in October, some people had concerns about...

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Open source software for Windows

Open source projects are usually free, and more stable than small commercial software. But that's not always true. Anyway if you're looking for open source software to use on Windo...

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Keeping Windows alive - part 3

Registry - The origin of most problems This is the bad part in Windows as an OS. Windows has this very huge data center where the system and many applications can store anything,...

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Keeping Windows alive - part 2

Now that we're done talking about disk cleanup, it's time to discuss disk defragmentation Disk Defragment Disks are always partitioned to those small pieces we call "Allocation...

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Keeping Windows alive - part 1

If you are a download junkie like myself, you must have noticed that after installing and removing software Windows tends to become slow and moody. The simplest answer is to blame ...

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22 Unexpectedly Useful Websites for the Uncommonly Curious

This eclectic list of websites has so many out of the ordinary pleasures that it is hard to know where to start. This unique list has links to many entertaining and/or useful webs...

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Why use FireFox

If you are using IE and you need a browser that doesn't crash, read the following: A Better Web Experience Firefox 1.5 has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses...

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Boost your FireFox

If you've never used about:config , you're missing out. Type about:config into your Firefox address bar and hit Enter. One easy configuration change is limiting animated images....

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Free computer related EBooks

I'm looking to make a huge list of all websites that offer free computer related eBooks, if you have unlisted ones please add as a comment. free-ebooks.net ...

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Is Java a pure Object Oriented Language?

Someone asked me if Java was a pure OOL (Object Oriented Language) or not. Without thinking my answer was yes, "thanks to the incompetent university I went to for 4 years". But I...

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If you have an original Microsoft Windows CD try it

I've read in an article that if you put an original windows CD in the microwave for a minute or two and take it out, it'll be as cold as it was before putting it there. And yo...

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Internet Explorer 7 Vs. FireFox 2

The Contenders For years, Microsoft Internet Explorer has enjoyed near dominance of the Web browser space--but not any more. Since the release last year of Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Fi...

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MySQL 5

I can't come up with a better comment. I mean how can something this good be free??? I still can't find any reasonable answers. I've been using Microsoft SQL Server for so long ...

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2006 Year-End Zeitgeist

I was wondering around the web aimlessly - they call that surfing - and I ran into an article talking about how was the past year bad for Google. I didn't it all, because I saw a w...

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1

I just love Microsoft. I tried to download and install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 . It only took few moments before giving me the "The upgrade patch cannot be installed by t...

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That $200 Windows XP service pack called Vista

More than five years after the release of Windows XP, Windows Vista has arrived. The party line out of Redmond is that "Windows Vista is Microsoft's most secure platform to date,...

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Windows Live Writer

Again, Microsoft is giving Developers the chance to show off their abilities. Even though it's not a big field to play in, still they are proving the customizability of their produ...

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