Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Until very recently Chinese internet users were prohibited from seeing some of the Wikipedia pages due to the fact that they were considered to be inappropriate by the Chinese government. The site has been reported to be unblocked in several major cities in this country including its capital city. As ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Your online passwords are something that many hackers around the world will attempt to hack. In many places in the internet we are required to provide a password in order to gain access to forums, games etc. You can outsmart hackers by making a difficult password. There are many tricks ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
When buying a new hard drive it is important to understand that there are different types of HDD’s such as SATA and IDE. If you want to have a SATA HDD, you have to make sure that your motherboard has a SATA connector. In many computer stores customers are not ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Running games in windowed mode has many advantages. We live in the era of emails, instant messengers and browsers. If you play a game in a windowed mode you still have access to all of the programs and even if you are playing a single player game, in the meantime ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Most games allow you to change graphical settings, but in my opinion it is important that there should be as many as possible graphical options for few reasons. Probably the most important is that reducing graphical details would allow people who have older computers to play games which they normally ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Most of us have seen parachutes in movies, especially action movies. But what do parachutes have to do with planes? Let me explain why this article is entitled this way. Usually the only thing that parachutes have to do with planes is that they are stored on them, so that ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I was thinking recently what a challenging job it is to be a teacher how teaches computer science. With the technology progressing so fast and students getting smarter and more knowledgeable day after day, it is becoming more and more difficult for a person to keep pace with all the ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
There is a lot of illegal software being sold or downloaded and the numbers are growing. One of the reasons this is possible is because hackers are able to crackany software protection that the developers put in place. It is actually quite scary that hackers are able to do so, ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
I know that sometimes people have a feeling that someone is reading their email, but while that might sound paranoid there are hackers who are able to hack into many email account. One way to discover if your email is not being hacked is to set a trap. Here ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
When I visit news sites very often there is talk about Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA) referring to the obligation of beta testers of not releasing any information about the game to the public. These days you can observe many games which are either lifting NDA or are implementing them and ...
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