When controversies between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox arise, they often involve Firefox’s numerous extensions, and Chrome’s lack thereof. However, there are quite a few of great extensions that improve the Chrome experience. Chrome’s unofficial Pandora extension is one that can be added to the list of extensions worth having.  Read more...

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The Mac App Store is full of various Twitter clients, at various prices. Finding a well-priced application full of features can be difficult, and spending money on an app that you don’t like is a waste. Kiwi is a well-priced, feature-packed Twitter client that I have been testing since this morning. Here’s what I’ve found:  Read more...

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INQ Mobile, the makers of INQ1, the world’s first Social Mobile to integrate email, IM and social networking into a handset in an intuitive way, are planning to launch the first ever Android based Facebook phone. The handset will be named INQ Cloud Touch, whose pre-production version was given a hands on demonstration by INQ channel manager Andrew Bennet, exclusively to TechCrunch TV. The video shows main features of the phone demonstrating how you can flip through the latest status updates, photos and videos and bring up media from the underlying links in an intuitive Flipboard fashion.  Read more...

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Google, the search engine that gets 1,100,000,000 hits daily, is a remarkable tool that can be used for more than just web searching. Many people use Google more than once a day just for searching. Here are 5 little-known techniques for getting the most out of the world’s most popular search engine.  Read more...

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There is a universal truth to computers, regardless of OS, maker, or model- all computers have problems from time to time. Unfortunately, many consumers would rather buy a new computer than spend time fixing their malfunctioning one. This is a vicious cycle that can be broken, and maybe save you some money in the process. Here are a few reasons you may be tempted to upgrade your computer, and some tips on fixing the problems yourself.  Read more...

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A major hype on the Internet lately is that we are running out of IP addresses. An IP address is used by every device that connects to the Internet, whether it be a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, a desktop, you name it. An IP address is “a numerical label(basically a string of numbers) assigned to each device” that uses the internet. The current version of IP addresses, IPv4, had about 4.3 billion addresses possible. This sounds like a lot, but there are almost 7 billion people on the planet, plus there are many who use more than one Internet-enabled device.  Read more...

Permalink: What Is IPv6 and Why Does It Matter?

Indie(independently developed) games generally don’t become extremely popular because of their rather limited budget and small-scale advertising. Last year, two very big indie games changed things around. Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Minecraft. Both have been huge hits, with Minecraft having sold 1.15 million + licenses currently, and it’s still in beta.  Read more...

Permalink: How To: Easily Set Up a Private Minecraft Beta Server

In this post, you will learn how you can speed up your WordPress blog using a content delivery network or CDN as they’re normally called. A content delivery helps in speeding up any website by serving its assets such as images, videos, JavaScript, CSS and more from the closest servers located to their location instead of just one central location. The data is replicated on each of the servers throughout the world so that every user will be served  the same but data from their closest server. Hence, using a CDN speeds up the delivery of content on your website considerably.  Read more...

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A lot of people complain that their certain VPS provider isn’t up to the mark as their WordPress blog host. The problem is that most bloggers think that just using a VPS is the solution to all their problems but the fact is, it is not, in its un-optimized state. There are a few tricks one needs to pull to be able to get the maximum benefits from their servers. One of them is installing an OpCode cache. What is an OpCode cache and why do you need it? Read more after the break.  Read more...

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Gmail, the free e-mail service provided by Google, is full of great features. Users are given plenty of storage space, the ability to instant message other gmail users, and access to googledocs, Google’s free online alternative to program suites like Microsoft Office or iWork. Unfortunately, along with these great features come some not-so-great ones. The toolbar along the left-hand side is crowded, advertisements take up precious screen space, and a variety of other little annoyances can make the gmail experience less pleasing to the user. The solution: a simple plugin for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox called Minimalist Gmail. Here’s how to install it:  Read more...

Permalink: Unclutter your Gmail inbox using Minimalist Gmail!