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50% Discount on iola Software
If you’ve not heard of iolo during their 11 years life then you’ve probably heard of their products – award-winning tune-up software for your PC. Probably the most popular is System Mechanic, which will automatically repairs errors and fragmentation, cleans out clutter, and tunes up your PC. They also sell anti-virus and disk cleaning and…
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Broadband Speeds
I’m not a fan of all the recent bleating about broadband speeds and how we’re apparently being “conned” by our ISP’s. The wording is already clear… you get “up to” 8 Mbps. You can’t then complain that you only get 2 or 3. However, testing your actual connection speed is something else entirely. How do…
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Firebug and online banking
Over the last few days I’ve had a problem accessing my online banking (in this case Alliance and Leicester) from Firefox. Internet Explorer was fine. After running Firefox in safe mode (run firefox -safe-mode) I realised the issue was with one of my add-ons. With a hunch I launched Firefox normally and disabled Firebug. Sure…
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I Spit My Last Breath at Thee
Ricardo Montalbán, better known to me as Khan Noonien Singh, has died. Very sad. He was possibly one of the best Star Trek “baddies” and made Wrath of Khan what it was – the best Trek film they made. And no, that wasn’t a false chest – that was really him.
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MD5 Hash
Another day, another online tool. This time a quick and simple one – an MD5 hash generator. It doesn’t generate them from a file, but rather from a text string. Simply type in your text and it will return the MD5 hashed equivalent. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you probably don’t need…