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How the Kindle DX will revolutionize reading

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Many analysts suggest that the Kindle DX is just a “larger” version of the Kindle 2. For those who do not know about the Kindle DX, let me enlighten you on the features that are involved . In order to allow you to recognize the fresh features, they will be listed below the normal attributes:• 9.7-inch E-Ink 1200 x 824 screen including 16 shades of grey. • One third of an inch thick, now 10.4″ x...

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Windows 7 RC review

http://techcombo.com/windows-7-rc-review

Microsoft has been pouring their heart and soul into creating Windows 7, which could be their best operating system up until now, according to analysts. There has been much controversy over the release of Windows 7 in the last month or so, as you may have observed. Initially, Windows 7 RC was to be announced publicly on May 5th, but earlier for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. However, a couple...

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Ubuntu Tips and Tricks

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Having already made a review on the newly released Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, I would like to express a number of basic Ubuntu tips, which many of you may have heard of before but for the sake of the Ubuntu beginners, bear with me! These tips and tricks which I am going to explain will work practically on most Ubuntu distro’s, but not on all of them.Alter the colour of your UbuntuIn order to...

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Windows 7 Free for 1 year

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No difficulties- all you need to do is download it on May 5th before the site gets overloaded!Good news for all computer lovers as Microsoft Co. has announced that they will permit users to using Windows 7 Release Candidate. Since it is out of Beta and near completion, it is virtually supplying users with a free operating system for just over a year, which incidentally a longer preview than...

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Gaming-Solutions Review

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Gaming-Solutions is a professional hosting provider offering professional services for gamers, clans or communities. The company dropped onto the internet in early 2009 and are working and aiming to provide a quality of service unmatched in this industry. There highest priority is to provide the highest quality servers for the lowest costs.They are UK Based company with one of the fastest...

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60% of Twitter users leave after 1 month

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According to analysts, research has suggested that more than 60% of Twitter users stop using the social network within 30 days, most of whom use it for commercial gain.As you can see from the above graph, at this moment in time Twitter has a retention rate of 40% demonstrating that over 60% quit the micro-blogging service, for most they have had enough of the facebook shortened micro blogging...

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Microsoft introduce social networking site Vine

http://techcombo.com/microsoft-introduce-social-networking-site-vine

Microsoft have officially unveiled a beta version of its new social network VineThe social network enables you to transfer valuable news to small organizations such as your local book club. It is a lot like twitter, as you are able to send a similar number of characters as the micro blogging service and maintain contact with your friends. It is available via a downloadable app...

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100 DVDs on a Disk is on the horizon

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G.E report that the New York company, has made huge progress in digital storage technology. This tech will supposedly enable normal DVD disks (usually 4.7 GB) to support an astounding 100 DVDs.However, we warn you not to get too complacent because this is still in the initial stages, in fact the product is still in the lab! In addition to it still being in development, the invention requires to...

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Windows 7 Release Candidate New and Improved features

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Just to hype more news surrounding the highly speculated Windows RC, I feel the need to outline some new and improved features, which some of you may of heard before, but nevertheless for those who are a stranger to what is heading our way, this will be eye-opening preview.First of all, I shall reveal some of the cool, new features that Windows 7 RC will contain,- Flip your Windows with Aero...

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Actinic Express Review

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Actinic Express is an extremely useful tool for young entrepreneurs who have passed the first stage in planning out what is going to be sold on the site and have a domain name already set up, all paid for in advance. Now, all online entrepreneurs want to have a solid, well designed site in their hands. However, I personally think that as much as the design matters, the payment refinement system...

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Hulu iPhone app coming soon

http://techcombo.com/hulu-iphone-app-coming-soon

Online streaming video service which offers a wide range of shows and movies, Hulu, are in the course of producing a new exciting app for the iPhone, and will be with us in just a couple of months.This is possibly the best time to release the app as it is near when the iPhone will update its software to 3.0 meaning a lot of changes, including this one, will be on its way. The one problem Hulu...

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Mozilla say Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 will be here on time within next week

http://techcombo.com/mozilla-say-firefox-35-beta-4-will-be-here-on-time-within-next-week

Surprisingly, the Mozilla corporation will actually be in the position to release the highly anticipated, Firefox 3.5 Beta 4. This new update will most likely be the last of its kind until the real big browser comes into play, Firefox 3.5.This came as a big thrill to me as you all have realised over the last few beta releases, they have been remarkably late! To refresh your memory,they stopped...

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Yahoo to close down Geocities

http://techcombo.com/yahoo-to-close-down-geocities

Yahoo have publicly announced that it will shut down Geocities service in the Summer, which it paid a staggering $4 billion for over a decade ago. However, Yahoo urge geocities customers to move to another free service, “Yahoo! Web Hosting.”Comscore Media Metrix reports suggest when Geocities was first bought by Yahoo in 1999, was the 3rd biggest site behind AOL and Yahoo. The report showed...

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Facebook’s Site Governance Vote, was it an unfair poll?

http://techcombo.com/facebooks-site-governance-vote-was-it-an-unfair-poll

In late February when Facebook declared that it was going to produce its own site governance to user poll, Facebook CEO said this action was a unprecedented effort to enable participation on the web. Now, can you stand here and say you believe that? I thought you might not.To support this theory, huge global privacy watchdog, Privacy International revealed to the world that they thought this...

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Lowpings Game Server Provider In-Depth Review

http://techcombo.com/lowpings-game-server-provider-in-depth-review

Lowpings.net was founded just six years ago in 2003. Countless numbers of European Gamers who are mostly professionals, use lowpings highly managed hosting and as it is such a great service the gaming community tend to stay with Lowpings purely because the company has built up so much positive respect.In addition to professional gamers, Lowpings address the casual gaming community which as we...

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Firefox future could be without tabs

http://techcombo.com/firefox-future-could-be-without-tabs

How did you come to know Firefox? For me it came after my best friend said, “have you used that web browser that is meant to be better that Internet Explorer?” I replied in saying, “there is no browser better than Internet Explorer, which I was soon proved wrong and to this day I use Mozilla Firefox as well as the other 100 million of the population that did the same.Whilst we go on with our...

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Google try to start 3D Web with O3D

http://techcombo.com/google-try-to-start-3d-web-with-o3d

Google, who recently announced their impressive turnover, on Tuesday unveiled an interesting piece of software, O3D to bring accelerated 3D graphics to browsers, though it seems not to be the first time a company has tried to make one of these 3D web applications utulizing the advantages of the PC games played nowadays. The last one was in the 1990s, whow were called Virtual Reality Markup...

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Windows 7 RC to be announced publicly on May 5th

http://techcombo.com/windows-7-rc-to-be-announced-publicly-on-may-5th

This time Microsoft have a set date for the release of Windows 7 RC, so it will not be belated!Microsoft Partners has been renovated and now states that Windows 7 Release Candidate will announced to the community on May 5th 2009, which is only 10 days away! However, the benefit for you MSDN and Technet subscribers is that you can download it right now!In addition to the release date, I think it...

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