How to Thoroughly Clean Your Keyboard (Without Breaking Anything)

Your keyboard is one of your most important peripherals, but it’s bound to get clogged with dirt and grime over time. Dust off, scrub down, and clean up your number one input device safely with these tips.

Desktop Fun: Heroes of DC Comics Wallpaper Collection

DC Comics has a great line-up of super hero characters and we have gathered together some of DC’s finest for you in today’s collection. Give your desktop super powers with our Heroes of DC Comics Wallpaper collection.

Google City Tours

Google Labs has a new experimental project that could become a part of Google Maps: City Tours. The service "helps you identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major cities. You just specify the location of your hotel and the length of your trip and City Tours will map out an itinerary for you," explains Google.

Protect Your Facebook Account From Malware Attacks

Phishing is all too easy on Facebook. Someone (you don't really know who) sends a friend request which you, of course, accept. Then he posts a tempting item on your Wall like, "Shocking video of Britney and J-Lo in a hot tub" with a link to the purported video. You click, and a fake YouTube page appears. 

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How to Buy a GPS

Follow our directions to find the best stand-alone GPS device to get you where you're going without breaking the bank along the way.

Then read about:
The 10 Best GPS Devices

How To Recover After Your Email Password Is Compromised

Your friends are reporting spam and pleas for money originating from your email account and some of your logins aren’t working; you’ve been compromised. Read on to see what to do right now and how to protect yourself in the future.

XnConvert - edit your photos

This program is a powerful, batch photo editor which can apply edits to your folder photos all at once. With XnConvert  you can perform multiple conversions at once. You can resize, rotate and crop. You can also add text and watermarks. XnConvert has  tools for color balance and color changes. It has filters like blur and emboss. It also has tools for adding a border or making your photo look like an oil painting. XnConvert handles almost every image file format. You have total control over duplication and filename. And it is FREE!

 

Top 10 Geeky Projects to Earn Yourself a Memorial Day ER Visit

What better way to kick off your summer than building something to dazzle your neighbors with a symphony of booms, zaps, thumps, and other assorted better-call-the-ambulance noises? Read on as we highlight 10 geeky and dangerous projects.

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What's a firewall, and how do I set one up?

Many types of viruses and other types of malware can be prevented simply by using a good firewall. In your car, a firewall is the "wall" of metal between you and the engine. Its purpose is to prevent engine fires from reaching you.
A firewall for your computer is much the same - the point is to keep you from getting burned. Read more...

tinySpell

Occasionally you need to check spelling in an application that does not include a spelling checker and you don't want to launch your word processor just for that. This is when tinySpell becomes handy. It is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application.
tinySpell can watch your typing on the fly and alert you whenever it detects a misspelled word.
It can also check the spelling of text that you copy to the clipboard.
tinySpell installs itself in the system tray for easy access.

New Way to Get Air Flight Information with Google Search

Just in time for the summer travel season, Google announced today that it was making it easier to get flight information. It is now very simple to find out which airlines service a particular route and what the flight times are.

Free Online Service Helps Find Your Stolen Camera

Most cameras store a small amount of data within each picture that they take, in a format called EXIF. This data includes the serial number of the camera.
The site at StolenCameraFinder.com trawls the web, looking inside millions of image files and making a note of each image's URL and the camera's serial number.
 
So if your camera ever gets stolen, use the site to upload a picture that you took with the camera while it was still in your possession. The system will then compare that picture with the database, and show you any other pictures on the web that were taken with it.
Which might just help you recover your stolen camera or help you remember where you left it.

Do I Need Microsoft System Sweeper?

Some malware can render Windows-based anti-malware programs impotent, or even prevent the operating system from loading at startup. Microsoft has a released a beta (test) version of a recovery program that can boot from CD or USB flash drive, allowing users to clean infected machines without loading Windows or depending on your anti-virus software . It can also find and eliminate hidden rootkits.

 

A better way to play your music.

Music Beta by Google: Listen anywhere, even offline.

You can get to your personal music collection at home or on the go. Listen from the web or any enabled device with the Music app available from Android Market. Not online? No problem. The songs you've recently played will automatically be available offline. You can also select the specific albums, artists and playlists you want to have available when you're not connected.

 

 

iOffer.com: A Place to Buy, Sell & Trade

Buying on iOffer is easy.

Once you have found an item you like, you can either buy it at the seller's asking price or make the seller an offer. Increase the chances of a seller accepting your offer by creating a Group Offer.

•     No Listing Fees
•     Free iOffer store
•     Import your items and rating from eBay and other sites.