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The web is hot with news of a new, free DNS resolver service powered by Google. A DNS resolver will answer requests from your computer or router and translate names (such as www.geekzone.co.nz ) into IP addresses such as 210.48.73.74 – the actual address servers are known by on the Internet. This is not the first third party DNS resolver server around – other well known services include OpenDNS and DynDNS Internet Guide

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Why bother with Google DNS (or any other third party DNS resolver)?

Don’t want to be obsolete before launch Most laptops and netbooks today come with a SDHC flash memory card reader. One of the major benefits of standardization is the ubiquity it allows. Consumers can take a SD or SDHC card from a digital camera or camcorder and transfer the data quickly to a laptop, enabling them to edit and/or email their media files easily

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Lenovo, HP, Dell Integrating SDXC Readers in New 32nm Intel “Arrandale” Laptops

Acer, which last quarter overtook Dell to become the world’s second-largest PC manufacturer, is known as an aggressive company. So it’s little surprise that the company’s chairman, J.T. Wang, vowed this week that Acer would be first to release a netbook using Google’s Chrome OS sometime in the middle of next year.

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Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?

Last Friday, the company vice president sprung a real surprise on me. When he came over to my cubicle, I was fully expecting to be admonished for one reason or another. Much to my shock and delight, he instead asked me to make a financial presentation to the board of directors at their next meeting

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Preparing for the Big Presentation

3 ( three.co.uk ) has reduced the price of its 1GB mobile broadband tariff to just £7.50 a month. Previously £10 a month, 3’s mobile broadband tariff offers download speeds up to 3.6Mbps together with a 1GB monthly data allowance and free USB modem stick. 1GB of data per month is typically enough to send 1,000 emails and use the Internet for around 10 hours

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3 Mobile Broadband Reduced To £7.50 A Month

Word of good buys can go a far way, well despite the financial situation of the store actually offering the bargains. Borders UK and it’s current owners and joint administrators are currently working with the company’s management in order to attempt to sell the business as a going concern.

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Borders UK to wind up business

Today is the last day of term! Two months of back to back hectic lectures, supervisions and lab, all over! well for 6 weeks of term break at least. And whoa was it hectic. Quite notably, the pace of classes going on here in the department are so fast it can be compared to almost a half a semester of teaching (5-6 months) in the polytechnic all covered over a span less than 2 months! It’s remarkable, yet something I am glad I survived even after spending sometime out from studying

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The last day of the term to end

As promised, here are additional info for Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines Video Game for PlayStation Portable (PSP) by Sony. If you’re new to Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines PSP game, better watch the video tutorial posted below. This Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines tutorial (Animus Tutorial) was posted for free viewing on YouTube.

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Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines PSP Video Game Tutorial with Textual Instructions

Finally! Street View on Google Maps has landed on our shores, been waiting for years for this! Singapore, December 2, 2009 – Google today announced the launch of Street View in Singapore, allowing users to view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery of Singapore. Taken by Street View cars along all public roads earlier this year, the imagery includes iconic locations like Orchard Road, Marina Bay and Clarke Quay; cultural areas like Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam; and the heartland like Tampines, Jurong and Woodlands

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Street View on Google Maps Comes To Singapore

After giving you Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines PSP Video Game price and trailer, here are more information about this latest PSP video game. Provided within this article is Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines Walkthrough or Castle Gameplay.

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Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines Walkthrough Video: Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines Video Game Castle Walkthrough

Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines Video Game for PSP is now available! Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines release date was November 17, 2009 in North America and in November 20, 2009 in Europe. Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines was released simultaneously with Assassin’s Creed 2 Video Game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

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Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines Video Game for PSP Now Available! | Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines Price and Official Trailer in HD

I’m often convinced that most of the battles we see in the technology market are avoidable and largely counterproductive. A stupid fight is one that goes on between two companies that are more natural partners than competitors. What started me down this path with the Microsoft-Google battle is a post by Yaron Galai (it’s short and worth reading) about something Marc Cuban said on the textbook mistake most new companies make: not knowing what business they are in

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Google vs. Microsoft: Is This a Stupid Fight?

Your choice of higher speed or lower cost Samsung Electronics is the largest NAND flash memory manufacturer in the world, accounting for 38.5 percent of the global market in Q3 of 2009. All of that money helps when conducting research and development into new technologies which are critical for maintaining that lead. The company is making two NAND flash major announcements that will significantly affect consumers

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Samsung Shipping DDR NAND & 3-Bit MLC Flash, Expects Use in SSDs

Learning how to check your Compaq Presario F500 AC Adapter and how to replace it when needed can be a life saver if you're a computer buff or in business with the trusted PC. Don't take for granted the simple pleasure of turning on your PC and everything works just fine. The Compaq AC Adapter convert's your regular household current into low DC voltage used by the computer.

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Compaq Presario F500 AC Adapter Problems Diagnose

TalkTalk ( talktalk.co.uk ) has brought back its free broadband connection offer for new customers who join the ISP by the 15th December 2009. The new incentive replaces the free Marks & Spencer vouchers offer that was originally due to end on the 3rd December. The free broadband connection offer means customers switching to a TalkTalk phone and broadband package either online at the TalkTalk website or via the phone on 0800 049 7865 can save £29.99

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TalkTalk Bring Back Free Broadband Connection Offer

November 2009 Total Traffic Total Hits: 11,232,870 Total Files: 10,594,601 Total Pages: 907,322 Total Visits: 252,818 Total KBytes: 43,674,815 Total Unique Sites: 158,597 Total Unique URLs: 19,509 Total Unique Referrers: 33,582 Total Unique User Agents: 7,265 November 2009 Daily Traffic Hits per Day: Average: 374,429 – Max: 420,985 Files per Day: Average: 353,153 – Max: 397,883 Pages per Day: Average: 30,244 – Max: 42,058 Visits per Day: Average: 8,427 – Max: 9,499 KBytes per Day: Average: 1,455,827 – Max: 1,815,226 Note: Green denotes increase , Blue denotes no change and Red denotes decrease when compared with October 2009. Previous month site traffic: October 2009

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Site Traffic November 2009

Ah, good old San Francisco, one of my favorite cities in the world, only this showing how it looks like in the past, specifically set in 1905 before the big earthquake and fire of 1906. Well, besides the fact that this video is more than a century old and almost everyone you see in this video is not much among the living now, it’s still a blast into the past of how life was like back in the past which, in terms of organization with the exception of horse drawn carriages here and there, is not very much different from life we have today (and the exception of lack of vehicular control). Nevertheless still a fantastic city, through the eye of a camera on a cable car on this video.

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Down San Francisco Market Street in 1905

Orange ( www.orange.co.uk ) has updated its range of mobile broadband free laptop offers with the addition of the Asus 1005H GO netbook and the Compaq Presario CQ61. The Asus 1005H GO netbook has an embedded Orange SIM card for built in Orange mobile broadband, which means there’s no need to plug in a seperate USB modem stick.

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Orange Update Mobile Broadband Free Laptop Offers

DVD ripper Handbrake has seen an update. Lots of new features: 64-bit build Live preview Quality-based encoding We also get big promises: “There’s an old proverb in the video encoding world: “Speed, size, quality: pick two.” It means that you always have to make a trade-off between the time it takes to encode a video, the amount of compression used, and the picture quality. Well, this release of HandBrake refuses to compromise

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HandBrake 0.9.4 released … Good tool gets better

I simply cannot help but continue to pull out some golden nuggets from the 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon Business. One of the most remarkable findings of the report, based on actual breach investigations, was the “ease” of attack in many cases. The report found that, as we’ve always said as well, criminals target the low-hanging fruit.

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Tip of the Week: Change the Default Password!