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Computers

Forum Posting to Start a Forum

June 13, 2011 Computers

I run a number of forums and always looking for ways to do it better. Getting a new forum going is always a challenge and being connected in the niche of the industry is always the most helpful. No one wants to visit a forum that has no content. They do not contribute and they [...]

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Forum Spam

December 8, 2010 Computers

My daily routine starts of with a breakfast drink, a quick check of my email and key websites, then off to the gym. When back from the gym, its then banning all the spammers on the forums I manage. It’s a mind numbing task and I can’t believe that so many lower themselves to this [...]

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Best iPad Apps

August 7, 2010 Computers

I finally got myself an iPad. The first problem was what to download from iTunes by way of applications, so I spent too much time wading through the offerings and I settled on (some are free and some are paid): iBooks   (to read books on the iPad; its free, but then you buy books) Keynote   [...]

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What to do when a baby spills coffee on the laptop

June 12, 2010 Computers

1. Stay calm 2. Turn laptop upside down to drain 3. Stay calm 4. Remove battery 5. Stay calm 6. Remove back 7. Stay calm 8. Pat dry any wet bits 9. Stay calm 10. Try and restart the next morning 11. Stay calm 12. Drop of computer to repair shop if it dosen’t restart [...]

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The iPad is just a very big iPhone

April 7, 2010 Computers

After all the fuss over the launch of Apple’s iPad, the folks at Chipworks have pulled apart the iPad to reverse engineer what’s under the hood. Guess what? … the iPad is nothing more than a really big iPhone. There was no leap forward in technology. They claim: Apple has relied on tried and true [...]

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