Take control of that pesky blog

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Do you own a blog of your very own or plan to start one? Find it a pain to keep adding stuff that people will enjoy? I suggest you try out Microsoft's Windows Live Writer Beta it works with Windows Live Space, SharePoint, WordPress, Blogger, Live Journal, Type Pad, Movable Type, Community Server, and many others. Best of all, its totally FREE.

Download Microsoft Windows Live Writer Beta:
windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com

Encyclopedia at your Fingertips (on your mobile phone)

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Most Internet users have heard of Wikipedia, the online free encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to and edit, its an encyclopedia built on a wiki. But when you're out at a bar with your friends and you need confirmation on that fun fact that you happen to be quoting Wikipedia has a little-known to-go version for your mobile phone called WAPedia.

Browse on your mobile phone to:
wapedia.org

Drag and open tons of links in TABS!

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This tech tip is about a cool addin for the Firefox web browser called Snap Links. Snap Links lets you drag a square around the links on a page that you'd like to open all at the same time in tabs, as soon as you let go of the middle mouse button, POOF! All of the links that you encircled come to life in their very own tab!

Get a faster computer without spending a cent

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How about making your computer faster without spending a cent? We'd all like to do that, but its possible. As you use your computer it adds new files, deletes old ones, and in all that movement it leaves spaces between them. The more you use your computer the more the computer has to search for space to put pieces of the files you write to your computer's hard drive. All of this jumbled up information makes your computer slow...

The solution... Defrag your hard drive!

Now built into Windows is a free defragger but its a bit hard to find, its slow, and its hard to schedule. Try the FREE IObit SmartDefrag, with "Install it and forget it" feature, IObit SmartDefrag works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at its speediest. Slow downs, freeze-ups and crashes will be a thing of the past. IObit SmartDefrag is 100% free for personal, home and small business. Verified by the strictest tests, IObit SmartDefrag is 100% safe and has no spyware/adware.