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HIPIX Image Format

By on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 | No Comments

A company called Human Monitoring Ltd have recently announced a new image compression technology based on the existing h.264 standard (which that has been around a while and you may have come across it with video files). The advantage of using an existing standard as opposed to creating a new one is that it can [...]

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Google Pacman

By on Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Head over to Google today and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by today’s logo – dedicated to Pacman, one of the most popular retro games ever. Best part is that you can play it too! Click on insert coin and see what score you can get ……

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Hidden Administrator user?

By on Monday, September 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment

What’s going on? Short answer – your WordPress account has been hacked. More than likely you have been running an old version (ie not the current one) and you have succumbed to an exploit. The two telling signs is that you have two administrator users (one that ou cannot see), and that your permalink structure [...]

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What is MD5 next to my file download?

By on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Why do I always see MD5 next to a file when I’m about to download? What do I need to do with it?Is it important? MD5 (Message digest 5) is used for a variety of things, but what you are probably interested in is that it can be used to verify the integrity of a [...]

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What computer hardware do i have

By on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Wouldn’t it be great to have a one-stop visual reference of all the different types of hardware? Then, you could quite easily identify what you had in your (or anyone else’s) computer. Found such a great reference:

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