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Get live news updates with Twitter

Like it or hate it – Twitter is here to stay. Its a unique kind of social networking. If you compare if to Facebook, it’s like sending status updates to the friends (or followers in Twitter speak). I come across a fabulous use of Twitter last week – unfortunately it was related to a tragedy [...]

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Explanations in plain english – youtube videos

I wanted to find some info on Twitter – how it worked etc in a easy to read format. What I stumbled on was a set of youtube videos that are titled ‘explanations in plain english’. I must say they are quite well presented and very informative. The neat little effect used to deliver these [...]

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Google to release their browser project

Google, in competition with Internet Explorer and Firefox, is set to release their own browser tomorrow – named Chrome. The good news is that the beta release of the browser will be open source. It promises to be complete, yet simple. Google have have released a comic book telling you about the new browser. In [...]

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Space Invaders turns 30

I wouldn’t normally write about stuff like this, but I grew up with Space Invaders and I think it changed the video gaming world as we know it today. Well, it actually was the very beginning. Space Invaders? was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in June 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by [...]

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Reset Mediawiki Admin Password

I love using Mediawiki, but my first install I completely forgot the Admin password. And not having an email address setup in my profile (for the admin user) made me wonder how to reset it. I knew I had to get into the SQL database, and I don’t pretend to be an expert in playing [...]

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