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10 programs and services for editing and sharing photos

Allow you to manipulate images and then upload them to a social network. Are free. Domestic cameras and cell phones gave the picture an immense circulation. Almost all users of the Internet and digital technologies at some point share, store or edited a photo. Here, ten options for applications, sites and services to improve the photos, save them and share them, [...]

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The SMS is 20 years old and in Argentina is growing

And sent 271 million messages per day. Is the cell phone service more popular. In the country exploded in 2004 and since then grows at an annual rate of between 20 and 25%. People use it because it is faster and cheaper than talk.   The SMS, the short message, written, sent from cell to cell, has two decades andalready used 4 billion people around the world. In Argentina the initial developmentwas slow, but then exploded. In recent years the growth, although somewhat less, is maintained at a rate of between 20 and 25%. According to the [...]

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Apple OS X Lion bug that exposes passwords

A security blunder in the most recent version of Mac OS X – 10.7.3 – apparently turns on a system-wide debut log file that contains the login passwords of every user who has logged in since the update was applied. According to Sophos’ Naked Security blog it appears that a debug option was accidentally left enabled in [...]

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Windows Managers and Desktop Environments in Linux

Gnome, KDE, XFCE or LXDE. What is the best? That is a very broad question, so let me try to whittle it down a bit. If you’re coming to Linux for the first time from Windows or Mac, you’re not familiar with the very concept of having different desktops to choose from! The only thing [...]

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Android 4.0 ICS Update For Acer Iconia A500 And A100 Officially Confirmed

Acer have officially confirmed the availability of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich firmware update package for the Iconia Tab A500 and Iconia Tab A100 tablets. The firmware update will begin to roll out on April 27th. The two slates were launched in April 2011, being among the first tablet models to feature Android 3.0 [...]

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Instagram: And now?

Facebook, which has around 850 million users, just purchased Instagram, which has 28 million users, for $1 billion, or $36 per user, nearly all of whom are already Facebook users. Instagram is a photo sharing application for the IPhone. Instagram only recently created a version of their software for Android, probably because all of Instagram’s [...]

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How to resize the Unity 2D launcher.

It’s a pretty simple process, just need to edit three files. For those who don’t know Unity-2D uses qt to draw it. So all we need to do is change a few values in the qml files. Unity-2D lives here: /usr/share/unity-2d. The three files we are going to edit are: /usr/share/unity-2d/shell/Shell.qml /usr/share/unity-2d/shell/common/IconTile.qml /usr/share/unity-2d/shell/launcher/LauncherList.qml Shell.qml Find [...]

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Converting Books for the Kindle in Mac & Apple

Amazon doesn’t go out of there way to make it clear how to use non-Amazon sources (we wouldn’t expect any less really, they have a business model to support and encourage). It’s really easy with the use of a free and open-source application called Calibre. Calibre can easily convert many, many, document formats into Kindle [...]

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How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure • Yoast

Changing WordPress Permalink Structure There are two steps in changing your WordPress permalink structure. The first is simple, go to Settings -> Permalinks and select Post name. If you don’t have the post name option yet, you’re not on WordPress 3.3, the release of which is imminent. You could wait a bit for the update, [...]

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Resolving “Checking for corrupt, not cleanly…” Error Message in MySQL database

One of the major reasons for corruption of MySQL database tables is improper or unexpected shutdown of MySQL Server. An improper shutdown can occur due to power outage or human errors. In most of these situations, you encounter an error message that makes the data stored in your MySQL tables inaccessible. To access the data [...]

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The Year of the Linux Desktop

Most Linux users probably recognize the “year of the Linux Desktop” as being a bit of a joke, as it sometimes seems like each year someone claims that this year is going to be the year of the Linux Desktop. So much so, that there is even a section dedicated to it on wikipedia. However, [...]

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Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and [...]

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Android: Remote application, such as, moving files between phone and computer and more

Today I’ll present you an awesome tool, named WebSharing! WebSharing is Android application that allows you to transfer files, music and photo between your smartphone and your computer, using a web browser. It can make your life easier whenever you want to play and manage music, view photos, or manage files through your wireless network. [...]

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War of the Tech Worlds

Android Vs iPhone Facebook Vs Google Plus Chromebook Vs iPad2 Firefox Vs Chrome iCloud Vs Google Apps Vs other Cloud providers Now, isn’t there supposed to be a company called Microsoft in this list? In the other news, Microsoft moved its Office suite into cloud and calls it Office 365, a move which its own [...]

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