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Top 5 Internet Fraud & Scams Of All Time - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
If you’ve been using the Internet, and specifically email, for any length of time, then by now you’re most likely aware of most of the common email scams that exist online. Dean covered the five most common email scams, so if you aren’t familiar with them, then please take the time to read his thorough [...]

Manage External Drives’ Trash With Curb [Mac] - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Nothing can put a bridle on information. Ever since the beginning of age, information is always on the move. It’s always multiplied, passed on, stored for a little while, then re-replicated and continued on with its journey. The only thing that changes about the whole account is the media that carries the information. If we apply [...]

Test Your Writing Quality With These 8 Readability Web Tools - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Readability is the quality of writing that makes it easy (or difficult) to read and understand. Ever since the web started stringing together HTML pages, readability acquired a different sort of importance. You can click on a URL and reach a webpage that’s designed for a 10 year old. You can click on another link which [...]

MakeUseOf Must-Have Mac Apps Giveaway Day #9 – OmniFocus - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
OmniFocus is a great productivity app built on the basics of David Allen’s Getting Things Done system. It caters to a different kind of productivity user than the previous GTD giveaway app, Midnight Inbox. OmniFocus uses a slightly simpler approach, but is just as capable of getting, and keeping, you organized. We’ve managed to snag 5 licenses [...]

Use Screencast To Manage & Share Your Media Files - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
A few of us writers here at MUO are pretty fond of the free screen capture application, Jing, because of its practical and time saving features and because, if you haven’t noticed, we use lots of screenshots in our articles. MUO has already published a few articles about how to use Jing for both image [...]

Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop - Mon, 08 Mar 2010
WP Comments Notifier is a open source application written in QT/C++ for Linux and Windows, which will allow you to manage new comments and reply to them from your desktop. In addition to that, it will also allow you to edit, spam or delete the comments.

WordPress Theme Releases for 03/07 - Mon, 08 Mar 2010
Turquoise The Turquoise Theme is a simple free WordPress Theme 980px wide with 3 Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer. One Sidebar is on the right side optimized for Adsense 250px Ads. Two Sidebars are on top of the postings and below the Posting. Good for 468px Ads. Greener Side Smell the fresh cut grass

Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers Updated - Sat, 06 Mar 2010
NUS has been updated to v1.3.0 to fix issues with unconfirmed subscribers not being fetched.

WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/05 - Fri, 05 Mar 2010
New Plugins Wordpress External Cron Allows you to setup a cron to fetch any page on the server PuSHPress This plugin adds PubSubHubbub ( PuSH ) support to your WordPress powered site. The main difference between this plugin and others is that it includes the hub features of PuSH, built right in. This means the updates will be

WordPress Theme Releases for 03/03 - Wed, 03 Mar 2010
Light Folio Light Folio is a clean clean and light theme with a combination black and white color. CleanTech CleanTech is a clean, two column and elegant theme with support for threaded comments designed to focus your content. Ultima This is a 2-column, soft-colored, rounded theme that totally aims at content and nothing else.

Dell Alienware M11x – Unboxing and Hands on - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Unboxing of the Dell Alienware M11x Gaming-Subnotebook with Intel Core 2 Duo U7300 CPU, 4 GB RAM and 250 GB HDD

JCP KPC-JCP330i aka Foxconn netBox 330i Unboxing - Wed, 10 Mar 2010
Unboxing the JCP KPC-JCP330i also available as Foxconn netBox 330i Nettop with Intel Atom 330 Dual Core CPU and Nvidia ION chipset with integrated Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics

Mogo’s Netbook Mounted Mouse & Ear Peice - Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Check out this neat way to carry a mouse or ear piece with you while attaching it to your netbook. It a different way that we haven't seen before for never forgetting your accessories while you are traveling.

Overview of Netbooks in 2009 & Current State of the Market 2010 - Tue, 09 Mar 2010
Sascha give an interview to brecht Ryckaert of MultiMediaWereld.be at CeBIT 2010. It has been exactly one year since they have spoken and Sascha catches up Ryckaert on what happened in the netbook space in 2009 and where he projects the market to move towards on 2010.

CeBIT 2010: An E-Reader that Looks Like an iPhone – Million-E - Tue, 09 Mar 2010
The Million-e is a 6″ e-reader that sports a touch screen, 3G and WiFi like the iPhone! Shenzhen Million-E Culture Industrial Co. Ltd. shows off its new e-ink e-reader with a resistive touch screen.