Beat the hackers at their own game with this security bundle

If you are one of the millions of people who now bank and shop online, you need an extra layer of protection to ensure that your online activities are safe and secure. Zemana Antilogger and Hitman Pro bundle prevents keyloggers and hackers from getting access to your PC, keeping you safe, secure, and free of worry as you surf the Internet. ...

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3D HTML5 video shows up in Firefox

You can watch 3D videos via HTML5 on YouTube, starting today. The catch? This new feature is limited to Firefox 4, and to people who have a specific kind of Nvidia graphics card.  YouTube currently hosts "several thousand" 3D videos that it will encode and play back in WebM format, according to a blog post by Mozilla Director of Platform Product Management Chris Blizzard. Only people who have Nvidia 3D Vision graphics cards will be able to see those videos in 3D, and only if they are played in Firefox.  If you have the 3D Vision hardware, search YouTube for "yt3d," which will bring up videos encoded in 3D. You will also have to...

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Google To Unveil Online Music Service

Google Inc. is preparing as early as Tuesday to unveil a new online music service similar to a service recently launched by Amazon.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a move that escalates the battle to create the next generation of Internet businesses for storing and listening to music. Google, like Amazon, hasn't secured licenses from the four major recorded-music companies, according to these people, and is likely to include a system that functions much like a remote hard drive. Users of the service are expected to be able to listen to songs they have uploaded to the service in a so-called streaming mode but won't...

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Report: PlayStation 3 trade-ins on the rise

PlayStation 3 trade-ins have hit higher-than-expected levels at some retail outlets following Sony's PlayStation Network troubles, a new report claims. According to gaming publication Edge, U.K. retail sources say they've seen a "massive increase" in PlayStation 3 trade-ins over the past several weeks. In one location, a source claims, PlayStation 3 trade-ins are up "over 200 percent." Half of those folks are taking cash for the trade, the publication's source says, while the other half are opting to buy Microsoft's Xbox 360. A source from another game retailer told Edge that the strong uptick in trade-ins is being driven by the "hard-core...

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Halifax Holiday Matchmaker Facebook app

Are you the type of person that gets on a getaway every now and then? Are you the type of person that finds difficulty in choosing the next destination? Well this maybe the one solution you’ve been looking for. This is the Halifax Holiday Matchmaker, a Facebook app that chooses the best destination for your next vacation based on your friends, their preferences and the like. Once you’ve given the permission to the app, it shows you this page that will more or less give you a glimpse of what you’ll be having if you take their vacation package. The page is divided into sections. First is the one seen above where you’re given a certain...

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How to transfer music from an iPod to your computer

Most of us store music in two places: on our computer and on our iPod (or other MP3 player). But if your computer crashes indefinitely, all the music you (hopefully) purchased disappears along with it. So what's left? A handicapped iPod, as Apple restricts its gadgets to sync with one music library--any attempts to sync with a different computer will result in a deleted iPod. Naturally, there's a workaround. If you'd like to safely move songs from your iPod (except the iPod Touch) to any computer, follow these steps: How to transfer music from an iPod to a Mac Step 1: Connect your iPod and launch iTunes. In the iPod management screen,...

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Chat up a live parrot on Facebook

  Few things warm the heart quite like a goofy publicity stunt. P.T. Barnum once had an elephant plow a field. German phone manufacturer Gigaset is right on Barnum's wavelength. Animals get attention. In this particular case, the animal is a chatty British Gold Macaw on Facebook.  OK, let's review. We have a parrot. We have Facebook. Put the two together in a live-chat format and you get people from around the world jawing with a bird over the Internet's most popular social-networking site. I had the opportunity to briefly interview the bird (actually, it's a team of three birds taking different shifts). Certain keywords are ...

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