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Online Reference Library Â£

Safari books online is like having your own technical reference library available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

You are not only able to view books and video’s online but also download chapters via pdf download and get discounts off the print version of the books.

To see a demo of Safari books online click the link below

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To sign up, starting with a ten day free trial click the link below

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The main Safari web page can be found here

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Costs
There are two different types of subscription

Safari Bookshelf
This allows you to access ten titles per month
£11.99/€14.99/$22.99

Safari Library
This allows you unlimited access to the books
£22.10/€27.99/$42.99

May 14, 2008 Posted by shawz | PC Information, Training | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments

Tweet Scan - Search Engine for Twitter

Tweet Scan is a great search engine for Twitter where you can search by word, phrase or Twitter user

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May 11, 2008 Posted by shawz | Internet Browser & Utilities & Wifi | , , , | No Comments

Find out how people view your website or photo

Interesting site where you can upload a photo or an image of your website and the heatsite will display how people view your photo or site

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May 11, 2008 Posted by shawz | Graphics & Media, Internet Browser & Utilities & Wifi | , , , , | No Comments

Google Translate Automatically Detects and Translates Languages

Google now has a great feature for translating web pages or text that you type in.

Currently the system support just over twenty languages

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May 11, 2008 Posted by shawz | General Utilities, Internet Browser & Utilities & Wifi | , , , , | No Comments

Secure Password Generator

If you are looking for a high security password generator for your wireless system or pc passwords, then I have found Gibson Research Ultra High Security Password Generator to be very good

“Every time this page is displayed, our server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use”

You are then presented with three options:

64 random hexadecimal characters (0-9 and A-F)
63 random printable ASCII characters
63 random alpha-numeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9)

Just copy and paste the password that you want to use.
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May 11, 2008 Posted by shawz | Internet Browser & Utilities & Wifi, Internet Security, Network Utilities, Security - Passwords | , , , , , , | No Comments

PC Advisor 3 Issues for £1 Â£

Expert Advice you can trust

Issues monthly, normally £4,99 per issue, but using the link below you can get the next three issues for £1. If you don’t want to continue the subscription cancel after the third issue otherwise the subscription will cost £9.99 every three issues

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May 11, 2008 Posted by shawz | Computer Magazine Offers - Three for £1 etc | , , , , | No Comments

Podcasting in Plain English


CommonCraft have now released a new video in their excellent series of Technology in Plain English

Podcasting in Plain English

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For details of previously released video click below

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May 11, 2008 Posted by shawz | Technology TV/Web & Radio Shows, Training | , , , , , , , | No Comments

More Free Wifi Hotspots

Coffee Republic offers free Wifi

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For details of other Wifi hotspots listed previously click below

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May 11, 2008 Posted by shawz | Internet Browser & Utilities & Wifi | , , , , | No Comments

USB Autorunner - Auto run your programs on the USB Stick


Utility that allows you to autorun programs from your USB stick when attached to the pc.

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May 7, 2008 Posted by shawz | Disk Utilities, General Utilities, USB & U3 Apps | , , , | No Comments

Boottimer - Check the boot time of your pc

Nice little utility that will, after your pc has rebooted, display how many seconds it took to boot.

http://www.planetsoft.org/

May 7, 2008 Posted by shawz | General Utilities, PC Information | , , , | No Comments