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If you’ve decided to take the netbook plunge, you’re probably going to want to streamline the programs you use and get rid of any “crapware.”  The real question is what applications do you really need for a netbook?  Netbooks are meant to browse the web and take advantage of web… Continue Reading »

I’m a genius who is the reincarnation of the ever-breathy Marilyn Monroe.  I understand men 100%, and I’m also the cartoon character Dory as well as the Disney Princess Mulan.  No, I don’t have split personality disorder or any other kind of mental heath diagnosis (I think).  Just the results… Continue Reading »

One important piece of software essential to any computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) is a video player.  There are many good, free, available programs out there, yet many users shy away from some that they haven’t heard of before.  Within this post, I’m going to take a look at five… Continue Reading »

ReverbNation just announced their plan to have 1000 of their artists to start participating in a new Sponsored Songs program.  This program will actually pay the bands $0.50 each time one of their songs is downloaded for free by a user.  Yup, you get it free and the band gets… Continue Reading »

Yesterday was proclaimed “Porn Day” on a couple of oh so brilliant sites and an image board; and as a result, YouTube was slammed with tons of explicit clips left and right. Obviously, these clips violated their terms of use, and they were madly trying to remove them, but the… Continue Reading »

I’m sure you’ve used Hulu, or at least are familiar with the site.  Launched about two years ago by NBC and Fox, Hulu has become wildly popular with many as a favorite online TV service.  This success, however, may turn out to be their Achilles’ heel. Hulu has seen their… Continue Reading »

Yesterday after becoming rather popular on the ‘net for hosting several Holocaust-denial groups, Facebook went and shut two of them down.  And left at least three of them going strong.  Gee…some more random picking and choosing on Facebook’s part?  “You two groups are hateful…you others…nah…not so much.”  Ummm…right. In response… Continue Reading »

A few days ago, Trent Reznor of NIN posted angrily on the NIN forums about how his app got rejected by the guys over at Apple.  Since he posted his rant on a public forum, you can imagine the news spread like wildfire.  The irony in this situation is that… Continue Reading »

Vegas Movie Studio is video editing software that is produced by Sony Entertainment. You are able to create transitions, titles and special effects for your digital videos with the editing tools on your PC.  Vegas Movie Studio also has built in authoring software to make your own DVDs.  Instead of… Continue Reading »

There’s a fairly new file syncing program in town, and it is getting lots of positive feedback from its users.  Dropbox is an online sync and storage service that is able to be used over Windows, Linux or Mac.  It relies on Amazon S3 storage, and has both a free… Continue Reading »