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Entries for January, 2009

Feedburner - Why it’s REALLY useful

Normally, I would not have gone to it. My regular RSS feed from a default Wordpress install was working perfectly fine. People were subscribing to it - I could tell from my Google Webmaster statistics.
What I could not do (for free) was to find a service that emailed my RSS updates to those who do [...]

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Scientechie gets a newsletter!

Well, sort of.
It’s not much, but recently, I burned my RSS feeds onto the venerable Feedburner, and decided to let those who wish receive my posts in their email inboxes.
What do you get? You get every one of my posts in your email. Once a day, if I make a post. Not more than once [...]

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The Top Antivirus: ESET NOD32 still wins

I have, in many tests of my own, found that ESET NOD32 is the best anti-malware, particularly anti-viral software, to have. I noted its defensive characteristics in many tests of my own (See here and here), emphasizing on being able to catch viruses without deliberately needing to ask for a scan.
Apparently, the experts agree. In [...]

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The technology of destruction…

Given that technology has helped us a lot, but likewise, the biggest dangers to human existence also come from technology: CO2 and smoke belching machinery, consequent global warming, over farming with powerful technology, and of course, the ever present threat of nuclear weapons.
Did you know that one fusion bomb, like the ones USA and Russia [...]

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Software to make a video DVD from video files

In the last few days, I had a very powerful internet connection. I managed to download quite a few good movies. But now, I wanted to burn them off to a video DVD to watch on my DVD player.
So began my quest to find the optimum combination of no-nonsense, free software that would allow me [...]

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