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The jack-of-all-trades MP3 player

Creative’s superslim Zen has a gorgeous 320-by-240-pixel color display, an FM tuner, a built-in microphone, robust video- and photo-viewing capabilities, and the ability to import contact management information–and oh, yeah, it plays music.
This jack-of-all-trades can handle most audio formats, too, including Apple’s AAC files. It can’t play FLAC or Ogg Vorbis audio codecs, though.
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Microsoft details IE 8 security default change

Microsoft will enable DEP/NX (Data Execution Prevention/No Execute) by default in IE 8 when the browser is running on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, a major tweak aimed at mitigating browser-based vulnerabilities.
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DEP/NX is already available in IE 7, but it’s turned off by default because of compatibility issues.
The DEP/NX change means IE 8’s […]

How To Buy the Right GPS

Shoppin for a GPS unit but don’t know which to get.  Here’s what you need to know to pick the perfect personal navigation device.
The best way to shop for a personal navigation device (PND) is to start with the basics, including a large, readable display, pre-loaded maps, and a strong receiver. Next, you should tackle […]

Free tutorials on HTML and CSS

People often think it is extremely difficult to make a website. That is not the case! Everyone can learn how to make a website. HTML.net provides an excellent set of tutorials on HTML (15 lessons) and CSS (16 lessons). Once you complete the tutorials, you should be able to build a simple […]

How To Green Your Electronics

Here is an excellent guide from TreeHugger on how to green your electronics.  This guide will tell you how to stop wasted energy, what gizmos are greener than others, and what to do about e-waste and electronics recycling.  Here are 10 effective ways to go greener with your electronics.
Source:  TreeHugger

Logitech Wireless Music Streamer Spreads Media, Joy

Blu-ray is the way to go, but not cheap. Wired / GadgetLab has review several high-end Blu-ray setups, but our favorite is this music streamer from Logitech. Logitech’s little black box liberates your music collection from the confines of your PC, streaming it via WiFi to your Hi-Fi. It also streams from Rhapsody, […]

Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download

Mozilla released its fifth beta version of Firefox 3 for Windows and the Mac today, bringing a handful of improvements in ease of use to the open-source Web browser.
This version includes 750 changes from the previous beta, focusing on enhanced stability, Web site compatibility, and platform and user-interface improvements.
Here are some of the new features […]

Had to re-install WP

Sorry everyone.  I had to re-install an older version of WordPress.  The new version of WP has a lot of issue.  I thought I wait for awhile for all the fixes to be in.  It is rather slow and many of the features are not working, such as the image tagging.