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Apologies To All Our FeedBurner Email Subscribers

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Major Announcement: We’ve decided to stop delivering email newsletters via FeedBurner.

We request all our FeedBurner subscribers to please use the form on the right sidebar to subscribe again.

We’ve just found out that Google FeedBurner is sending old articles to all our email subscribers. We apology to all our email subscribers for this.

To decide if something is wrong with our RSS Feed, we looked into it and found it working fine. We’re still in the dark about why this is happening?

We are looking forward to all our FeedBurner subscribers for their support. [Read more...]

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YouTube Testing New Interface For Homepage, Video Pages, Try It Now

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Google seems experimenting again with a new design for the World’s most popular video portal, YouTube. Here’s how to get that new YouTube homepage and video page design, to see for yourself.

Google appears to be working on YouTube’s homepage and video pages to make it look like the design of Google+ social network. The left sidebar lists all your subscriptions along with the number of recent videos from each subscription. A search box is also added to help you find a subscription. The suggested channels are displayed below your subscriptions in the scrolling list. The sidebar no longer lists popular YouTube categories.

The experimental video page is now displayed in lighter background color. The video title and the channel information is now displayed below the video. The uploader’s/channel’s name and subscribe button are now displayed prominently beneath that. The new design makes the buttons less obvious. In fact, most of the buttons on the page are turned into links with icons instead. YouTube now displays more information about the video by default. [Read more...]

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Attention: Microsoft Releases Patch Tuesday For June 2012, Patch Your Systems Now

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Microsoft has issued “Patch Tuesday” for June 2012. Total seven security bulletins are released. These seven bulletins address security issues in Windows, Internet Explorer, and the .NET Framework. Three of these seven bulletins are rated critical, the highest possible rating by Microsoft. The remaining four bulletins are rated as important.

Important: Users should update their system as soon as possible since a critical IE vulnerability which Microsoft has patched in this month’s Patch Tuesday is under active exploit.

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Audials Tunebite 9 Review (Plus Giveaway)

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Audials Tunebite 9 is a versatile multimedia application. Tunebite allows you to remove DRM from copy-protected music, films and DVDs. It also allows you to record audio from sites like Grooveshark.com, Last.fm and streaming radio from any website like Spotify. It also lets you download videos playing on any website like YouTube, Vimeo, synchronize media collection with portable devices, play videos and comes with a built-in audio and video converter.

Here, I’ll take the latest version of Audials Tunebite 9 for review. At the end of the article you’ll find information about our exclusive Audials Tunebite 9 giveaway. [Read more...]

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Flame, Flamer, Skywiper: What You Should Know? How To Scan Your PC For Flame Infection?

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The Internet is abuzz about the latest most advanced and complex threat called “Flame” (also known as Flamer or Skywiper) after Duqu and Stuxnet. Flamer malware has been seen infecting computers particularly in the Middle East countries. Flamer was recently discovered by The Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team (MAHER) but it was actually in the wild spying on Middle East computers since 2010.

The malware is named “Flame” or “Flamer” because of the same words appearing in its code. Its one of the most advanced malware ever encountered by security researchers. It can monitor user activity by taking screenshots, record audio conversations and it can use Bluetooth technology to steal data on devices located near the infected computer, Alexander Gostev, a researcher at the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, said in a blog post on Monday. [Read more...]

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Easy, Quick To-Do List and Task Management with ShoutDone [Review]

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Do you need help in your task management and keep your to-do list organized? Today, I’ll be looking at ShoutDone, a simple to-do list and task management software for Windows and Mac users.

This review will take a look at the design and task management functionality of ShoutDone, which may be of interest for many users. At the end of the review there’s a giveaway for all My Technology Guide readers. [Read more...]

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Download OS X Lion 10.7.4, Fixes FileVault Vulnerability [Direct Links]

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Apple has released OS X Lion 10.7.4 update that features a number of security fixes, general improvements and Safari browser update. If you’re running OS X Lion 10.7.3 or earlier, just run the Software Update app and download 10.7.4 update.

With the latest update the Cupertino company have fixed the FileVault vulnerability, which left users’ FileVault passwords stored outside of encryption in easy to read plain text. Before you start worrying, not every OS X user is having this issue. This issue only occurs if an OS X user have upgraded from a previous installation of Snow Leopard to Lion. If your Mac came installed with OS X Lion as standard, then your Mac is safe from this issue. [Read more...]

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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Makes Official Debut

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On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, the Apache Software Foundation announced the availability of the official version of Apache OpenOffice. It is the first official version from the Apache Software Foundation since Oracle donated it to them last year in June.

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 offers improved performance and quality with a number of new features and enhancements. It is available in 15 languages to users of all three major platforms, Windows, Mac and Linux. The office suite bundles word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, drawing, and mathematical editing applications. [Read more...]

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