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At least edits made to pages about living persons do. By a new Wikipedia policy, called “flagged revisions”, all edits made about living people will need to be approved (flagged) by an editor or authorised volunteer before they go public. Though this move has evoked a lot of criticism, it...

Many a time, overenthusiastic beginners to the Linux world tend to try out various things a la Windows, and end up crashing the system. Even more often, while trying to configure your display driver to run Compiz (aka Desktop Effects), you end up crashing Linux’s GUI server (called “X”). Even...

Firefox! Everyone knows what it is, most people who know about it use it. It is threatening the monopoly held by Internet Explorer for many years and is now the second most widely used web browser in the world today and is gaining popularity exponentially. Background Technically, Firefox is a...

I have never visited MySpace till date but THIS offer made me go there. Microsoft in collaboration with ReverbNation is offering 1000 MP3′s and M4A’s to anyone and everyone. In return, they only request you to add Windows on MySpace. Isn’t that cool! Unlike most free MP3 giveaways, this one...

As everyone knows, Firefox’s greatest strengths lies in its whole range of customizations that it offers to its users. Firefox has been the default browser option for many(that includes me too!). So wouldn’t you be interested in knowing some more hidden customizations that  Firefox has to offer? Firefox offers you...

Last month, Facebook allowed all it’s users to create what they called vanity urls (mine is http://www.facebook.com/narayanan.hariharan) which you could easily share with your friends and on other social networks. While Facebook recommended that users choose their usernames carefully as they cannot be changed in the future, they seem to...

Fifty problems, one solution – FixWin. Fixwin is a nifty utility for Windows 7 and Windows Vista that can fix 50 different common problems with the click of a button. Download FixWin Go to the FixWin page and click the download link. They provide a .rar file, so you require...

SimilarSites is a free online tool that helps internet users find sites similar to any site that they may want in a jiffy. How would this be useful – you may ask. For eg, if you are looking for video sharing sites similar to YouTube, just key in the URL...

Many a time it so happens that we are searching for a particular word with it’s meaning but the word never strikes us even though we know it and have used it previously. This situation may occur to both professional writers as well as amateurish one timers alike and as...

The folks at WordPress Themes Archive have have collected over 2ooo WordPress themes and are offering the themes as a single archive for the benefit of the users. Currently at around 390 mb, users are given the option of downloading the entire collection of WordPress themes as .ZIP, .TAR.GZ or...