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Why Carrier IQ is doomed
“Carrier IQ: How the Widespread Rootkit Can Track Everything on Your Phone, and How to Remove It” — That was the title of one of LifeHacker’s posts this Wednesday, which is just one of countless...
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Does the number of downloads of an app or software reflect on its quality?
We’ve all seen apps which tout their usefulness, relevance, or popularity by their number of downloads, but does it really mean anything? “Number of downloads” means exactly that — the number of people...
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Google puts an end to the free version of Google Apps
The free version of Google Apps is sadly no more. Just a few minutes ago I received an email from the Google Apps team, which included this: Starting today, we’re no longer accepting new sign-ups for...
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Switching from ActiveSync (Microsoft Exchange) to IMAP and CardDAV for Google...
Since Google is discontinuing it’s ActiveSync services, which allowed iPhone (and other handhelds) to sync account data using ActiveSync, you may want to reconfigure your devices now, or simply...
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Get smBIOS UUID using wmic
Microsoft Windows 8 online activation requires that the smBIOS UUID be non-zero. Here’s a wmic command to check the value of the smBIOS UUID. Tagged: Microsoft, smBIOS, Windows, wmic
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Fixing Windows 8.1 blank start menu
Some older programs not updated to work correctly with Windows 8/8.1 will produce some very undesirable results when uninstalling them, such as clearing out your start and app screens. Echolink is one...
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