Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Page 2
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iSleepDiary Tracks Your Sleep Patterns And Quality

If you’ve been waking up feeling like you might have been fighting off a zombie horde in your sleep, it might be time to start tracking your sleep patterns to get to the bottom of things.

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Get To Know Your Cup Of Coffee

Ever wonder what you’re ingesting with your cuppa joe apart from the live-giving caffeine? Wired breaks down what’s inside a cup of coffee, one piece at a time. Photo by d u y g u. [Wired]

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AVG 9 Antivirus Improves Performance, Adds Identity Theft Tool

Windows only: One of our readers’ favourite antivirus applications, AVG, has updated, claiming faster scan times (up to 50%), boot times (10-15%), and less memory usage. On top of that, it has added a new feature to assist with identity theft.

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Turn A Credit Or Membership Card Into A Media Player Stand

You’re sitting on the aeroplane, you want to watch some music videos on your iPhone, smart phone, or other media device, alas you’re stuck holding it the whole time. Unless of course you use this handy hack.

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NirLauncher Is The Ultimate Flash Drive Toolkit

Windows only: Portable application NirLauncher bundles 100+ of the best NirSoft utilities into a single launcher window, and even allows you to add your own utilities to make a killer flash drive toolkit.

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Plug-In Check Warns About Out-Of-Date Firefox Plug-Ins

Mozilla is getting serious about plug-ins. After adding a Flash version checker to the “What’s New” page seen after updates, the Firefox maker is trying a Plug-In Check that warns when Flash, Acrobat, QuickTime or other plug-ins aren’t quite kosher.

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Step-By-Step Installation Of CyanogenMod’s “Legal” Android ROM

As promised, custom ROM builder Cyanogen has delivered an unofficial firmware with speed enhancements, system and app backups to SD cards, and a few other great tweaks — without the copied Google apps that caused a cease and desist last time around.

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Flash Arriving By Year-End On Every Smartphone Except iPhones

Adobe has promised betas of a mobile-ready Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm Pre late this year, and early next year for Android, Symbian and BlackBerry phones, as well as NVIDIA-powered netbooks. The only hold-out? The iPhone, of course.

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Use TinEye To Find Source Images For Desktop Wallpaper

It turns out that TinEye, the image search engine, is good for more than simply finding carbon-copy matches of pictures. You can also use it to go from a screenshot of a desktop to the source image.

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