'Snake' On Youtube

Do you know that u can play 'snake' in you tube?  After long hours of watching youtube videos, maybe you will need a little break...

1. Scroll the video bar to 0.00 minutes and hit 'pause'.
2. Press 'left arrow' on your keyboard.
3. Simultaneously,  hit the 'up' arrow.
4. You can start playing now.

Happy trying...

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How to uninstall Internet Explorer 9 (beta)

I few weeks back, I've downloaded Internet Explorer 9 beta just for testing purposes. I found out that there's still a few areas of IE9 that need to be fixed, however, performance wise is kindda okay..  So because of this few minor bugs, I decided to uninstall it.

The problem is I can't find it in 'Uninstall a program' section. So I did some googling. Turn out that Windows install IE9 as a Windows updates. So, this is the way to uninstall it...

1. Click the Windows logo and type ' view installed updates '. Select it in the search result.
2. When 'Uninstall an Update' screen pops out, scroll down to search for 'Windows Internet Explorer 9'.
3. Select it and click 'Uninstall'.

and you're done. :)

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Apple's 'App Store' Trademark Claim

Let see if Apple can win this battle... Personally I think 'app store' is a kindda general term but we just have to wait and see the outcome...

Microsoft Fights Apple's 'App Store' Trademark Claim

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is fighting Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) attempt to trademark the term "app store," saying it is a generic term used throughout the technology industry.

Apple originally filed for the trademark in 2008, when the Cupertino, Calif.-based consumer electronics giant launched its app store for the iPhone. Apple said at the time that the app ...

source : http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110112-712412.html

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How To Spoof Your MAC Address on Mac OS X

Mac address is a unique identifier for every computer network card. You might want to spoof your mac address sometimes for whatever reasons. So, here are the way to do it. It should works with but not limited to Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and10.6.

First of all you should take a look on your current MAC address. Launch the terminal and start typing below command and hit 'enter'.

ifconfig en1 | grep ether

You'll  see the result something like this.

ether 00:12:cb:c6:24:e2


So, that's is your mac address. To spoof your MAC address just set it to another hex value in this format : aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. This is how it's done.
Simply type the following command together with your spoof MAC address. For example :

sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6

Check your MAC address again using this command.

ifconfig en1 | grep ether

You should see your new spoof MAC address..

ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6

Happy trying

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New Tab in Safari By Default

I love Safari but before this, i'm used to chrome and firefox. By default for chrome/firefox, a new tab instead of a new window will popup when we click any external link but this is not the case is Safari. I can see that there's a lot of user searching for the answer on how to make safari open a new tab by default instead of a new window.. So here is the solution.

Just open you terminal , enter this command, hit 'enter' and you're done..

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

If suddenly you're thinking to revert back to its original state, you can enter this command into your teminal..

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool false

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Windows 8 Setback

Stop buying new software or application for Windows! Microsoft plans to create the next version of Windows to run on ARM chips. This could means that the previous application from previous windows might not be able to run on these new Windows. Users might have to re-buy the apps for it to work with the next Windows. Users are not the only one who will get affected, but the creator or developer of these third parties software might have to re-write their programs again to enable it to run on the next version of Windows. So users!! Get ready.. Better change to linux..

Taken from http://www.businessweek.com

'Windows 8' will run on ARM chips - but third-party apps will need rewrite

Microsoft says next version of Windows will run on increasingly popular chip platform, but existing programs won't run without changes

read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/05/microsoft-windows-8-arm-processors

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Browser War

Honestly I'm a fan of Google Chrome. My 2nd choice would be Safari.  Browser war has been around for so many years. As far as I could remember, it started with Netscape, then, IE, then comes Firefox, Chrome and so on. Usually for normal browsing I'll use Safari, for  video streaming i'll use Chrome and for hacking, I prefer Firefox. Every browser has its pros and cons.

Recently, chrome has overtook Safari at number 3, number 2 is still Firefox and the market leader is still IE. However, IE is losing its market share bit by bit. But I guess when IE launch its new browser, which is IE9, a lot of users will revert back to IE due to its new functionalities. It's totally different for previous versions of IE. It's more to Chrome but faster. You can only try the beta version of it for now. Take note that I'm not a IE fan, but I can't denied the good side of IE 9. 

Taken from pcmag.com

Chrome Overtakes Safari In Browser Wars

Google Chrome has overtaken Apple Safari to become the third-largest browser in the U.S., according to December statistics from web analytics firm StatCounter.

Meanwhile, market leader Microsoft Internet Explorer continued to lose the most market share; nearly two percentage points from the month before. Users appeared to be migrating to Google Chrome, which rose 1.55 percentage points, and Safari, which saw a modest 0.24 percent gain.

Globally, Microsoft has even more reason for concern. In Europe, Mozilla Firefox narrowly overtook it to become the most popular browser in the entire continent.

Continue reading at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375186,00.asp

So which browser is your choice? Do share it with us..

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