Up until a year ago, I had never considered doing work as a freelancer. When I started my own blog, I gained a wealth of experience and connections that led to my ability to offer freelance services in a variety of areas including article writing, web design, internet marketing, and …
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Blog Your Way to Freelance Success
As freelancers we’re afforded a lot of perks – everyday is casual Friday, and we don’t have to “pretend laugh” at our bosses’ bad jokes – however, we definitely have our fair share of burdens, too.
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Future Skills: How to Match Professional Growth with Industry Demand
YouTube has been a revolutionary invention in promoting your message through videos. It has been a one of its kind of digital communication tool to facilitate your message reach to your audience in a more absolute manner. You can find almost every video you are looking for on YouTube from …
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Take advantage of YouTube for your business
UK mobile phone operator O2, who has the exclusive contract to sell the Apple iPhone since it was launched in 2007, until recently, has announced that it has sold over two million iPhones in the UK. According to O2 their iPhone sales are still very strong, even though you can now buy an Apple iPhone in the UK from other mobile phone operators like Vodafone and Orange, and even Tesco, although the Tesco contract is actually an O2 one. O2 have come under criticism from iPhone owners because of their poor data service in certain areas of the UK, this is something I have experinced myself first hand as my iPhone is with O2. It will be interesting to see if O2 can retain its high iPhone sales over the next couple of years, and whether the other networks will be able to lure O2 customers away when new models of the Apple iPhone are released. via Tech Radar This is a post from Geeky Gadgets , who bring you the latest cool Gadgets
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O2 Has Sold Over 2 Million iPhones In The UK
AMD have outed their latest video card, the ATI Radeon HD 5450, and while it’s packing DirectX 11 support it’s not really intended for the gamers. Instead the fanless half-height card offers DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA connections, support for Eyefinity multi-monitor output and more for just $50. That means support for up to three displays simultaneously, as well as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio bitstreaming. In fact the HD 5450 seems almost tailor-made for an HTPC setup, even down to the frugal 20W power requirements. Over at Tom’s Hardware they’ve been putting the HD 5450 through its paces and, as expected, it’s “the least awe-inspiring Radeon HD 5000-series card”.
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AMD ATI Radeon HD 5450: DirectX 11 for HTPCs, not gamers
Samsung’s latest AMOLED smartphone has broken cover , the new SHW-M100S, and like the Google Nexus One it’s running Android 2.1. The M100S has a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, WiFi b/g/n, T-DMB TV tuner and a 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording; it’s apparently set to arrive on South Korea’s SK Telecom network next month. Other specs include GPS and DivX playback, a 3.5mm headphone socket and – unfortunately – Samsung’s own TouchWiz UI. They’ve also added a social networking app, though that’s not fully detailed, and the M100S will get access both to the regular Android Market and SK Telecom’s own T Store.
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Android 2.1 Samsung M100S hitting Korea in March
The Symbian Foundation, who are behind one of the worlds most popular mobile phone operating system’s Symbian has announced that their Symbian OS will be open source from today. The Symbian OS has shipped on over 330 million mobile phones, and they Symbian Foundation has made the OS open source in a bid to attract new developers to the platform to speed up its development
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Symbian Mobile Phone OS Goes Open Source
Either romantic or schmaltzy depending on your current relationship status and attitude to romance, the ifallinlove app syncs to your lover’s iPhone and depending on how near you are to the object of your affections, the heart on the screen…
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Heart app syncs with your lover’s iPhone: an app for Valentine’s Day
The 32nm dual-core Clarkdale processors that recently made their debut are about to pave the way for Intel’s next performance crown chaser, the six-core Gulftown . You might’ve known that already, but Intel’s decided to furnish us with the above slide detailing the particular differences between the two dies, with the most notable being the whopping 1.17 billion transistors that the new CPU will be composed of. The major attraction of Clarkdale chips lies in their power efficiency and competent integrated GPU , but the Gulftown focus will be firmly on the high end
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Intel teases six-core Gulftown, discusses tera-scale computing
Motorola has been suing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion over a patent relegated to an email gateway; however, a high court judge has ruled that Research In Motion doesn’t infringe Motorola’s patent reports an article over on the Calgary Herald . Apparently the high court judge in London invalidated a Motorola patent saying that even if it had been valid, two RIM communications systems didn’t infringe said patent. From 2003 to 2007 Motorola and Research In Motion had a licence agreement in place and since then have been suing each other over patents when they both failed to reach a new agreement. The most recent action was Motorola asking the US International Trade Commission to halt Research In Motion products importing smartphones which they claim infringes five of their patents but as yet the ITC has not investigated.
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Motorola Patent Not Infringed by BlackBerry
One of the frustrations of UMID’s first-gen mbook M1 was the absence of a standard USB port; instead you had to remember to carry an awkward adapter dongle . The company addressed that with the mbook M2 , but one owner of the original machine has taken matters into his own hands and added a USB port himself .
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UMID mbook M1 USB 2.0 mod
A new experimental app has now made its debut via Nokia Beta Labs and is called Nokia Diagnostics, which apparently aids S60 5th Edition users diagnose, configure and troubleshoot with ease. According to Nokia Beta Labs the user of Nokia Diagnostics on their mobile phone you can perform real time internet connectivity tests, identify settings so you can gain seamless internet access. You can gain all network related info and direct offline status and SIM card presence
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Video: Nokia Diagnostics Gets Introduced
We had a brief play with MSI’s new Wind U160 netbook back at CES 2010 , and came away uncertain about what felt like more than a little flex in the keyboard. Fingers-crossed that hasn’t panned out to the latest models, and the people to ask are over at NewGadgets.de; they’ve picked up a U160 and have promptly shot a video hands-on . Video unboxing/hands-on after the cut Best news is, this particular U160 – despite still being pre-production – is apparently higher quality than what they were showing off at CES. It’s certainly possible that things could get tightened up even more by the time the netbook launches properly this March. Relevant Entries on SlashGear Pantech launches new widescreen DMB MSI CES 2010 range hands-on: Wind U160, X-Slim, more MSI Wind stars in hands-on video MSI Wind unboxing video: True gadget lust MSI Wind U200 launched: Video hands-on
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MSI Wind U160 gets video unboxing/hands-on: quality improved
Apple’s announcement to use a micro SIM in its iPad caused quite a bit of waves in the mobile industry – no other box has used this smaller format so far. The illustration on the left shows the site difference – and CNET reports the following: … The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which sets the standards for SIM cards, tells us that except for the size of the plastic around the chip, micro SIM cards are identical to the SIM cards we normally find in phones. … This means that you can cut existing SIM cards to size – have fun, tinkerers! Image: Wikimedia Commons / Justin Ormont
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Micro SIM electrically compatible with classic SIM cards
As you can see from the photos and the title, the Gun Comb is a comb, which is designed to look like a hand gun, maybe not the best idea to be honest and not something we would recommend using whilst you are out and about. The Gun Comb is from the guys over at 25togo Design , if you want one they are available for about $10, although if you get would it might be an idea to leave it at home the next time you go somewhere on a plane as you could end up getting arrested.
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The Gun Comb
Advice : Will canceling my cell phone contract lower my credit score? I know that having continuous late payments on your cell phone bill can affect your credit score, so I’ve decided that I want to cancel my cell phone contract because …
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Fujitsu’s latest tablet PC has quietly launched , and the Windows 7 convertible LifeBook T900 has plenty to recommend it. Packing a choice of Intel processors including the Core i7-620M and Core i5-540M/520M, the T900 has a 13.3-inch 1280 x 800 display that can either use a regular active digitizer or a dual-digitizer that both recognizes pen input and multitouch finger gestures. Up to 8GB of RAM is supported, and storage is up to 500GB of HDD or 128GB of SSD; there’s also a DVD burner that can be swapped out for another battery, another hard-drive or simply left empty to save weight.
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Fujitsu LifeBook T900 multitouch Core i7 tablet sneaks on sale
When Apple announced the iPad at their Apple Event, maybe people misunderstood what the product was all about. A week later, it’s evident that the iPad is going to sell like hotcakes. For what it was created to do, it’s going perform extremely well.
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Just yesterday, Motorola introduced the DEVOUR (yes, in all caps) to the cell-toting masses. It’s the first phone to be released running the unique Android-powered Motoblur technology. What’s Motoblur, you ask? Well, Motoblur syncs and feeds your personal and work emails, texts, Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter updates from you and those you follow to your phone’s home screen without having to log into different accounts, or open up any webpages or apps. It’s all right there on the main screen.
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So What’s Up With Motorola’s Motoblur?
There has been a strange countdown timer running and apparently the reason for said time has now been discovered by the guys over at wired and said reason is the Symbian Foundation plans to make the Symbian operating system completely open source as of today the 4th of Feb 2010. This is apparently 4 months ahead of schedule and the Symbian source code will now be available to anyone for absolutely free, although it hasn’t been announced just yet but should happen sometime today. Presumably the Symbian source code will become available to anyone who wants it through the Symbian Foundation website, and the exec director of the Symbian Foundation has said “the dominating operating system out there is Symbian.” Williams also states that although it may sound similar to Android’s promise, there are major differences as only roughly a third of the Android code base is open, nothing more. Middleware is open while everything else is closed or propriety.
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Today Symbian OS Becomes Fully Open Source
Heute ist es nun soweit gewesen, das erste Smartphone mit dem neuen Bluetooth 3.0 Standard ist im Internet aufgetaucht. Hierbei handelt es sich um das neue Samsung GT-S8500 Smartphone , welches neben Bluetooth 3.0 auch mit einem 3.1-Zoll OLED Touchscreen Display ausgestattet ist. Als Benutzeroberfläche setzt Samsung auf die TouchWIZ UI und bei den Frequenzen wird das Quad-Band GSM/EDGE Netz unterstützt.
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Samsung GT-S8500: Erstes Smartphone mit Bluetooth 3.0