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Switched to Google Chrome

Hi, my name is Cocaman and I am a Google Chrome user. I was a long, long time Firefox user (even used Firebird). But lately I only had troubles with the cute fox. I crashed several times a day for no good reason. It was getting slower and slower and so I gave Chrome a […]

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put.io Exits Beta Phase

Highly controversial video and download service put.io has just informed its beta testers about their official public launch in 7 days. Read the full email below. What is interesting to note with this launch is the fact, that put.io will only offer a limited amount of accounts. See the following screenshot. And the accounts are […]

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Free Online Website Translation Tools

The Bad, the ugly and the worthless It’s Sunday evening and people are waiting for the Oscar ceremony to start. And while waiting, I gave some free online translation tools a spin. If you do not understand German, you will not have to much fun in this post, sorry. Here are the nominations Yahoo Bing […]

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Perfect Online Backup Strategy

For over 15 months I am using BackBlaze as an online backup system. Once installed and configured, it automatically backs up all my data in the background. No matter how many files or how large your backup is, everything is safe. BackBlaze currently backs up 38 GB of data in 634’244 files for me. Now […]

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History of reMail

By now you should have heard that reMail, an email search client for the iPhone, has been bought by Google and was removed from the AppStore. What is a little bit more interesting in my eyes is a look back. What was reMail like in version 1, and what has changed. In the very first […]

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