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Renew my Flickr Pro Account?

икона за подаръкTo renew or not? What happens if my Pro Account expires? If your Pro account expires, don’t panic! None of your photos or videos have been deleted! This means instead of enjoying the super-duper capacity of your Pro account, you’re now subject to the limits of a free account. If you upgrade again, […]

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Quora Takes Over Switzerland

I mean, c’mon! I have my Quora account since May 2010 (230 days to be precise). Nobody bothered at that time. And now, in the past 24 hours Quora has taken over the “early” adopters in Switzerland like crazy. And I really how not “got” Quora yet… Sometimes being a “pre-early” adopter does not pay.

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Protestieren Sie beim BAKOM gegen CI+!

Cablecom will als Alternative zur aktuellen Set-Top-Box das System CI+ einführen. Damit macht sie unter unserem Druck auf die Entschlüsselung der digitalen Fernsehsignale einen Schlenker: die Signale sollen neu durch eine Karte für Fr. 99.-, die man in den Fernseher schiebt, entschlüsselt werden. Jedoch: CI+ wird von den allermeisten aktuellen Fernsehern nicht unterstützt und beschneidet […]

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Wasted Hours with Lost (Mathematically)

The highly popular and irritating ABC hit TV series “LOST” will come to an end after the sixth season (currently airing on US television). Now we just calculated how many hours you have wasted, if the series’ end sucks. And there is a little chance that it will. So 6 seasons with 22 episodes each: […]

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Google vs. China: What About Mobile?

Google today announced, that they redirect any services from google.cn (Google China) to their services at google.com.hk (Hong Kong). The reasons are, that google.com.hk is outside of the great Chinese firewall and therefor does not need to be self-censored. On the other side, this means that China can just block any traffic from inside to […]

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