Welcome to Data-drop.com. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Managing multiple websites I was forced to have multiple email accounts. Like others you probably have at least 2 or 3 accounts. Along with that I have a desktop and a laptop. I have Mozilla [...]

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My wife and I decided that desktops hog up to much space in our house. With having 2 desktops running it took up almost an entire room for desks and chairs and everything that went with them. So we setup a plan to accommodate our network so [...]

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Adding video to your wordpress blog is pretty simple. 3 things you need.
1. A video you want to put on your blog.
2. A plugin for wordpress
3. A Program to convert those videos to FLV format
you can convert your video in linux with ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i Video_Name.MOV -ar 11025 -s 480×368 video_for_site.flv
once you have your video converted [...]

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This is the Neo 1973 phone from OpenMoko, built on a GNU / Linux based open source platform. OpenMoko took some time with this phone, with a 2.8 inch 480 x 460 resolution screen it defiantly stands out. The fact of it is, OpenMoko designed a phone with a total [...]

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So you go to your computer move the mouse and nothing not even a light on the monitor. You hear your system running but nothing is happening. You reboot your computer and you are greeted by a message: Master Hard Disk failure. or Drive 0 Not found or Unbootable media Please [...]

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I have been a long time user of AVG free edition. I have to say it saved me tons of money over the years. With having a free version I cant understand why people do not have a anti virus program running on there pc.
I do consulting work for home users fixing small [...]

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