Welcome to Data-drop.com. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I just got off the phone with one of my clients asking if I still had a copy of her files from her laptop. 2 months ago she bought a brand new dell laptop with [...]

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Downloading was supposed to commense at 1pm EST for the long awaited Firefox 3 release, but mozilla’s site has been unresponsive all day for me.  I was able to download FF3 from filehippo without a problem.  Download size is 7.8 mb.  Mozilla has commented that they know what the problem and are working hard to [...]

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Last night I went to help out a friend with a computer problem. A little information, about once a month he calls me to tell me his computer has slowed down to an unbearable state. I fully know that it’s probably infested with spyware and viruses. He calls me once a month [...]

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The newest release of AIM 6.5, has become a big pain in my butt of late. With all the extra ads and graphical features, it seems like there will never be and end of features. With those features it just gets slower and slower to load. Even while instant messaging a friend AIM seemed [...]

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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 Thunderbird setup as my default mail and news client. After upgrading my phone to the Samsung Blackjack it was a [...]

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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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