How Did Twitter Affect Your Life?

Last week, we asked you what is the best brand of laptop. 1180 of you responded. Apple was at the top of the list with 273 votes which made up 23% of the total votes. As some of you have pointed out in the comments, this does not mean Apple has the biggest share of fans. If we were to combine the PC votes together they would add up to 77%. Yes, Apple makes pretty equipment that some people love but it is horribly expensive.

Dell came in second place with 17% with Levono/IBM and HP/Compaq close behind with 14% and 13% respectively. Very interesting, guys! And I learned that Toshiba has a very loyal following. It seems that people that have gone with them seem to say they are very well built and require little hardware servicing! You can view the complete poll results after the jump.

Free Blog Host

So it seems all we ever speak about is Wordpress ( ), but don’t forget that you have options when choosing a blog platform. Here are 40 free ways to get started.

Danga Software Powered

GreatestJournal.com – Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons.

InsaneJournal.com – Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements.

JorunalFen.net – Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various “fandoms” (i.e. Harry Potter ( ), various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older.

LiveJournal.com – One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Offers multiple account types such as ad-supported and paid. The center of a few controversies recently.

Themed Blog Sites

Blogabond.com – A site dedicated to travel blogs with map integration and more.

BlogCheese.com – A video blogging website.

BusyThumbs.com – A blog site specifically for your text messages and camera phone images.

Freevlog – Designed for video blogging and completely free.

Trippert.com – Create and share blogs of your travels.

Ufem.com – Blogging site specifically geared towards women. Offers multiple themes and plugins.

Word Count Journal.com – A new blogging format that is also part challenge. Write one word on the first day, two words on the second day and so on, at the end of the year you’ll have written 66,795 words.

Xanco.com – Another moblogging site for you to share all your mobile communications with friends and family.

WordPress Powered

Blogetery.com – Offers multiple templates, anti-spam, free sub-domain and more.

BlogRox.com – Runs on WordPress and offers 50MB of free online space.

Blogsome.com – Based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.

Edublogs.com – WordPress powered blogging for educators.

WordPress.com – Not only can you install WordPress on your own sites, you can use the same software on their site and save yourself all of the technical work.

Various Platforms

Blog.com – Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.

Blog Ladder.com – All blog entries show up on the main ladder as well as inside your own blog.

Blogger.com – A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use.

Blogr.com – Allows you to blog, host photos & videos, and podcasts.

BlogSpirit.com – European based blogging site, offers 30-day trial and subscription thereafter, but offers quite a bit of storage.

Blogster.com – Offers free image hosting in addition to free blogs.

BlogYx.com – Blogging site with extras such as chat boxes so you can interact with your readers.

Bloki.com – Lets you build a blog site and even open it up for collaboration.

Bravenet.com – Free blog hosting with RSS feeds and more.

ClearBlogs.com – Free blog hosting and offers templates, friends only posts, IP-Banning and more.

Etribes.com – Based in Europe, allows you to create all sorts of websites including a blog.

Multiply.com – Mixes blogging and social networking, with photo galleries and more.

Netcipia.com – Free blog and wiki for private or public display with 2GB of storage.

Open Diary.com – Offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced features.

ShoutPost.com – A platform for creating blogs with a focus on generating traffic.

SoulCast.com – Have something you want to talk about, but want to say it anonymously? This may be the blogging site for you.

Squarespace.com – Lets you build your blog with numerous themes, also allows you to add other site features.

Terapad.com – Offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.

Tooum.com – Fully integrated blog and forum which allows for seamless discussion between the two.

Tumblr.com ( ) – A blog platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts.

Weebly.com – Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly.

Windows Live Spaces – Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.

Vox.com – Part of the SixApart family of blogging sites, very much geared towards the personal journal types of blogs.

Xanga.com – Part social network, part blogging, all free.

Yahoo 360 – Part of your Yahoo account and features easy publishing.

Zoomshare.com – Free blog hosting with 250MB of free storage.

The Hackers CookBook v 4.51

An excellent book by SensePost , recommended read.

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How to ACTIVATE Windows XP without any software

This is a simple but effective registry hack that has been tried and tested several times by me…

If you don’t believe me then try this for yourself!

1 – Start menu/run/ type “regedit” and press enter,
this will take you to the registry editor

2 – Now follow this directory:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/WPAEvents

3 – When you get to WPAEvents in the righthand column there should be “OOBETimer”
right click it and go to “modify”
Change the numbers in there to :

FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F d5 33 93 FD (this works with Windows XP Home and Pro, both 32 and 64bit versions)

4 – When you’ve entered them, right click on the file “WPAEvents” and go into “permissions”

5 – In there highlight “SYSTEM” and underneath it check the two boxes under “deny” and click “OK”

Phew thats it!!! I know it looks complicated but it’s really easy, it just requires patience.

I tried this when I used up the amount of times you can activate Windows XP, it worked a treat!

To check that Windows is activated, simply click on Start menu/All Programs/Activate Windows.

It will say “Windows is already activated”.

Advanced Windows Mail recovery

Advanced Windows Mail recovery allows you to recover deleted emails from Windows Mail and Live Mail. The utility is precise and ignores corrupted indexes and builds up it's own database of emails which can then be saved as EML files (Can be opened by all major email clients) .

Keyword filter enables you to quickly find the email you are looking for and you can sort by email address / subject which allow you to speedily get back any lost information

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If you want to simply enter the computer without having to login

If you want to simply enter the computer without having to login, you can...You even choose which account you want to automatically login to..

When you login to windows you usually go to the login screen. On the login screen there a list of usernames that have an account on the computer.

There can be one or more users that have an account on the computer. This is where you sign in to an account to use the computer. If you want to bypass this stage and just start using your computer straight way then the instructions below will help you.

How to login to an account automatically when you start windows:
1. Go to the start menu and choose run. If run is not there we will type into the search bar.
2. Type control userpasswords2 in the run box or search bar in Vista.
3. Select a user name by clicking on it once and making it blue.



4. Now untick the box that says Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.
5. Press apply.
6. Now you must enter the user names password twice and press ok.
7. Press ok and exit the User account window.



Why would you want to login to your user account automatically?
• There is nothing important on your computer.
• The computer is for a child to play games on.
• You are lazy and don't want to type in a password.'
• You want to access your computer quickly.
• You are the only user on the computer.
• You are not worried if anyone uses your computer.
Notes:
• Obviously you can only automatically login to one user account at a time, therefore one username can only be set to automatic. To change which account you want to login to you must disable the previous one by replacing the tick in the box Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.
• Just remember that if you set your computer to automatic login then anyone who turns your computer on can access your user account and all the files and folders.

Clearing Your Complete Web Browsing History in Firefox 3

Firefox has a "Clean Private Data" feature that promises to clear all your web surfing tracks-everything including cookies,cache,temporary files,web addresses and stored password are deleted from the computer

However if you are using the latest Firefox 3 browser, do not assume that this "Clean Private Data" command will clean your entire Firefox web history - anyone can easily discover the websites that you have visited using Firefox.

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Del to open the Clear Private Data window in Firefox, select everything (including Browsing History) and hit OK. If you like, you may restart Firefox.

2. Everything should be cleared from Firefox in Step 1. Now lets click the drop-down in the Firefox address bar - you’ll see a long list of websites there. How come they are not deleted ?

3. There’re some more surprises here - from the bookmarks toolbar, click either the "Smart Bookmarks" or the "Places" folder and you’ll find another list that uncovers your browsing habits.

This is probably a bug that should be fixed in the future builds of Firefox 3 but until then, don’t rely on the browser if you are worried about privacy