Megaupload Shut Down, Director Arrested

Today, Thursday January 19, Megaupload was shut down by the federal government. Almost everyone is familiar with this popular file sharing website. The site was used to share files. Users could upload a document and send a link to a friend to download. Now users will have to go elsewhere to do their file sharing.

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Wikipedia Shutting Down To Protest SOPA and PIPA

On January 16 Wikipedia announced that they will hold a black out across the entire English-language Wikipedia site for 24 straight hours in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.

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Send texts and manage your Android phone from a web browser

A lot of people spend most of their time on their computer. They have a cell phone and when they need to contact someone they have to unlock their phone, open the messaging app, select a contact, and type out a message on the small keyboard. Well with this cool app you can do all this through the web browser on your computer.

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Speed Test An Android Phone’s SD Card

Sometimes you may be interested in seeing just how fast your phones SD card is preforming. Or maybe you just bought a new SD card that’s rated at class 12 or something and you want to see if it is actually operating at those speeds. Well, there is a simple app that will do this for you.

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How To Turn A Laptop Into A Secondary Monitor

If you have an old laptop or even an old computer laying around, you can set it up as a secondary display for your main computer! I myself have an old dell mini laptop that I used as a secondary display for my main computer rig. This was accomplished with my network and a handy piece of free software! Continue reading

Remap Android Hardware Buttons

Due to the recent installation of some custom Android firmware onto my LG Optimus V, the voice search button just above the camera button no longer did anything. Now this bothered me. I searched and searched and was able to find this application that someone made on xda developers for rooted Android phones. It allows you to easily change the button configuration of your phone! I set the un-used button to act as a play/pause button, its been wonderful!

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Installing a Custom Operating System on an LG Optimus V with Cyanogenmod

This guide works with the latest version of Cyanogen! (March 14, 2012)

The LG Optimus V is a great smartphone by its own right, but me being the tinkerer that I am, I decided to change the stock Operating System of mine into something a little bit more powerful

Here are the steps I followed

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Try Windows Phone on Android and iPhone

Microsoft has it’s new mobile operating system, 7.5 (Mango). I myself was a little interested to see what it was like so I am sure that many others would benefit from giving it a test drive.

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