Apple hot release: The iPhone 2.2 update

The big 2.2 iPhone update finally arrived and it’s ready to be abused. The update itself is the biggest one so far, weighting 246 Megs ( compared to 238 Mb for the 1.1 iPhone update ). I’m guessing if you own an iPhone you already are aware of the changes brought by the 2.2 update, as we’ve also written in the Beta preview.

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Google added themes for Gmail

Some people are reporting that they can now select a theme and apply it within their Gmail account. It seems that Google is finally looking on the personalization side of Gmail and started adding themes. I can’t confirm this feature at this point, but as you can see from the picture, it’s not a rumor.

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How To: Import contacts from Gmail into Outlook

A friend of mine asked me today how he can import his contacts from Gmail into Outlook and I have decided to create this small tutorial.

Export your Gmail contacts

First we will need to export our Gmail contacts. Just log into your Gmail account, select the Contacts tab, choose “Select: All” or individual if you wish to export only certain contacts then press “Export”, choose the Outlook’s CSV format and select a location within your computer or local media to save the file.

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How To: Reset the master password in the Opera browser

The master password under the Opera browser protects the user sensitive informations such as user saved passwords from being copied/accessed locally. Now what happens if you forget your Opera master password? In particular, nothing bad but Opera will not fill out the username and password of sites that have been stored.

Fortunately, the master password can be reseted and the problem solved.

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The JS-909 Javascript drum machine

I don’t know if you are a sound enthusiast but I’m guessing you know what a drum machine is and what it stands for. Most of the virtual drum machines on the market are embedded in professional sound mixers, music making software suites or freeware programs. Well, it seems that Cameron Adams, a JS coder wanted to create a JS based drum machine, with no dependencies and, he just did that.

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The Wikiquote and Wikipedia screensavers

The only screensaver I used so far was the clock screensaver in Windws and the default one in Mac OS, so ya, not a big fan. Those 2 screensavers turned my eye tho, the ideea behind them it’s what it makes them unique and appealing. But let’s take them one at a time and shortly, let’s see what this is all about.

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How To: Recover photos from you corrupted SD card or media

I had several cases when some friends of mine had their SD card corrupted and they lost many photos. Now, I hope you’ll never have to deal with a corrupted SD card but if you do, we have a good solution for you.

PhotoRec is a digital photo recovery solution that is designed to handle multiple types of storage media. The operating system will not be a problem either, PhotoRec runs under Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Dos, Solaris and FreeBSD.

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ZoneAlarm Pro will be given for free, download and 1 year subscription

Check Point, the company behind the ZoneAlarm software suite, decided to give away the ZoneAlarm Pro suite for free, for just a day, tomorrow. Now I don’t know if their servers will handle the possible requests for 1 day but don’t say we didn’t told you.

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