Bit.ly is simply a URL shortening service and quite simply one of the most useful tools I have come across. URL shortening is a technique of making a web page available under a very short URL, in addition to the original address.
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With the launch of Google Chrome OS, there are many articles about how Chrome OS is a game changer and the future of computing etc… but I just don’t get it.
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Twitter has updated the home page with an all new look and much anticipated search box allowing visitors to quickly and easily search topics and other users.
The interface is clean and uncluttered with a list of popular topic links, by minute, day and week. Using the links or the search returns a nice clean interface [...]
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Microsoft and Yahoo, have at last, announced a search partnership, using the new Bing search engine to take on the dominance of Google. The partnership has been rumoured for months with Steve Blamer stating
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Matthew Robson, 15 and 7 months, perhaps not your everyday teenager was asked by analysts at investment bank Morgan Stanley to detail how he and his friends consume media. Whilst many seem to have focussed on the fact that either Matthew Robson was 15 or that he said that he and his peer group had [...]
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Those that know me, will be aware of my fondness of the word ‘awesome’… it is a word that really gets across the magnitude of something you are describing… ‘it was an awesome result’… ‘it was an awesome night’…
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HM Armed Forces toys – ah these toys bring back great memories !!! Memories for me and loads of good old fashioned fun for my young son. He loves them. So far we have the HM Armed Forces Fast Jet Pilot, an HM Armed Forces Commando and of course a classic HM Armed Forces Infantryman.
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Ok so the title of this post is a little predictable. Microsoft launches a new search engine and suddenly everyone asks if it is the one to knock Google down in size.
However, one thing I have noticed differently this time round is that people have actually heard of the “Bing search engine” from Microsoft – and that is [...]
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Microsoft has responded to the recent releases of Firefox, Chrome and Safari with Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8).
Microsoft’s Amy Barzdukas has said “We have made IE 8 the best browser for the way people really do use the web”… so how does it rate?
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The VTech V.Smile Cyber Pocket is a cool portable educational gaming system turns game time into brain time!

