Technically Sound: Lifehacker

Technically Sound: Lifehacker

Technically Sound is the first installment of a new weekly USBHacker article on tech blogs we love and think are good resources for our readers.  We’ll be featuring some of today’s most popular tech blogs, but we’re also going to make a special effort to bring you some of the lesser known (but still high [...]

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QtWeb Provides Practical Private Perusing, Practically.

QtWeb Provides Practical Private Perusing, Practically.

Windows only: QtWeb is another in what we suspect will be a long line of portable browsers offering “private browsing”.  This is widely becoming a popular feature, at least in FireFox and Google Chrome world, though we suspect a few others may follow suit, as more and more users become wise to the benefits of [...]

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Take Your Bookmarks Anywhere With TrayURL

Take Your Bookmarks Anywhere With TrayURL

Windows only: These days it’s pretty common to have more than one computer.  Most people have a work computer and a personal computer or three, and all of them are probably hooked up to the internet, meaning you’ve probably got hundreds of bookmarks across all of the computers you work on.  And who hasn’t bookmarked [...]

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Take Your Torrents With You With µTorrent Portable

Take Your Torrents With You With µTorrent Portable

Windows and Mac: There’s no denying the current popularity of BitTorrent as a method of file sharing, especially for very large files such as bootleg movies, software and mp3s, legitimate releases of Ubuntu. These files tend to be fairly large, and usually take a bit of time to download. It’s also no secret [...]

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Possible Deal Alert: Circuit City to Close its Doors for Good

Possible Deal Alert: Circuit City to Close its Doors for Good

You know it’s a bad economy when a retailer as large as Circuit City closes its doors forever. But that is exactly what is happening today, as Circuit City has just announced that it will be shutting down its remaining 567 U.S. stores which employ some 30,000 workers across the country. We usually [...]

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Windows 7 Beta: Epic Failure (plus no USB 3.0 support)

Windows 7 Beta: Epic Failure (plus no USB 3.0 support)

Ok, maybe “epic failure” is a little harsh, but Microsoft did manage to screw up again by sorely underestimating the level of interest in their beta release of Windows 7. So much so that when it was released last week (very briefly), the sheer number of downloaders brought Microsoft’s servers to their knees in [...]

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Browse Anonymously with Browzar

Browse Anonymously with Browzar

Windows only - Ask and you shall receive.  Ok, so you didn’t specifically ask, but based on the amount of interest you all have shown in our previous articles on anonymous browsing, we figured that was a sign that we should delve a little deeper into the world of proxies, anonymizers, and secure browsers.  So [...]

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Clickfree Cable Makes Automatic Backups Easy…Really

Clickfree Cable Makes Automatic Backups Easy...Really

Show of hands: Who here has a foolproof backup solution in place for all of their computer data right this minute?  Anybody?  Did someone raise their hand in the back?  Oh just scratching your nose?  The fact is, many of us know we should be making regular backups of our digital information, but I’d venture [...]

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