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Street Fighter IV PC Modding
The extra or fun feature of owning a PC over Console has definitely got to be the modification aspect. The community mods range from small conservative modifications perfecting or altering subtle aspects of the game that make the experience complete to absolute extreme mods which add a customizable level of fun.
Facebook’s New Privacy Policy
There has been a lot of chatter about Facebook’s new stance on privacy. Ideally, they want to publicize all of our details for reasons only known for certain by them. A sound guess would be that they wish to push this information to advertisers to monetize their business. Nothing wrong with that, as long as [...]
Encrypted Emails with GnuPG, Enigmail and Thunderbird
These days it’s hard to tell who’s out for your information, but you could and probably should assume everyone is. Your emails get sent through a lot of different servers as part of the routing process to get the mail delivered. Since we have no way to verify that these servers are not collecting information [...]
Also posted in How-To Tagged Cryptography, Email, Mac OS X, Privacy, Secrecy, Thunderbird, Ubuntu, Windows 7 Leave a comment
Backup Thunderbird
Now that Thunderbird 3 has been released, we want to back up our old 2.x version settings and profiles in case something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Here’s how.
Also posted in How-To Tagged Backup, Email, Mac OS X, Thunderbird, Ubuntu, Windows 7 Leave a comment
Thunderbird 3 Released
Those of you who love new and shiny, Thunderbird 3 is out! The old version was starting to feel long in the tooth… but this version is incredibly fast. Some of the new exciting features include tabs and search an much needed update to the Add-on Manager which allows you to download plugins directly from [...]
Watching American Web Content
For anyone outside of the US, watching any sort of web content sucks. Many countries do not air a TV show or that particular show is held back several seasons which sucks when you’re on the internet since everyone wants to ruin it for everyone who hasn’t watched it by posting spoilers on big sites [...]
Posted in Geek Tagged American, Firefox, Modify Headers, Online Content, TV, US, Workaround Leave a comment
Trust, Checksums and Piracy
I’m amoral to the whole legitimacy and pirate debate, but if you or your friends are using a pirated version of Windows 7 and think that you’re safe because of checksums, think again.
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