Why You Need a Firewall and How to Disable It Temporarily

For those of us who work online, one of the most important and basic tools we should have on our computers is a firewall.
One virus attack can destroy your entire hard drive in minutes. And that, my friends, is scary. Of course you should always back up your hard drive so that you don’t lose any of your work. But as my grandma used to say:“Prevention is always the best medicine.”

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Cool List of Alt Codes and Text Decorations for Twitter & Facebook

If you’re like me, you love to make things pretty. And while Twitter is an awesome place to chat with each other, I really miss all the bells and whistles that other chats give us like the smileys and color options . Decorating our conversation is half the fun! (hee hee)
So the solution to this is finding the absolute cutest art that we can actually tweet. I went around hunting and decided to put them all into one post.
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Resize Images for Your Blog Posts

Dr. Pic is an online image editor that I personally love to use just because it’s so easy and fast. There are many other image editing tools.
I personally have image editing software on my desktop such as Gimp (free) and Photoshop (paid). But the fact is that they have so many functions that it makes it a bit more time consuming to perform simple tasks. Online image resizers are just simpler .
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