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Do you need an SSD?

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Zagg Invisible Shield Review

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Reducing Server Load

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The new significance of SEM

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To sync Facebook profile pictures to contacts, you must first make sure that your contacts are indeed connected to Facebook. The easiest way to do this is by looking at the contact information screen, which will show a Facebook Profile link if contact information is taken from Facebook. If this is not the case with a contact, you can navigate to the Edit Contact screen, tap the Menu button and tap Join, and join your phone’s contact with the appropriate Facebook account.

It seems that Facebook has recently stopped automatically synchronizing contact pictures to Android’s contact list. Even when contacts are clearly linked to Facebook, their profile pictures don’t show as the default contact photo.

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Everyone is speaking out against the bills which attempt to punish online piracy, but I haven’t seen anyone propose a solution. I believe that piracy is a serious issue and the current system we have to deal with it isn’t effective.

I want to see what all of you think a good alternative to SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA could be. How can the governments fight piracy better?

Leave a comment below to let me know what you think.

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I’m relatively new to the world of smartphones.  Prior to purchasing one, I was the type of person that carried around a prepaid phone, sent the occasional text, but never really understood the phenomenon with cellular devices that kept people glued to them.  And now that I finally own one of these devices… I get the addictive part of it.  I always knew that you could do things like easily check and reply to emails on the go, or check on Facebook whenever you wanted, but it seemed that I didn’t really get it until I did.  At this point, I became addicted to Android as well, which led me to discover its one fatal flaw- the battery life.  Being someone who uses their phone pretty much all day now, yet still works awkward hours until late at night, and isn’t at home to charge it for long in between, I searched and searched on ways to keep my battery going through the day on a single charge.  At last however, I have assembled a few tips that I do in order to keep on chugging.  It’s not going to let you last a week without plugging your phone in, but it should work for you if you have a weird hours situation like mine.

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Maximizing SEO Opportunities with Extended Keyword Targeting

Take a look at your site’s image ALT tags and answer this question honestly: How closely do they resemble their respective page’s title? The answer most webmasters would give this question is what inspired this post.

I noticed that some webmasters use the exact same text for their ALT tags as they have in their title. These people are targeting a single, highly specific keyword that they want to rank highly for. What’s the problem here? It’s not so much that this keyword stuffing can have negative effects on their sites – the real issue is that these authors are going into the SEO world with the wrong mindset.

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How Safe Are You?

In this day and age, our computers are our lives. They are our keepsakes, they hold our memories, they run our businesses, and they direct our social lives. Therefore, one of the absolute worst things that can happen to you in today’s society involve somebody either hacking your computer, or having it loaded up with malware. And we Windows users, being the most widely used operating system, have it the worst. So before you click on that advertisement link, before you open that questionable e-mail, and especially before you try out that mysterious software, make sure that you know how to keep your computer safe.

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