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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
"We all love YouTube videos. We all love Homestar Runner. But we don't love it when Flash ads or other Flash-related junk forces our processors to run hot and leech our precious battery fluids." : apple
In December 2011 /r/apple and /r/applehelp passed 70,000 and 3,000 subscribers respectively. Between the two subreddits over 1,200 stories were posted. For the first time since its creation, submissions in /r/applehelp exceeded submissions in /r/apple by more than 25%. Currently, /r/applehelp is the second largest technical help site on reddit. A new flair system has been implemented in /r/apple and /r/applehelp . The top twenty submitters each month will receive flair to recognize their contributions.
FlashFrozen - A different kind of Flash blocker for Mac OS X
We all love YouTube videos. We all love Homestar Runner. But we don't love it when Flash ads or other Flash-related junk forces our processors to run hot and leech our precious battery fluids.Without a doubt, compatibility is the most important factor in buying a memory upgrade for your laptop or computer. Your RAM must be compatible with your system — or your system just won't work. With so many variations in memory, it's important to understand just exactly what will work — and what won't — in your system.
RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, flash cards, SSD at Crucial.com
Which hard disk has the most bang-for-the-buck in terms of gigabytes/dollar? See a value comparison based on prices fetched periodically from several vendors.
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Ex-Googler Helps Users Disconnect From the Social Web
In October, Google engineer Brian Kennish debuted Facebook Disconnect , a Chrome extension that wipes out virtually all evidence of Facebook from your Web experience. Since then, Kennish has quit his job with Google to focus entirely on Disconnect , another extension for Chrome and RockMelt that aims to help users to block the larger scope of tracking devices on the increasingly social Web. Kennish released Facebook Disconnect in October and the extension quickly gained popularity, hitting the top 10 list of Google Chrome extensions.
How did we get here? We’re beginning to feel overwhelmed by the frequency with which Facebook links are starting to appear on many of the sites we visit in our daily routines, so we decided to do something about it. What does it do? This browser extension stops Facebook social plugins—including those within iFrames—from running on sites other than Facebook itself.