The recent news surrounding overdraft fees and other bank charges has highlighted the fact that choosing the right bank account is just as important as choosing the cheapest energy or insurance deal.Last week, RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) and NatWest cut their overdraft charges and unpaid item fees, ahead of a court ruling on the fairness of such charges.However, an overdraft is not an essential feature of a current account – and customers should decide whether they need an overdraft before they open an account.A spokesperson for Think Banking said: “There is a lot of choice on offer when it…

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Over the weekend I wrote about the “massive protests” taking place in Zynga’s virtual world YoVille. I kind of poked at the protesters in the article because they are the vocal minority. When you’re in the midst of a protest it appears as if everybody is protesting. The new changes were controversial for those users who had spent time and money on the game over the past year or two. The main issue was that users are now forced to return to the game on a timed basis in order to earn revenue. I’m still not convinced it’s an unfair…

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Jolicloud is a new Linux based operating system aimed at netbooks. The developers were nice enough to let us get our hands on their closed development version of the new OS. This distribution is built off of Ubuntu Netbook Remix(9.04 Jaunty Jackalope). At first glance it looks like nothing more than Ubuntu with a new skin, but the difference is deeper. Jolicloud added an App Store type program that offers installation of web applications along with traditional desktop apps. Using Mozilla Prism, web based applications like Facebook, Gmail, and Wikipedia are installed, get their own icon in the launcher,…

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A new Facebook Connect application has spread quickly around the Facebook social graph by tagging all of a user’s friends who have the same zodiac sign. This is the latest in a series of new photo tagging applications which have been spreading like wildfire across the site. The Facebook platform lets users easily tag their friends but by prompting users for unrestricted posting and unrestricted photo upload permissions, the application is able to spread like crazy. It leads me to wonder whether Facebook will begin cracking down on these types of apps.

The way Facebook’s new permissions system is that…

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When owning a domain name the owner is required to submitcertain data about himself to complete the registration. Nameand address information as well as a phone number and an emailaddress are required to be on file. If these pieces ofinformation are not provided the registration can either not becompleted or is not valid and the domain name could be takenaway.Often people forget to keep this information updated. This isnot a dramatic issue until the domain name expires and needs tobe renewed. If the owner keeps track of the names it is noproblem, but too often people tend to forget. Email…

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Mozilla Firefox faster more secure easier to use and sporting a new look this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation Mozilla Firefox project formerly Firebird which was formerly Phoenix is a redesign of Mozilla 39 s browser component written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross platform It is small fast and easy to use and offers many advantages over other web browsers such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop up windows Firefox has the most ways to customize your online experience specifically for the way you…

learn how to get traffic to your website – After all, it’s goingto be pretty hard to make money if you don’t have any visitors!Generating traffic is one of the most important elements ofbuilding a successful internet business – once you’ve worked outhow you can drive quality visitors to your website you should beon the road to success wherever that is!. By creating qualitytraffic cheaply, you can almost afford to be a little lacklusterwhen it comes to other elements of the site although thisdepends what sort of site you have and who your audience is. Inthis issue of the Ecourse…

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For some, a peggy 2.0 is pretty cool, but simply not impressive enough. [MonsieurBon] felt this way and simply built a larger LED rig for his peggy2.0.  It still uses the brains of the peggy, but the LED array is a custom built cabinet, using ping pong balls as diffusers. Another interesting modification is that they added a midi port to the setup to generate music based on what LEDs are lit. They say it creates some nice background generative music during the game of life. You can see a video of the system in action after the break.…

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