Microsoft no longer offers free technical support for Windows XP

Microsoft no longer offers free technical support for Windows XP Home Edition and Office 2003 users. Only the security updates will be distributed. This will affect companies that still sell computers with this operating system installed and, of course, to all users of this operating system.

I never used this service from Microsoft. When I have a problem with my operating system I look for information around the Internet.

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BackType: allows you to keep track of the comments made on the Internet

BackType can centralize the comments made online. When a blog writes an article there are many comments around it. In some cases there are more comments in digg or twitter than the original website. BackType can help you to follow the comments and the commenters you like.

If you follow the comments from a certain person, this tool will help you to do it easier. You can follow his comments and see where does he gives his opinion.



The comments made for the people that you follow will be shown in the dashboard (Home) and will also be available via RSS.

Each comment can be shared, answered, sent via Twitter or you can get a permanent link to this one.

Link: BackType.

Animated Sorting Algorithms

Sorting-Algorithms gives us an animation to illustrate how sorting algorithms work. An algorithm defines the steps to be taken to resolve a problem. Sorting algorithms, as its name suggests, aims to sort a number of elements. There are other pages that shows animations like this, but this one is the best I've seen.

Algorithms that includes the site are: Insertion, Selection, Bubble, Shell, Merge, Heap, Quick and Quick3.


We can vary the initial ordering of the elements, the can be: Random, nearly sorted, reversed or with few unique.

The webpage tries to show this:

• How each algorithm operates
  
• That there is no best sorting algorithm.
  
• The advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm.
  
• That worse-case asymptotic behavior is not the deciding factor in choosing an algorithm.
  
• That the initial condition (input order and key distribution) affects performance as much as the algorithm choice.
  

Link: Sorting-Algorithms.

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How to customize your new profile (2.0) in MySpace

With the old MySpace profile we needed to look for css code in order to hide data inside our profile (list of friends, contacts, general information, etc). Now with the new version, it's easier to customize our page. If you don't like the result with the new version, you can restore the previous one.

If you have the old profile version, then click in "edit profile". You'll see the following message:

MyProfile: The new profile is here!... We have new designs and now you can change it directly from the site. Try it....

After visiting the link, press the button "Upgrade to 2.0". We'll see the page to configure our profile.



As shown above, we can modify the appearance and the modules that we want to show. I'll give you a short description of every element inside the appearance section:

• Select theme: This is the easiest way to change the appearance. There are more than 90 themes.
  
  
• Change design: Here we select the page layout.
  
  
• Advanced edition: Here you can change the background image from the page and the modules and the characteristics of the modules.
  
  
• CSS: Here we can insert the CSS code that many sites gives us (like PimpMyProfile).
  
  

In the Modules section we can add, modify or hide our content from our page.

Hide the friends module:

Show the module:

There are other ways to do the same operation:


We can change the position of the modules, we only need to drag and drop them.

Tumblr: the easiest way to share your stuff

Tumblr is a web tool that allows us to share text, images, sounds, videos, sentences, conversations or connections. The interface is extremely intuitive and you only required basic Internet surfing knowledge.

To register you'll need your e-mail address, password, and the nickname for your Internet address (i.e. http://name.tumblr.com).

After this, you can start publishing.


In settings we can add our Twitter account. This enables you to post what you write in Tumblr into your Twitter account or viceversa.


In costumize you can add a brief blog description (you can use HTML tags) and the title, apply a theme, change colors, add updates from other blogs or RSS (shown below) and advanced options: include CSS code, number of posts per page, avoiding the promotion of Tumblr, allow it to be added to the search engines or send pings when you update your page.



In Tumblr you can follow other users, like Twitter. You'll receive updates from them into your Dashboard.

Web page: Tumblr.

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