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Samsung is doing a good job at hyping us up for their Galaxy S II Android powered smart phone.  The Galaxy S II is impossibly thin at just 8.49 mm and still manages to pack a 4.3″ Super AMOLED screen.  Meanwhile, the thin design doesn’t look like it will inhibit processing power as the phone comes with  a Dual Core …

I really had high hopes for the latest version of Firefox, so much so that I sat and dealt with the same problems from the previous version waiting for an update to fix it.  Firefox has come a long way since it debuted, but sometimes that road ahead can actually lead you backwards.  With the slurry of new features present …

For all of the guitar players out there who share my frustration with current guitar games, Ubisoft is promising to help us out. Anyone who plays guitar, for obvious reasons, seems to struggle a bit with Rock Band and/or Guitar Hero. The problem being, one of the biggest parts of actually playing guitar is the feel of the guitar. Holding …

It’s finally here; Michael Jackson: The Experience has been released for the Xbox 360’s Kinect, and it does not disappoint. Grab your fedora and your sequined glove, and get ready as we bring you a first glance at this title.

People have different needs for different things, and if your need is to display a simple RSS feed in your theme; there is an easy way to do it… without plugins.  There are a lot of plugins out there for displaying an RSS feed, but many of them actually over complicate things.  Believe it or not, you already have the …

The folks at EA seem to be milking the Need for Speed series for all it’s worth lately. Shift 2: Unleashed is touted as the most realistic racing simulation to date. This title absolutely lives up to that hype, but not without it’s quirks. Gentlemen, start your engines…

Recently, we featured an article here on C.O.D. that describes the process of installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a netbook with a USB thumb drive.  After using it for some time, there just seems to be too many little things missing to make it a viable permanent alternative.  However, you are not out of luck… you have a choice and …

Most of you have probably seen the commercials from Microsoft touting the cloud experience behind Windows 7 and Windows Live.  The thing is… many of us that have Windows 7 don’t really know how to do some of the things they show in those commercials.  In this multi-part series, we will attempt to demystify the “cloud” and show you how …

For years now, I have been using TinyMCE for WordPress to enhance the editor with some new buttons.  However, I only found myself typically using the “Next Page” button and never really touched any of the others.  I also noticed that some of the new functionality in WordPress 3.1 wasn’t present when using the plugin.  In the interest of keeping …

If you have opened up your WordPress site up to user registrations, there are inevitably some things that you just don’t want them to see. Unfortunately, by default, there is no way to accomplish this directly from the options within WordPress. Until this day comes, you can remove dashboard items by adding some simple code to your functions.php file.