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At a glance... Personal Loans

However, most borrowers are unlikely to get the best deal because when they decide to apply, they simply go straight to their bank and take whatever is on offer. Even in the current credit crunch environment, there are dozens and dozens of companies offering loans and you'll have plenty of products to choose from. It's worth taking a look at our best buys table and shopping around. A single percentage point in interest could save you thousands over the course of your loan. However, there are pitfalls you'll need to avoid, and questions you need to ask before you make your decision. Term First you need to decide the term you'll want the loan for. Shorter terms mean, obviously, you'll pay the debt back quicker, but they also mean you'll pay less interest overall.

Enabling Samba Shares Across Subnets, Part 1

"In this series we'll set up a Samba server that serves two subnets, which is is a common scenario even on home networks: one wired and one wireless. Then we'll hook up a third subnet just to show how it's done. Once you know how to do that you can easily expand to as many subnets as you want. In Part 1, we'll start out with a simple anonymous file and printer server.

The Last Remnant (Xbox 360)

When you first begin The Last Remnant, you'll participate in a battle within moments of inserting the game disc, and chances are that you'll be struck by a glaring issue: The frame rate is awful, and the texture pop-in is shockingly bad. It's an issue you'll never quite get used to, considering that it mars the entirety of the experience. What a shame, because this long and fascinating Japanese role-playing game has a way of getting under your skin. It features a rich, original fantasy world, obviously crafted with great care and artistry, and it tells a strong, politically charged tale that will keep you glued to the screen. Although somewhat flawed, the battle system is fun to play around with, particularly in the second half when enormous armies go head to head in some dramatic, bloody showdowns.

What Every New Blogger Needs To Know

Beginning to learn about blogging largely consists of learning the terminology used by bloggers. You'll need to understand these terms: blog, platform, domain and web host. Once you understand these essentials of blogging, you'll be able to talk about blogging as if you've done it for years. Once you know exactly what a blog is and how it works, you'll be ready to pass your blogging 101 exam with flying colors.

3 OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks: Harmonizing With MS Office, Managing Large Complex Documents

We’ve covered many tips and tricks about working between OpenOffice.org (OOo) and Microsoft (MS) Office, however now we’ll address the formatting issues experienced when converting between the two formats. We’ll give you a few ways to make your documents convert better, so you can share your work with those who only use MS Office. You’ll also discover the Navigator in this tutorial. This window in OOo can help you jump from here to there in your document and gives you a quick way to modify the structure. Lets get started!

These are the rumoured names for I?m A Celeb ? come back later for the official word!

If you’re a kangaroo be on your guard – celebrities are on their way to the Aussie outback, and in no time they’ll be eating various undesirable parts of your anatomy. Which is of course our silly way of saying that I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here is back, and from just after 12midnight tonight we’ll be able to reveal exactly which celebrities are subjecting themselves to two weeks of being covered in creepy crawlies, eating revolting animal parts, and (worst of all) living in a camp with other egotistical, complaining famous faces. And who are those famous faces this year? Well, according to the rumour mill, we’ll be cringing all over TV personality Esther Rantzen, ex-EastEnder Joe Swash, former Blue hottie Simon Webbe, tennis legend Martina Navratilova, police chief Brian Paddick, chat-show host and former MP Robert Ki

ASUS P565 - 800Mhz Windows Mobile 6.1 Device Official

The Taiwanese company, ASUS, has finally unveiled the fanfare Windows Mobile device for the year, the ASUS P565. What makes this device worth noticing is the fact that it'll be the first Windows Mobile device to sport a Marvell 800Mhz processor. We did say that device specifications won't play as important a role as the user interface, but it'll be still interesting to see how a Windows Mobile device will fare on this high-end processor, and if it'll be adopted by other manufacturers in the near future.

Photoshop Fundamentals: Create a Cast Light Effect

This realistic light effect casts the shadow of window blinds on a person in an ordinary photo. The effect provides more focus and impact to the photo’s subject by creating a light source illusion. In the initial step, you’ll prepare the image by first converting it to Lab Color mode, which enables you to flexibly adjust luminosity and color. In following steps, you’ll use Channels, create a displacement map image, use the Lasso and the Rectangular Marquee tools, plus the Gaussian Blur and Displace filters. In the last step, you’ll complete the cast light effect by changing color levels with the Color Balance Adjustment layer.

I?ll be back, WBIE announce Terminator Salvation ? The Videogame

Technology news and Jobs arrow Technology Lifestyle arrow I’ll be back, WBIE announce Terminator Salvation – The Videogame

I'll be back, WBIE announce Terminator Salvation - The Videogame

Technology news and Jobs arrow Technology Lifestyle arrow I’ll be back, WBIE announce Terminator Salvation – The Videogame

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft say they'll try to limit personal data sharing in China and other countries

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft say they'll try to limit personal data sharing in China and other countries

How to Make Decisions That'll Rock Your SEO Campaign, Part II

Yesterday we looked at five decision making strategies and applied them to SEO. Today we'll conclude with an additional five ways to help you make better SEO and business success decisions.

It's an Annoying Poll, Ya'll

The fact that Spears + new handlers = comeback isn’t what bugs us. It’s the whole “ya’ll� thing. Is that really necessary? We think the word is annoying as hell. Makes us wonder...

Improvements in GNOME 2.24 and Ubuntu 8.10

It'll be really hard for me to keep track which feature was done by which, so I'll post GNOME 2.24 and Ubuntu 8.10 as one. How is it hard? Well, I used to think that most of the things in Ubuntu were done by GNOME, but I was proven wrong when I looked deeply into the progress of Ubuntu 8.10 from alpha to final. I learned the new quit menus were taken from OpenSUSE (not to be confused with the quit menu being split up into three parts in System part of the Menu Bar; that was by GNOME), that most of the work on the new FUSA applet was done by Ubuntu, and there's some things that Ubuntu takes out of GNOME that I noticed in Foresight's unedited version of GNOME that I couldn't see in Ubuntu's GNOME.

Live-blogging

I'll be live-blogging the election tonight, just like I have to the last couple of elections. I should start posting sketches sometime late this afternoon. I'll also be doing a regular cartoon for tomorrow's paper. It should be a busy night. You can see some of the sketches from my first couple of attempts at this (2006 and 2007 primaries) here. You can even see that I stole the promo sketch from my 2006 live-blogging because I still like that one. I gave myself a shave though.

Hey New York Times! Fix Your Stupid iPhone App

If you'll allow me, I'd like to unleash a small personal diatribe. I promise it'll be brief. But I've been suffering through the buggy pile of crap that is the New York Times iPhone app for long enough.

Sidebottom set to miss opener

I don't think I'll be available for a couple of matches and I could miss the first one-day international - but I hope I'll be available for selection after that.

How To Catch A Hacker: Offer Him A Job

ackbar-trap.jpgA lot of hackers cling to the dream they'll become the next Kevin Mitnick, and get so famous they'll be able to parlay their notoriety into a paid gig programming or supervising computer security. Smart companies can capitalize on that greed: When software maker Valve was hacked and the code for its Half-Life 2 leaked onto the Internet in 2003, it offered Axel Gembe (a/k/a "Ago" a/k/a "DaGuy"), who claimed credit for the hack, a job. But the idea wasn't to get help with their network, it was to lure the hacker onto American soil where he could be arrested.

Apple puts former IBM exec in charge of handheld products

Apple on Tuesday confirmed the imminent departure of iPod chief Tony Fadell, saying he'll be replaced by a former IBM executive who'll oversee engineering of the company's handheld products.

OFFICIAL I'm A Celebrity line-up ? and pictures!

There have been rumours flying around for weeks about who’ll be entering the I’m A Celebrity... jungle, and at last we can reveal the official line-up, straight from the horse's mouth (the horse is ITV, by the way – and they've sent us some fetching pictures of the whole bunch too.) So, without further ado, the crazy celebs who’ll be subjecting themselves to Bush Tucker Trials and countless mosquito bites are: legendary TV presenter Esther Rantzen, controversial TV host and politician Robert Kilroy Silk, model and TV presenter Carly Zucker, former EastEnder Joe Swash, tennis champ Martina Navratilova, ex Blue singer/hunky eye candy Simon Webbe, presenter Dani Behr, Star Trek actor George Takei, ex Met police big-wig Brian Paddick, and glamour model/WAG Nicola McLean.

More Pessimism Surrounds Bank Portfolios

A consensus is developing that many banks have understated how badly they'll be hurt by defaults among holdings of unsecuritized mortgages. Even as they have taken tremendous writedowns on portfolios of home-loan bonds since the housing market fell apart last year, some large and mid-size financial institutions are still booking their whole-loan investments at par or close to it. And that means they'll wind up with even bigger losses if predictions of heavy defaults among those credits prove correct.

Guns N' Roses Loves Online Music, On Its Own Terms

It will be great when Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album comes out -- if only because it'll end 14 years of speculation and hype, and maybe we'll stop hearing about it for a while. It's scheduled for release on Sunday (and will be available only at a single chain of stores, thanks to an exclusive agreement), but the band is already streaming the record on its MySpace page. This comes after the band got the FBI to investigate a blogger who posted some songs from the album online a few months ago; the blogger was eventually arrested, and recently plead guilty in a plea bargain. So, like so many people in the music business, it appears that GNR love the power of online music as a promotional tool, as long as it's on their own terms. Having the guy who posted the songs prosecuted did nothing to stem the tide of illegal downloads of GNR so

5 Ways To Fix A Stuck Pixel On Your Screen

A dead or stuck pixel on an LCD screen or TFT can be incredibly annoying. You’ll be staring at it for days on end, wondering for how long you’ll be without your screen or maybe your entire laptop if you decided to turn it in for repair or replacement. All that grieve over something as unimportant, yet highly irritating as a malfunctioning pixel.

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