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Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US and numerous shopping deals are offered on this day. How do you find the best deals for you and your family and actually beat other shoppers to them? In the US, Black Friday is the name given to the Friday which follows Thanksgiving Day (which is always celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month of November of every year). Although the origin of the term Black Friday is not very clear, the day is clearly an important one for both shoppers and retailers alike despite the negative connotations of the word “Black”. It marks the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season for that year. On Black Fridays, a lot of retailers (especially the large ones) offer unbelievable shopping deals to draw shoppers into their stores. These deals include selling some items at a loss but which is aimed at getting people into the stores where they are likely to buy other items. Such deals are called los

Users on  Twitter  make a lot of mistakes from the first time they sign up and on to how they use it on a regular basis. The following are the most common and frequent mistakes people make on Twitter and how to avoid them. 1.   Choosing inappropriate usernames:  This is the first mistake many people make. Your username on Twitter should identify you as you would want to be known on the network. A nice nickname is appropriate for a person who intends to use Twitter to socialize but not for a company or business. Do not choose a name (such as that of a celebrity) just because it is popular and might get you more followers. It only depicts as you a wannabe or spammer and people will stop following you or responding to your tweets when they realize you are not the real deal. An exception is when the account is for parody purposes. 2.   Creating multiple Twitter accounts for the same purpose:  Aside from the fact that it is cumbersome to maintain all the accounts and tweet regularly

A lot of thought and innovation was put into the development of the  Google  Chrome browser and it shows in the many features that make it very distinct from other browsers. These features will have you wondering why you are not using Google Chrome already. Resize Textboxes The textbox provided on a website may be too small and consequently when you are typing in text, previous lines move up to make room for subsequent ones. Wouldn't it be better if you could see most or all of your text as you type? Google Chrome allows you to increase (or reduce) the size of the textbox provided on any webpage. Look at the bottom right-hand corner of the textbox and if it can be resized, you will see a few small lines in the angle. Place your cursor there and drag to resize the textbox. Other browsers do not offer this simple feature. Task Manager This is a very cool and useful feature that only Google Chrome can boast of. On your Chrome browser, there is a task manager just like the one

"Super" Tabs Tabs were designed to be the primary user interface on Google Chrome and consequently, the things they can do are just marvelous. Promote tabs into windows:  Simply drag a tab off the tab bar like you would do when you want to drag and drop files. Release the tab after dragging it down away from the tab bar. The tab automatically becomes a new window. This allows you to easily create separate windows for browsing different content.. Move tabs between windows:  Peel a tab off the tab bar of one window and drag it to the tab bar of another window. This allows you to group related tabs together in a separate window. After dragging a tab off the tab bar, you can return it if you wish by dragging it back to its former position. Pin tabs:  So you can move tabs around but what if you do not want a tab to be moved? Right-click on a tab and select  Pin tab ; this action moves the tab to the left-hand margin of the tab bar. The tab becomes small and unobtrusive and

Windows 7 has many similar commands and functions as previous Windows operating systems and so most people just upgraded to Windows 7 and continued to use it as usual. Obviously, there are differences between Windows 7 and previous Windows operating systems especially in the user interface. However, according to Microsoft, Windows 7 was designed in response to user feedback. Thus, several more features were added to make Windows 7 much more different and even more productive than previous Windows releases. You may have come across some of them as you use your computer but there are several of them that you probably do not know of.  Below are some of the coolest Windows 7 features, tips and tricks I have come across. Install Hidden Windows 7 Themes (2) During Windows 7 installation, the OS detects your geographical region and installs just the theme for that region. Other themes are hidden. So choosing the US as your region means you would only see a United States theme incl

The competition among the popular browsers which include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox,  Google   Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera is intense. These days every browser maker releases newer, better and faster browser versions and updates even before the dust settles on its previous versions. The one important fact to note here is that all this began with the introduction of Google Chrome. Once the other browser providers saw the potential and threat of Chrome, the race to keep their browsers relevant began. Google Chrome was released less than 5 years ago but now holds more than 40% of the global browser usage share. This makes it the most widely used browser putting it ahead of Internet Explorer and Firefox which have been around for for a very long time. These are the features that make Google Chrome great. Multilingual Web Surfing: Translate Any Website Google Chrome is now the only browser that lets you make use of any website regardless of its language. It does this

Chrome is an extremely fast and stable browser but like all things, it is not perfect. When it was launched, some people complained that it had a minimalist look and did not support extensions. Well, Chrome has come a long way since then and a lot of features have been added to it. Below are some of the ways you can make surfing using Google Chrome a lot more enjoyable. Download Themes Change the look of your Chrome browser with one of the many available themes. Go to  https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html . Under the tab for Themes by Google are the official Google Chrome themes. The tab for Themes by Artists displays first by default and has even better looking themes. Some really good ones are Porsche, Candies and Marc Ecko. You can also find more themes on the internet. Add Extensions Browser extensions used to be almost exclusive to Firefox but Google Chrome now features thousands of extensions and add-ons which greatly improve your internet surfing

Dogpile is a "metasearch" engine that generates search results from other search engines. A metasearch engine finds results to queries by accessing other search engines and displaying results according to their source or by using other criteria. Dogpile was launched in 1996 and its name is derived from the act in Rugby where players come together and pile on each other. It is so named to give the image of bringing together the various search engines from which it compiles its results.  Dogpile users can use it to search for results in the following categories: web, images, video, news, Yellow Pages, and White Pages. Dogpile obtains its results from the following search engines and resources: Google Yahoo! Bing Ask.com Kosmix: an engine that arranges the Internet by topic pages so that users can explore the web by topic Fandango: an online movie ticket service Dogpile's technology analyzes the results from the above sites and removes duplicate results

With over 1.1 billion users, Facebook is the top internet destination for almost every social web user on Earth. Of these 1 billion users, at least 750 million log in every day and carry out one form of activity or another. Looking at how people use Facebook , the most likely activities are posting and commenting on status updates. With this huge traffic in status updates, it is hard for updates or comments to stay relevant or be remembered. However, you must have come across a status update that impressed you and that you still remember. It may have been funny, well-written or just plain weird. Well, not all of us can be funny or gifted in prose or weird for that matter. However, the following will help you create awesome status updates and comments. How to Create Interesting Facebook Status Updates and Comments That Will Impress Your Friends Write Your Status Updates Upside Down or in Reverse Text This is something you can do to make people stop to decipher your updates

Adults always know where they can get the kind of music they like. It is that easy because such music is on offer on a lot of websites either as free downloads  or for a small fee. For those who prefer to use peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, the number of songs available for download is almost limitless. Somehow, many of the websites that offer music often neglect the fact that children do listen to music too and so do not offer songs that are appropriate for them. Nevertheless, a few websites offer mp3s exclusively for children and more importantly, offer them for free. Here are some of them. Bus Songs - More than 2,000 freely downloadable songs - Includes lyrics, and articles that help parents and teachers know how the songs may benefit children. - Can be found at http://bussongs.com Nicky's Nursery Rhymes - Songs, lullabies and nursery rhymes for free download - Also offers other free stuff for kiddies - Can be found at www.nurseryrhymes4u.com Dream En

Free online research libraries are sites that allow a user to carry out research on topics and download information from them without paying a fee. They are extremely useful because they allow a user to gain access to information from a lot of sources around the world from one location. They make obtaining information about a diverse range of topics very easy and are absolutely free to use. The following can be considered the best sites for such free online research: Highwire Press Highwire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries. It claims that it hosts the largest collection of research content with more than 1000 journals and over 6 million full text articles. About 2 million of its articles are free to use. It is a valuable resource for research in medical and veterinary fields as almost all of its free 2 million articles are health-related. It is found at http://highwire.stanford.edu . The Free Library The Free Library offers millions of free full text a