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How to get a refund from FileSonic

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FileSonic recently totally changed their service, eliminating many of of their most fundamental features. One of the most glaring removals: the ability to share a file is no longer supported. If you recently signed up for a FileSonic premium account or you paid for a lifetime account, you may want to seek a refund from FileSonic. After contacting FileSonic, they sent these instructions on how to obtain a FileSonic refund: Ticket #246999: Refund Your request (#246999) has been resolved. From Carm at

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How much bandwidth does NetFlix streaming use? [DEFINITIVE ANSWER]

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Q. Hello, I am in US and have netflix and want to stream movies but i also have a sucky monthly bandwidth cap of 12.5GB. I want to make sure I don’t go over my monthly limit. Can you tell me how much bandwidth netflix streaming takes like per hourly?! Thx in advance!!! -PaulT from MN A. Great question Paul! Bandwidth caps are quite a bummer and you are wise to be aware of your usage. I can tell you

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SMA-Male to N-Female coax adapter (for use w/Wilson Sleek)

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I recently purchased a Wilson Sleek cell phone amplifier. It does a great job but it comes with a relatively dinky magnetic mount antenna. Thankfully the Sleek also has a SMA-Female antenna connector. Therefore, to use a bigger antenna I bought a SMA-Male to N-Female coax adapter as pictured here: I went from no signal to 2-3 bars after using this adapter and a directional antenna attached to the top of a 30ft pole. 🙂

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List of sites protesting SOPA/PIPA

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What a wonderful thing, sites from all of the country (and world) banding together to protest again SOPA/PIPA. For reference here is a partial list of sites that are protesting SOPA/PIPA: http://google.com/ [blacked out logo] BONUS: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ http://fark.com/ [they are ‘promoting’ the legislation since ;-)] http://wikipedia.com/ [one of the first and largest to commit to blacking out http://reddit.com http://cheezburger.com http://weblogs.us/ [my site] http://sarachipps.com http://girldevelopit.com http://elizabethandclarke.com http://aujsproduction.com http://michaellaplante.com http://codeimpossible.com http://happymonster.co http://johnnycode.com http://aliciaj.com http://seriouspanda.org http://mikeavello.com/ http://spong.org http://johanydemarco.com http://cbrody.com http://peaceblog.org http://zzzen.com [if you

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Android phone battery – How to save

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One of the biggest troubles with Android smartphones is, the battery will often run flat quickly. A lot of this has to do with the amount of things you do with your phone. The rest is not knowing what functions are eating at the battery in the first place. Where is it going? What can you do to preserve your battery life for longer than 24 hours? You might be able to ask your service provider, like Virgin Mobile or

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How to sideload Android apps onto the Kindle Fire & Nook Tablet

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Thank goodness both of the hottest new 7″ tablets support side loading Android apps onto the devices! There are a LOT of tutorials out there, some of them pretty complicated, so here are the TWO best sideloading tutorials I have found… Sideloading for the B&N Nook Tablet:   How to sideload apps on the NOOK Tablet (Amazon Appstore, GO Launcher EX) – Liliputinghttp://liliputing.com/2011/11/how-to-sideload-apps-on-the-nook-tablet-amazon-appstore-go-launcher-ex.htmlFortunately it’s pretty easy to install third party apps on the NOOK Tablet. You don’t even need to

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[SOLVED] Shut down Windows 7 at “Set Up Windows” screen, without error?

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Q. Hi, I am selling a new laptop after upgrading the RAM. It has a factory fresh install of Windows 7 on it. I booted it up once to make sure the RAM was recognized and now I am stuck at the creating a user name and computer name screen on the Windows 7 setup 🙁 If I power off the system the purchaser will get an error message the first time the notebook boots up saying Windows did not shutdown properly…

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ACPI\SMO8800 Dell [SOLVED]

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Q. Hello, I have a Dell laptop and I just reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on it. Now I have an unknown device ‘ACPI\SMO8800’ in device manager. What driver can I download to fix it? A. Here are the download links for the driver that should solve your ACPI\SMO8800 Unknown Device issue: [download id=”10460″ format=”1″], Dell dl link NOTE: The driver is for your Dell laptop’s ST Microelectronics Free Fall Sensor (accelerometer), it is what shows up as Unknown Device ACPI\SMO8800 🙂 More

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