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Digital Watermarking is the process of embedding information in a digital file such as an image, video or audio file. There are mainly two types of digital watermarks: Visible watermarks and invisible watermarks.

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Are you constantly running out of hard disk space and had to spend time backing up your data to external media such as CDs, DVDs, and external hard disks in order to install a new software or game? Or did you spend some hours looking for unwanted and old files to delete? Here are some ways to free up some disk space

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Here is a list of tips to use to increase your site traffic:

1. Write Useful Articles
People are always looking for useful and interesting articles. Make sure that you are familiar with what you are writing. Make it useful and informative. Writing an interesting article specific to your niche can be a magnet for web surfers.

2. Make Something Funny
People also like to have fun and take a break. Take a funny picture, write something funny or post a funny video and people will come.

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There is a simple and easy way to open/close the CD/DVD in Windows. The code I will be writing is a C++ code. It uses a simple API function implemented in winmm.dll (The windows MCI API DLL). In order to achieve our goal, we are going to use the mciSendCommand function.
First you need to include mmsystem.h in your code and you also need to link with Winmm.lib

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As most of you probably know, Internet Explorer is the king of web browers, but this hasn't been the case since the start the World Wide Web... At the begging of the WWW, the king browser was Mosaic which was avaiable before any other browser, but this quickly changed around the mid of 1990's (mainly 1994, 1995 and 1996), when the most used browser was Netscape navigator (taking around 80% of the browsers usage) and IE was way lacking behind with around 10%. With time, this also changed...

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Windows gives you the possibility to save your dialup passwords so that it makes it easy for you to dial a connection without entering your password each time. Saved dialup passwords are not treated like other saved passwords in Windows. This are stored in a special place and not stored in the password field therefore using a product such as Password Spyer 2k will not be useful in recovering the password since Password Spyer 2k recovers passwords hidden IN the password field. In order to recover dialup passwords, we use another program named Dialup Password Recovery

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Some sites allow you to save your password in your browser making it easier to login to the site. This sometimes shows your login and password (as asterisks) as already filled in the form fields. This makes it very easy to retrieve the saved web password shown as asterisks.

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Go to http://dictionary.reference.com/, and search for google! Yes Google has become a verb, from 'Webster's New Millennium? Dictionary of English':
Definition: to search for information on the Internet, esp. using the Google search engine
Example: We googled to find the definition of the new word.

I thought I would list down the features of Fast File Splitter since most still don't know how powerful this software can be. First a small description of the software: Fast File Splitter (FFS) is a tool to split large files into smaller files so that they can be put on floppies, sent by email or for any storage purposes need. Here is a quick list of features FFS supports:

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How about looking at an image in black and white and seeing it in colors? This can be achieved using a nice optical illusion where colors will be printed in our retina and memorized for a few seconds. Here is a link containing such an illusion: Big Spanish Castle, and here is another one.