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Lunar Rover: NASA Releases First-Ever iPhone Game (Screenshots)
NASA iPhone App (Game Simulator) Lets You ‘Control’ Your Own Lunar Electric Rover
Space geeks rejoice! Ever dreamed of controlling your own Lunar rover? Looks like your dream has come true; well to a great extent! In follow-up to NASA’s widely popular debut iPhone app … the cleverly named – NASA App … the NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator iPhone game landed on the App Store...
How to Close All of Your Open Applications in a Single Click
Imagine this scenario: you’ve been doing some serious work on your computer and have a bunch of apps, browsers, spreadsheets, and documents open. You’re done for the day, but closing each app and document individually is going to be a hassle. Here we take a look at an awesome utility that will close all of your running applications at once with one click.
Close All Windows in a Single Click
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Experienced Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure? Here’s An App For That
If you’ve ever wondered what caused massive hard drive failure or what a pretty much destroyed hard drive looked like, believe it or not, there’s an app for you.
Drive Savers has created the DriveSaver app for the iPhone, calling it the “first online hard disk drive simulator,” which it is, in all likelihood. The app is free. Of course, Drive Savers isn’t being completely...
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Microsoft To Patch 17-Year-Old Computer Bug
It is February and it is time to update some patches. A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update.
This ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old...
Latest Kaspersky Update Identifies Google Adsense as Trojan (False Positive)
We at TechChunks.com made a sensational revelation back in Nov 2009 when we discovered about AVG Antivirus 9.0 Search Shield Blocking Google Cached Pages as Active Threats and now Kaspersky antivirus seem to be following AVG’s foot-steps! An update to Kaspersky’s popular anti-virus software on Monday falsely identified Google Adsense as a malicious script.
As a result of the false alarm,...
The Top 10 Torrent Sites of 2010
As of January 23rd, 2010, several torrent search engines have distinguished themselves. This list is compiled from reader suggestions, and will be updated every several days.You are welcome to submit your own suggestions to be included in this torrent sites list. This list is in random order. Special thanks to the TechChunks.com readers who contact us regularly and made this list possible.
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How to Download Wikipedia for Offline Reading: Wikipedia for Schools
Wikipedia, for most of us, needs no introduction. We use it perhaps almost as frequently as we use Google for our information needs. All of us might then wonder about the need to download and use a free information resource which is available only a click away online.
But what if you fall in a situation where you don’t have access to the Internet and you want to access Wikipedia to reference...
Tags: BitTorrent, Cool Tips, Download, Free, How to, Limewire, Offline, Online News, Reading, School, Students, Tips, Tips and Tricks, Tricks, Wikipedia
Microsoft Releases Patch for ‘Google Hack’ Flaw in Internet Explorer
Within few days after admitting that Chinese Hackers exploited Internet Explorer flaw to attack Google Microsoft has released patch for the ‘Google Hack’ flaw in IE. The patch will fix vulnerabilities in IE6, IE7, and IE8 on supported editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2—vulnerabilities notably...
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How to Selectively Delete Files in Recycle Bin using ‘Bin Manager’
Whenever you delete some files or folders, they automatically get placed in the Windows recycle bin (of course, unless you have not changed the Windows settings to do otherwise). This includes files, movies, images and even folders. Sometimes, suddenly you discover that your disk is running out of disk space. One of the reason behind this usually is that the recycle bin is still holding the deleted...
Tags: Bin Manager, Cool Tips, Files, How to, Recycle Bin, Selectively Delete, Tips, Tips and Tricks, Tricks, Tweaks
Rapidshare Download Accelerator: Download Multiple Files For FREE
Even though Rapidshare is probably the biggest file sharing website, now many users have started opting for alternative file sharing websites due to number of limitations on Rapidshare Free account. For example non-paid users cannot download multiple files simultaneously from rapidshare and there is a wait time on every file download.
But the wait is finally over it seems with the advent of RapidShare...









