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Modern Street
http://www.modernstreet.com
A blog about the Web and the Internet. I write about my own experiences, web development, computer stuff, blogging, and making a living online.
Recent Posts
Adding watermarks in Word 2007
Quite often, when you create a client sample or a report, you might want to add a watermark or an image in the background of your document. At times, these watermarks may be used to represent the status of the document – pending, urgent, confidenti...
Google getting tough with scammy advertising
Finally, Google has decided that all the complaints about scammers using Google’s name to scam people with get-rich-quick programs has reached its peak of tolerance and now it’s time to get tough; Google is now taking them to court. Of late, scam...
Free news not so free after all
In a recent development, newspaper and other online publishers can now set the number of free articles which people can access through Google and keep the rest as subscriber-based only under a newly implemented program by Google, starting last year. ...
A milestone for WordPress
WordPress, my favorite CMS, has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards which I think is a great milestone for WordPress. It also was first runner up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS Software category. I’ve alwa...
Five cheap PC hardware fixes
Okay, I understand Windows 7 has come out, and some of us are probably thinking of getting a new PC altogether, but before you head to a computer store to get a new system, how about upgrading your old computer? As long as there are no terminal probl...
Super cheap cars of the future – The single seat VW
I have a thing for budget cars of the future, and although this piece of news is a bit old, I bet not many have heard of it. Take a peek at the new single seat Volkswagen (VW). This car is planned for the China market, and as far as I know, this will...


This blog covers a wide area of computer topics and the articles are well thought out and formulated.
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