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I won an HP TouchSmart 600 giveaway by Chip Chick!

If you don't know, Twitter's a great way to get involved with various communities (photography, technology, etc). Another good use of Twitter has been giveaways. Just make sure that's NOT all you do on Twitter or if you must, set up a separate twitter account for participating in giveaways. In several giveaways based on Twitter, all you need to do is retweet a couple of sentences with a hashtag included. I've participated in non-twitterbased giveaways before and those are always more involved than just retweeting something. Here are the most common ways to enter giveaways that I've seen on ...

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I won an HP TouchSmart 600 giveaway by Chip Chick! was published on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 12:00pm and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . There are currently 5 comments on this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

Holy Hannah!

I'm sure you knew what I was really going to say, but I'll go ahead and say it again: holy fuck. If you suffered from the dreaded error C00D11B3 where neither Windows Media Player nor MCE can play DVDs with protected content, you are in luck if you read this page. By trial and error, I discovered what the problem was. The first clue was in the error  message in which I was told that "Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try ...

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Holy Hannah! was published on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 5:40pm and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , and . There are currently 2 comments on this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.