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Portable DVD players have been in the market for a while, but it has recently become very popular due to its compact size and being practical for on the go use. Portable DVD players are retailed for about $100 - $300 depending on functionalities and brands.

As with purchasing anything else online, if you are looking to purchase a portable DVD player, you might want to browse different options available, compare prices, read other people’s reviews, and find out what experts have to say about them. And wize.com provides exactly that. If you go to portabl DVD player page at wize.com, you are presented with options to browse the DVD players by price, ranking, or brand. There are also 2 types of reviews available: Experts and Users, which I think is very useful because it makes the process of finding the right product easier for you by gathering information about what other users think as well as what experts say. And when you go one level deeper to view a specific product page, you will see other useful information such as price range, product details, questions that other people have asked (and answers to those questions), a list of stores which stock the product with useful information like availability, tax, shipping and total price.

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Remember all the talk about the founder of Wikipedia looking to build a human-powered search engine which took place some time last year? Well, looks like an alpha version of the search engine has been released and it is called wikia search.

Although in the About page it was mentioned that ‘What you see here is our first alpha release. We are aware that the quality of the search results is low.‘, Wikia has been receiving some honest but harsh reviews since it went live. Michael Arrington from Techcrunch openly admitted that he is completely let down by the product.

Michael’s review at Techcrunch created quite a bit of buzz and there are some interesting debates going on about the whole thing. Some say the approach was to build it quick and release it often (which, by the way, is also one of the tips I learned from Web Directions South 2007), while others say given all the hype and wait that it has caused, the release should have been better.

My opinion? I did a few searches and while I can’t say I am happy with the search results that I was returned nor was I impressed with the usability, I think given time, and right amount of effort from its community, wikia search will eventually perform to its full potential.

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There are many ways to block a website - there are thousands of website filter software available these days, but the easiest way to block an unwanted website without installing any software is by editing hosts file. Yes, that’s right. I only found that out after reading Block Unwanted Websites - by just editing host file blog post on Techie Portal website. I knew about hosts file and I knew how it worked before I discovered the post but it has never come across my mind to use it as a way to block unwanted websites on your computer. Ah the little things that you overlook.

To find out more about how to block unwanted sites by editing hosts file, check out the original post.

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