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# readerpoll
We're regularly asked, " Where's the best place to stow the Windows taskbar? " and while the answer is a boring, "Whatever works best for you," Windows 7's taskbar certainly adds new factors to the decision. Reader Richard writes: More »
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# windowsmediacenter
If you use Windows 7 Media Center to record TV, you'd probably prefer skipping commercials. After all, a big reason you record programs is to avoid commercials, right? Here's a fairly simple and free way to start skipping commercials in no time. More »
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(posted 17 Hours Ago)
Well well. We'd always suspected that the JooJoo tablet was hiding something extra to run HD video and Flash , and it's just hit the FCC with full documentation and a teardown confirming that there's an NVIDIA Ion GPU paired with an Atom N27...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean.
Why ...
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(posted 13 Hours Ago)
‘Twas the week before MIX, when all through the tubes Not a developer was sleeping, not even the noobs. The laptops were paved removed of their glitz In hopes that they soon will get some new bits. A developer was coding, buildi...
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In Dave’s SSD roundup the other day, the cheapest drive carried the day — naturally. Though the Kingston SSDNow V only has 40GB of space and you pay a pretty high price/GB, it’s really the easiest entry to SSD-land, and 40GB i...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
We received Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Expression Media Edition (also called Special Media Edition) as a gratuity when we were planning to switch from PC to Mac. Windows 7 changed our minds, but now we have $200 software that we can't use. We l...
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look of surprise here]. I followed that up with an install of the regular Boot Camp drivers from Apple on my OS X CD (version 2.01) – you can also download them via a torrent –
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(posted 24 Hours Ago)
Microsoft’s recent success with large-scale betas, most famously with Windows 7, has led the company to continue the practice with its best-selling cash cow software, Microsoft Office.
Millions of users have already downloaded Office 2010. Recent news suggests that the retail release of Microsoft Office 2010 is coming soon, with a release candidate already [...]
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(posted 1 Day Ago)
During CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7 , sports a form factor similar to Apple's iPad , as well as similar uses; it supp...
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Jim Thomas said no to Windows Vista -- but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Thomas, CIO at Pella, says his IT team began beta testing Vista's successor a year ago as an upgrade path from Windows XP. By October, just two months after W...
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We’d be naive to think manufacturers were twiddling their thumbs while Apple pimps out its iPad. Sure enough, there could be as many as 50 tablet devices from competing manufacturers worldwide this year, according to mobile microprocesso...
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Filed under: Hardware
Same price, same features (mostly) but a sleek and slender new look: yesterday Elgato introduced the latest revamp of its EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner for high-definition digital television. The US$150 widget gives you the o...
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(posted 1 Day Ago)
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for pla...
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Undoubtedly, Windows XP continues to get a consistent amount of love from its very loyal users, after all, the OS continues to run on over 65.49% of computers worldwide. Citing findings from Market research firm Techaisle, Microsoft is ...
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As developers evolve, so do their applications. And, we are evolving with them. To-date, Windows 7 has sold a record-breaking 90 million licenses making it the fastest selling operating system in history. This creates an awesome opportunity for de...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
I set out to write an article about the unique features of XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone 7 Series, but while trying to populate my outline, I realized, wow, there actually aren’t many things different about Game Studio 4.0 on the phone compared t...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
You can blog from absolutely any computer with this trick—which makes this perfect for bloggers on-the-go.
First, download Windows Live Writer Portable and extract the file onto your USB drive.
Click Start then Computer and double-cl...
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If you use Windows 7 Media Center to record live TV, you’re probably interested in skipping through commercials. After all, a big reason to record programs is to avoid commercials, right? Today we focus on a fairly simple and free way to get you ski...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
I've been a Mac user since early 2005, when I bought a black MacBook . Up until then, I''d been a die-hard Windows user. My goal at the time was to learn the Mac OS so I'd be fluent on two platforms. The original plan was to stay on the Mac for ...
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