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How to Switch to a Solid-State Drive - PCWorld Business Center

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Change the Default Picture Editor Program with Windows 7 - Vista - XP

You probably wanted to change your default picture editor application to something else then "Paint", which comes with all versions of Windows OS and is usually the default picture editor program. Yeah, but what is " Default Picture Editor ?"... It is the default program that lunches, when you "right" click on a picture file, and you choose "Edit" from the drop down menu that appears. Or, when you are just looking at your pictures with Windows Picture Viewer and you click on " Edit ", the default Picture editor application must start... To use a program of your choice as a default editor, all you have to do is change a registry key in the Registry of your computer. Follow these steps to do that. 1- "Run" (windows key + r) and type "regedit" 2- From Regedit, browse until this branch [HKEY_CLASSESS_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\shell\edit\command] 3-At right pane of the registry, you will se the "def

Happy 40th Birthday, Internet!

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Synchronize Your Data With Multiple PCs, Macs, and Mobile Devices

Synchronize Your Data With Multiple PCs, Macs, and Mobile Devices Posted using ShareThis

Windows Through The Years: From 1.0 To Windows 7 | Upgrade Your Lifestyle 2009 10/25

Windows Through The Years: From 1.0 To Windows 7 | Upgrade Your Lifestyle 2009 10/25 Posted using ShareThis

Snow Leopard Purring on a PC? New Application Promises Cross-Platform Breakthrough

Snow Leopard Purring on a PC? New Application Promises Cross-Platform Breakthrough Posted using ShareThis

New Apple iMac is Jaw-Dropping Yet Incomplete

New Apple iMac is Jaw-Dropping Yet Incomplete Posted using ShareThis

Buffalo Shipping External USB 3.0 Hard Drives This Month

Buffalo Shipping External USB 3.0 Hard Drives This Month Posted using ShareThis

Firefox 3.6 Beta Available For Download

Firefox 3.6 Beta Available For Download Posted using ShareThis

Beyond ITunes: Streaming Music Services

Beyond ITunes: Streaming Music Services Posted using ShareThis

10 tips for improving your wireless network

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/wirelesstips.aspx "Wireless networks never reach the theoretical bandwidth limits. 802.11b networks typically get 2-5Mbps. 802.11g is usually in the 13-23Mbps range. Belkin's Pre-N equipment has been measured at 37-42Mbps."

Firefox 3.6 Detects Screen Orientation

Future iterations of Mozilla's browser, starting with the upcoming version 3.6 , will be capable of detecting your computers orientation; Firefox will then use that real-time positioning information to impact how the browser displays applications and webpages. The new feature, which was revealed by Mozilla's Christopher Blizzard on Monday, was originally developed for mobile browsers but has now been made available, via an API, for a range of devices including Macbooks, Thinkpads and Linux machines. Achieving the desired tilting effect is made possible due to the hardware being equipped with accelerometers, such as the Macbook Pro in the video below: This new feature is just one of several ways Mozilla is taking Firefox beyond its typical application and exploring how its software can be used in a wider range of instances. Orientation technology could be seen in a number of situations such as on a tablet device, or in a range of browser based games. More details, including ho

WSXGA Wide XGA+

WSXGA and WXGA+ are non-standard terms referring to computer display resolutions. Usually they refer to a resolution of 1440x900[citation needed], but occasionally manufacturers use the terms to refer to other resolutions (for example, [1]). The Standard Panels Working Group refers to the 1440x900 resolution as WXGA(II)[1]. WSXGA and WXGA+ can be thought of as enhanced versions of WXGA with more pixels, or as widescreen variants of SXGA. The aspect ratios of each are 16:10 (widescreen). WXGA+ (1440x900) resolution is common in 19" widescreen desktop monitors (a very small number of such monitors uses WSXGA+), and is also optional, although less common, in laptop LCDs, in sizes ranging from 12.1" to 17". For more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSXGA_Wide_XGA%2B

Google Chrome - Birthday Cake

MAC OSX - Snow Leopard -- Coming Soon

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How to Prevent Windows 7 from Creating a Hidden /Recovery /System Reserved Partition during Installation

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Power Management Settings - MACOS and WINDOWS

Here you are, this is a very useful article about Windows and MACOS power management systems.. It's complete from "A" to "Z". Even with some shortcut keys at the end. Enjoy.. http://www.xvsxp.com/system/power_management.php

Change How Often System Restore Creates Restore Points in Windows Vista :: the How-To Geek

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25 Most Explosive Games

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See this article... http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/features/25-games-with-the-biggest-explosions/?page=2

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.8 - by Dan Moren, Macworld.com

http://www.macworld.com/article/142128/2009/08/osx_1058.html?t=201

Windows 7 on BootCamp Sound Problems related to the Sound DRIVERS!!

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I recently installed the Ultimate version of Windows 7 RM in English on my MacBook using the BootCamp of Apple. I already had too many experiences with installing Windows XP on a MAC, so i was quiet sure that i knew what i was doing when i all started the Windows 7 installation. So, once i got the Windows 7 installed, i used the first Mac OS Installation CD to install all the necessary Apple drivers. When i ran the setup, first i got the incompatibility message but i choose the "continue anyway" (or something like that :) and everything went great... except the sound!Actually, i could see that the sound drivers seems to be ok in the Computer Management of Windows. After a little Google search, i finally found that solution and i can guarantee you that this one is working... SOLUTION : - Install the latest Sound Drivers for Windows 7 ( DOWNLOAD FROM HERE ) - Sound Card Model : ALC5621  

WinClone - Free Backup Utility For Apple's BootCamp Partitions

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New Machine Setup a breezeIf you are in charge of setting up a bunch of machines with both Mac OS X and Bootcamp, Winclone will make your job a breeze. Simply create an image as you would for a backup, and Winclone will create the Windows partition and restore the OS and data onto the new partition. Quick Lab DeploymentDeploy images with ARD: Using the included script and the image created with Winclone, you can easily send a new winclone image to a group of Intel Macs, imaging the entire lab in minutes. Features Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) New Clone either FAT32 or NTFS partitions New Mount images in the Finder New Fixes boot issues automatically New New preference window to fine tune your cloning New Source partition is not changed when cloning (except for removal of pagefile.sys) New Clone Windows XP or Windows Vista with ease. Clone to your Bootcamp partition either on a separate drive or on the same that contains your Mac OS X partition. Creates image documents that can be st

Use your WebCam as a security CAM

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Software can offer a definite piece of mind over browser-based solutions. Most of these apps can run quietly in the background, and can save footage to your hard drive for archiving. High-end Webcams often come with their own security software, so in the spirit of this guide, we're going with generic software that should work with any model: Yawcam (PC) Yawcam is free and PC-only. It's a complex program but not too complex to set-up. The app lets you set whether you want to capture all of the motion within the frame or just a part of it. I used it to track motion in a specific part of my workplace: CNET colleague Rafe Needleman's office door. Any time he came in or out of his office it took a photo. At home this is more useful if you point it toward something like a door or entry way, which can keep it from picking up one of your pets moving around. The app does an exceptional job at letting you pick various ways you want to be notified. You can have it upload screen shots

Apple tried to silence family over exploding iPod

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Father of an 11-year-old girl in the U.K. said Apple tried to keep him from speaking about his daughter's iPod after it exploded last month. Speaking to The Times in the U.K., Ken Stanborough said after he dropped the iPod Touch, it began hissing and started to get hot. As a precaution, he threw the iPod outside and "within 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10 (feet) in the air," he said. Apple agreed to give Stanborough a refund, but only if he signed a confidentiality agreement, agreeing not to disclose any information about the incident. Stanborough said he found the letter "appalling" and refused to sign it. To be fair, letters from companies in situations like this are most likely standard procedure. However, this isn't the first time Apple has been accused of trying to stop people from reporting on faulty iPods. Reporter Amy Clancy of KIRO-TV in Seattle said it took her more than seven months to get documents from the Consumer

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RAM Choices - DDR2 or DDR3 ?

The memory market is in the process of transitioning from DDR2 memory to the more efficient and higher density DDR3 technology; this process will be underway until the end of the year. DDR2 is available at 800 and 1066 speeds, while DDR3 reaches from 800 to 1333. Faster products are still enthusiast-class premium products, as no platform offers official support for 1600+ speeds yet. Both technologies are based on the double data rate principle, which means that they transfer data twice per clock cycle: during the rising and falling edge of the clock signal. Each new DDR memory generation is based on smaller transistors, decreased voltage levels and higher memory density. While the internal clock speeds don’t change, the clock speed at the interface (I/O buffer) has been increasing due to an increasing level of what is called prefetch. DDR3-1600 memory works on a physical memory clock of 200 MHz, but at a prefetch of eight. The interface runs at 800 MHz, but thanks to double data rate m