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Backup your present windows Device Drivers
Yep, we’ve all been there. You buy a cheap PC/Notebook and there is no driver disk provided with the package. You of course curse the manufacturer and then get down trying to figure out what driver file does what. After about 5-6 hours you finally realize that your attempts at backing up the drivers that the machine…
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Backup your present windows Device Drivers
Yep, we’ve all been there. You buy a cheap PC/Notebook and there is no driver disk provided with the package. You of course curse the manufacturer and then get down trying to figure out what driver file does what. After about 5-6 hours you finally realize that your attempts at backing up the drivers that the machine…
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Eject that USB key….by brute force.
Yep, We’ve all been there. Some stupid program locks a file on your USB key and the eject process becomes useless. Next, you’re sitting there going, “Hmmmm, should I just bite the bullet and remove the key manually”. You could, but then you’ll be tempting fate and you know what they say about that Murphy…
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Great little System Information/Benchmark Util for Windows…
PC Wizard 2008 is a great little utility to keep handy next time you want to find system information on a unknown computer or if you want to do some thorough benchmarking to find those bottlenecks….For Free. Below you’ll find a highlight of what it offers: Hardware Information Mainboard / Bios (Connectors, ID String, MP…
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Pictomio….Image Viewer with class
I don’t do this often, but this program actually proves that with a little bit of extra UI work, windows programs can look as good (if not better) than their OSX counter parts. Pictomio — which is a free btw — is a software application for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos and other media…
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JumpBox: Super simple way of getting web services deployed.
If you read our “Open Source Lovin’ for your Server” earlier this year and thought “that’s too much trouble”, here is an even easier way to sample preconfigured Open Source Application Servers at your own leasure. Be it for developement, fun, backup or even production, you can not beat JumpBox at simplicity. What they’ve done…
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It’s time to switch….
If you ever needed a reason to switch to a mac and you were thinking to yourself, “well maybe I’ll wait a bit longer, after all, the malware/virus/trojan scene hasn’t caught up to me yet”, you might want to think again. Today marks the re-release of Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak virus for the PC platform. This sucker was…
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SysInternals goes online……
SysInternals is probably the one set of tools that every Windows support person knows about. It is a collection of fantastic utilities that allows you to troubleshoot just about any problem under windows. It is so good that Microsoft decided to buy the company right out and I have to admit that they’ve done a…
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Glide OS 3.0 Webtop syncs with you Desktop now
For those of you who haven’t tried it, you should really head over to glideos.com and create an account. It’s an excellent Webtop that provides a widerange of application plus 5GB of online storage for free (there are also commercial accounts for a small fee). Not only do they have one of the cleanest interfaces…
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“It’s not a laptop project. It’s an education project,”
Yeah, that’s why the OLPC team sold their soul to MS….right? Get ready for OLPC running Windows XO. Because there aren’t enough lemmings out there. This must be Bill G’s wildest dream, an army of illiterate starving kids who’ll program the next version of Winblows for food and water…..brilliant.