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The snipping tool in Windows 7 can be pretty useful for bloggers

This Windows 7 Feature could be a pretty helpful feature for bloggers. Lets say you were blogging about a particular peice of software, giving a tip or showing a bug or something. you wait till the item you want is on your screen and you want a screenshot of it…what do you do?
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One legitamate way to use illegitimately obtained software

As time goes on, people loose things. Recently I was doing a little repair on a friends laptop. There was a lot wrong with it. Viruses, random errors, missing files. I think that at some point his laptop got hit with a really heavy virus that borked things up permanently. Not to mention he was [...]

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Have you tried the Windows 7 beta?

If you haven’t heard (which you probably have) Microsoft released a beta for the new Windows 7 Operating during CES. Windows 7 is the operating system that is going to pretty much replace Vista when it released later this year (or early next year). The day it was released, I downloaded and installed the 64 [...]

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What do you think about the new non-Seinfeld Microsoft commercial?

We all have seen the Microsoft ads featuring Gates and Seinfeld right? Yea we’ve all seen them, its been the focus of a lot of criticize lately (if not look here and here). Last night I was watching a re-run of My Name Is Earl and what do you know? A new Microsoft commercial came [...]

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Scanning in Windows Vista (yea some of us dont know how)

A friend of mine got a new PC recently. When he got home he setup everything else he had at his desk to the new PC. Of coarse, the new PC had Vista installed, so there were some things he wasn’t familiar with. He asked me one day how to scan a document in Vista. [...]

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Took the plunge, Installed Vista Service Pack 1

I did it, I finally took the plunge and installed Windows Vista SP 1. I had been hesitating because there were a few driver incompatibilities listed on the windows website that I knew I had. I tried to find updates for them but one in particular, my audio drivers, were not released yet for my [...]

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May be time to give Vista another try, SP1 releases tomorrow. Promises better performance

I know many people are down in the dumps over Vista, and all the problems they are having with Microsoft’s OS. Me personally, Ive had it installed for almost a year and have really enjoyed it. If you have tried Vista and gave up on it, went back to XP, now may be a good [...]

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Cant delete that file in Vista? Bypass all that permission mumbo jumbo by logging into the hidden admin account.

The other day, a friend of mine installed some software on his Vista notebook. The software was incompatible with Vista so he went to uninstall it so that he can install the newer version that is compatible. The incompatible software somehow got corrupted so it wouldn’t uninstall using your regular automated uninstall method. After trying [...]

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Got a new Vista PC for Christmas? Heres a few tips to get you started

Christmas is over. Many of you have gotten new PCs for Christmas I know. With your new PC, I’m pretty sure many of you are using Windows Vista for the first time. Guess what, some things will not work. Vista has gotten a lot better when it comes to software and drivers, but there are [...]

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