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Reminder - Upcoming Articles

Posted in information on July 31, 2008 | No Comments »

I’m going to be writing two articles soon: one on the state of Vista 64 bit and another on the Windows Mojave experiment. You should be pleasantly surprised with both of them.

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New Secure Gmail

Posted in software on July 25, 2008 | No Comments »

You should be able to login to Gmail now, click on Settings, and at the bottom of the General tab you can set Gmail to always use a secure (HTTPS) connection. I’ve been doing this for a while because I booked my Gmail login page with https in the address bar, and I’ve been advocating [...]

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People Don’t Know How Great Vista Really Is

Posted in microsoft, vista on July 25, 2008 | No Comments »

Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista’s image
I’ve gotten a lot of email about this article, and while I discussed it on the podcast this week (which you like haven’t heard yet) and have a note about it in today’s Short Takes (which isn’t online yet), it bears mentioning because, well, I told you so:

After [...]

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Make Ubuntu Look Like OSX

Posted in linux, software on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »

http://maketecheasier.com/turn-your-ubuntu-hardy-to-mac-osx-leopard/2008/07/23/

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TechPowerUp GPU-Z

Posted in hardware on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »

This is another one of those tiny little utilities you can run to find out all sorts of information about your hardware. In this case, your graphics card!
http://filehippo.com/download_gpuz/

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PacketLife - A good Cisco Blog

Posted in Cisco, software on July 21, 2008 | No Comments »

I found this from THE Cisco Blog - http://packetlife.net/

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Vista & XP Slipstreaming Tools

Posted in software on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »

nLite - Windows XP slipstreaming, ISO, configuration tool
vLite - Windows Vista slipstreaming, ISO, configuration tool

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CPUID System Monitoring Tools

Posted in hardware on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »

I just found this website and they have some awesome (FREE) CPU and Hardware monitoring tools. You can get all kinds of information about your CPU with CPU-Z and you get also find out important things like Fan Speed etc. with HWMonitor. Check it out, these free tools are small, functional and well worth having [...]

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Firefox 3.0.1 Update

Posted in information on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »

As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com/.
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3.0, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. [...]

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