November 3rd, 2007

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Enable Aurora Bootscreen in Windows Vista

The original Vista Bootscreen is very similar to Windows 2000, and is very bland and boring (you know, with the little catepillar bar scrolling from left-to-right).But did you know that Vista comes with a much better highly visual bootscreen? Did you k…

Written by Madhukara H on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Windows Vista: Turn Off Windows Defender
Lifehacker points out how to turn off Defender, if for some strange reason you wanted to do so.
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4sysops - Will Vista influence the operating system market share of Windows?
It would appear that Vista won’t convert any Apple or Linux users, it will primarily be an upgrade for Windows [...]

Written by Joe on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Zlob Removal Instructions

Zlob Descriptions:

Zlob, also known as Zlob.Trojan or Trojan.Zlob, is a “Backdoor Trojan” that gives the invader or attacker a bridge to remotely control your computer. By remotely controlling your computer, it allows them to install all kind of malicious softwares to your computer. It can also delete and modify files, and put your [...]

Written by Sam on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Google Linux repositories in ubuntu

Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.
First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following line
Google Linux repositories in Ubuntu, google linux, install google software [...]

Written by Jason on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Speed up Firefox without reinstalling

You cannot imagine life without Firefox but over time, your favorite browser keeps getting slower and slower.
Not only is it slow, Firefox sometimes hangs for no reason, consumes a large amount of memory and CPU usage can climb to 90% or more when you have multiple tabs open simultaneously.
You have uninstalled most of the extensions [...]

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Unwelcomed to the social

You would think a company will try to sell as many of its products as possible for maximum profit. But no, not Microsoft. Not with the Zune. Not only will Microsoft not sell Zunes in Australia, but they actually discourage anyone from buying one through a reseller in case you really wanted one. That kind [...]

Written by Long Zheng on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Why Leopard Isn’t Better than Vista

Apple’s newest operating system is at best an evolution from predecessor Tiger. Some of the criticisms leveled at Windows vista apply to Leopard. Seriously.I bought my copy of Leopard on Saturday from the local Apple Store. Granted, I’ve only used the …

Written by Madhukara H on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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One year later, Vista really is more secure

Windows Vista was released to manufacturing a year ago next week, and landed on retail shelves exactly nine months ago today. To mark the occasion, I dragged a system out of mothballs and installed the original RTM version of Vista Ultimate on it. (Wel…

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Will 2008 Be Vista’s Golden Year?

Despite months of rumors and innuendo suggesting that sales of Windows Vista were lackluster, Microsoft last week turned in its best first quarter in eight years.And among the products credited with driving that revenue jump was Vista. However, Microso…

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Google Purchases Shortest Domain Name Ever

Google has purchased the shortest possible domain name to make it easier for Chinese users to find Google: g.cn. Interestingly, “g.com,” along with most other single-letter and single-digit domain names are reserved by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The IANA is the master arbiter of domain names and addresses on the Internet. There are a few one-letter domain names out there, though: Z.com is owned by Nissan, Q.com by Qwest, and X.com is owned by PayPal. There was a proposal floated a few years ago to auction off the one-letter domain names, but nothing has come of it

Written by Omar Abid on November 3rd, 2007 with comments disabled.
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