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Jul 3

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(Note: If you are running Windows XP or Vista legally, this article does not apply to you.)
I’m not going to pretend for a moment that there’s more than a few of you out there running Windows XP illegally. You’ve seen the very nice $50 price tag of Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade and said, "Okay, [...]

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Jun 26

Windows 7 Home Premium Pre-Order, $49.99 Upgrade, $199.99 Full

Well, the prices for Windows 7 are here and this is how it fares out.
Is Windows 7 cheaper than Vista? YES (thank God). If Microsoft had priced this the same as the previous OS that would have been a seriously stupid maneuver.
Starting today, if you pre-order Windows 7 as an upgrade, the Home Premium Edition [...]

Jun 26

Google Wave: A Great Q & A

Google Wave is poised to potentially be the next big thing on the web. In a nutshell it combines email, chat, voice and documents into a single interface.
Unfortunately, it is not publicly available yet so there is a lot of a speculation on exactly what Google Wave does and how it works. If you are [...]

Jun 25

A Better Archiving Tool For Mac

You have probably seen several posts on this site covering popular and alternative file archiving tools, such as WinZip or 7-Zip. If you are a Mac user looking for a better tool, check out The Unarchiver.
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The [...]

Jun 25

Flash Drives That Look Like Fire Extinguishers

USB flash drives have become so standardized and normal that people don’t think much of them anymore. Whereas they used to be fairly expensive (considering), nowdays you can easily get 8GB drives for as little as $20. Reminds me of the old days when we had to use floppy diskettes and we thought we were [...]

Jun 25

Use Microsoft To Save On Energy Bills

New software from Microsoft, Hohm, is a free web-based tool that you can use calculate how to save on energy costs in your own home.
Defined:
Microsoft Hohm is a free web based application (running on the Windows Azure platform) that enables consumers to better understand their energy usage by utilizing advanced analytics licensed from the Lawrence [...]

Jun 25

Good Alternative To YouTube?

A lot of people are disliking YouTube these days. If it’s not for their ever-present "scheduled maintenance", it’s for the continually tightening grip on what is considered "acceptable" content and what isn’t. And let’s not forget that the community (and it’s a stretch to call it that) is simply awful.
There are plenty of so-so alternatives [...]