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Can Your PC Really Handle Vista?
Our first article about configuring AMD and Intel PCs within a budget of £200 / €350 made it clear that systems in this price range are suitable for everyday computing tasks. We equipped our Celeron and Sempron test systems with a fast and affordable 160-GB hard drive and one…
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Pipe Dreams: Who Will Unclog the Information Superhighway?
Those amusing YouTube Latest News about YouTube video clips that Internet Free How-To Guide for Small Business Web Strategies – from domain name selection to site promotion. users send to friends gobble up large chunks of bandwidth and may cause the net to crash, some…
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Google to Sell Online Software Suite
Google Inc. will begin selling corporate America an online suite of software that includes e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and calendar management, escalating the Internet search leader’s invasion on technological turf traditionally dominated by Microsoft and IBM.…
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How To: Slipstream your XP installation
Think of how you treat a brand-new car: You cherish and pamper it at first. You even give up your Sunday afternoons to wash and wax it by hand. Your heart skips a beat whenever you see that gleaming steel beast waiting for you in the parking lot. A newly installed version of…
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PC sales jump in Vista’s debut week
After five weeks of sluggish PC sales, retailers received a big boost during the first week of Vista’s launch, according to a report released Thursday by Current Analysis. PC unit sales soared 173 percent at U.S. retail stores during the week ended February 3, compared…
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Apple’s Windows applications aren’t ready for Vista
News that iTunes for Windows isn’t yet ready for Microsoft’s new operating system emerged earlier this week, with Apple warning PC folk to hold off on a Vista upgrade pending the release of updates. Today’s tech support document names a range of additional…
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New Energy Star ratings for PCs on the way
The Energy Star program is set to release the first revision to the specification for PCs since 1992, which was practically the Bronze Age of the PC industry. Energy Star stickers are familiar to those who have shopped for household appliances over the last few years; it…
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Vista upgrade invalidates your XP key
If you choose to purchase an upgrade version of Windows Vista to upgrade XP, you will no longer be able to use that version of XP. Either on another system, or as a dual-boot option. The key will be invalidated, preventing activation. View: Full Story @ TomCoyote.org
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Apple to charge Mac OS X Tiger users for final Boot Camp release?
According to a report MacScoop has obtained, Apple will charge current users of Mac OS X Tiger for the final version of Boot Camp that will be released at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard, this Spring. Though the source wasn’t sure about the final pricing, the report…
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Video game playing may fulfill innate human need
Playing video games can satisfy deep psychological needs and, at least in the short term, improve people’s well-being, new research shows. The more a game fulfilled a player’s sense of independence, achievement and connectedness to others, the more likely he or she…