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Round 1: Google Sites vs Microsoft SharePoint…Fight!

November 19, 2009
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Leena Rao over at TechCrunch reports that:
Google Sites, which launched a little under two years ago, have given businesses and consumers a way to quickly build their own websites with no HTML knowledge required, making it relatively easy for anyone without a technical background to build a simple website. Now, Google [...]

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How to Password Protect any Image File in Windows

November 18, 2009
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Amit Banerjee over at Techie Buzz found a cool little Windows App called Lock Image:
You can lock any image file with a password just as you lock files and folders in your computer. Lock Image is yet another portable application for windows that converts an image into an exe file and password [...]

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Stick with XP? Windows 7 Battery Life Worse on Netbooks

November 13, 2009
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K. T. Bradford over at Laptop Mag reports :
Back in August when we started testing the final version of Windows 7, we noticed that several netbooks didn’t last as long on a charge with the new OS installed as with Windows XP. Microsoft claimed that Win 7 notebooks would see longer battery life than Vista, [...]

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Turn Windows 7 Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes for, get this: Free

November 11, 2009
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Jolie O’Dell over at ReadWriteWeb posted a great article about Connectify.me
They’ve sussed out how to make any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Since we just installed Windows 7 on a spare laptop, we figured it was about time to make Windows do something cool, so we installed the app.
We were quite literally up [...]

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Comodo Easy VPN is a fast, free Hamachi alternative for Windows

November 11, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad writes how he previously used a combination of Hamachi and UltraVNC for hassle-free remote support setups. At the time (again, this was a long time ago), Hamachi had a lot of reliability and speed issues – so he ended up switching to TeamViewer. That is until Lee discovered Comodo’s free [...]

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10 Applications that can help you with Personal Information Management

November 9, 2009
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Lets face it, Post-It notes are great and convenient for jotting down notes, ideas, todo’s etc. But at the same time they can really suck and become totally impractical (when it comes to trying to find that one post-it). Personal Information Management (PIM) is very important to me.  Any given day I can have up [...]

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Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash

November 7, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad tells us that making a bootable USB flash drive for Windows Vista and Windows 7 isn’t all that tricky, but it’s always nice to find an app that simplifies things. Not only does WinToFlash make the process about as easy as it can get, but it can also create Windows [...]

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Java, BlackBerry desktop get security bug fixes

November 4, 2009
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Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products.
The patches were issued separately on Tuesday, with Sun releasing version 6 Update 17 of its Java Runtime Environment and BlackBerry updating its BlackBerry Desktop Software, used to sync data between the BlackBerry and a PC.
Both updates include fixes [...]

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It’s Gettin’ Hot in Hur! Monitor Your CPU with Core Temp

November 3, 2009
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Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature and is now Windows Vista and Windows 7 ready! (x86 and x64)
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature [...]

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SugarSync Sweetens File Syncing For Small Businesses

November 3, 2009
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SugarSync for Business, which is specifically designed for small businesses, lets enterprise users sync data across computers and smartphones syncing capabilities, share folders and collaborate with employees within its platform. The version allows administrators to create account for many users, where employees share the storage amount, but each employee has a separate user account (the [...]

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