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Open source Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra PDF Speeds things up

November 20, 2009

Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad hit another home run:
“Adobe has done a lot to improve Reader in recent versions. I’m more than happy to run an open source alternative, however. Sumatra PDF is ridiculously small (a 1.2Mb download), lightweight, and handles the PDFs I throw at it without skipping a beat.
Today, Sumatra has finally hit [...]

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Google Chrome OS: The Video Demo

November 19, 2009

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security… Blah Blah Blah here is the video:

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How to Password Protect any Image File in Windows

November 18, 2009

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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Spiceworks Brings Green IT Management to SMBs

November 16, 2009

From CNBC BUSINESS WIRE:
Spiceworks, Inc. today released a new plug-in for its free social IT management software application, which enables IT professionals to automatically regulate the power consumption of networked computers. The downloadable Power Manager plug-in developed in cooperation with Intel Corporation is designed to link everyday network and systems management tasks with green IT [...]

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10+ Outstanding USB Flash Drive Concepts & Designs

November 16, 2009

USB Flash Drives killed the Floppy Disk. Why? Well they are smaller, faster, have thousands of times more capacity, and are more durable and reliable due to their lack of moving parts. But the best part of the whole USB Flash Drive phenomenon is the fact that unlike Floppies, they [USB FD] come in so [...]

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Stick with XP? Windows 7 Battery Life Worse on Netbooks

November 13, 2009

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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$80 Android netbook gets video demo

November 13, 2009

Chris Davies over at Slash Gear writes:
What does $80 buy you these days? If Menq have their way, and sort out their supply chain, it could get you an Android based netbook; the company’s EasyPC E790 has a 7-inch 800 x 480 display and a Samsung ARM926EJ-S3C2450 processor, and while right now it runs [...]

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10 ‘Black Friday’ Tech Deals to Watch For

November 12, 2009

Chris Morris over at Switched.com blogs:
Traditionalists might balk, but the holiday shopping season is already underway. Skeptical? Head to your local department store and you’ll be inundated with Christmas trees and holiday ornaments. Bargain hunters, though, know that the real deals are over a month away.
Traditionally, Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving for the uninitiated) [...]

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Get Google Maps Navigation on Your T-Mobile G1

November 12, 2009

Kevin Purdy over at LifeHacker found a cool little hack for all of you T-Mobile G1 owners!
Google’s awe-inducing, turn-by-turn Maps Navigation is exclusive to Verizon’s Droid phone—unless you’re willing to hack around with your G1. With either some command-line-fu or a two-part Windows application, you can put Google Maps Navigation on a rooted G1.By “rooted,” [...]

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