Microsoft has recently completed its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype Global, the publisher of the very popular Skype voip software – yep, that’s not a misprint…$8.5 billion! It certainly is a heck of a lot of money but I still consider it a judicious move […]
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Most experienced users have dabbled with Linux at some stage, some have gone on to migrate completely while many others have decided to stick primarily with Windows – I fall into the latter category. The biggest issue concerning Linux’s failure to gain mass acceptance, specifically
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There have been a lot of comments over the past couple of weeks lambasting Microsoft for supposedly introducing an element into Windows 8 which is said to prevent users from dual or multi booting different operating systems, and Linux in particular. It is astounding how
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In recent posts I’ve covered installing Windows Home Server 2011, installing the WHS Connector, the Dashboard home tab, and the Dashboard Users tab. In this post I would like to continue on with the theme and introduce you to the Computers and Backup tab of
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A few days ago a friend asked me what the difference was between performing a quick format and a regular format. First thing I should mention here is that we are talking about used drives, so ‘reformat’ is probably the more precise term. Anyway, technology
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Continuing with their enhanced development cycle Mozilla has released version 7.0 of their popular Firefox web browser. The changelog show the following improvements: Drastically improved memory use Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems Bookmark and password changes now
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I’ve been reading a lot of hype concerning Microsoft’s evolving new operating system and I must say I am not liking what I am hearing. Of course, there is no way of knowing if the reports are indeed 100% accurate, but there is enough coincidental
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We’ve covered the installation of Windows Home Server 2011 and installing the Connector software on client computers and if you’ve followed along you are now ready to interact with the server from your client computers using the Dashboard. If you’re new to Windows Home Server
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Microsoft has just released a bit of information about improvements in Windows Explorer for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Before we get to the *new* let’s have a look at the old. This is how things looked in the old days. Not much to
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Microsoft has recently started to release information about features and improvements in the upcoming Windows 8 operating system. In their latest release they are tackling common functionality that has bugged me for ages. As digital media becomes more prevalent so does the moving and renaming
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