Introduction – Part 1 If you don’t know anything about the Stardock game, Galactic Civilizations III, then this post won’t help you in any way other than by possibly providing you with some form of entertainment. I wish you luck in that direction. This is […]
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ClearType is Microsoft’s implementation of subpixel rendering technology in rendering text in a font system. ClearType attempts to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens by sacrificing color fidelity for additional intensity variation ~ Wikipedia Clear as mud? Put simply,
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Many of us have a twitter account and love using it. In my business this is a very important social media tool. I have many clients that have had me set up their Twitter account for them. Some of these clients have come to me
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If you spend enough time online, sooner or later you’ll wish you had a disposable eMail account, or, a way to track whether or not someone has “shared” your eMail address. Maybe you want to subscribe to a mailing list for a weekly newsletter about
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As part of a summer promotion WonderFox has partnered with multiple software vendors to present a mega giveaway involving 9 products – free for everyone: The software: Wonderfox DVD Ripper Pro – Rip DVDs to virtually any video/audio/device IObit Advanced SystemCare 9 Pro – *One
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Folks receive an e-mail and notice that there is what they call a “hard return” at the end and double returns between paragraphs. One could waste a forest and print out the e-mail the way it is, but that seems a bit silly doesn’t it?
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Youth I grew up on the banks of the St. Croix River in Taylors Falls, Minnesota. The area is a composite of extreme age, exquisite beauty, and invisible danger. Extreme age because the exposed rocks in this area are some of the oldest on the
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Apparently, quite a few users are being prevented from upgrading their existing operating systems to Windows 10 due to incompatible graphics drivers – receiving a message similar to the following: Coincidentally, I came across this issue recently when a client brought over his Windows 7
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The Utter Confusion of 2K Monitors I’ve recently been looking at buying a new 2K monitor. For those not in the know, 2K equates to a maximum resolution of 2560×1440 as opposed to HD’s standard 1920×1080. There’s nothing wrong with my current Asus PA248Q which
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Speculation surrounding the possibility of Microsoft introducing a subscription based option for Windows 10 has been doing the rounds for quite some time. We even wrote about it way back in 2014: Subscription Based Windows OS – Is It On The Cards? Now, it seems,
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Microsoft’s Director of Sales, Eric Ligman, is once again sponsoring a mega-giveaway of extremely useful eBooks to the masses. It is absolutely a free, no-catch giveaway that you should definitely explore. Included are multitudes of subjects from Windows to Office to Azure to SQL and
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Security Recently, it was reported that a prominent security expert acquired a database with 272.3 million eMail accounts, with passwords, from a hacker in a Russian underground forum. All it cost him was a nice review of the hacker’s skills. The stolen IDs/passwords contained accounts
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Gadgets We all love them. They not only dress up our Windows Desktops, but they serve a useful purpose, too. They will show you the weather, time and date. You can monitor your computer health with them. You can follow stock tickers, RSS feeds, and
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