If you have recently upgraded your Windows XP computer to Windows 8, you can still access your Outlook Express messages on your computer and move them into Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird. Windows 8 and Windows 7 should have saved your messages in a folder […]
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The ability to record and run macros has been a wonderful feature in Word and continues to be in the latest versions of Word. Macros are recorded commands and keystrokes that allow us to save great amounts of time instead of doing the same thing
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E-mail Encryption for Private People Millions of people every day send messages to friends, colleagues, and business contacts, written on postcards. Electronic postcards, but still readable by anyone who cares to pick them up. Would you send a letter without an envelope? Every time you
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Softpedia and Aomei Technology have collaborated in a giveaway of the excellent Aomei Backupper Professional Edition. Aomei Backupper Professional would normally sell for $49.00us but is available free right now through this collaborative offer… expires 26th May. Aomei Backupper – The Software Check out my
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Emulation and Virtualisation For many people, getting older programs to run in newer systems is more about the means than the end. After all, once you finally get the program or game running half way decently, it will need to have the life tweaked
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BlazeVideo is currently running a Memorial Day promotion which includes a giveaway of its very good DVD Copy software. BlazeVideo DVD Copy would normally sell for $49.95us but is currently available free for everyone… offer ends 31st May. BlazeVideo DVD Copy – The Software BlazeVideo
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Run iOS Apps in Android? Meet Cider, an operating system compatibility architecture that allows users to run iOS apps on Android devices. The Cider architecture has been developed by computer science students at Columbia University. The project essentially makes iOS apps compatible with Android, regardless
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Most ardent Firefox users would have been frustrated at one time or another by the popular browser’s excessive RAM usage, but did you know that a bare bones Firefox actually compares very favorably with competitor browsers and it’s the add-ons which are actually consuming the
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What is a RAMDrive? Before I dig into moving files to and from RAMDrives, let me tell you a little about what a RAMDrive is. Its name perfectly describes what it is. It is a Drive that resides in RAM. In other words, with a
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As of this week DCT will be featuring a ‘freeware game of the week’ as a regular weekly item. These are not reviews, just a means of letting our readers know about some of the terrific range of free games available. Warsow – First Person
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Windows 8.1 users who haven’t yet installed Update 1 now have an additional 30 days to do so, or they will no longer receive updates for the operating system. When Microsoft first released Update 1, users were told they had until May 12th to install
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There is a fine line between making your Word tables boring and eye catching. You do not want to make your table so busy that it loses its purpose, but you do want to draw the reader’s eye to it! One way to do this
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It’s always handy to centralize one’s email accounts, and Outlook.com added this ability relatively recently and without much fanfare. Outlook.com uses the IMAP protocol to import and monitor external accounts. According to Wikipedia: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a protocol for e-mail retrieval and
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Fancy a part-share in the second most powerful supercomputer in the world? Think what you could do with it: play Call of Duty or Crysis faster than real-time, crack all your friends’ passwords in a microsecond, finish your accounts spreadsheets before you even started, forecast
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