I don’t actually need to change screen resolution here on my home PC, but I can well imagine how this may be necessary for situations involving multiple users; and especially where multiple users with varying degrees of eyesight are concerned. If you are in this […]
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This was originally posted on the DCT forum some time back, but it is very clever so we thought we’d share it here too: In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a
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It seems more and more developers are insisting on bundling extras with their freeware; toolbars are becoming common place as well as changes to home pages and search engines. Some are open and up front about it, many adopt a more sneaky approach – such
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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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Steve Jobs lost his 10 year battle with pancreatic cancer today at the age of 56. I’ll be the first to tell you that I am not a fan of Apple, or its products. From their draconian business practices to advertising that stretches the truth
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Almost one month ago, the official distribution site for the Linux kernel was shut down following a serious malware incident. The people behind the Linux kernel discovered malware on the PC of at least one kernel maintainer, as well as on the kernel.org servers themselves.
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Longtime Avira fans will immediately notice their favorite anti-virus software has undergone a minor name change; “AntiVir” has been dropped from the title and Avira AntiVir Personal now becomes Avira Free Antivirus. Avira may have changed the name for the latest version of their popular
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Speculation is rife that Google Chrome will soon replace Firefox as the the No. 2 browser of choice, behind Internet Explorer – and statistics tend to confirm that as a likely scenario. Some are even predicting Chrome will overtake Firefox as early as December this
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Nir Sofer is the freeware developer responsible for the terrific range of NirSoft tools and utilities; all NirSoft freeware is lightweight, portable, and very effective. Nir Sofer has recently combined over 100 of his extremely useful utilities into one downloadable package called NirLauncher. The package
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Kindle Fire is Amazon’s new entry into the small tablet market and, although pre-orders are being accepted now, it is not due for official release until 15th November. Kindle Fire is a 7″ tablet with 8GB internal storage running a special Amazon version of Google’s
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***DCT EXCLUSIVE*** Ashampoo has most generously donated 10 licenses for the latest version of their Burning Studio 10 software, to be given away to our readers – this software would normally sell for $49.99usd… thank you Ashampoo! All you need do for a chance to
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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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