Archive for March, 2006


No Windows Vista until 2007 - In the meantime will some stickers do?

Friday, March 31st, 2006
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There's not going to be a release of any consumer editions of Windows Vista but Microsoft are hoping that stickers will help jittery buyers.  These stickers will be used to mark "Windows Vista Capable" PCs and you should be seeing them in the shops real soon.
What is a "Windows Vista Capable" PC?  To be eligible [...]

Via Technologies to support TPM

Friday, March 31st, 2006
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Via Technologies has announced that it is planning to support the Trusted Platform Module (TPM)  on some of their motherboards.
TPM is supported by both Intel and AMD and it is seen by some as a solution to online identity theft (well, it might be if everyone had it and providing it is robust enough to [...]

Here’s why you should be careful of online storage

Friday, March 31st, 2006
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Everyone's alway on about free stuff that they can get online.  Many of the services that are available are excellent but some cannot and should not be relied on.  Online storage is one.  We're shifting more and more of our data onto computers that are outside of out control (email is one example, photos is [...]

Confirmation that the “massaging a dead pixel” trick works

Friday, March 31st, 2006
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BrainFuel has posted confirmation that the "massaging dead pixels back to life" trick does actually work.  Cool.  There's an article on WikiHow  on doing this too but the article is a little vague.  Check this out:

Turn off your computer monitor.

Get yourself a damp cloth, so that you don't scratch your screen.

Apply pressure to the area [...]

Questions from Visitors - If I browse the Internet with Firefox, am I safe?

Friday, March 31st, 2006
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This week's tips are based on questions that I've received from visitors to the site over the past few weeks. 

"If I browser the Internet using nothing other than Firefox then am I save from all the viruses, adware and spyware I keep reading about?"

You might be safer, but you're not 100% safe.  Nasties can [...]

The ultimate USB flash drive!

Thursday, March 30th, 2006
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OK, this has to be the ultimate USB flash drive - a 64GB (yep, that's GB!).  If you have $5,000 to spare then it's yours !  Pure crazy stuff!
Just goes to show that these drives are going to grow and grow over the next few years.

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