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Windows Performance Tweaks Debunked
Who doesn't want another couple of seconds shaved off their startup or application load time, or an extra few frames per second in their favorite game? Windows tweakers will go to outrageous tweaks to "tune up" their systems, but how many of those tweaks actually do any good? The truth: Just about none. Lifehacker has one of the most comprehensive looks at the common performance tweak ...
Yahoo! Tech Advisors |
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IOGEAR's DVI Net ShareStation networks one display for multiple users
Filed under: Displays , Peripherals While we imagine that some folks are sick and tired of fighting over the sole display in the house, some people out there are looking for a reason to quarrel over the biggest one. IOGEAR's DVI Net ShareStation is here to help, providing one display with an Ethernet connection so that any and all computers on the same network can battle for it share. ...
Engadget |
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'Nanny' Web site could put end to parents' nagging
Like a knockoff Mary Poppins, she magically appears with a carpetbag, a pair of spectacles and a slight accent, the way that all child-care providers must in this era of "Supernanny" and "Nanny 911." "Relax," she intones calmly. "Nanny's here."
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Google launches internet browser
Google is to release its own internet browser in what amounts to its most direct attack yet on Microsoft ’s dominance of PC software.
Financial Times |
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Tracking down McCain's Straight Talk express
SANDUSKY A simple Google search turns up a cell phone number for Sen. John McCain.
The Sandusky Register |
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Thousands of Dollars in Computers Damaged at Elementary
Police catch teens allegedly responsible
KRGV-TV Texas |
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Online school here still enrolling students
ST. LOUIS — The first school bells of the year have sounded for Missouri's public school children, but the state's online school is still accepting applicants for kindergarten to 12th grade.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Issue Of The Week : Issue of the Week Forum
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Gotham Gazette |
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Linux Today - Skegness Grammar School, Using GNU/Linux and Thin-Clients Across the School
[ Thanks to steve hill for this link. ] "Gimp and Inkscape for graphics work, kdissert for mind mapping, Kjots for notetaking and planning, Planner for Gantt charting.
Linux Today |
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Google releases its own Web browser, Chrome
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move to counter the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and ensure easy access to Google's market-leading search engine.
Winston-Salem Journal |
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Area families facing new frontier in harassment
Recently, a group of students took unflattering cell-phone pictures of another student. They posted the photos online, along with other photos of the student's head superimposed on the bodies of barnyard animals, and sent the link to everyone whose e-mail address they knew, asking them to vote on the photos.
The Post and Courier |
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Google Launches Google Video For Business
The company is using its Google Apps business to provide the infrastructure necessary to search videos, restrict access to them, rate them, comment on them, and download them.
InformationWeek |
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New Gates Foundation CEO starts today without fanfare
SEATTLE -- The arrival of a new CEO at the world's largest charitable foundation comes with much less fanfare than Bill Gates' decision to leave Microsoft Corp. to focus more on his family's philanthropy.
Winston-Salem Journal |
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Amazon to make web more open to blind, court rules
Amazon, the world's largest internet retailer, will be required to make some of its web software more accessible to blind people, under the terms of a $6m legal settlement agreed between Target, the discount retailer, and the National Federation of the Blind.
Financial Times |
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Video added to Google Apps
Google wants to offer some of YouTube's technology to make it easier, cheaper, and more secure for companies to distribute video to employees.
CNET |
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VirtualBox revisited
WHILE looking for a way to run some Windows video software on my Linux PC last year, I stumbled upon VirtualBox, an open source program that enables you to install and use different operating systems on the same computer.
Manila Standard Today |
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Military buddies who served together overseas reunited after 54 years
Fifty-four years ago there was no Internet, or computers, for that matter.
The Hamilton Journal News |
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Knoxville effort aids displaced Kenyans
MOLO, Kenya - John Mathenge stood on his hillside home and watched as neighbors' houses in the valley below him were engulfed in flames. He heard the screams as some were hacked to death.
Knoxville News Sentinel |
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Internet Donations Boost Charities
Besides being a banner year for charities, 2007 saw more people donating dollars online, a trend that has some organizations rethinking the way they reach out to potential donors.
The Lakeland Ledger |
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Software gives parents a peek into classroom
Summer's over for students in the state's largest school district.
New Hampshire Union Leader |
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Police: Internet fraud increasing
It’s a scenario that’s becoming more and more common in Winona.
Winona Daily News |
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AP's 'Talking Points' Defending Fournier Surface
NEW YORK Longtime Associated Press political writer, and now AP Washington bureau chief, Ron Fournier, has been targeted by liberal groups and blogs lately for what they perceive as biased AP reporting against Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Editor & Publisher |
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Nehalem to the fore
INTEL took the wraps of its upcoming and revamped processor, codenamed Nehalem, which will be the basis for its next-generation notebook, desktop and server platforms.
The Star |
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PowerColor HD4870 PCS+ Review
Are you looking for some of the most up to date video card hardware out there? Maybe you have been out of the loop for a little while but you are interested in upgrading your computer to score some higher benchmarking scores. Maybe you are a gamer who is looking for higher frame rates.
Overclockers Club |
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Rise of the robots
IT IS finally starting to happen — improvements in microprocessor technology and robotics will in the future make it possible to create robots that are smarter than humans.
The Star |
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