Microsoft Loves Firefox: Live Search For Firefox

Due to a popular demand, Microsoft has recently released a Firefox add-on to enable the addition of Live Search service into the Firefox search box. Interesting....Will this Microsoft marketing trick work?

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The End Of The Desktop Computer: GDrive Is Almost Here

GDrive myth becomes reality: the proof of the imminent launch of GDrive, alongside StarOffice and Google PinYin integrated into Google Pack.

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KNOPPIX 6.0: 8GB Of Free Software On An Ordinary DVD

KNOPPIX Linux distribution can be deployed as a LiveCD which includes 2 GB of executable free software, without being the need to install any application on the local hard drive, because the software existing on the LiveCD is easy accessible through on-the-fly decompression. The Knoppix LiveDVD edition provides over 8 GB of executable software.

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Ultimate Tips For Ubuntu Users:Ubuntu Pocket Guide Goes Free

Useful recipes for beginners in mastering all aspects related to Ubuntu installation, configuration, software management, key features and tweaks.

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Microsoft IE 8 RC 1 Is Not For Windows 7: Acid2 Passed

Windows 7 users cannot install Microsoft IE 8 RC 1 yet. This new release of the popular web browser Internet Explorer shows an enhanced support for new and future web standards, as well as a faster browsing speed. The IE8 RC 1 has passed the Acid 2 test.

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Citizen Journalism On BloggerBase Platform

BloggerBase is a new online magazine and blogging platform that implements an unique concept defined as “citizen-journalism”. It is based on social networking principles: bloggers will have the opportunity to promote valuable content to a wide community.

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Add-Ons That Makes Firefox Faster

Firefox by default is not optimized to deliver the best performance while you are browsing. Get these free add-ons and tools to make Firefox faster. They automatically configure Firefox to have an improved behavior by rendering pages faster and by optimally manage the network connection potential.

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The Free Download Link For Windows 7 Beta Is Still Available

The period of availability for Windows 7 Beta download was extended until February 12th. Go and grab a copy for free, if you do not have one yet.

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Must Have: 12 Automatic Tweaks For Windows 7 On Steroids

SetteMaxer (a free utility) will automatically perform twelve tweaks that will put Windows 7 on steroids instantly.

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Plinky Fights Against Google Blogger's Block

Plinky, the bloggers inspiration feeding tool is made “to help fight blogger’s block”. Will it win?

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Out Of The Box Windows 7 Codecs For Free

Get DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) of H264 files playback in Windows 7 for free.

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Free Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition Beats Kaspersky and AVG

Free Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition beats Kaspersky and AVG with a better system resources management: the scanning speed is of 36 MB / second) and the memory and CPU power used is with several order of magnitude lower than in the case of Kaspersky and AVG.

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CCleaner Optimizes Google Chrome

CCleaner helps you to optimize Google Chrome and Windows. Is a popular and powerful free tweaking software for any Windows version.

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Enigma Desktop: Now On Linux

Enigma Desktop For Linux Is Ready For Free Download.

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The New Version Of Google Calendar Gadget For Google Desktop

Get the new Google Calendar gadget for Google Desktop or iGoogle.

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Over 10 Million Computers Affected By The Conficker Worm

Over 10 million computers were affected by the worm known as Win32/Conficker (W32.Downadup). Your computer could be affected too. This article describes the symptoms of infection and provides links to removal tools and methods of infection prevention.

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Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2 Is Here

Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2 was just released and is available for free download. KDE, GNOME, XFCE are updated, while icewm was replaced by Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.

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Extreme Google Search: The Preferred Sites Feature

After the recent launch in November 2008 of SearchWiki, which allows anyone having a valid Google account to add, delete or comment the search results or modify their order by re-ranking, a new experimental feature was added to Google Web Search preferences: preferred sites.

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Direct Downloads of YouTube Videos With Full Quality As MP4

The most interesting and convenient method of directly downloading the YouTube video files with full quality (MP4) is based on JavaScript.

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Twingly Performs Simultaneous Searches Of Multiple Microblog

Twingly provides a search service for six microblogging platforms: Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Bleeper, Bloggy and Pownce.

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Microsoft Virtual PC On Windows 7

Microsoft Virtual PC will help you to run two or more operating systems in the same time and switch between them with a single mouse click. This article will show how to install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 on Windows 7 and describes the necessary steps to create a new virtual machine.

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Google Closes? A Long List Of Projects Will Be Discontinued

Google has announced the closing of several existing projects: Google Video, Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, Jaiku and Google Mashup Editor. These decisions could represent the consequences of the current economy state and dynamics, reflected over the global level of Internet usage.

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Ubiquity Changes The Natural Sense Of Web Browsing

Ubiquity is a Firefox add-on that will allow you to browse the web in a different manner: you will not have to type URLs, just add commands. For a Google search for Windows 7 for example, just write google Windows 7. You can also automatically send email, translate text and more just by typing a few words.

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“Portable” Computers With PortableApps.com

Learn how to take all computer applications on the road.

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For The First Time: Slax On Windows 7 Screenshot Tour

Run Linux and Windows applications in the same time on Windows 7 with Slax, a modular, portable, very compressed (lightweight) and fast Linux distribution.

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How To Connect To Internet Through LAN (Local Area Network)

This short tutorial explains how to connect to Internet in Windows 7.

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Jump From Windows XP Directly To Windows 7

A simple tutorial on how to install Windows 7 directly from Windows XP without a LiveDVD. In less than 30 minutes, you will be able to dual boot Windows 7 and XP. All applications from Windows XP can be used in Windows 7 without reinstalling them, just create shortcuts.

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Unlimited Downloads And Evaluation Times For Windows 7 Beta

Get free Windows 7 Beta direct download links and unlimited times activation key.

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Google Searches Not Equal Environmental Danger

The level of Google search carbon dioxide emission is a statistical value. But not the CO2 should be the concern in this matter. There are many other factors influencing the greenhouse effect.

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Over 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets On A Linux Desktop

gOS 3.1 Gadgets (SP1) allows you to run one of the 100000 existing iGoogle and Google Gadgets on startup. Even more, any web based application could be deployed as standalone from the desktop.

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The Precursor of Google Chrome 2.0

Recently, a new Google Chrome version available for free download was developed: 2.0 Pre-Beta (2.0.156.1). It is clear that the increased frequency of the releases of Google Chrome browser suggest the Google intention of making it more popular while always offers significant new features to keep up with the web browsers market trends.

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More Accessible News For People With Disabilities In A 2 KB

Accessible News Slider has only 2KB in size and makes easier the access to news based content for people with visual disabilities.

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How To Run Multiple Windows Applications With One Click

Lacuna Launcher is a free to use Windows application that gives many options to control the way in which programs are launched or documents and URLs are opened. Lacuna Launcher will allow you to set a delay between applications launching, specify their starting order and execute multiple tasks from a single shortcut with a single mouse click.

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Free Download Microsoft Windows 7 Beta And Windows Live

Windows 7 Beta and the latest stable version of Windows Live Essentials are available for free download.

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SystemRescueCd Automatically Restore Your System

If the operating system is damaged and you cannot recover valuable data, SystemRescueCd is a free utility that can repair it only by booting the CDROM or an USB drive.

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FreeBSD 7.1: An Operating System Having Over 30 Years Old

FreeBSD 7.1 is ready for free download since the beginning of year 2009. It represents a Linux distribution having an advanced structure and functionality, suitable for current server or desktop computers, because FreeBSD is capable to offer an incredible performance for complex demands, such as hosting of high traffic websites.

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First Look At Puppy Linux On Windows Desktop

Puppy Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution than can be on your Windows desktop in less than 3-4 minutes without an installation or to damage your current operating system. It has only 98 MB and many useful tools for an average or advanced computer user.

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Web Analytics For Everyone: Piwik

Piwik needs less than five minutes to be installed on a compatible web server. This application is capable to monitor multiple websites with the help of a short JavaScript code that must be inserted into the web pages which need to be analyzed in order to obtain the traffic related reports.

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Flash Based Movies And Applications Are Available on TV

Broadcom platforms will allow the display of Flash based content with the help of digital television starting from the first half of 2009. As a consequence all Flash movies or applications available online could be comfortable viewed directly on TV.

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Joomla Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can be used to power all kinds of websites. Smashing Magazine provides their latest developer's toolbox for this great CMS.

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AMD Neo Processor Will Be Included Into HP Notebooks

HP Pavilion dv2 is an ultrathin notebook having less than one-inch thick and four pounds weight. It will be equipped with a new AMD platform (codenamed “Yukon”) based on an AMD Athlon Neo processor and ATI Radeon X1250 integrated graphics (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 discrete graphics is optional).

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Ubuntu 8.10 With Extra Features: Super Ubuntu

Super Ubuntu is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 8.1 (Intrepid Ibex), offering extra features and an improved support for multimedia, Internet, Windows applications integration, graphical interfaces and more.

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