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Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The program uses your cognitive abilities (visual memory, reflexes,etc.); however, while it is easily understandable for beginners, it is also highly efficient for experienced users.
Interesting, anyone actually used this? Do you like it?
Vista Start Menu
ReNamer is a (FREE)very powerful and flexible file renaming tool.
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Sometimes you try to reach a site and mysteriously you can’t get to it. Perhaps you think its simply your imagination, something wrong with your computer, or perhaps the site is under attack. Or maybe the server that the site is hosted on went down.
However, the cause could be far more mysterious. With the massive amount of users trafficing the internet today, weird things are bound to happen, but about the strangest perhaps is the recently discovered, but long suspected phenomena of internet “black holes.”
As it stands now Crysis is not the DX10 poster child that we were led to believe it would be. Maybe Crysis is an incredibly forward looking title and not “badly coded” as rumored. I guess time will tell.
For something that you look at every day of your working life, your computer desktop doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. That’s too bad, considering that the desktop can do a lot more than display wallpaper and hold shortcut icons. From widgets to workflows, from calendars to computer stats and beyond, you can do a whole lot on your desktop without manually starting up a single program. Hit the jump for our top 10 list of applications and tweaks that make your desktop a truly useful place to land.
X-bit Labs has part 2 of a good 22″ monitor review.
Adobe Systems Inc. yesterday plugged the Flash Player hole used by a hacker two weeks ago to take down a Windows Vista machine and claim a $5,000 prize in the “Pwn to Own” exploit challenge.
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Interesting read over at Ars Technica.
You guys that have been around here for a while know I LOVE poking fun at Mac users. But when it comes to the OS wars, as we say here in the south “I ain’t got no dawg in this fight”. I want everyone to use what is best for them. Believe me, if I could afford a $3000 Mac I would buy it and tri-boot OS X / Vista / openSUSE. I mean the stock Mac (desktop) comes with 8 freakin’ cores! So I thought I would share this with you. [Read more…] about Yes, I actually recommended a Mac to someone.
#1: Vista runs more software
#2: Vista is safer
#3: It’s the money, stupid
#4: The Mac is closed; Vista is open
#5: Two words — Steve Jobs
Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X Hehe – Kinda sounds like my Mac Rant from 5 years ago. 😉 Beatin’ up on Mac users is soooo much fun!