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Monday, March 8th, 2010Have you ever tried mounting an .iso image (a CD or DVD image) on Windows XP ? You end up needing 3rd party software, you’ll most likely have to reboot since it installs a driver, and you end up allocating a huge chunk of memory to what is really a very simple task.
I’ve just been [...]
Generate MD5 Checksums on Windows
Saturday, November 21st, 2009How do you know, for sure, that the file you’ve download has been transferred correctly ? The UNIX (and by extension, internet) standard has, for years, been checking the md5 hash. Now, there’s plenty of info on the web about creating or checking MD5 or SHA-1 checksums for UNIX or Linux users, but not [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet Thisvia Cracked.com – A Review of the Pirated Copy of Windows 7 I Bought On eBay
Monday, October 12th, 2009The official release of Windows 7 is only a few weeks away, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably asking yourself what effect this will have on your lives. Will the gates of Heaven open up and a consort of large breasted angels descend to guide you into computing heaven? Or will it be [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisFree Microsoft support for Windows XP, Office 2003 ends next month
Thursday, March 26th, 2009OK, so Microsoft will end official free support for Microsoft Office 2003 on April 14th. Obviously, this doesn’t mean that the help center or help programs on your computer will stop working, but you won’t be able to get free answers to your questions from Microsoft anymore. You will be able to pay for extended [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisInternet explorer losing ground to firefox and safari
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market is dropping, with a significant drop of 7% market share in the past year (according to figures released by the internet metrics provider, Net Applications).
It looks like FireFox has grabbed the lion’s share of users from Microsoft’s browser, with a gain of just under 4% to 21.5% (FireFox [...]
Fixing IE6 CSS Support
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008From 24 ways to impress your firends:
It is the destiny of one browser to serve as the nemesis of web developers everywhere. At the birth of the Web Standards movement, that role was played by Netscape Navigator 4; an outdated browser that refused to die. Its tenacious existence hampered the adoption of modern standards. [...]
Why does Software Piracy hurt FOSS ?
Monday, October 27th, 2008jason stirk tweeted about an interesting article about the interaction and semantics, I suppose, of Usage and Piracy of Software, and it’s effect on Open Source Software.
The point to draw from it is that software piracy, while not giving cash to the software company, still provides support for them. The example used in the [...]
How to Change the Windows Start Button (Win XP)
Friday, October 17th, 2008Windows XP is one of the best operating systems. It is extremely customizable (even if it is not intended to be), compatible with nearly everything, and is quite stable. For example, did you know you can change the text in the windows start button ?. It will really remind you how much of a [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet This5 Applications to help reformat Windows
Monday, September 8th, 2008Every so often you have to reinstall XP. it may be exciting the first time, but after that you want to make it as painless as possible. Download Squad has 5 usefull applications for making a Windows reinstall easier.
DriverMax. Running DriverMax before the format lets you back up all the drivers on a [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisFree Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows from Microsoft
Monday, September 1st, 2008I’ve just been sent a link to a useful utility called Desktops, developed and supported by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft
Desktops (v1.0) is a Virtual Desktop Manager that lets you create up to four different desktop screens for arranging all those open applications in a more logical and productive manner.
For instance, you could put all [...]