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If you’ve ever been in the market for a PSU (power supply unit) then this will surely interest you - is it better to get a generic one or spend a little more and potentially save more in the long run. Slashdot linked to a techreport report on this subject with some interesting [...]

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Firefox 2.0.0.19 - the last security fix which is coming out for the 2 series - removes the phishing website detection that used to be built in! This has been requested by Google (the phishing blacklist provider) as the browser uses an older version of the protocol used.
“Computerworld and others are [...]

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Have you ever wondered what certain software looked like in version 1? Have you ever needed version 1 of this particular piece of software? If so - click on over to Old-versions.net and have a look at their vast collection of software dating back many versions. Nice to have in your [...]

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uTorrent is my personal choice in the world that is torrent clients. It’s a dream to use it, sleek, fast and has an epic web-ui that lets me manage my torrents remotely. Now they’re taking it one step further and it’s “apparently” going to clog the tubes that connect everyone on [...]

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Being productive is almost everyones goal, and normally with a few small tweaks to your Windows machine you can easily double or even tripple your productivity.

# Reduce the Number of Auto-starting Programs
As your PC ages, it tends to get filled with a lot of auto-starting programs. These programs may be things you [...]

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The kind folks over at AVG have put together a document to help those whos computers may be infected with irritating virii and spyware.
Cleaning an infected computer today has become harder than ever. To effectively clean your system you must first learn a little about what you are trying to get rid [...]

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I came across this neat little site the other day where you can check if your username is registered on various sites - allowing you to quickly grab up your username on any sites you may have missed

Give it a try!

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If you are into gaming and you haven’t checked out Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw’s videos over at The Escapist, then you haven’t lived.  Personally I absolutely love his game reviews, they are hilarious and point out obvious flaws in an extremely entertaining way.  I think thus far my favourite is probably his review of ‘Army of [...]

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Codeweavers is a company that develops a proprietary version of Wine called Crossover.  It allows one to run Windows based programs on a Linux or Mac system.  The company distinguishes itself from other Wine variant producers by returning all its patches to the Wine project.
In July 2008 the company launched the Great American Lame Duck [...]

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I’ve always liked the Sony Vaios, very good build quality and great specs on most of them, as long as you are willing to spend a decent amount of money.  However, they had to recall over 300 000 batteries in 2006, and now they are having problems again.  This time the problems lie with the [...]

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