Windows 8 Release Preview Released, ISO Images is Available to Download

Written by on June 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Windows 8

Windows 8 Release Preview, aka Release Candidate, is officially released the last day in May with ISO images in 13 languages available to download to the public. Since it’s the last version before the next version of Windows is heading over to RTM, what you will see in this version will be pretty …

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Download Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper Calendar June 2012 Windows 7 Theme

Written by on May 31st, 2012 | Posted in General friendly_fire__72

May is closing it’s final period, it has been a busy month. Looking ahead, June is around the corner, that means summer has officially started ! So as usual, we bought you the new monthly wallpaper Windows 7 Theme from Smashing Magazine. Enjoy ! With Aspect Ratio 16:10 For 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, …

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Easily Blocking Application in Windows Firewall with Firewall App Blocker

Written by on May 30th, 2012 | Posted in Tools Windows Firewall Allow Program

Blocking an application in Windows through Windows Firewall takes quite a few steps. You need to go to Control Panel, click on System and Security, and select Allow a program through Windows Firewall in the Windows Firewall section. And if the application isn’t listed there, you will need to add them by going to Allow [...]

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Interesting Tip: How To Enable Half Star Rating in iTunes in Windows

Written by on May 29th, 2012 | Posted in Tips & Tricks iTunes half star rating

Came across this interesting tip that shows how to enable and disable half star rating in iTunes on Mac. Digging further, you can actually enable the same thing on Windows as well. And here is how, if you are interested. 1. Go to %appdata%\Apple Computer\iTunes folder. 2. Open iTunesPrefs.xml in notepad …

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Accessing Your Frequently Used Folders Quickly in Windows Explorer with MyFolders

Written by on May 28th, 2012 | Posted in Tools MyFolders screenshot

MyFolders is a pretty neat free tool that lets you easily access your mostly used folders right from the right-click context menu. After the installation, the tool adds 4 quick shortcuts in to your Windows Explorer’s context menu to let you easily work with folders. Copy to: copy selected files to one of your …

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Dia Diagram Editor is A Free Alternative to Visio

Written by on May 28th, 2012 | Posted in Tools Dia screenshot #1

If you are looking for an alternative to Microsoft Visio that is simple and free, take look this Dia Diagram Editor, a free drawing tool for structured diagram. It’s got all the basic shapes needed for drawing a structured flowchart. All shapes have the text block built-in with a lot of connecting …

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Spyrix FREE Keylogger Tracks All Application and Information being Entered from the Keyboard

Written by on May 24th, 2012 | Posted in Security, Tools Spyrix screenshot #1

Spyrix Keylogger is a free keyboard logging application that records quietly every key strokes you pressed in any application on your computer. Heck, it even captures the screenshots of the application being tracked. It hides itself into the system tray by default once it’s in running mode. You can also change it …

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Windows 8 How-To: Create and Use A Windows To Go USB Device

Written by on May 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Windows 8 windows to go - format disk

Windows To Go is a new feature in Windows 8 that puts the entire operating system with user data onto a USB storage device such as USB key or USB powered external hard drive. When users insert that device into any Windows 7 or Windows 8 machine and restart the PC, they get their entire [...]

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Microsoft Layouts Windows 8 Boot Options

Written by on May 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Windows 8 Windows 8 boot option

This is quite interesting. The Building Windows 8 blog posted another very detailed post to address an issue that you and me never thought about was an issue. Windows 8 boots up too quickly. It’s so quickly that there is no longer time for anything to interrupt boot. Indeed, trying to press F8 to call [...]

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