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Windows 7 Blue theme for Windows Media Player 12

Bored of the way your Windows Media Player looks? Want to customize your WMP 12 ? Here is  a nice way to change the look of your Windows Media Player 12.

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Windows 7 Blue theme for Windows Media Player 12

Photo Resizer BatchBlitz

Individual photos and images can easily be resized with virtually any image editor and most image viewers as they usually offer resizing options. But a specialized photo resizer is usually the better choice when multiple photos need to be resized and edited. BatchBlitz is a free photo resizer for the Windows operating system that can be used for that purpose

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AVG Anti-Virus 9

The guys over at giveaway of the day are offering the popular antivirus software AVG Anti-Virus 9 today. The security program offers several additional features over its free counterpart (named AVG Anti-Virus 9 Free or AVG 9 Free) which will be the focus of this review. AVG 9 Free offers the core features that one would expect from an antivirus software

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AVG Anti-Virus 9

Windows7 Security Patch – ISO Image is Available

As security bulletins go, this March so far, Microsoft has only released a one security bulletin for Windows. But, a Security Release ISO Image was made available for download on March 9, 2010. The ISO image patch is made available to IT Admins who need to get the security patch without resorting to use the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or through some other automated solution that will present the patch for delivery and installation.

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Windows7 Security Patch – ISO Image is Available

Learn Windows, Browser, Hardware tricks, tips & secrets with Wintricks

WinTricks is one of the largest and most up-to-date programs for Windows tips, tricks, and secrets available today! WinTricks includes tips/tricks for all versions of Windows, plus the Registry,… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Software Copy Protection Scanner Burnout

Copy protections are often used on CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks so that it becomes more difficulty to copy the contents of the media. Up until now no copy protection was ever used that has not been cracked or bypassed eventually and it is likely that this will hold true in the future. It is on the other hand important to know the type of copy protection used to protect a disk to be able to copy it as different copy protection schemes might need different copying techniques

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Software Copy Protection Scanner Burnout

0-day exploits for IE flaw another reason to switch to IE 8

Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday a new flaw affecting version 6 and 7 of its Internet Explorer web browser that could allow remote code execution. The security advisory noted that targeted attacks using the flaw were already in the wild. This information was confirmed by McAfee , reporting that exploitation of the flaw was originating from the domain topix21century dot com over both HTTP and HTTPS

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0-day exploits for IE flaw another reason to switch to IE 8

Windows 7 Utilities: Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customer 1.1

I was doing my normal reading through different tech websites when I came across a post on PCWorld by Rick Broida regarding Windows 7’s preview Thumbnails. His article talks about how the thumbnail previews are a good feature to have, but that they are almost useless because they are so small. His solution, Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customer 1.1

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Windows 7 Utilities: Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customer 1.1

Read & Watch TheWindowsClub & FixWin review on Fox8LiveNews

While I was aware on an earlier mention of FixWin on The Washington Post, I was pleasantly surprised and delighted to see that TWC & FixWin had found mention on Fox8Live News too! // FixWin is a… For more visit The Windows Club.

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PDF OCR Turns PDF Documents Into Text

It sometimes happens that text in a pdf document cannot be selected in a pdf reader like Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader. This is usually the case with scanned documents that have been embedded into the pdf file.

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PDF OCR Turns PDF Documents Into Text