Archive for March 15th, 2010

Microsoft shows off Windows Phone 7 Series dev tools at MIX10

The big theme at Microsoft’s MIX10 developer conference today was developing for Windows Phone 7 Series, and key to this was the new Silverlight 4. For the first time, Microsoft showed off third-party applications for the forthcoming phone platform, and talked about how third-party applications integrate with the platform.

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Marketplace for Windows Phone 7 Unveiled

Microsoft have kicked off the Mix ‘10 event today with news about Windows Phone 7 including the unveiling of the new marketplace. Applications written for previous versions of Windows Mobile won’t be compatible with the new phones, and there are much stricter guidelines [for this read, rules] for developers this time around.  Clearly, Microsoft want to influence app developers the way Apple has to create a unified experience across all apps on the phone

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List Newest Files Of A Drive Or Folder With Drive Sort

There are many programs that can display the largest files of a hard drive or folder in Windows. Folder Size , Treesize or Fosix are just three of the programs that we have reviewed in the past that can display the largest files of a folder or hard drive. Drive Sort on the other hand can do that as well plus display the newest files of a folder or hard drive which can come in handy in numerous occasions

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Windows 7 Known Issue: A white dot may appear on desktop corner

Do you get a white dot on the top-left corner of your Windows 7 screen when an Aero theme is selected and “Enable transparency” is unchecked? It appears that this is a known issue in Windows 7, and… For more visit The Windows Club

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Change Your Windows 7 Starter Wallpaper

So, I’m not the biggest fan of netbooks, but I do see their place among PC’s. I actually tried to pull my brother away from purchasing a netbook because I thought he would want something with a bit more functionality. I was wrong

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Oh, the Doing and Undoing!

Like many computer users I’m always interested in trying something new. This means I’m often looking for new applications and registry hacks on the web to improve my computer operation. Sometimes these exploits end up in disaster

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windows 7 ultimate on the acer aspire one d150

this is windows 7 running on my acer aspire one d150 netbook. i wanted to show you how fast it goes but it seems slow in this video

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How To Schedule a Windows7 Disk Cleanup Operation To Launch Automatically

PC maintenance is an important operation. Hard disk cleanup is important if you want to keep the PC in optimal condition.

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Encrypting Your Hard Drive With BitLocker, Part One

Computer security is big business these days, and with good reason. You’ve got to protect your computer not just from online threats like viruses and malware, but also from old-fashioned crimes like theft.

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How To Easily Manage External Displays

The other day I was trying to set up a projector for a friend who was running Windows Vista on his laptop. Being so familiar with Windows 7 I thought it would be a simple straightforward procedure, but unfortunately it wasn’t.

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