Archive for October 13th, 2011

Great Concept Art Wallpapers from Marmotte

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Marmotte is a concepts design artist with a flair for color that highlights ordinary objects and sends them into a special place for observation. Veronique Meignaud   otherwise known as Marmotte (b.1984) is a French freelance illustrator living in Montreal. After two years of formation at the Emile Cohl Art School (Lyon / France), she spent almost five years working for the video game industry as concept artist

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Microsoft update the Windows 8 Task Manager

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www.windows8update.com For Windows 8, Microsoft took a new look at the tool and thought through some new scenarios and a new way of tuning the tool for “both ends of the spectrum” in terms of end-users and those that need very fine-grained control over what is going on with their PC. Ryan Haveson, the group program manager of their In Control of Your PC team, authored this video post about Task Manager http

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Building "Windows 8" – Task Manager

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http://www.youtube.com/v/rMhKHp42900?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata See the rest here: Building "Windows 8" – Task Manager

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How to use File History in Windows 8 to backup data to an external source

Windows 8 introduces many new features. File History is one such new feature in Windows 8 that allows you to backup your data to an external source very easily

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Virtual WiFi Router For Windows

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Say you have a desktop PC with a wired connection to the Internet. Your router only supports wired connections for that matter, which is the main reason for that. You do have a mobile computer as well, for instance a laptop, tablet PC or smartphone that supports WiFi.

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Kupa X11 Windows 8 Tablet Walk Through

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windows 8 kupa x11 www.netbooknews.com Pressure sensitive digitized and 10-point capacitive multi-touch brings the best of pen and touch input options. There’s a hi-res 1366×768 screen and 2GB Ram driven

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Microsoft’s Office Comic Blog is sure to put a smile on your face

Who says Microsoft blogs are always, all work and no play! Here is an Office Blog with a difference! The Office Comics Blog, earlier called the the Office OFFline blog is a CLOG (Comic-Blog) which… For more visit The Windows Club.

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FairSearch Coalition prepares report on Google’s alleged Anti-competitive Conduct

You may be aware that the U.S. FTC, the European Commission and several U.S. state AGs are currently investigating Google’s anticompetitive search and search advertising practices.

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Monitor Your Children’s Internet Usage With Qustodio

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One of the things that parents need to consider when configuring parental controls and monitoring applications for their children on computer systems is how easy it is to bypass those mechanisms that are designed to protect the underage computer users. Qustodio is a free parental control and Internet monitoring application for the Windows operating system. The developers claim that the program is protected against tampering

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Is the Push for the Latest Technology Really Necessary?

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips I’ve just arrived in Cambridge for the annual UK MVP gathering.  Here will be a wide and no doubt eclectic collection of Microsoft IT Professionals discussing the latest tech, fawning over kit at the Microsoft labs and being generally geeky with one another.  I too have come loaded with tech, all required for talks I’m giving tomorrow of course and you can see this below (though you might spot that my dog was less than impressed).  Before the event begins this evening however I’m having a quiet drink in the hotel bar and found myself pondering the whole necessity of the constant push and pressure we all feel to adopt the latest technology.

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