Archive for December 22nd, 2011

Listen to and Download Music from blocked Music Services

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Some of the best web services may not be available to you if that service is limited to users from a specific region or country of the world. This is for instance the case with Pandora and many other entertainment related services. Your only option to access the service is to use a proxy server or virtual private network to bypass the country restrictions.

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New SkyDrive File Sharing Changes

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips SkyDrive offers different ways to share information with users. The   latest releases of SkyDrive includes a revision to the Skydrive file sharing system that lets you give other people permission to see—or even edit—your documents and photos. Microsoft developers had two issues to deal with to make this happen successfully

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You’ve heard of Phishing; now learn about Vishing and Smishing!

Most computer users and Internet surfers are by now aware of Phishing and its two variants Tabnabbing and Tabjacking.

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USBDriveFresher: Junk file and folder cleaner for USB Drives

We are aware of several disk cleaners like CCleaner, which many of us use frequently to clear our Windows PC of the junk files which the operating system creates over a period of time. Today, we…

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Microsoft to make CES 2012 its last amid claims of a falling out

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Claiming that the timing of the event meshes poorly with the company’s product launches, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw announced on Tuesday that after CES 2012, Microsoft would no longer deliver a keynote address or have a large booth at the annual trade fair. CES’s organizers, the Consumer Electronics Association, confirmed that the 2012 keynote would be Microsoft’s fourteenth and last

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Configure Your Own Media Player Hotkeys

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Media player hotkeys allow you to control the media player with the keyboard and even if the program window is not the active window on the system. That’s handy if you are working in fullscreen applications or do not want to switch regularly between the window you are working in and the media player window. Some media players support global hotkeys either by mapping global hotkeys or by supporting media keyboards that ship with keys to play, pause or skip media

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Panda Internet Security 2012 Review [Giveaway]

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Panda Internet Security 2012 fills the gap between Panda’s Antivirus Pro and Global Protection products. It is a complete solution that combines protection with disaster recovery options. Installation of the program is straightforward

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Mozilla ditches Bing, renews search deal with Google

As we were about to report on how costly it might affect Mozilla on not renewing the Google contract where Google stays as the default search engine on the Mozilla Firefox web browser, up came an… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Elpis, Open Source Pandora Client For Windows

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Remember Pandora, the Internet Radio service that went viral shortly after its release thanks to its interesting music suggestion service and the fact that it was available to users from all over the world? Pandora shortly thereafter went US-only blocking access for users who tried to connect from other countries. It is still possible to listen to Pandora if you are not in the US, but you need a web proxy or virtual private network for this.

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