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The People at http://www.laplink.com/ are celebrating their 25th Anniversary today by giving away copies of Laplink, usually valued at $50 for free!  Ontop of the software giveaway they are also giving away everything from Laptops to Games. Anyone who downloads the software is automatically entered!

Laplink is a great little tool designed to ease the the transfer to a new PC by making an exact copy of your computer and moving it across onto your new system, allowing you to keep your settings, files and more without… Continue Reading»

Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been a vein of contention for many years now.  Apple for instance has recently bowed to public pressure and removed all DRM from its downloaded tracks.  Sony recently reviewed it’s DRM policy after receiving a huge amount of negative publicity when it released a new audio CD DRM system that covertly installed itself on your computer, then opened it up for any hacker with half a brain.

But this post is not about CD DRM nor MP3 DRM.  It is about PC Games and Their Digital Rights Management Systems and WHY they are wrong.

Yesterday for instance… Continue Reading»

It is spectacularly easy to transform Windows XP so it looks and acts like vista. The Easiest way to do it is to get a program such as WindowBlinds This has a free version available but using this may cause errors, it is way easier to shell out a rather mediocre $20.
Once you have installed WindowBlinds you can start the fun, download the Free Vista Transformation Pack Here And follow the Instruction.

Converting XP to look… Continue Reading»

I have used Microsoft Windows Vista for quite a while now on both my PC and Laptop. I found that without spending a load of money on upgrading Vista slowed down quite considerably after a few weeks. This was quite annoying because without regularly spending several hours messing around Windows Vista would slow down after a week or two.

I recently found a new program which has speeded up Windows Vista considerably as well as reducing the amount of clutter on my computer. Windows Vista, Microsofts… Continue Reading»

Most of the time I find myself addicted to Digg. I spent hours together on digg, analyzing the stories that hit the front page regularly, users whose stories hit the FP more often, so on and so forth. These tools help me to make my digg experience better and also look beneath the stories that are submitted to digg. Let me get direct to the list:

SocialBlade:

Created by a digg user, this shows you the stories that have hit the Digg frontpage, the number of diggs… Continue Reading»

The LCD panel in the new 20″ iMacs is going to be 18bit color panel as opposed to the previous in generationwhich had 24bit color panel. Support for this includes the Kodawarisan take-apart photos which appear to show the panel as a LG PHILIPS LM201WE3… Continue Reading»

This is the Dell’s new XPS M1730 laptop released by Notebook Italiana.As you might see from the image, it is not the best laptop, atleast if in terms of slimness but 17-inch screen, Core 2 Extreme X7800 chip, GeForce 8700M, do make it a good buy… Continue Reading»