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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»

Like many people who own a website I looked into Clickbank as a source of income, put it onto websites and discarded after a few months without targetting it and saw it fail to deliver. Creating a store is beyond most people so they don’t realise how much money there is to be made, and it didn’t take me long to find this out for myself!

Fortunately Clickitz has released an easy to use and dirt cheap custom webstore than you can set up. Using this you can advertise huge amounts of Clickbank products with ease, and with a small bit of promotion from your other websites you should be rolling in the cash quicker than you can say ooohhh yyeaah. 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»