Despite our everyday work, everyone needs a break, even computers. Saving energy is also important. I know that, when you have a deadline, and you’re only halfway done, the energy-saving issue is the least to worry about. But there are applications that can help save energy and start freshly at the same time. W... |
23 September 2009
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PowerOffTurning off your computer at a specific time of the day is nothing new today, but back in the day this used to be something pretty cool. You no longer had to stay up late wait for a job to finish in order to turn off the machine or reboot it for some settings to take effect. And in 1999 PowerOff brought these... |
23 March 2009
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One of the most important features of an operating system is its capability of helping you get your job done in as less time as possible. The keyboard shortcuts are the ones that will maximize your speed of completing any given task and OS X is one OS that has plenty of them.Keyboard shortcuts have been a constant in... |
1 February 2009
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We live in financially tough times, and it seems that if a company doesn't make a considerable profit these days, its fate won't be very good. We've already seen the recession claim a pretty important gaming studio, as Free Radical, the company behind Haze or Timesplitters, has been shut down, and now,... |
23 December 2008
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A federal judge has signed a temporary restraining order, prohibiting CyberSpy Software, LLC to sell its popular RemoteSpy product, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint (PDF file) against the company for violating the fair trade law. The company advertised their software as being 100% undetectab... |
20 November 2008
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In the Windows Vista vs. Windows 7 boot drag race, Microsoft proved the superior performance of the next iteration of the Windows client compared to its precursor. At the Windows hardware Engineering Conference this week, Jon DeVaan, Senior Vice President of the Core Operating System Division, together with Mike Angi... |
7 November 2008
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Any computer running Windows needs a bit of maintenance every now and then, so let's take a ride into the world of freeware system utilities: startup managers, system information and other useful file management utilities. Most computer newbies don't know that a lot of applications start when they innocentl... |
6 June 2008
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Stormfront Studios, the developer behind Neverwinter Nights and, most recently, The Spiderwick Chronicles, has closed its doors after nearly 20 years in the game. The company also worked in the past on top charting titles, such as Stronghold and the original PC versions of Madden NFL. And these are just a few reasons... |
2 April 2008
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The 14th of March will come hammering down a huge decision from the Iranian Government, that to shut the Internet down as a whole. Being ranked fourth in the top of press freedom infringing, after Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea, Iran won't have any type of online covering of the elections day. The governm... |
4 March 2008
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I don't remember this service all that well in its early days, I started using it years later, but I remember him, an Internet enthusiast, surfing the web just for fun, not because he had clicks to click and sites to visit, research and so on and so forth. Emphasis on the verb "to have". It looks to me like ther... |
3 January 2008
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The shutdown process is one of the aspects of the Windows operating system that evolved from XP to Vista. In this context, Microsoft emphasized even before the consumer launch of Vista that the power management sub-system of the operating system had been extensively overhauled. The immediate results are faster shutdo... |
3 August 2007
11:22 GMT |
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Most users turn off their computer the classic way. I would rather schedule it before going to bed to shut down at a certain hour. This way by the time I brush my teeth the computer is already shut down. In the unfortunate case when it cannot perform the required action because a process is stubborn enough not to die... |
13 March 2007
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