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The Hewlett-Packard Envy 13 offers an excellent example of what a cutting-edge ultraportable should be–and it moves past the Apple MacBook Air in some important respects, despite its overly ambitious price tag…
Installing the latest device drivers is an essential task for keeping your system running at peak performance, but almost all of the driver update solutions out there aren’t actually free. Thankfully, Device Doctor is absolutely, completely free to use…
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I know many of you freelance designers would get a kick out of this one. But this one decided to let his bosses know his plans using a new age method. Disgruntled employee or just too much attitude for the office, you decide…
http://www.cultofmac.com/pic-of-the-day-disgruntled-designer-quits-via-custom-warning-dialog/21965
Linked IT Solution’s office will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 26-27, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
We wish everyone safe travels and a …
Happy Thanksgiving
If you have received an e-mail from the Internal Revenue Service or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, chances are it was a phishing attempt. If you received e-mail from your bank, PayPal, or Facebook urging you to immediately verify information or risk having your account suspended, beware of phishing…
The case illustrates a clash of cultures between Switzerland’s legal system — which places a heavy emphasis on protecting privacy best illustrated by its strict banking secrecy laws — and the increasing use of new technology to gather and distribute information and pictures online. Other countries have taken a dim view of Street View.
Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, but downplayed the problem saying most users would be protected from attack by blocking two ports on the firewall…
Have you found a great article on a website that you want to save as a PDF file and share with others? See just how easy it is to convert a webpage into PDF files using Firefox or your favorite browser…
Click here to read the full article.
I’m sure anyone who has used computers or worked with computers has face this horror. The Blue Screen of DEATH!!! The most frustrating thing about the BSOD is not that the computer will not boot correctly or the fact that the blue on the screen is just horrifyingly horrible. No, the most frustrating thing about the BSOD is the fact that the computer reboots from that screen so fast that the victim can barely read a couple words to find out what is wrong with the computer before its gone again. Now we have two methods to read what the blue screen of death says.
Method One: Download BlueScreenView.
Method Two: Keep your computer from automatically rebooting.
5 Years of Firefox Cake at the Firefox Developer day in Tokyo, Japan
Now entering its mature toddler stage in life, Firefox is still alive and kicking after 5 years. Back when people suffered through IE6 and its retardation of a box model, FF has given many people relief. Firefox has given us plugins that we care about, smaller memory footprints, and proof that open-source is just as good as commercial software.
