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China Now #1 Internet Market

The United States is no longer the nation with the largest number of internet users. China overtook the US last month in users for the first time, according to the state-run China Internet Network Information Center.

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Buffalo Releases 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB Portable Hard Drive

The leading global provider of award-winning networking, storage, multimedia and memory solutions, Buffalo Technology has announced the launch of its 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB Portable Hard Drive, which the company claims as one of the highest capacity portable storage devices on the market today, offering a compact, lightweight, shock resistant storage solution that fits in your pocket.

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How to Disable and Turn Off Compressed Folder and ZIP Support in Vista (Including Cabinet File)

As with Windows XP (related guide: how to disable Compressed (zipped) folder in XP), Windows Vista inherits the Compressed Folder feature which has built-in ZIP format support in the operating system, and also treating and listing of the compressed archive package as a ‘folder’ when viewing folder tree in Windows Explorer. Cabinet file (.CAB), which is compressed packages that contain a number of related files, […]

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Turn Off and Disable Windows XP Built-in ZIP Support and Compressed Folders

Windows XP has built-in ZIP support to unzip or uncompressing ZIP archives or files, and also to allow users to compress or zip files and folders as a zip package or Compressed Folder. Beside, in Windows Explorer folder tree, the Compressed Folder which is actually a zip file is treated as directory and displayed as a folder too, thus the folder tree contains both sub-folder […]

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Download MyMobiler v1.2 for Windows Mobile Device Demo on Projector View

Windows Mobile device is a good companion to bring along due to its lightweight and portability as compared to laptop. However, it has a huge trade off of not having huge screen and even worst is the built in soft or even hard keyboard is not ideal for fast typing. Now there is a solution for it. Named as My Mobiler v1.2, this is a […]

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Parallel Computing: the Future of Technology

Where is the next big frontier of technology? According to Craig Mundie, the head of Microsoft’s US$7 billion research and development (R&D) department, it is in parallel computing. The ability to let computers run faster by dividing up the job over multiple microprocessors instead of accomplishing one task at a time with a single processor is touted to be the latest tsunami in the IT […]

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How to Add Jump Links in the Email

Inserting “Jump Link” extension will be very useful when you want to organize your webpage so that it can redirect readers to the relevant target links. It saves readers time and make the reading more interesting and convenient. Technically, users also can apply the jump link extension concept to their emails especially if the emails are long and organized into sectionals.

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Beer OS – Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Every year on March 17, we honor Saint Patrick (circa 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland. Whether or not you choose to celebrate the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish foods, imbibing Irish drink (usually Guinness), or attending parades, we wish you a safe a happy holiday. Everyone wants to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day… even computer operating systems. So as you […]

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Sony MDR-NC500D – The World’s First Digital Noise Cancelling Headphones

The Japanese consumer electronics giant, Sony has introduced its new MDR-NC500D, which the company claims as the world’s first digital noise cancelling headphones, promising to eliminate roughly 99% of ambient noise and also deliver superb digital quality sound.

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How to Turn Off Image Preview Thumbnail and Disable Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in Windows XP

Windows XP displays thumbnail style of preview for images, pictures and photos in Windows Explorer’s Details section on left pane when users select a pic. The preview will also automatically created and displayed when users browse and view a folder in Thumbnail view. Beside, when open or double click on a format associated with popular graphic formats, the photos or pictures will open in Windows […]

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How to Enable or Disable Media and Video Thumbnail Preview in Windows XP

Windows XP automatically generate thumbnail preview for images, pictures, photos, videos, HTML pages and other media clips with format supported by the operating system. The image or media preview is shown in the Details pane on the left of Windows Explorer, or when the files are viewed in Thumbnails view.

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Asus Eee 900 Potentially Powered by Intel Atom

Just recently, Asus CEO Jerry Shen has disclosed some of the new features that will be added into its next generation Eee PC notebook. Named as Asus Eee 900, the new machine could be potentially powered by Intel Atom (codenamed Diamondville) that is famous for its low TDP (Thermal Design Power) promoting longer battery life.

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