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Toshiba Officially Announces Discontinuation and End Of HD DVD

Sony has emerged as a winner in the high definition and high density DVD format war and the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is finally over! The famous Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, Toshiba Corporation has officially announced that it will discontinue its HD DVD business and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. However, the […]

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How To Mount and Access New Partition, Volume or Drive As Folder Path In Windows

When adding a new hard disk or create a new partition in Microsoft Windows operating system, typically users will normally assign a drive letter such as Local Disk (E:) to the new partition or volume. Beside normal way of allocating a drive letter, it’s also possible to assign a folder or directory (on partitions formated as NTFS) to represent the hard disk drive, partition or […]

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Shadow Copy and Salvage Previous Versions of Files in Windows 2000/XP/Vista with FileHamster

When the world is using Novell NetWare network operating system (NOS), the NetWare File System keeps track and make copies of each and every deleted, altered, edited or modified files and documents as long as there is space on the hard drive, and allows users to salvage any files and folders that they accidentally deleted or modified. Windows Server NT and Active Directory networking doesn’t […]

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Microsoft Releases Vista SP1 for 5 Languages to MSDN and TechNet Plus Subscribers

After a lot of noise made by subscribers and customers of MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) and TechNet, Microsoft has decided to bring forward the schedule for release of the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows Vista SP1 for these IT professionals and developers, who pay hundreds of dollars annually just to have exclusive access to libraries of Microsoft software products.

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Digital Film Scanner to Convert Analog Negative Films to Digital Photos

Good news for those that are looking for way to convert their old negative films to digital photos. Now the Digital Film Scanner can do this in simple steps. Although there are still shops that can develop the negative films into analog photos, but the existence has been gradually replaced by camera shops that only focus on digital printing. So, the kit has come in […]

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Use Cozimo to Collaborate In Real Time

Due to busy schedule, sometimes it is very difficult to get all your team members or your team of consultants to sit down together to discuss a project in a meeting. Some might not be free, some might be late, etc. If you have this problem and intend to reduce the hassle to coordinate all team members to attend a discussion or meeting, you can […]

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IOGEAR Launches New GearJuice Mobile Pocket Power

Don’t like to carry too many chargers during a travel trip? The leading connectivity manufacturer that provides complete KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse), connectivity, networking, digital audio/video, mobility, and desktop solutions, IOGEAR has concerned of your need with its new GearJuice charging kit – Mobile Pocket Power, eliminating the hassle of finding a power outlet or charger, which aimed to make it easy to charge your […]

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Release Schedule Info for Vista SP1 Thru Windows Update

Microsoft has disclosed further information and clarification on the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) through Windows Update (WU) in an email to TechNet subscribers. It further confirms that SP1 RC Refresh2 (RCR2) is indeed RTM version of SP1, and hints that probably English version of Vista can now get SP1 via Windows Update without any registry hack code, once the system is […]

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New Sony Ericsson G700 And G900

Sony Ericsson has recently launched a new generation of mobile phones, a touchscreen organizers with a broad appeal – G700 and G900, featuring the same large 2.4-inch QVGA (240×320 pixels, 262k colours) display with unique single touch control menu.

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Recover Files with Previous Versions (Volume Shadow Copy) in Vista Home Basic and Premium with ShadowExplorer

Volume Shadown Copy (VSS or Shadow Copy for Shared Folders prior to Vista) or more commonly known as Previous Versions which used as the name for right click context menu command and for one of the tab for files and folders properties, is a useful feature that automatically or manually backup copies or snapshots of files or folders on a specific volume or drive at […]

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Exclude Files from Shadow Copies (Previous Versions and System Restore)

Volume Shadow Copies (VSS or also known as Volume Snapshot Services) is the technology used to perform snapshot and backup of system files and user data files at a specific time at regular interval. The incremental backup or snapshot by Shadow Copy is then used by System Restore or Previous Versions feature in Windows to restore Windows to previous state or recover deleted or altered […]

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Philips Announces Wallpaper with Conductive Strips for Digital Home

Redesign wall light decoration in living room could be a headache especially when all the cabling was beneath the wall. Even worst is when the wall is already covered by nice wall paper for decoration. In view of this, Philips has developed a new type of wallpaper that has conductive strips embedded in it so that it is able to make contact with electrical devices […]

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