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• Free Ebook – Windows Vista Resource Kit Second Edition

  February 20, 2009 in SP1, Windows Vista, vista, windows

  As part of Microsoft’s 25th anniversary, the Windows Vista Resource Kit, 2nd Ed. PDF (covering Vista SP1) download, is being offered as a free download for a limited time. 
  Shame we don’t get the accompanying CD, but all the same, this is a very good book (coming from someone who uses the first edition). 
  Download here

• g4u and Virtualization

  February 5, 2009 in G4U, Parallels, Uncategorized, VMWare, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, ftp, server, software, virtualization

  A quick note about g4u – g4u (Ghost for you) is a hard disk imaging tool similar to Norton Ghost, but without the cost. g4u allows you to image hard disks to both files and physical media. This can be accomplished within a physical machine, a virtual machine, or by using an FTP server on [...]

• Riverbed to Acquire Mazu

  February 3, 2009 in CI, CMDB, Mazu, Mazu Networks, Merger, NBA, Profiler, Riverbed, WAN Acceleration, software

  Riverbed has announced that it will acquire Mazu Networks, NBA masters and creators of the CMDB tool Mazu Profiler.
  Full report at Mazu Networks’ site, and Riverbed’s.
   
  I have a pretty strong feeling that this will make clients of both happy.

• Right Click Using Your Keyboard (Windows)

  January 16, 2009 in Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows Me, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2, keyboard, software, windows

  Here’s a quick tip:
  You can right-click just as if you were using a mouse, but without using your mouse, using the shift and F10 keys together.
  For example, if you’d like to extract a .RAR in a directory, simply press END, cursor up, then shift+F10 and extract! Voila! Easy as pie extract in every folder in [...]

• GRID Cheat Codes

  January 1, 2009 in 360, BMW, Buchbinder, Car, Cars, Cheat, Codes, Computer Games, GRID, GRID World, Game, Gamestation, Livery, Muscle, PS3, Play.com, Playstation, Playstation 3, Raceday, Racing, Unlock, Xbox, Xbox 360, Zonda, code, pc, software

  Note that while these cheats may unlock cars that you want to own, the only one I would recommend is the Pagani Zonda R, for use in your first season.
  Here’s why: much of the money you get from this game is through sponsors. When driving any of these cars, you will not get any sponsor [...]