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OK, more than a real change, here I am talking about something which get closer to a make-up more than anything else. As a matter of fact, the main core, so to speak, of  Windows XP will remain the same. What will change instead is its general look and feel also known as theme or skin. Continue reading »

OK, this is not a real trick or a hack, but it is just a simple option which, if enabled, lets you have a feel of the next Microsoft operating system, Windows 7. So, let’s see how we can get those big Windows 7 icons, right in our taskbar in Windows Vista. Continue reading »

What’s the difference between a Laptop and a Netbook? Honestly, after browsing in the Internet for about an hour in the vain attempt to find a reply, I am still clueless. One thing is for sure: the market is so overflowed with cheap ultraportables that computer companies have to invent new words to make their new, but quite ordinary laptops, look like something extraordinary. Continue reading »

A new pmp (Portable Media Player) is about to be released in the wild. I am talking about the new i1166 PMP by i-Luv. This thing, despite it is stateded to be portable is way too big to be something which actually can fint in your pockets. As a matter of fact, its size is a little…over-sized with its big 9-inch display. Continue reading »

As you know, there is a nice hack which lets your  Hotmail account get POP3 and SMTP features even though you don’t live in one of those counties which already have this service  enabled. With such an option enabled, wouldn’t be nice to forward your emails from your Hotmail to your Gmail account? Let’s see how we can achieve this result. Continue reading »

Internet is a wonderful place to have fun with thousands of online games, online utilities and  websites of every kind and for every taste. In order to run all this stuff, sometimes your computer needs, as you know,  special software such as Java RunTime Environment. This nice application is developed by the excellent Sun Microsystem software house, which often releases new versions of it. And here comes the troublesome part. As a matter of fact, after a new update is released, your already installed Java application will notify you with a pop-up message directly in your system tray, inviting you to stay up-to-date. Did you know that after you install a new Java version the previous one does not necessarily get uninstalled? Continue reading »

Lately Google has worked very hard to make the already-excellent Gmail better. As a matter of fact, now you can customize its theme with your colors, you can add your location in your signature,  you an use Gmail offline and you can see its inbox in multi-pane view. Today, to the vast list of features, Gmail has added a new interesting function which, differently from before, lets you multi-select multiple attachments. Continue reading »

If you are not into computer hardware and words such as RAM, SSD, HD, Video Board etc. don’t mean anything to you, here is your chance to learn something useful, so that next time somebody speaks to you about inner parts of your beloved PC you won’t look dumbfounded! This little, simple and easy video explains in plain English  the basic parts of computers and what they do to make computers work. To watch absolutely! Continue reading »

For those of you guys who misses the latest breaking  news, Google is now officially on Twitter, the famous social networking that allows its users to send or receive personal updates called tweets. So far there is nothing exciting to talk about in the Google’s Twitter page. As a matter of fact, the first tweet Google has written so far is a n apparently cryptically messages written in binary code: “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010″ . Actually it means “I’m feeling lucky”,which is the famous sentence in the Google homepage. The remarkable fact to notice here is that the followers of the famous search engine have become more than 10.000 in a little more than 24 hours. If you want to follow Google on  Twitter here is the link: https://twitter.com/google. Enjoy!

If your computer is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 and you are encountering a lot of issues while using your favorite software and applications, here comes Microsoft to help you. As a matter of fact, a new hotfix has recently been released meant to solve application compatibility issue in the above-mentioned operating systems. Continue reading »