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Are you in love with Asus Eee Top but you dislike the company? Looking for some nice alternatives and maybe for something which looks exactly like it, as far as its specs are concerned? Well, look no further because now, thanks to Shuttle you will be able to get your personal Eee Top clone! Continue reading »

In order to celebrate its 25th Anniversary, Microsoft Press Books  is giving you the opportunity to download for free  its best e-book of the month, Windows Vista Resource Kit, Second Edition, by Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, and Jerry Honeycutt with the Windows Vista Team (ISBN: 9780735625969). To get it, just “sign up for the Microsoft Press Book Connection Newsletter for notification of offers, register, and download the selection of the month.” Here is the official Microsoft press e-books link.

By default, Windows Vista has the habit to put all your multimedia and personal files to the world-famous Documents folder. Such a folder is so well-known (even by hackers) that when a virus infects your computer the first thing it does is go to that folder to mess whatever it gets along its way. Let’s learn how to make things a little difficult for viruses and safer for us. Continue reading »

Recently, Google has added a new features to its Google Adsense. As a matter of fact, now you can change the fonts of your Adsense units without breaking any  TOS. Just go to your Adsense account, click Adsense Setup – Manage ads – Edit Ads settings and you should be able to see a new section named Fonts. Presently, just three fonts are available Arial, Times and Verdana but I am more than sure that in the future more ones will be added. This new feature is very welcomed by publishers which now have a further option to blend their ads with the content showed in their blogs. Try it out!

One of the most common issues while working or playing with a computer shared with other coworkers or family members, has to do, without any doubt , with your privacy. You may wish to read these articles on how to prevent users from accessing  your files and folders, recovering your deleted files and changing your display settings. Anyway, if you are concerned about people being able to see your personal files and folders more than anything else, here is a nice trick which, in a very sneaky way, is able to hide folders from view. They won’t even be available by using Windows Search! Continue reading »

Despite Google is quite secretive as far as the way its search engine works, every now and then, thanks to some careless statements, we know important fact which, to our amazement, we have take for granted even though the figures at stake are really impressive. Continue reading »

A few days ago (on Wednesday) Microsoft released the new SP2 RC 6002.16670.090130 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This new release, which must be really close to the final, definitive  and real SP2 is available right now through  Windows Update and is meant, as Microsoft points out to testers only. Here is the Microsoft’s statement: “Released SP2 Release Candidate (Microsoft distributed notification of an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 testers in an effort to gain additional feedback. We continuously engage with our partners and testers on the development of service packs and we will track customer and partner feedback from the beta program before setting a final date for distribution. We will have more to share on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2 soon and are targeting final delivery in Q2 2009.) for Vista and Server 2008″.

Lately, the guys at Google Labs have really spoiled us, as far as  Gmail is concerned. As a matter of fact, after the exciting news of  the forthcoming Offline Gmail for iPhone and Android phones, the possibility to add your location in the Gmail signature, the Gmail multipane view, the Youtube videos available in Gmail Talk and the new themes to change the default one with something spiced,  we should not be amazed at anything else rolling out of the minds of the  Google genius. Anyway, even this time Gmail has proved  to be an endless well full of incredible surprises!  Continue reading »