Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Software | 
Most of you probably have seen the new features of Firefox 3 dancing around your monitor. Of all the new features introduced, I must say that you couldn’t have missed the “Smart” location bar that prominently displays your favourites whenever you type anything in the location bar. To add to this, there is currently no way to shut off the function via the options panel.
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Gartner analysts also revealed that they expected the number of PCs in use to hit 2 billion by 2014, with a 12% annual increase, largely thanks to the surge in adoption rate in developing countries.
One of the greatest challenges that countries will also face in the future is figuring out how to safely dispose of unwanted computers. It is estimated that some 180 million computers, or about 16 percent of those in use globally will be retired. and up to 35 million will be “dumped into landfills with little to no regard for their toxic content”.
Its all well and good that you’re upgrading to the latest PC capable of playing Crysis, but do remember to dispose of your old PC more responsibly, k? Cos the Earth will love you for that.
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Sometime or another, we find ourselves having to delete a .dll file which is locked or causing conflict to our windows operating systems. Yet the only possible solution to troubleshoot the issue is to remove the problematic .dll files. Of course we cannot just delete the file first because it still has an entry on the registry itself. To avoid damage your computer, the first step is to unregister the file before deleting it. Be patient as theysaY outline the following steps for beginners to follow on how to unregister a dll file safely in Windows.
Before we proceed, I would advise all to do a backup of your critical documents and folders as the following steps involved meddling with the operating system itself. Follow Murphy’s advice, he can only be right.
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In recent news, Apple has informed its resellers of possible shortages of Ipods and certain Mac notebook models. The latest advertisement bulletin released by Apple to its resellers “strongly suggested” that their resellers bring in up to 4 weeks worth of certain Apple products to safeguard themselves against shortages in the future.
The last time something like this happened, shortages of the 2G Iphones paved the way for the introduction of the 3G Iphones. Multiple Apple news sites are speculating that announcements regarding Apple’s holiday consumer electronic lineup are in order. So if you’ve been eyeing that shiny new Apple ipod on the shelf, you might want to hold back just a little while longer. Wouldn’t want to be holding your Ipod Video in your hands and looking at Ipod Video 2 on the television screen, would you?
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Wishing that you can turn off your computer faster? Tired of waiting ages for your computer to shutdown? Wait no more. Here is another addition guide for computer beginners out there to quickly shutdown Windows XP with a simple shortcut. Assuming you have installed Windows XP on your C: partition,
1) Right click on desktop and select New then ‘Shortcut’
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Not a big deal was made of it, but just announced by Sony at their Leipzeg press conference is the PSP-3000. We’ll cut to the chase here, how exactly is the redesigned PSP-3000 better than its bigger brothers? Well, the answer is not very much.
The PSP-3000 will have no external redesign whatsoever and will look exactly like the PSP-2000. Whats changed under the hood is the presence of a screen that works better outdoors and apparently is able to resist glare, as well as a built-in microphone, something that will excite Skype users who will now be able to use their PSP as a Internet phone without any cumbersome addons.
If you asked me though, these added features are pretty underwhelming, what with all the hype of an internal hard disk, more ram, and a second analogue stick, that PSP fans had been speculating about before the official announcement.
What Sony is more likely to be after is the release of a PSP version with a more hacker-resistant motherboard, the last couple of versions were easily compromised by hackers and Sony will be looking to hold off the pirates with the newest release of the PSP-3000.
The PSP-3000 will be released in Europe on October 15th, and will be available in 8 different packages, each bundled with a different game.
So what do you think? Are these new features enough to make you buy a new PSP? Or is this minor redesign simply an attempt by Sony to make a quick buck?
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So much for the Vista hype. Now, news of Windows 7 surfacing in the two upcoming major technology conferences the Professional Developers Conference and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference respectively. Speculation of Microsoft showcasing their latest operating system Windows 7 is just not the case of smoke without fire.
Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft said, “When that many developers [come] together, you want them to go home with something that they can play with.” The last thing on the agenda of Microsoft will be to make themselves feel invisible.
Geared towards its goal of pushing out Windows 7 beta after the debut of Vista, this will be a good benchmark of the company’s progress and stand in the OS market. As far as end-users are concerned, if the operating system is stable and secured, we tend to stick with what we are already used to. Vista has not given much reason for Windows XP lovers to cross over to except for its fancy graphics. Let’s hope Windows 7 has more to offer.
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There will come a time where you need to do a screen capture of what you are doing, be it you are a blogger or not. So it is convenient to be familiar with the how to go about making screen captures of your current window or just simply the whole monitor. By default, there is the infamous Print Screen button on most of our keyboards, well its somewhere near the top right hand corner. Here are the common ways to capture your current screen in Windows and Mac.
Windows Print Screen Shortcuts
* Prt Scr – The magical print screen button will allow user to capture the entire screen and store in temporary in the clipboard. After which you can do further editing with GIMP or Windows Paint by simply pasting.
* Alt + Prt Scr – By holding on to the Alt key and pressing print screen button, you will only capture the current active window.
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