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I’ve been excited about Aliens vs Predator for a while now for no real reason other than it being a new Aliens vs Predators game. I know most people are kind of making negative waves about it based on what they’ve seen and the circumstances around it. For one, the Alien vs Predator movies were garbage, but the first game was pretty cool so I can write that one off
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Aliens vs Predator Demo to Slaughter You This Thursday
Microsoft has released a small update to Windows Mobile, its phone operating system. Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is a step ahead in the “facelift” of this smartphone platform, and the latest update brings the following new features: Capacitive touchscreen support Platform to enable multi-touch Touch controls throughout system (no need for stylus) Consistent Navigation Horizontal scroll bar replaces tabs (think settings> system> about screen) Magnifier brings touch support to legacy applications Simplified out-of-box experience with fewer steps Drag and drop icons on Start Screen I am told the native browser performance has improved, with decrease in page load time,
Visceral Games has assured the gaming public that Dante’s Inferno will be heavily supported with post release content. While the game isn’t set to be released for another week, Visceral’s Johnathan Knight is already greasing the wheels for many upcoming additions to the classic tale
Windows Techies are famous for playing with system files to either increase the functionality by replacing the core system files or completely replace with something else. I have seen this happening majorly for Games ( e.g Directx 10 files patched to work in Windows XP ). However with Windows 7 and Windows Vista taking ownership of files is not easy.
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Windows 7 System File replacer for Power users
Many a times you might have seen duplicate entries of Email Accounts or folders inside your Outlook Tree List. Though why this happens is not sure but there is a free tool, PST Ghost buster, which can fix it by removing the duplicate entries without any loss of your data .( Email, Calendar, Tod task etc ) With PST Ghost Buster all you need is to : Run it Select the outlook profile which has duplicate pst file.
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Free tool for removing duplicated PST files (ghost files) from Outlook
The Senate has passed a Bill that will allow network operators — including ISPs — to intercept traffic as part of “network protection activities” disregarding the Greens Party efforts to amend it. Senator Scott Ludlam (Credit: Greens Party) The Bill, the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2009 , aims to help network operators to understand what they can and cannot do in terms of interception. It will allow, for example, an ISP network engineer to intercept a customer’s connection when undertaking activities to “operate, maintain and protect” their network
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Senate passes net interception Bill
Any application after a long use gets buggy and Windows is not an exception. There are many issues which users face and they try to solve but certain issues which are common to many of us such as Audio problems, broken shortcuts, power issues, startup slow down because of missing application itself etc, etc
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Automated troubleshooting in Windows 7, Vista and XP
The good Thin and unique, all-white design Virtually no backlight bleed through Comprehensive on-screen display Built-in headphone jack The bad Shallow viewing angle Lacks a DVI connection Doesn’t include an HDMI to DVI cord or HDMI cord Design and features The 23-inch BenQ V2400 Eco has a completely white chassis, including a white power cord and a white VGA cord. The bezel is 20.32mm wide all around, while the screen itself is only 19mm thick. The screen has a matte finish, yet despite the wide foot stand it wobbles considerably when pushed
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BenQ V2400 Eco
CEO Paul Reynolds today announced that Telecom NZ will compensate the 200,000 customers south of Taupo who had been affected by the company’s recent mobile outage. Telecom NZ CEO Paul Reynolds (Credit: Telecom NZ) The package was worth almost NZ$5 million, Telecom claimed, and comprised credits to customers as well as a donation of over NZ$250,000 to community projects in the lower South Island
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Telecom NZ users get compo for outage
The TechNet team at Microsoft is planning some big changes to the website over the next few months – they call the project “TechNet 2.0” or “TN20” for short. John Martin leads the TechNet team, (he’s also my boss !) and he and I decided to partner on a new blog series to introduce all the new things the team has planned and get feedback from the IT community. So, each Tuesday and Thursday in February I’ll post a new episode here that covers some important aspect of this project
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TechNet 2.0 – Episode 1 – Core Scenarios and Branding
Hudson ICT has released its annual salary guide with information on salary ranges across the IT industry from senior managers to graduate developers. Comments (2) | Email this Share: Google | Facebook | del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Slashdot | StumbleUpon
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IT Jobs: Are you paid enough?
Matt Clarke was working for a large financial services company which had decided to take development of a new application in-house when he first met Radek Cerny, the software engineer who would become the other half of the founding team behind Australian start-up expanz. Matt Clarke (Credit: expanz) Clarke, now expanz’s CEO, knew he had met someone special when Radek Cerny, after being hired as the project’s first developer, built the entire application by himself in six weeks flat
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Expanz on assembling .NET
If Dell’s slim, inexpensive Vostro V13 was meant for small businesses, the Latitude 13, announced today, attempts to offer something very similar to bigger ones (that is, companies that have a dedicat…
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Dell Announces Latitude 13 For Enterprise, Adds Host of Features to Precision M6500 Workstation
Remember how in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or Saved By the Bell characters could freeze time for a moment, say something to the camera meant only for us, the viewers, to hear? Yeah, you can’t really get…
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Simple but Brilliant: Bccthis Adds Private Messages to E-mails, Tweets
If you don’t want know what happens after killing the Lich King in World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, you definitely don’t want to click play on the video below. Some of you may already know what happens due to internet leakage, so this will serve as nothing more than a visual confirmation
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The Fall of the Lich King End Game Cinematic (Major Spoiler)
The South Australian Government passed a Bill late last year which makes it illegal during election time to post political views on a blog or comment without also including a name and address. The bill came into effect on 6 January, but only governs the weeks after a writ has been issued authorising an election, and only content affecting South Australian politicians.
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SA bans anonymous online commentary
As HP’s top-level business notebook EliteBook, 6930p has become an indispensable high-end series of products. Their appearance has a HP business machines scratch layer, splash-proof keyboard, magnesium alloy frame and display enclosure, but also equipped with a Intel Core 2 Duo T9 series of processors
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Core Duo 2, HP 6930P buisiness notebook is launched
Russian antivirus tsar Eugene Kaspersky says Australian ISPs should not only cut off malware-infected personal computers but also infected web servers run by businesses. Eugene Kaspersky (Credit: Kaspersky Lab) “In many countries ISPs cut off computers that are infected,” Kaspersky told ZDNet.com.au .
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Kaspersky: Target zombie servers too
The Department of Finance and Deregulation today issued a three-year whole-of-government tender that will see vendors on a panel supply computer equipment to all Federal Government agencies. Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner (Credit: Minister’s Office) The whole-of-government tender has been issued as a response to a recommendation made by the Gershon review , released in 2008. It will see Federal Government agencies request desktop computer equipment from a single panel instead of issuing their own tenders, which would replace an interim panel set-up by the Department of Defence late last year.
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Government issues $400m desktop tender
The NSW Ministry of Transport has announced a public transport ticketing restructure which will help it introduce a replacement for its failed Tcard e-ticketing system. NSW Transport’s new MyZone website (Credit: MyZone ) A spokesperson from the Ministry of Transport told ZDNet.com.au that the MyZone fare structure , scheduled to go live 18 April, will be adopted by its planned new e-ticketing system
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NSW fare restructure to help Tcard