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Buffalo releases new external DVD burner for Windows and Mac


External DVD burners aren’t hard to come by, even those that are compatible with both Windows and Apple computers. So why is this one any different?
Well, the product itself is nothing new, but it’s a bit surprising that Buffalo, a Japanese-based company, has started adding more support for Macs, considering that their consumer share in […]

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Microsoft patents a terrible advertising framework

As if Vista wasn’t enough, it looks like Microsoft is “gearing up” to release an “advertising framework” that completely violates the privacy of your computer and brings even more advertising to the applications you use.
The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to sell you stuff. It would inspect “user document […]

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Microsoft ships the new Windows Home Server

After 4 years of development, the “Quattro” project (not to be mistaken by the Wilkinson shaver) is finally finished and shipping to all of Microsoft’s OEM partners, which have grown by 2 this time around.
Besides Gateway, HP, Lacie and Medion, Fujitsu-Siemens and Iomega are joining the OEM team, which is great for Microsoft really, and […]

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Need Vista drivers?

Ed Bott has recently put together a small, but growing list of links for some driver download pages for the Windows Vista Operating System. The list is far from complete, but it covers quite a few of the main ones.
Although Windows Update might solve most of your problems, by visiting the manufacturer’s website you can […]

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Top 20 Worst Windows Features

The people at PCWorld have published a killing article about Windows and its Top 20 worst features. There are some obvious ones, like Notifications, that annoys me a lot. I also agree with Internet Explorer 6 being placed in the podium (on third place) and the End Task feature that sometimes just doesn’t want to […]

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Windows Vista Ultimate developers finally speak

If you were one of those users who bought the “Ultimate” version of Vista, then you have probably wondered a couple of times about the promised exclusive add-ons that would be released for it. Thankfully, one of the developers has finally spoken, and at least know we know more or less when the next […]

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Vista is following Windows 95’s path

Ed Bott, from ZDnet, recently wrote a really interesting article about how similar Windows Vista is to Windows 95. Although some people have started calling Vista a failure, or even calling it Windows ME2 (though personally I haven’t heard anyone calling it that), Bott compared Vista with 95, and from the past experience, he tells […]

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Vista games cracked to run on XP

One of Microsoft’s latest mistakes actions to try and make more people use Vista, is to release “exclusive” Vista games, that supposedly can only run on it. If you had any doubts, then don’t have any anymore, this is, of course, a lie, and with just some small file alterations both of the Vista-only titles, […]

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Apple’s sense of humor: BSOD icon in Leopard

Although Apple is usually seen as an easy going company they certainly aren’t saints. Or at the very least they’re saints with a sense of humor. In Leopard, when you’re trying to connect to a Windows computer, if you notice carefully you’ll see that the icon is actually a screenshot of the “Blue Screen of […]

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Vista to be the last 32bit Windows

Microsoft has just announced that Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will be the last versions of Windows to support 32bit processors.
“Microsoft has used its annual hardware engineering conference to announce that Windows Vista and Server 2008 will be the last versions of Windows capable of booting on 32-bit CPUs such as Intel Pentium 4 […]

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