Free, unlimited installation and compatibility support has been made available for all worldwide customers using Windows Vista SP1 until March 18, 2009. Telephone support is available worldwide. Chat and Email support is available in US and Canada only. Why mention this on a SharePoint blog?? Well, if you are having any compatibility issues with Vista [...]

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You can hide the Google Ads on your personal page in Ning. Ning is a Social Networking platform where you can create your own Social Networking site. Well you could say it’s mean to hide the ads that will generate income for the creators and I sympathize with that but let me tell why [...]

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The BBC Technology site has published an interesting article on computer hygiene. Tests were carried out on computer keyboards by the Consumer Group Which? and the results were astonishing (not to say scary). Some keyboards carried more bacteria than a toiled sit.
Here is a small extract from the article:
“If you look at what grows on [...]

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Daniel_K, the Creative Labs fan who fixed the company’s broken Vista sound card drivers only to be threatened by the corporate brass, shares his side of the story.
“My name is Daniel Kawakami and I’m Brazilian,” he writes. “I’m NOT a cracker, a hacker, just an enthusiast modder with basic assembly knowledge and very persistent.”
Kawakami’s expertise [...]

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According to the web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, it is not a good idea and it infringes upon consumer rights.
Two major ISPs in the UK (BT & Virgin) have already signed up to use (or be used by) Phorm to track user’s browsing history in order to do targeted advertising. I didn’t really like the [...]

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Microsoft are now making Internet Explorer 7 available without having to go through the process of validation (WGA) for your Windows installation.
By visiting their site, you can now elect to have your os automatically detected and updated, or, download the installation files for you to do on multiple machines.
This development - or change of heart [...]

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