Archive for the ‘Application’ Category
Monday, August 8th, 2011
I’ve been running Xen for a few weeks now and until now I’ve been happy with the default networking setup installed. Only when I decided to install Xen upon the server which is hosting this website did I need to explore the way Xen sets up networking. Xen is pretty good at giving a working [...]
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
Odds are your PC came with a recovery disc, a CD with all the programs and drivers that were installed on its hard drive when it was new. The odds are also that you have absolutely no idea where that disc is. The good news is that it probably doesn’t matter. First, the recovery discs [...]
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could consolidate a bit, and turn three Windows Live Hotmail accounts into one, for example? Or read mail from your Windows Live Hotmail Plus account where you read all other personal mail? You can have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another, or to [...]
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Names: “Windows Live Hotmail” is not hot in a traditional sense, who knows what “live” is supposed to mean, and Windows Live Hotmail is not for Windows only — it’s not even only for your browser. Using its POP interface or tools like FreePOPs (or MacFreePOPs on a Mac) and IzyMail, you can download messages [...]
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
Being able to access my Windows Live Hotmail account from just about any computer around the world via solely a web browser is nice. But the comfort and speed of Outlook Express are nice, too. Why not combine the two and access my Windows Live Hotmail account with Outlook Express while I’m at my computer? [...]
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Prevents Windows from running the programs you specify in this setting. If you enable this setting, users cannot run programs that you add to the list of disallowed applications. This setting only prevents users from running programs that are started by the Windows Explorer process. It does not prevent users from running programs, such as [...]
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
One of the many complaints users have of Windows is the slow start times they may experience. Some of the time, the slow start time is due to the number of programs that are loaded when Windows starts up. These programs will sometimes create an icon in the system tray near the time in the [...]
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