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HP Pavilion dv5-1250eq issues

Claudia — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:36:01 +0000

Last year, September 2010, I decided to buy an HP laptop instead of an MacBook. Big mistake! Ever since I am having issues with the product. Two months after I bought it the cooler started to generate a big noise, heating up and going in to sleep mode. No matter if it was plugged, unplugged,

How to justify an iPad

Orrsi — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:23:07 +0000

As a normal person with no tech relating business that brings any monetary profit but at the same time loving all that is related to technology I sometimes have the urge to buy all the new and shiny gadgets that the tech world is releasing. The only issue is, beside the fact that I get

New iPhone 4

Orrsi — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:49:29 +0000

Today Steve Jobs announced the new generation of iPhone on the Apple WWDC keynote. We will review in short what are the main characteristics as presented. First of all the design, in this area nothing new since it is the same device as the one presented on Gizmodo back in April, black glass and stainless

Offline Virtual Machines Servicing Tool

Claudia — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:17:32 +0000

Microsoft has released the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1, a very useful maintenance tool for IT Pro’s which gives them the possibility to update offline Virtual Machines. This tool is suppose to help organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines

Connect your PS3 to your Mac

Orrsi — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:29:51 +0000

An easy and convenient way to Stream from you Mac to the PS3 is MediaLink. It was developed by Nullriver and it cost 20$ for downloading it. You can of course download it for free and try it out but after 30 minutes is disconnected from the system and you have to reconnect it. The

PS3 to be used by U.S. Air Force Army

Orrsi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:43:25 +0000

According to InformationWeek the Air Force is looking into expanding their supercomputer by purchasing 2200 PS3 consoles. They are using the PS3 cluster for high definition video processing. The USAF have purchased PS3 systems before, in 2008 and it seams they are satisfied with Sony’s Cell processor. Now if only Sony could make this Modern

PS3-Facebook integration

Orrsi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:47:25 +0000

Playstation 3 has introduced Facebook with their latest software update, 3.10. The functionality is limited right now for publishing your Trophies or the purchases you made in PS Store.For the update click here. Later on will probably offer more options, posting pictures and status updates, but we will have to wait for Sony to roll

Wi-fi Ready Bravia’s

Orrsi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:04:32 +0000

Sony introduced on the market a series of Wi-fi Ready Bravia models that work with USB WI-FI adapter or USB Dongle. In USA the WI-FI Ready models are shipped with USB Dongle included, and after the information from the support page it is a Linksys product and not Sony. In Europe these Wi-fi Ready models don’t

TweetDeck (version 0.32.1)

Orrsi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:50:09 +0000

TweetDeck just rolled out the latest update for the application and I’m loving it. I have used TweetDeck since the first time I started to really enjoy tweeting and to understand how it works. With the new updates the Re-tweet function is something that I can actually enjoy, works faster and also offers the option

Google Search is changing

Claudia — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:58:59 +0000

It seems that finally we will see some change in Google Search, something new and colorful. Don’t think this is the final look of it, but at least we can get a taste of how it’s going to look and the new feel to it. What I could see till now I like. If you

Funny and lame Facebook posts

Orrsi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:44:29 +0000

I have discovered this page today and I’m hooked. It’s the funniest page I have visited recently. What can you find there? All the stupid, lame posts and pictures that people put on their Facebook account. Just give 5 minutes of your time and read it, you will be amazed, or maybe not, at the

Microsoft Customer Action Day

Claudia — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:46:50 +0000

Customer Action Day aims to help victims of conterfiting software make the difference between a genuine and a counterfeit version of Windows. In the past two years, the number of customers complaining about being victims of software piracy has grown.A big percentage of the PC users, use a non genuine copy of Windows. This should

Google Dictionary

Orrsi — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:49:53 +0000

Google released a Google Dictionary that you can access by google.com/dictionary. The interface is very clean, very user friendly and offers a quick explanation of the word you search for and the synonyms of the word. It also lets you Star words and keeps a search history. For some words you have images aswell. The

New Microsoft Business Intelligence platform

Claudia — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:44:50 +0000

Among Microsoft Business Intelligence platform you can find the following product available as a free download: SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP, SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, SharePoint Server 2010 Beta, Office 2010 Beta and PowerPivot for Excel. SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP and its technologies provide companies with a trusted, scalable, easy to

Google and real time search

Orrsi — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:48:04 +0000

Google announced today that in the following days they will roll out a new feature to Google search.This feature will be visible in the built in Latest Results section where the information is pulled in real time and refreshed as more results come in from sites like Twitter. They also have a partnership with Facebook

Pay for news

Orrsi — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:25:45 +0000

According to the survey that the Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, has done, people are willing to pay for news online. After the research they have done in USA, Australia and some major EU countries the results show that we would be willing to pay for online news reporting, if it would

Microsoft Browser Choice

Claudia — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:30:51 +0000

In near feature Microsoft will deliver Browser Choice for users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The impact will be in all EU countries, except: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. This means that every user of genuine or non-genuine software will receive an update through Windows Update or Automatic Update

Install Windows 7 by using an Upgrade license

Claudia — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:19:15 +0000

You probably already know that no matter if you have XP or Vista, you can upgrade to Windows 7. If you have XP, you can only do a custom/clean install no matter if you buy an FPP/Retail license or just the Upgrade. If you are a Vista user, you can do both upgrade and customer/clean

What are we playing

Orrsi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:55:38 +0000

PSP LittleBigPlanet On PSP we are enjoying the fun LittleBigPlanet that offers total entertainment and a little jump out of the real life. The little sack guy is funny, easy to control and the graphic is beautiful. You have a lot of options for customization which makes the little guy more funny.The tasks are not

Bing Bar and Search

Claudia — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:19:21 +0000

We just installed and tested Microsoft Bing Bar and till now it seams to be very cool. It has a clean look, user friendly and some really cool new features. By default you will get tabs for News, Hotmail, Autofil, Weather, Stocks, Videos and Security Center which of course you can customize afterward. Once you

Playing .mkv files on PS3 trough DLNA.

Orrsi — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:27:31 +0000

DLNA type of connections is not supporting .mkv right now, at least not obligatory and in this way a lot of companies hide behind the DLNA “limitations” and simply don’t let some formats to go trough, or be recognised by their products. One of the file formats is the .mkv, in this case the problem

How to open .msg files on Mac

Orrsi — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:04:42 +0000

This week-end I was asked by a friend to “make” her Mac see the emails saved from Outlook, Windows based PC. For .pst based files it would have been a fairly easy job because there is the application called Little Machines. But this was not the file format in this case because the emails weren’t

How to escape from Blue Screen on your PC

Claudia — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:57:36 +0000

Have you ever received a Blue Screen on your PC? Sometimes it appears while you do something on your computer, other times when you shut down or open it. It is annoying because once you detect such problem, it is like it never goes away. The common causes for the Blue Screen are the hardware

Open License

Claudia — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:20:14 +0000

You can open an Open License contact no matter if you are a small, medium or large organization. The contract is for a period of two years, first order must be for at list 5 licenses. The payment is upfront, but do not worry because you will get the licenses at a much lower price

How to change the look of your Dock

Orrsi — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:07:34 +0000

For this simple task we like to use a free application called Leoparddocks ( http://www.leoparddocks.com/index.php ) because it is very easy to use, and have a lot of cool docks to choose from. The process is simple, you download and install the application, once it’s installed you can choose from the hundreds of docks available

How DLNA works on a Bravia

Orrsi — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:48:44 +0000

DLNA is the acronym for digital living network alliance, and a lot of new products have this feature. For more information about what products have it you can visit www.dlna.org. What DLNA is doing, is streaming your pictures, music and videos across a home network. We all have multiple gadgets in our home and what

Google Chrome address bar search tip

Claudia — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:52:42 +0000

I was surfing the internet this morning and I found some very cool settings that you can do in Google Chrome address bar. If you are tired of going through 1-2 pages until you get to the one you were searching for, this are some tips that will make your search more efficient. We all

How to create a rington for iPhone with iTunes

Orrsi — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:18:21 +0000

You choose the song that you would like to use as a rington and right click on it, then choose “Create AAC version” After iTunes finishes converting the file, you will have it next to the original. Now right click on the AAC version you just created and choose “Get Info” (if your not usre

New iPhone Game

Orrsi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:15:04 +0000

It seams that PlayMesh has moved iFarm to the iPhone as well, but I must say, they didn’t do it in a very graceful way. iFarm is the game that everybody loves to play on Facebook, including me, but the Free version on the iPhone is just a cheap copy so far. Why? Because it’s

New Microsoft Trials

Claudia — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:18:32 +0000

In the past two months, Microsoft has released a number of three new products Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010. We will start with Windows 7 Enterprise which is available for download only to Microsoft Partners, MSDN and TechNet Plus Subscribers and companies with Volume License/Software Assurance contracts. If you qualify,

General Licensing Information

Claudia — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:52:55 +0000

There are a lot of people who own a PC with genuine software but don’t know what that means or don’t care so much about it until they find out they lost the license or its use rights are not as flexible as they thought. There is another type of people who want to buy

OEM License description

Claudia — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:25:38 +0000

Most of the home users purchase desktops or laptops with a Windows OS already pre-installed. This type of license is called OEM – Original Equipment Manufacture. The OEM license is mostly designed for home users because it is already pre-installed on a fully functional PC. This way you don’t have to worry about the installation

Windows 7 offers

Claudia — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:17:52 +0000

Windows 7 Family Pack was available for a limited time period and only for a few countries. Now that the offer has come to an end, you can check the other offers related to Windows 7. A good one, especially for those who are freelancers, have a home business or need more than one PC

Problem Steps Recorder

Claudia — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:37:15 +0000

Problem Steps Recorder it is a screen-capture tool that was introduced in Windows 7. It allows you to record the problems you’re having with you PC, step by step, simply by clicking the “Start record” and adding in comments as needed. A HTML-based file converts to a .ZIP folder, which you can easily pass it