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(and Five You'll Hate) Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 7. Vista failed to give Windows users a reason to upgrade from XP, and justified or not, it quickly gained a reputation for being slow, overly complicated, and annoying to work with. Judging by the response to the public beta of Windows 7, lots of Windows fans are more than ...

How much of your day do you spend on the phone? How about checking and answering e-mail? As important as your laptop or desktop may be, your smartphone has arguably become the most important tool in your personal tech arsenal. The right one can make you more efficient, better connected, and more attractive to the opposite sex. (Well, two out of ...

When you open a Open or Save As dialog box in Windows XP, you get a list of shortcuts to help you quickly pick a file location. By default, your options include Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, and My Network. If you happen to save the bulk of your data in a personal folder called something like "My Extras", these shortcuts ...

Virtual Private Networks offer secure access to a private network over a public connection. Paul McFedries explains the background and operation of VPNs in Windows Vista. In the remote connections you've seen so far, the security exists mostly at the connection point. That is, you set up usernames with strong passwords, and no one can access your dial-up or Remote Desktop ...

To restore your iPod: Warning: Because Restore erases all of the songs and files on iPod, make sure to back up any files you've saved on the iPod disk. All of your songs, videos, podcasts, audiobooks, and games can be loaded back to your iPod provided that you have them stored in your iTunes Library. How to restore your iPod: Make ...

. Alias Alias allows you to substitute a small or more familiar name in place of a long string. More information 2. apt-get The apt-get program searches for and installs software packages on Debian-based systems. More information 3. Aspell GNU Aspell is a free, open source spell checker. It's known for its stellar list of replacements for misspelled words. More information ...

Learn how to analyze your system for bottlenecks and tweak Windows Vista to improve your system's performance. Some of the most important factors in Windows Vista performance include visual settings, hard disk performance, and power plan settings. Maximum PC Microsoft Windows Vista Exposed: An Insider's Guide to Supercharging Windows Vista These are especially important if your system falls into any of ...

A Taking a big step back, a Web server serves pages for viewing in a Web browser, while an application server provides methods that client applications can call. A little more precisely, you can say that: A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let's examine each ...

Karen N. Johnson explains that the value of the test strategy isn't in the wording, the writing, or the format of the strategy; the value is in planning an approach for testing. Software Testing, 2nd Edition What Is a Test Strategy? A test strategy is a planning document that provides the overall direction for the software testing needs of a project. ...

Ever wonder how that site you like did its roll-overs, or which route they took to implement rounded corners in CSS? Or maybe you're about to take in a feed from a client's site, and you'd like to see how well they structure their pages. Well, you could pore through the source of the page, download the linked CSS files and ...

Want to connect your new Windows Vista machine to your existing XP box? It's not rocket science, but it's not quite as simple as you might expect. To help, Jason Kerluck provides a step-by-step guide to connecting your Vista machine to your XP computer. Most computers you’ll buy today have Windows Vista loaded on them. But often, when your new computer ...

Step One[photo:44891]Toggle the Hold switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.)Step Two[photo:44894]Press and hold the Menu and Select buttons until the Apple logo appears, about 6 to 10 seconds. You may need to repeat this step.

Java technology is both a high-level, object-oriented programming language and a platform. Java technology is based on the concept of a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) -- a translator between the language and the underlying software and hardware. All implementations of the programming language must emulate the JVM, enabling Java programs to run on any system that has a version of ...

When given a sub-netting problem, approach the problem in this way. 1. Write the following binary numbers on a work sheet. 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 2. In another location on the worksheet, write the current subnet mask in binary. (If you don’t want to write the whole mask, at least write the octets that have any binary ...

When you're getting started with the Linux command line, it helps to be able to translate some commands you know into the ones you're trying to learn. If you're coming from a Windows or DOS environment, here's how you'll accomplish some common tasks using the Linux command line. Action DOS Command Linux Command Copy a file copy path1\filename1 path2\filename2 cp path1/filename1 ...

No one can disagree that Google does deliver rich,customizable,simple,fast applications that have wider market. Hold your heart guys Google does come up with a new Browser called "Google chrome". As a regular Firefox addict i would support fire fox for its greater security than IE ,The media download plug in in fire fox had me assured that if its net its ...

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Paul McFedries shows how to apply group policies in Windows Vista to keep dangerous tools out of the hands of novice users. Group policies are settings that control how Windows Vista works. You can use them to customize the Windows Vista interface, restrict access to certain areas, specify security settings, and much more. Group policies are mostly used by system administrators ...

There is a classic method, and probably the most effective one, to swap two values between two variables. We use a third temporary variable C to hold the value of variable A while we assign the value of variable B to variable A. Then, we assign the value of the temp variable C to B and we have the swapping algorithm. ...