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Thomas Fox

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Time for a winter cleaning?

Everyone loves spring. Everything is new again, time to dust off the grime from winter. But wait, winter has just arrived. Most people do not realize that the wintertime is when the house is closed up and the fresh air is not coming around the computer like it does during the warmer months. Dust buildup is deadly to your system.…

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Webcam Streaming 101

A good friend of mine asked me about streaming his web cam live over the Internet, but was having some problems doing so.  He was using it from home, on a small home network consisting of three additional users, and a Linksys wireless router.  Simple.  First we assigned the webcam a static IP address (192.168.1.150) …

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Watchout Adobe Reader!

Tired of Adobe Reader taking 10 minutes just to load a pdf file. Now there is an alternative to adobe reader. Called Sumatra. Testers have tried every type of pdf file from small to large, then with tons of images to just text. Why this beats adobe reader is because of the incredible speed. This…

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How cool is this download?

Ok, I know change is hard to accept. But the latest edition to the Window's tree is Window 7, which has been buzzing all over the Internet ever since its release. Windows7 has three releases Ultimate, Professional and Home Edition. Microsoft really wants to get as much consumer's attention they can possibly get and for…

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Don’t be fuelish

In this day of energy saving, many times we leave our gadgets Mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, Cameras, Laptops etc with charger plugged in overnight. Lets check if this is a major waste of energy.. I just saw a commercial on television, sponsored by some kind of environmentalist group. They claimed that a cell…

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128GB Flash Drive CRAZY!

Just when you thought flash drives were getting out of hand now. Corsair has come out with a 128 GB flash drive for roughly $400. This flash drive is not just bigger but a lot faster then any other flash drive. It writes twice as fast as any other drive but is only little faster reading data on the…

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