Monday, 9 August 2010

The Best Geeky Eats and Nerdy Treats

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August 9, 2010
Weekly Brief
The Best Geeky Eats and Nerdy Treats Some iPad Thai, an 8-bit wine, and a gingerbread TIE Fighter for dessert--check out how culinary-minded geeks express their tech enthusiasm.
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5 Reasons Why People Hate Apple Based on my extensive observations of the species, Apple-haters fall into five categories. If you're an Apple-hater, which one of these categories do you fit in?
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RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800: A Visual Tour Can RIM keep the BlackBerry fires burning in the hearts of its users with its latest Torch 9800 smartphone? Here is a look at the features that just might keep BlackBerry users from jumping ship to the an Android device or Apple's iPhone.
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Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP Microsoft is trying its hardest to kill the operating system Windows XP, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, putting many XP users at risk.
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How to Photograph Waterfalls and Moving Water Follow these photography tips to get the best photos of moving water with your digital camera.
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Get an Extra 250MB of Dropbox Storage Who says you can't get something for nothing? A few easy clicks is all it takes to earn some extra free storage on Dropbox.
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Should I Update My Recovery Partition to Windows 7? CliffSees is about to upgrade his PC to Windows 7. He asked the Answer Line forum if he can upgrade his PCs recover partition, as well.
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Downloads
PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: July 2010 July is a busy month for travel and vacations, and our reviewers proved this even while working hard. They gave the thumbs-up to a laptop battery optimizer and a portable encryption utility, for starters. Better system benchmarking and tune-up tools made favorable impressions, as always. A sound enhancement program makes movies and music sound better--perhaps even on a tinny laptop playing by the pool (although we won't say that was one of our tests).
ENVy ENVy is an easy-to-use tool for analyzing your system and comparing it to another computer. This is useful for software distribution and corporate IT, letting you make sure that two "identical" machines really are, and track down differences that might lead to software incompatibilities.
Dacris Benchmarks Dacris Benchmarks ($35) executes a series of performance tests (which can be done on individual systems, such as RAM, disk, or video, or all at once), then provides a 1-10 rating for each section, as well as providing suitability for various tasks, such as programming or games.
Remote Access and Management Small businesses run fast, so IT must react quickly. Now you can manage remote devices, remote workers and remote offices with                     LogMeIn Pro2. Visit the LogMeIn Resource Center.
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: July 2010July is a busy month for travel and vacations, and our reviewers proved this even while working hard. They gave the thumbs-up to a laptop battery optimizer and a portable encryption utility, for starters. Better system benchmarking and tune-up tools made favorable impressions, as always. A sound enhancement program makes movies and music sound better--perhaps even on a tinny laptop playing by the pool (although we won't say that was one of our tests).
System Spec   6268 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under System Resources Tune-Up.
Get full details of your system with this free and portable utility.
Jv16 Power Tools 2010   197075 Downloads  |  Trial  |  Filed Under System Resources Tune-Up.
Clean out registry clutter, find duplicate files, wipe drives, and more with this "Swiss Army Knife" of utilities.
EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition   554 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Recovery
Recover 1GB of data free with this demo version of Easeus's data recovery program.
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