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TIP: Vista performance and tuning guide available for download

August 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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Since my HP Compaq NC6320 notebook was Vista-capable, I could order an upgrade for about E20,- being just the administration and shipping costs. Since that time I ran Windows Vista Business 32bit  and later the Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit version. While in some large companies are still internally discussing whether to stay with the current Windows XP computer and notebook fleet or to upgrade to Windows Vista, there are many end-consumers and companies who have switched to Windows Vista. In … [Read more...]

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FREEWARE: Total Commander (for Windows Mobile v2.51)

July 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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Today a new version of the nice freeware file explorer Total Commander from Christian Ghisler is released. Both the versions for touchscreen devices as well as the non touchscreen version are upgraded. Those of you who were favourites of Norton Commander in the past probably know the Total Commander desktop software, with its two window style. However Christian Ghisel also developed different other versions, like the one to run from a USB stick or the sp-called U3 platform and ofcourse versions … [Read more...]

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Truecrypt 6.0 – Free Open-Source On-the-fly Encryption

July 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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Last Friday a new version of the free encryption program Truecrypt is released. This encryption software is available for the large software platforms Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Therefore it's available for a wide public, and the best thing it's freeware. Personally I use this software for quite some years to protect my important personal data, with the strong AES Rijndael algorithm. I've used the software for external harddisks as well as usb-sticks, and perhaps the Dutch Military should use … [Read more...]

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Xobni: More than just organizing your e-mail

May 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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Xobni is the word inbox backwards spelled, and as you can guess it's a powerful plugin for Microsoft Outlook. While it has been in a private beta for quite some time, now (= a few weeks) is this plugin available in a public beta. After installing the plugin an additional pane is added to your Microsoft Outlook. If you click on an e-mail a profile overview of the sender is shown. The overview provides the e-mail history as well as the incomming and outgoing number of e-mails and the calculated … [Read more...]

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