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Microsoft will be introducing a new Hotmail service which the software giant states will be better than before. Microsoft states they have been working hard on making the new mail service the best ever. The company also states that they have been listening to users and is taking the comments they have received thus far [...]

Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 11/09/08
Avast: 11/08/08
Norton anti-virus: 11/05/08
McAfee anti-virus: 11/05/08
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 11/05/08
Spybot Search and Destroy: 11/05/08
Microsoft Windows Defender: 11/05/08
Nod32: 11/07/08

Updates as of November 9.  2008 6:00am CDT.

As I previously mentioned, I had purchased a new laptop computer that came with Vista Home Premium installed from the factory. The main reason I chose the make and model I did, was that I knew I could downgrade to XP, since the applications disks came with all of the drivers for XP as well [...]

About three weeks ago I purchased a new laptop which came with Vista Home Premium installed. As most of you know, Microsoft has replaced Outlook Express with a new email program called Windows Mail. I normally use Windows Mail to download my Gmail email stuff, and usually do not send out any emails from the [...]

When Asus first released their popular netbooks the first operating systems were variations of Linux distributions. Later Microsoft came up with a version of Windows XP that seems to work fine with the Eee model. But Vista, because of its size and resource requirement was not able to run on the mini laptop systems.
But during [...]

The number 2 PC maker is feeling the economic pinch and continues with their plans to trim back on their operations. The computer company has a world wide hiring freeze, in addition to 8800 job cuts it has already instituted. In addition Dell’s CEO and founder Michael Dell, is asking employees to take off 1 [...]

Cyber crooks are spitting out vast amount of spam, using an alleged video of Obama making his victory speech. The fake video first surfaced on Wednesday and is slmming the Internet with this infected email. The email actually contains a virus that can steal your identity and also any stored information on your computer system.
According [...]

I have previously purchased electronic items from Circuit City so I receive sale advertisements from the company. This morning I received a newsletter from CC for what they call a ‘3-Day Sale’, and thought I would take a look see on what they were selling. Knowing that CC was in a financial bind, I thought [...]

Last evening when I was watching CNN for the election results and they did a rather interesting thing. While Anderson Cooper spoke they had a holographic image of wiil.i.am and the two carried on a conversation. I also learned that Wolf Blitzer did another interview with CNN reporter Jessica Yellin before this. Both holograms came [...]

Best Buy is selling a service which they describe on their web site as:

TV Calibration
Increase the picture quality of your TV for a better viewing experience.  We will calibrate your home theater to provide the most accurate colors in full detail for the darkest and brightest parts of the picture.
But at $299.99 is this [...]

Hope is running high in the computer community that Microsoft may, just may, get Windows 7 right. There is also talk that Windows 7 will be what Vista should have been. But is Vista that bad or is Windows 7 going to be just better? Will Windows 7 actually be Vista 2?
There is no doubt [...]

If you are a user of Mozy Backup and also have Microsoft Word on your system, you may have noticed that some of your saved documents have either a green check mark or red exclamation on the documents icon. I had this problem and could not find a solution. But I finally read a post [...]

The Consumerist has confirmed via an internal memo that Circuit City will be closing 155 stores before December 31, 2008. Also confirmed from employees is that the memo has in fact been sent to those stores which will be closed. What is not confirmed is which stores will be closed.
The Consumerist posted this memo from [...]

I received this email from Google on Thursday afternoon:

Dear Publisher,
We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult times, we’re continuing to invest in innovations that improve publisher monetization and advertiser value in the content network.
We’re focusing on further developing our product [...]

Yesterday I received an email from reader Don Naphen referencing his experience after he upgrade to Acronis 2009. Don stated:

Hi Ron;

Had quite the experience today.  Called up my Acronis 2009 program, which is their latest version.  Lo and behold, I get a nag screen informing me that the “trial version” has [...]

You may recall that Amazon wanted to patent the so called one click method to make a purchase on the Internet. I remember at the time thinking how ludcrious it was and that the patent should be rejected. It now seems at least one appeals court has come to their senses and is setting some [...]

Intel and Asus have teamed up and want you to share your ideas of what a perfect PC would be. Over at their site called WePC.com, users can share their ideas of what they want in a computer. It is a great opportunity to let these two companies know what you think.
On their site they state:
About [...]

Here are some first observations about Windows 7 Preview.
Setup was quick and easy with basically no user intervention. Once setup finished I was warned that there was no anti-virus protection. So I installed AVG before getting on the Internet.
So what is new in Windows 7? Not much. If I didn’t see the Windows 7 logo [...]

I had previously mentioned in another post that I was considering giving Vonage a try and I received some great comments. So I ordered Vonage and thought I would share my experience with you. Thanks to Marc aka ‘the oracle’ for his advice. I did connect the Vonage modem to my wireless router and all [...]

Now that the preview of Vista’s replacement Windows 7 has been released, we should be hearing more about the new operating system during the next few weeks. I’ve downloaded the preview of Windows 7 and I am hoping to get the preview installed this evening. But in the mean time, Engadget already has posted what [...]