After several months undergoing beta testing, the final version of Microsoft Security Essentials is now available for download! So, if you are still running Windows without any AntiVirus protection, you can download Microsoft’s solution for free from: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials Related posts:

1. Free Antivirus to be provided by Microsoft
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Download Accelerator Plus is a file download accelerator/manager that according to its developers can increase download speeds by up to 300 percent. It features multiserver connections and can also recover from lost connections, computer shutdowns, and other errors. The program even searches for mirror sites to maximize your download performance. It integrates fully with the [...] Related posts:

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If you have text that is in the wrong case, select (highlight) the text, and then click Shift+F3 until it changes to the case style that you like. Clicking Shift+F3 toggles the text case between ALL CAPS, lower case, and Initial Capital styles. You’ll be surprised how often you will use this once you get [...] Related posts:

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Many Vista users all over the net are asking whether a direct upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows is possible. The answer is that this direct upgrade is indeed possible but not for Vista users who will buy any version of Windows 7 in a European Union country. As a matter of fact, [...] Related posts:

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Do you want to be really sure that inside the new PC/notebook you bought recently, there is really an Intel Core 2 Duo running at 3.4 Ghz and not a slower cpu overclocked to run faster? Do you lack the technical knowledge to identify such a thing? Do you want to check out [...] Related posts:

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Asus will soon enter the e-book reader market which so far has been dominated by Sony and Amazon. The Eee-Reader will certainly be the most technologically advanced e-reader because it will: - open like a traditional book - have two full colour screens - include a web browser, a virtual keypad, speakers, webcam and microphone - support Skype [...] Related posts:

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Samsung will most probably release a notebook with an OLED screen by not later than Q4 2010. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode and in the coming years this technology will be mostly used in the production of digital displays. If you want to know the advantages and disadvantages of OLED over the current [...] Related posts:

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It looks like a number of manufacturers are planning to release more powerful netbooks and this is something which is desperately needed because most of the netbooks that were released in the last year offered very similar specs (like the same CPU, same amount of memory and same Intel-based graphic chipset). However, a number of manufacturers [...] Related posts:

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Next month Nokia will launch the N900, a smart phone which is based on Linux. Until now, Nokia smart phones were based on Symbian. Nokia is marketing the new phone as representing a convergence between a computer, the Internet and a mobile phone, and on the technical side they have announced that it [...] Related posts:

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Almost all netbooks which have been sold till now come with either Linux or Windows XP pre-installed, with only a few models available with Windows Vista. The problem with the latter O/S is the fact that it is too much power hungry and the combination of cpu, graphics chipset and memory available on most netbooks [...] Related posts:

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