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Allison Burnett, the Program Manager for IE8, stated in a blog post that is looking for people to beta test their upcoming version of Internet Explorer 8. The development team promises a new revamped version of Internet Explorer, with less memory problems, better functionality and extended compatibility with the current standards.
Also, Microsoft states that IE8 is focused on delivering a better user experience and an overall improved functionality.
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What is the Boot Record?
Every partition has its own boot record. The boot record is used to store the first bits of software executed. Also, the boot record holds instructions needed to start Windows XP.
In some occasions, the boot record can be altered or damaged by an user error, damaged software or different types of malware or viruses.
The boot record can be fixed easily via the Windows Recovery Console using the “fixboot” command.
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While THE search engine, Google, has little competition in this market, former Google employees are developing a brand new search engine with a stylish name, Cuil (pronounced “cool”). Cuil has a more Web 2.0 oriented interface and a styled result page (too much style if you ask me). The people behind Cuil are Anna Patterson, her husband Tom Costello and some other former Google engineers.
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Lately, Microsoft has embraced the open-source community in a rather unusual manner. Now, Microsoft begins supporting the Apache Software Foundation with an annual donation of $100,000. It’s clear that Microsoft will slowly go away from its own IIS Web Server platform but raised alot of speculation within the industry.
Microsoft announced the new version of DirectX within the GameFest festival. While some of you will worry about this new version and its compatibility with your video card, Microsoft assures us that the 11 version will recognize DirectX 10 and 10.1 graphic cards. DirectX 11 will work only within Windows Vista but the new features caught our eye.
- multi-threaded resource handling – the new processing will take advantage of our multi core machines
- new shader technology – with better CPU and GPU management
- Tessellation/Displacement – models will now be more smooth when viewed up-close
Microsoft stated that we should expect DirectX 11 in mid-late 2009 and i’m guessing some features will be tested within upcoming versions of DirectX 10.
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The Microsoft family will gain a new member soon, the Windows 7 OS. While some of us are skeptical, we should at least give Windows 7 a chance and forget about Vista. Bill Veghte, chief in charge of Windows seems very confident regarding the new Windows and the states that Windows 7 will be released within the scheduled time frame (2010).
Although MAC (Media Access Control) addresses were designed to represent a network card’s ID and were designed as permanent, some software and techiques allow us to easily change (or “Spoof”) the MAC address easily.
Change the MAC manually under Windows XP
Method 1
Go the the Ethernet Adapter’s Properties menu, the Advanced Tab and you can see a filed named: “MAC Address”, “Network Address” or “Ethernet Address”, depending entirely on the network card’s driver.
Using this method you can change the MAC address very fast, in a matter of clicks.
Note that some network cards don’t have this featured enabled, but those are rare cases.
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Symantec Corporation, opened this week the 2009 Public Beta versions of Norton Security and Norton Antivirus. Symantec claims that this versions will be more faster than their predecessors, more user friendly and moreoever, less resource hungry.
While the Symantec security products lost some market share to other companies such as Kaspersky, Avira or Esset (NOD32), the new features and overall speed increase might get them back on the average home user’s list.
Let’s review some important features, worth taking in consideration:
Speed Increase
The Norton programs can determine now which files are trustworthy based on prior scans and community feedback, adding them to a “white-list” and avoiding them in the future scans.
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