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There is no doubt that having multiple running applications at once can slow down your Windows XP machine or even produce some crashes/errors. There are several ways of closing your XP’s running applications with ease. First and the most common is the task manager (ctrl+alt+delete). Using the task manager, you can see quickly what applications at running at that time and how much of the system’s resources they eat up. Pressing the mouse right click and then “End now” will close that selected application but you can also hold the “Shift” button and drag to select all applications then selecting “End now” while pressing the right click.

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Apple has updated Migration DVD/CD Sharing was to the 1.1 version. Apple recommends all users to upgrade Migration DVD/CD Sharing but the affected machines seem to be the late 2008 MacBooks.

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Thunderbird, the popular email client from Mozilla reached the 3rd version, codenamed Shredder. This new version comes with major improvements and significant features are spotted at the horizon. The Mozilla team will try to revamp this messaging client and by looking at the current alpha change log, it’s pretty impressive.

Probably the most important changed in this Alpha build are performance related, but usability and platform wise improvements were not neglected.

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It’s not news that Linux became a very popular OS among the average computer users and with several good Linux distributions available, Linux has also become a preferred operating system. A such Linux distribution is Mandriva and I’m sure many of you are familiar with it as it combines the Linux power with stability and ease of use.

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FaceBook launched a new and improved version of their FaceBook application for the iPhone, the 2.0. With this new version, FaceBook wants to go more towards the regular internet version, introducing some features like: Notifications, Friend Requests, Photo Tagging, Photo Captioning, Inbox Search, Attachments..

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Android Authority recieved an invitation today from T-Mobile, to the first Android T-Mobile phone launch event in New York City, further confirming rumours regarding the Android premiere on this date. The stars of the event will be the G1 and the HTC Dream most likely, but I guess we need to wait until 23 of September.

The community eagerly awaits the launch of the first Android powered phone, we have seen some previews of the HTC Dream and the G1, we just need to wait for more.

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Symantec Norton BetaSymantec 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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Wordpress

Today, WordPress got its announced update to the 2.6 version. Although this update was not scheduled now, I can say I’m impressed by the new features. Bloggers will cheerish this new version and WP’s functionality gets better and better with every new update. The 2.6 version is named “Tyner” after the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and it’s available for download.

Let’s review some important features of WordPress 2.6

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