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    Create a family calendar with Windows Vista

    With Windows Vista, I can now plan and manage my own activities, and I can coordinate the rest of my family’s activities, in a single calendar. Windows Calendar is built right into Windows Vista and offers automated integration features that make it the easiest calendar I’ve seen for groups of […]

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    Microsoft Windows 8: 10 Reasons It Will Shatter Windows 7

    Microsoft’s Windows 8 likely won’t be available until next year, but based on what’s known so far, the operating system could very well be better than Windows 7. Microsoft Windows 8: 10 Reasons It Will Shatter Windows 7 When it comes to operating systems, there’s no more important company than […]

  • Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT

    GAO report outlines key federal green IT initiatives How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds have adopted a number of practices that are useful not just for government IT but all manner of private […]

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    5 ways to make your keyboard easier to use

    How to use a keyboard might seem academic, but there’s more to typing than just tapping the keys. For most people, the keyboard is the primary computer input and control device—that’s why it’s important to leverage the features and shortcuts that keyboards offer. Read on for tips to maximize ease […]

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    Why IBM Is the Most Innovative Company in IT

    A recent issue of Forbes ranks the most innovative companies in the world, but overlooks IBM. In this opinion piece, eWEEK’s Darryl K. Taft argues that Big Blue belongs atop that list. Why IBM Is the Most Innovative Company in IT     Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP […]

  • Security rundown for week ending Aug. 5, 2011

    A week of scary network threats from Black Hat, McAfee’s Rat Report and more on RSA data breach The report adds: “The definition of successful defense has to change from ‘keeping attacks out’ to ‘sometimes attackers are going to get in; detect them as early as possible and minimize the […]

  • Security rundown for week ending Aug. 5, 2011

    A week of scary network threats from Black Hat, McAfee’s Rat Report and more on RSA data breach If you’d never heard the phrase ‘advanced persistent threat’ before, you may have gotten an ear full of it the past week in a collection of news stories that used the APT […]

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    Oracle Launches Java 7 as Innovation Sprouts From the Community, Others

    The issue of innovation in Java has been a topic of discussion and debate for some time now. Many observers say the incumbents—Oracle/Sun, IBM and Red Hat/JBoss—are no longer running the show in terms of Java innovation and that others, including several newer, smaller companies, are pushing innovation. In fact, […]

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    ASP.NET – Silverlight: My Life as a Compressed Cookie Redux

    The idea for the original title of this article came from the 1985 Swedish foreign film “My Life As a Dog” which I highly reccommend. Few Hollywood movies ever achieve the sensitivity, simple beauty and depth of some of the foreign films I’ve come to love. The “Redux” part is […]

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    Windows 7 smartphone is ‘world’s smallest PC’

    Fujitsu says an Intel Atom-powered smartphone that runs Windows 7 will be available in Japan July 23. Touted as the “world’s smallest PC,” the Loox F-07C includes a four-inch, 1,024 x 600 pixel touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, a 32GB solid state disk, dual cameras, a microSD slot, and an HDMI […]