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Weekend Gadget Guidance: Defrag your disk like a dictator

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Defrag your disk like a dictatorWll try on VirtualPCi use AUSlogics - free and fast. Will try this on a Virtual Machine - but i won't know about possible problems on a production system.If anyone installs on an actual machine - please post all your results.

Tags: Gadget Guidance, dictator, disk

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Avoid accidental copies in Windows

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Avoid accidental copies in WindowsNewsletter Help...Here's a godsend for all you newsletter creators and content producers! Now you can blast through your writer's block and keep the relevant and informative articles coming on any subject with this instant wiz. High quality articles Guaranteed! @ https://paydotcom.com/r/9912/sabre23/18048921/

Tags: Corporate communications, Gadget Guidance, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-10

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Send a fax for free -- digitally

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Send a fax for free -- digitallyRemember Security!Keep in mind one advantage of the trusty old fax machine: security. You are establishing a point-to-point connection, so it should be *relatively* safe to send personal info (health info, etc.). If you're using this service, this...

Tags: fax, Gadget Guidance

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Save on shipping online purchases

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Save on shipping online purchasesFreeShipping.org RocksFreeShipping.org is great! I love saving money on free shipping.

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Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Lower your phone bill

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Lower your phone billNo more contracts for me....I weaned myself away from the "cell phone addiction". I bought a Motorola "Go Phone" ($20) and I joined AT&T's "Pay as you go" plan. I buy a $100 card that's good for a year and I barely...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, MetroPCS, Gadget Guidance, phone bill, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

Additional Resources

Gadget Gal's daily deals: TomTom GPS, Lenovo ThinkPad tablet, Netgear wireless router

A TomTom GPS system, a Lenovo ThinkPad tablet PC, and a Netgear wireless router. Here are your daily deals for Wednesday, October 7, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the refurbished TomTom XL340-S 4.3-inch Touchscreen Portable GPS at Woot.com today for $109.99. The GPS has...

Tags: Netgear Inc., Lenovo ThinkPad, Wireless Router, Router, TomTom, Lenovo Group Ltd., Wireless, Tablets, GPS, Home Networking, Notebooks, Routers & Switches, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-07

News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate? ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Satyam, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Portable Ubuntu runs inside Windows, free

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Portable Ubuntu runs inside Windows, freeThis is a lot betterthan maintaining a VM on Windows for when I need to use a Linux program. Though I would probably want Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu, but since Synaptic is on there I'm sure that won't take too much work...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows Free, Weekend Gadget Guidance

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Portable Ubuntu runs inside Windows, free

Ever want to run an entire Linux install as a Windows application? With free application Portable Ubuntu you can -- and you can have it tag along with you on a flash drive. Portable Ubuntu lets you seamlessly run Linux apps on your...

Tags: Ubuntu, Portable Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Want a tech gadget bargain? Get it now, or you'll be too late

Bargains on new technology, gadgets and gizmos -- from laptops and desktops to HDTVs and Blu-ray players and even digital cameras and camcorders -- have been plentiful in the shadow of the global downturn. For example: A 10-inch Acer Aspire One netbook, just $320!...

Tags: Smart Phone, HDTV, Price, Component Price, Smart Phones, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-16

News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who’s buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple iPhone, Enterprise Software, Intel Corp., Larry Dignan, Management, Middleware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Strategy, Web Services

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Prevent auto Windows shutdown, reboot

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Prevent auto Windows shutdown, rebootWhy didn't Microsoft think of this?I have a CAD workstation which I often leave locked overnight when I am in the middle of something large and complex. It is dismaying to come in to work in the morning and EVERYTHIGN is gone...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows, reboot, Windows Shutdown, Weekend Gadget Guidance

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Prevent auto Windows shutdown, reboot

Are you a serial software-installer? Has Windows rebooted while you were in the middle of doing something else? If you install software on a regular basis and get rebooted on without asking, ShutdownGuard could be a useful little utility for you. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put an analog clock in your system tray

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put an analog clock in your system trayTrialwareFree to try for 30 days then pay see EULA- I wouldn't bother with it

Tags: Weekend Gadget Guidance, analog clock, system tray

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put an analog clock in your system tray

If you're like me, you're still using Windows XP but have grown...tired of the digital click in the system tray. What's a guy or gal gotta do to have a little flair (without upgrading to Vista's big, honking sidebar)? Enter Analog Clock. It's a...

Tags: Clock, System Tray, Analog Clock, Skins, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-07

News to know: Black market zero days; Microsoft security; BlackBerry Bold; SAP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dancho Danchev: Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving Spammers targeting Bebo, generate thousands of bogus accounts Larry Dignan: Microsoft: Third party apps...

Tags: Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., BlackBerry Bold, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Linux, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Preview fonts before installing

If you're a typography junkie with a large font collection like I am, it's real hard to organize and preview new fonts using Windows' dreaded Fonts folder. Cfont Pro is here to help. With support for all major font file types including Postscript and TrueType, the free...

Tags: Font, Cfont Pro, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Weekend Gadget Guidance: $50 off Amazon Kindle thru Nov. 1

Weekend Gadget Guidance: $50 off Amazon Kindle thru Nov. 1Oprah and Amazon!I can't stand her. I would rather pay full price then use her name to get a discount.

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Weekend Gadget Guidance, Amazon Kindle

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

News to know: Windows 7's latest build; Ubuntu; Chip density; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: PDC coverage: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 pre-beta build: What's inside Jason Hiner: Windows 7: Five things Microsoft must do Microsoft: Expect Vista SP2...

Tags: Ubuntu, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Chip, AMD Announces $150 Radeon HD 4830 Cringely, Microsoft Windows, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating Systems, Semiconductors, Software, Internet, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Weekend Gadget Guidance: $50 off Amazon Kindle thru Nov. 1

Like Oprah Winfrey? Sure you do. Because if you do, it will save you $50 on your purchase of an Amazon Kindle. With the Big O's blessing -- "I'm telling you, it is absolutely my new favorite thing in the world," she said...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-24