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All the Windows7 Shortcuts you will ever need!

Another great tip from Tekzilla and from a really great site; 7tutorials.com. They’ve complied an entire library of shortcuts to almost anything you can imagine.

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Windows 7 hidden treasures: Sticky Notes

Windows 7 hidden treasures: Sticky Notes

Windows 7 Sticky Notes is the digital version of Post-it Notes. It’s installed by default and as part of the Windows 7 accessories package.

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Windows 7 hidden treasures: Problem Steps Recorder

The “Problem Steps Recorder” or PSR is one of those little free programs that should of been in every version of Windows since 3.1. Unfortunately, it only comes with Windows 7. The PSR in short could save you some pain when troubleshooting problems and is worth spending time to learn how to use it.

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Windows 7 hidden treasures: Windows Disk Image Burner

Windows 7 hidden treasures: Windows Disk Image Burner

Windows 7 has new and built-in software tools or accessories that make the whole computer easier to use. This first hidden treasure I actually use quite a lot at the office when I need to burn an ISO image to DVD: Windows Disk Image Burner.

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Useful website of the week #4: Mint.com

Useful website of the week #4: Mint.com

First, I am aware that for some people, this website might be a little scary. I acknowledge the “scariness” and I too was a little wary to start using it. But, if you can get past this, Mint.com is pretty cool. Mint.com is a “Web 2.0″ website or web tool that will aggregate all of your financial account balances in one place.

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How to keep all your Windows applications up-to-date the easy way

How to keep all your Windows applications up-to-date the easy way

I started up a Windows Vista machine recently that hadn’t been turned on for almost 9 months. Of course, the first thing it did once I gave it an internet connection was to start downloading all the past 9 months worth of Windows updates.

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Useful website of the week #3: Verify and test your broadband with Speedtest.net

Useful website of the week #3: Verify and test your broadband with Speedtest.net

Most of us have broadband connections at home nowadays. In fact, sometimes the home internet connection is faster than the work connection. But how do you know if you’re getting the speed or bandwidth you paying for?

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5 cool Windows 7 features

5 cool Windows 7 features

Share Windows 7 is almost here. This is the most excitement I’ve seem about a Microsoft OS since Windows XP and its all legitimate. W7, as I call it,  frankly is the reason I still use a Windows PC. I’m not saying W7 is “perfect” or without problems but its really hard NOT to say [...]

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Keep your data safe with Online Data Storage

Keep your data safe with Online Data Storage

Here is the nightmare I found myself in: I had two 500GB external drives connected to my main media machine. On one of the drives, I had temporary files and a couple of virtual machines host files. On the other drive; 130GB of music and 75GB of videos and photo files. The first drive completely stopped working. I couldn’t access any data on it, even after trying to “low-level” access the drive using Seagate tools. The drive of course, was out-of-warranty.

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