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A List of The Best Software to have on your Windows PC

Introduction
Browsing around, I suddenly wanted to put to together a list of the software that should be installed on all computers. Software that you can use, something that is needed at home, work or play by everyone. Call it the software basics.
Yes, you can read this as a list of the best software in each [...]

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Google’s SearchWiki - it’s not all that bad

Ever since the introduction of Google’s SearchWiki for iGoogle users, there has been a lot of hue and cry about cluttering, spamming and what not.
What is worse is that many people have been griping about the non-availability of an opt-out option.
The truth is that SearchWiki isn’t all that bad. You can simply turn off the [...]

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Google’s spread into competitors’ domain

It seems just like everyday that Google is bringing up new products and ideas. And more often than not, we hear that it has to do with something that the other Tech Giants of the world are already kings in. That means Microsoft, Apple, Intel, etc.
Google is spreading beyond search, that is obvious. The question [...]

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Latest AV Comparatives (On-Demand) results - is NOD32 still the best?

The latest set of results from the well known AV-Comparatives is the set of on-demand scanning results. These results show NOD to have a lower than the top rating. The best possible rating is “Advanced+”. NOD32 v3 got “Advanced” instead.
This result was released a good month or so ago. Why I did not comment on [...]

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AMD and Intel (and Nvidia) - How Things Stand

Much has been written about how Intel has trumped over AMD cleanly in recent times, with it’s Dual and Quad Core processor (Santa Rosa, Penryn, Nehalem, etc).
Well, to begin with, do no take this article as review. This is just a opinion, a presentation of kinds. This article will not help you buy a processor [...]

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