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Fujitsu S-Series Lifebook

I have had this laptop for ages, since the year 2000. It lasted me almost, no actually, more than 7 years till I changed it to my current Dell Vostro 1400. This notebook has been with me to a few...

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Dell Latitude ST tablet

Looks like Dell is upping the ante in the tablet range with this Dell Latitude ST being released to the enterprise according to this cNet article. According to the article, this Dell tablet is...

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Dell Windows 7 OS restore DVD

Dell used to provide the Windows Operating System restore DVD with their systems but they do not do so now. It will cost you $5 extra when ordering your new laptop or workstation online to get the...

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Virtual DJ and 64-bit Windows 7 – Error in the ASIO sound driver – fixed in...

I am not happy. Yesterday, I tried to load my copy of Virtual DJ 6 LE and I kept getting this error message when I tried to launch Virtual DJ. For those of you wondering, was my controller plugged in?...

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Microsoft’s Outlook.com

I had a try the other day, logging in with my Hotmail account. It works well, looks pretty nice and this looks like how Microsoft’s Hotmail is hoping to be perceived for the next few years anyway,...

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Acer Aspire One AO756 notebook

Yet another notebook I came across in Comex 2012 a couple of days back is this one, for the low price of $499. It is the Acer Aspire One AO756. Pretty interesting notebook. Measuring 11.6″, it is more...

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HP Mini netbook

Imagine. When these HP Minis first came out, I was very hesitant to buy one, even though many of my friends were saying that it would be a very good buy. I am now kicking myself for not getting one....

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Samba 4.0 released by the Samba Team

Got some news this morning that made me whoop for joy…literally. Samba released version 4.0 and that is a major release. Why…one may ask. That is because, it is the First Free Software Active...

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The old Hotmail

It was in 1997. I was introduced to this then-revolutionary web-based email client by a friend of mine. Hotmail was a fantastic mail system and I still have the original account which I signed up for...

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Avast Antivirus Free

I have been using Avast Antivirus for many a year…I would think almost 6 years. It was a wonderful update to the previous one I was using, which was AVG. The problem with Avast is that they are...

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Windows Blue

Windows 8 was supposed to be the operating system that would make or break Microsoft but it did not go as planned. Trust Microsoft to dispel with some of the things that made Windows 8 unpopular. They...

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Office 365 Home Premium

One of my clients bought this the other day for use with his computer. This is Office 2013 but packaged as a suite called Office 365. It contains Word 2013, Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013, OneNote 2013...

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Microsoft Security Essentials

When this was released in 2009, I kinda pooh-pooh’ed it because I knew only too well how weak Microsoft’s Antivirus was from the old days of Windows 3.1. But when my Avast Antivirus started flagging...

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Goodbye Windows XP

I got the image above from this UK website. Yes…after almost 13 years in existence, Windows XP will stop receiving official support from Microsoft. Yep. No more updates, patches and such. If you have...

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The tomato seller from Microsoft

An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a Lavatory cleaner. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping offices) After the test, the manager says: You...

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Microsoft All-in-One Media Keyboard

I am looking for an all-in-one keyboard and I happened to come across this yesterday while buying stuff in our local Singapore computer and spare-parts haunt, Sim Lim Square. This costs about $49 and...

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Windows Boot Manager errors on a PC

One of my clients had this Windows error on his PC the other day. So much for starting and restarting so many times, it just failed to load. So what we did was to reload the system because to be...

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Nokia 130

I saw this phone some time back and I started thinking to myself that even after Microsoft bought Nokia, they still felt that for emerging markets, basic mobile phones were needed. And that is where...

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The Dell Inspiron N5050 after 4 years

I bought this laptop computer for my wife in late 2011 because the laptop that she was using bit the dust. She is now or rather has now been using this laptop for almost 4 years and it is still going...

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Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool

Nowadays, laptops and desktops are starting to come without built-in CD drives. So what happens when you want to re-install your operating system. never fear. Enter this tool from Microsoft. What it...

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