PC World - Windows 7 may be brand spanking new, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find free or cheap tools to tweak its settings, add features, or smooth an upgrade from XP or Vista. We’ve compiled a list of ten valuable software tools — many of them free — that can make your Win7 experience a lot more rewarding. (Click on each of the images for a closer look at the tool.)
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Macworld.com - Apple will never lack for opinions about how it should be running its business. Unfortunately almost all of itâs bad. Retrevo is still working the netbook thing (netbooks are so last year!) and a collection of tech pundits weighs in on whether the iPhone will win the mobile wars, causing metaphors to run wild. And, as Microsoft tries to copy Appleâs retail experience, Apple starts running serpentine!
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PC World - Why do so many people want to dress up as an iPhone for Halloween? Can’t nerds dress up as something normal like Steve Jobs or the Linux Penguin? In recent years more and more Halloween party goers are choosing to dress up like an iPhone.
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PC World - This must be a joke: A Novell corporate blog item that chastises the City of Los Angeles for recently selecting Google Apps to replace Novell’s GroupWise e-mail and calendaring software.
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Macworld.com - Perhaps youâre heard the expression âshoot first, ask questions later?â That pretty well sums up the philisophy of Santa Cruz, Calif.-based BlueBeat.
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PC World - The launch of Google’s Chrome browser a little over a year ago brought with it a mountain of hype and expectations, with some suggesting it could be as instantly disruptive and beneficial as Gmail was to the webmail market.
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AP - Intuit Inc. gave CEO Brad Smith compensation valued at $3.6 million, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing made Friday. The compensation was about half of what he earned last year, as the financial software maker’s profit took a hit in the downturn.
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AP - The United States is well behind the curve in the fight against computer criminals, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Friday, as Homeland Security officials opened a $9 million operations center to better coordinate the government’s response to cyberattacks.
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AP - A former telemarketing company official admitted Friday that he scammed small businesses out of millions of dollars by duping them into paying for Internet services without their consent.
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AP - The Nebraska Department of Education and Apple Inc. have partnered to offer teachers a new online educational tool.
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