Archive for May 17th, 2008
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How to Add RSS Feeds to Outlook 2007
Microsoft Outlook 2007 allows you to easily add RSS feeds. Here’s the step-by-step procedure.1. Start Outlook 2007.2. Go to Tools, Account Settings, and click on RSS Feeds tab.3. Click New, and enter the address of the feed. For example, to add this blog, type in the address: http://www.techgalaxy.net/blog/rss.xml as shown below.4. The RSS feed is [...]
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Free Anti-virus for Vista
Looking for a free anti-virus for Windows Vista? Check out Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic. It protects against viruses, worms, Trojans, dialers and phishing. It can also detect and delete root kits.There is also a premium version of the product that also offers protection against spyware and adware and costs 20 euros. Five euro from every [...]
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Another Cool Vista Gadget
Like cool Vista gadgets? Here’s an interactive, AJAX based tool that shows traffic in your zip code on major highways. It’s refreshed every 2 minutes and hopefully your city is included in the list. Metro area traffic currently supported in this gadget includes Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Oklahoma [...]
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California gets serious about data breach
The California assembly committee recently passed a bill which will affect all companies doing business in California. Among other businesses, it will have a serious impact on credit card companies, banks, and financial institutions who handle users’ personal data. The bill will move to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee for a hearing on April [...]
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What Will Be Longhorn Server Named?
Everyone is guessing what the new name for Longhorn server will be. Microsoft has said that it won’t be Vista Server and that the official name will be announced at the time of Beta 3, which is expected in the first half of 2007.Windows Server 2007 could be an obvious choice, but knowing Microsoft, if [...]
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UW researchers control the movement of a humanoid robot with signals from a human brain
A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts. Another sci-fi movie standard depicts robots doing humans’ bidding. Now the two are combined, and in real life: University of Washington (UW) researchers in Seattle, WA can control the movement of a humanoid robot with [...]
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How to Force ReadyBoost on USB Drives
Windows Vista has a ReadyBoost feature that can improve the performance of your Windows Vista computer. ReadyBoost has certain requirements so not all USB flash devices can be used for Windows ReadyBoost. Here’s a method that you can try to force ReadyBoost on a USB flash drive. I am not sure if it has any [...]
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Remotely Refresh Group Policies
Active Directory Group Policies refresh every 90 minutes on a client (with a plus/minus 30 minute offset). If you want to force a refresh remotely on computers, you can use a utility called psExec from Sysinternals. psExec allows you to execute programs on a remote system interactively.Download psExec and at the command prompt execute the [...]