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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 18

Download Music From Last.fm

Last.fm is one of the largest music websites on the Internet. Users can listen to music on the site, discover related musicians and communicate with other users. The music portal provides access to a feature called Radio which essentially makes it possible to stream music that is related to artists, tags or users.
This radio feature [...]

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Categories: Music and Video, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 16

Backup And Restore The Master Boot Record

The Master Boot Record contains important boot information which are essential to boot a computer system. A corrupted master boot record usually makes a system unbootable until the issue is fixed. Users who installed multiple operating systems might have also experienced difficulties when the operating systems installed their own boot manager which erased another one.
It [...]

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Categories: Spyware, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Photo Recovery Software

It is relatively easy to erase pictures on a digital camera. Hitting the wrong button could delete all pictures at once with no apparent way of recovering the pictures. Digital cameras usually do not provide the means to recover deleted pictures. The only viable option would be to use photo recovery software like Free Art [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 24th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

UPNP Port Mapper

Universal Plug And Play was designed to simplify the connection between two devices in a computer network. Most users probably come into touch with UPNP when they start configuring their router for the first time. Most modern routers support UPNP which admittedly has one major flaw. UPNP does not support authentication which means that the [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 22nd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Custom Desktop Logo

Eric Wong is a regular software contributor and regular at the Donation Coder forum. His latest software program is called Custom Desktop Logo which is another interesting piece of software. It can be used to display a permanent logo on the computer desktop which could be great for public computers or during presentations.
Custom Desktop Logo [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 22nd, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Microsoft Touchless

Microsoft Office Labs are always good for a surprise. For anyone who does not know what Microsoft Office Labs is about: It basically is used to publish software programs created by Microsoft employees in their spare time that relate to Microsoft products.
Microsoft Touchless (via Shell City) is an interesting application that fits well into [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Teamviewer Portable

The remote desktop access software Teamviewer has already been covered multiple times at Ghacks. It is an efficient software that requires barely any configuration to function properly which makes it excellent for technical support. It can also be used for presentations, file transfers and virtual private networks.
One interesting feature of Teamviewer is Teamviewer portable which [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

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