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More Multitouch Headed Your Way

Forget buttons. Forget primitive touch strips that wouldn’t register your input half the time. Forget it all. Multitouch is the new way to roll, if the multitude of new products is any indication. It is soon to invade every piece of gadget we own, make no mistake about that.
One of the more popular form factors [...]

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Categories: Gadgets

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

WinShake Adds Aero Peek And Share To Windows Vista and XP

Aero Shake and Aero Peek are two new features in the Windows 7 operating system. Aero Shake allows a user to shake a window a few times to minimize all other windows that are currently visible on the computer desktop. Aero Peek on the other hand makes it possible to either peek to the Windows [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Preferred Filter Tweaker for Windows 7

Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7 uses Direct Show filters to decode several audio and video formats. Direct Show is being used by several multimedia applications like Windows Media Player or Media Center. It can also be used in third party tools like MPlayer. Users who prefer to use alternative codecs for decoding these audio [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

UK And US Students: Buy Windows 7 For $30

Microsoft is keen on promoting their upcoming operating system Windows 7 in the best possible way. What better way is there than to hand it out to the decision makers of tomorrow for a price that is closer to zero than the price non-students have to pay for the operating system. Students from the UK [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 14th, 2009
  • Comments: 24

Ask The Readers: New Computer System Suggestions

My plan is to build a new computer system after Windows 7 is released to install the new operating system on it and retire my old Windows XP system. I have done little research until now and decided to tap into the best possible resource of computer knowledge there is: the Ghacks readers. I do [...]

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Categories: Hardware, ask the readers

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 12

Host A Windows 7 Launch Party And Get Windows 7 Ultimate For Free

It seems that Microsoft is trying to explore some new ways of promoting their upcoming operating system Windows 7. Other methods of promoting Windows 7 are slowly coming to light next to the official launch parties that are hosted by Microsoft in various cities throughout the world. One of the – rather unusual – strategies [...]

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Categories: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Windows 7 Enterprise Trial Download

Microsoft’s next operating system will be released on October 22. Users who participated in the beta test might have already downloaded, installed and used the Windows 7 Release Candidate which can be used for more than six months without problems. Some users who like MSDN or Technet subscribers are also able to download the Windows [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

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