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Apple iTunes Store Environmental Impact

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

“digg / Apple” writes:
When people debate the pros and cons of the Apple iTunes Store, they usually focus their conversation on the quality of the music or the digital rights management. To me though, there is another important point to consider; the environment. The iTunes Store has already saved the worlds landfills from a […]

Free Business School Podcasts on iTunes (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, etc)

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

“digg / Apple” writes:
America’s leading business schools are now putting out excellent, free podcasts on iTunes. Really worth a look.
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Windows Vista Performance Tests

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

“digg / Software” writes:
Since Vista’s public betas began to circulate, there have been rumors and evidence of decreased performance under Vista as compared to Windows XP. And here’s the proof: TechGage compares the results of several demanding benchmarks on the same machine. When it comes to Windows Vista, should performance junkies keep their wallets in […]

Windows Vista in pictures

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

“digg / Software” writes:
A nice gallery of Vista screenshots for those that have not experienced it yet.
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Light or Lighter Weight Aps To Replace Memory Hogs in Windows XP

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

“digg / Software” writes:
Today on Digg, there was a story about software that slows down Windows XP substantially. The worst offender? Norton Anti-Virus et. al. That sparked a discussion regarding light or lighter weight applications to replace those applications that slow you down to a crawl. I decided to compile that list here, a “one […]

I Want a Freeware Utility to…450+ Common Problems Solved

Monday, January 29th, 2007

“digg / Software” writes:
Extremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money.
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PuTTY 0.59 is out

Monday, January 29th, 2007

“digg / Software” writes:
These features are new in beta 0.59 (released 2007-01-24)….
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An Easy Computer To Computer Network On A Mac.

Monday, January 29th, 2007

“Cool OSX Apps” writes:
There are several ways to copy a file from one Mac to another. Email, Portable hard drives, USB Flash drives & Networks. But what do you do when you want to swap a file with someone, and none of those options are available? If both Macs have AirPort built in, make a […]

VLC Media Player 0.8.6a - Free Multimedia Player

Monday, January 29th, 2007

“Cool OSX Apps” writes:

VLC Media Player is a free cross platform multimedia player.
It supports a large number of audio/video formats - without the need for additional codecs (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, OGG, etc.)
It can also be used as a streaming server - with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding & more) […]

USB Pen Drive Linux

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

“digg / Linux/Unix” writes:
Live Linux versions preconfigured and ready to Boot from a USB flash pen drive.
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