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Click-Wheel Interface Coming to Windows 7?

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May, 2008 (, , )
Posted in Featured, Tech News, Windows 7, Windows Vista

A lot of the screenshots that have been popping up lately are most likely souped up for conceptional purposes, but one thing certainly returns steadily: the click-wheel-like interface. Usually the Windows Logo Orb is seated in the center of a wheel with numerous icons surrounding it. Is this the future of Windows?

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First look: Windows 95 !

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March, 2008 (, , , )
Posted in Featured, Windows Vista

Windows 95, codenamed Chicago, has finally been released! It is the most exciting and promising release of the Windows Operating System ever. Along with it, Microsoft introduces 32-bit computing for the first time and with it, is planning to replace MS-DOS and Windows 3.1(1). At last, anyone with or without prior computing skills can easily [...]

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Vista Setup Error: 0xE0000100. Huh?

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March, 2008 Posted in Featured, Tips & Tricks, Windows Vista (6 Comments)

In the light of Microsoft’s release of Windows Vista’s first Service Pack, I was inspired to finally format my laptop’s hard drive. I had been using it non-stop since September. My laptop, a Dell XPS M1710, thankfully shipped with a Vista DVD, as opposed to the usual ‘recovery partition’. I popped in the disc and [...]

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Vista Tip: Multiple clocks

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February, 2008 (, )
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Windows Vista

In this inter-connected world it’s sometimes hard to keep track of time — literally. With international communication spanning across the entire globe, you’re able to talk to people you’d probably never encountered without it. The only culprit to real-time communication is the differing time zones, though. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to keep [...]

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Vista Tip: Customize the Favorite Links in Explorer

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January, 2008 (, , , , , )
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Windows Vista

Add custom links to Vista’s “Favorite Links” sidebar in Explorer’s Shell.

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