Free the spreadsheets
Subject: General Tech | April 18, 2006 - 12:48 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Zone reviews ajaxXLS 0.5, a web based spreadsheet program. Without even installing anything, you can view any .xls file. They are currently working on an editor that will let you edit and save changes too.
Time to improve bannination
Subject: General Tech | April 14, 2006 - 04:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Tech Connect Magazine links to the SBS, a shared ban system for Steam based games. If you are losing your cool to cheaters, give the system a shot, hopefully it will make blasting away opponents even more fun.
Get info on your running processes with a click
Subject: General Tech | April 14, 2006 - 04:39 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Moditory wants you to know about Process Library and Quick Access. Run their free program in the background and when you bring up task manager, every process will have a link to their database to tell you what it is.
Sometimes simple fixes are the best
Subject: General Tech | April 13, 2006 - 03:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Sick of cords all over your desktop, and don't want to give up your favourite mouse for a wireless one, plus all the batteries you have to keep in the desk drawer? PC Modding Malaysia reviews an incredibly simple solution ... the XTracPads Mouse Bungee.
Like an old friend, but one you are never happy to see
Subject: General Tech | April 13, 2006 - 12:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Suddenly your desktop turns an alarming shade of blue, with white text in your system font, and the adrenaline starts to surge as you desperately try to remember if you have saved recently. The BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) is something you become very familiar with, and PC Stats hopes to make it rarer in your life, and give you more tools to deal with it if it does try to make you miserable.
It's almost like MP3 playing tupperware
Subject: General Tech | April 12, 2006 - 12:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Ars Technica reviews some inexpensive flash based MP3 players, all holding around 512MB. Don't worry about killing a 40GB iPod at the beach, bring one of these fairly easy to replace players for those trips into human friendly environments that have hazards for electronics.
Get your patches while they're hot
Subject: General Tech | April 12, 2006 - 11:56 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Time to use that Windows Update shortcut in your tools menu, 10 critical patches came out yesterday, mostly for IE, though others are affected as well. CNet reports no screaming about incompatabilities, so you will be safer getting them installed than leaving it for a while.
Enjoy someone else's installation pain
Subject: General Tech | April 11, 2006 - 11:54 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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While putting together a system for review, ExtremeTech ran into a little problem most of us are familiar with, no POST. Read on for some tips on what to do, and some reassurance that, in fact those things don't just happen to you.
Is Electro-Smog really a worry
Subject: General Tech | April 10, 2006 - 12:03 PM | Jason Smith
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Electro-Smog sounds like the newest graphics feature in a game, or maybe the basis for one of this year's summer disaster movies. The Tech Zone stops using their bluetooth headsets for a moment to wirelessly post a look at how all of the radio frequencies we are bombarded with might affect our health, if at all ... I still don't see how we can live in a dark, futuristic world without electrosmog setting the mood.
Buy a Motherboard and Processor, get Age of Empires 3 Free!
Subject: General Tech | April 8, 2006 - 08:22 AM | Ryan Shrout
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One of our great sponsors, Monarch Computer, asked me to pass on the news that this weekend they are sweetening the deal on the free Age of Empires deal going around the web! Now, only at MCS, you only need to buy an AMD processor and motherboard combo to get the game for free; you don't need to buy a new video card anymore!
Age of Empires III is a great RTS game and if you haven't tried it yet, this is a great chance to get
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