Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

August 27th, 2012
WrapUp: Old vs. New Logos for Microsoft Products, uTorrent Alternatives, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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July 23rd, 2012
WrapUp: Google Acquires Sparrow, Office 2013 Offering Subscription Model, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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July 2nd, 2012
WrapUp: Google Nexus 7 Tablet, Chrome for iOS, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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December 26th, 2011
WrapUp: YouTube Boasts 1 Trillion Video Views in 2011, Hard Drive Manufacturers Reduce Warranties, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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September 26th, 2011
WrapUp: Amazon Holding a Press Conference on Wednesday, Windows 8 File History, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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July 7th, 2010
WrapUp: 30 Safari Extensions to Try, Unlocker Supports 64-Bit Machines, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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April 7th, 2010
Microsoft Releases Process Explorer 12

I've always considered Microsoft's Process Explorer app to be the Windows Task Manager alternative for power users. Some part of me has always wished that Microsoft would ship this with Windows, and let people switch to using this more comprehensive solution without needing to download anything.

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October 26th, 2009
WrapUp: Microsoft Reveals How Windows 7 is “Version 7″, VistaSwitcher Improves Alt-Tab, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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October 6th, 2009
BizSpark Provides a 3-Year MSDN Subscription for Small Businesses

A few weeks ago a lot of sites were writing about a web developer program from Microsoft that provided web-related software at no upfront cost. When you end your membership you will, however, have to pay a $100 fee.

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September 14th, 2009
WrapUp: Windows 7 Relaxes CableCard Restrictions, Google Spreadsheets’ SQL-like Syntax, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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August 25th, 2009
New Windows Live Movie Maker is Nice

Last week Microsoft released a new version of Windows Live Movie Maker that I have to admit is rather impressive. I took some time to play around with it over the weekend, and the Ribbon interface makes creating movies so easy that I actually feel like new computer users could grasp how to do it in a matter of minutes.

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August 10th, 2009
WrapUp: Chrome Gets Jumplist Support, iTunes 9 with Blu-ray, and More

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

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July 8th, 2009
Timing of Google Chrome Operating System Announcement Questioned

If asked which operating systems were most popular, most of you would list the usual: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix. Come the second half of 2010, to that list we will be able to add the Google Chrome Operating System which will be both open source and lightweight.

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July 7th, 2009
Microsoft Wisens Up to Windows 7 Cracks?

Over the weekend I decided to download Windows 7 Build 7264, which is the latest build to have been leaked. This was considered to be an RTM escrow build, which meant that this would have been the version that gets shipped given that Microsoft didn't find any show-stopper bugs.

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June 4th, 2009
Will Windows 7 Taskbar Shortcuts Replace System Tray Icons?

In Windows 7 Microsoft has significantly changed the way the Taskbar works, and it's starting to make me wonder if a lot of the items sitting in the System Tray might work their way out onto the Taskbar. What do I mean? A good example is this Gmail Notifier that gHacks found.

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June 2nd, 2009
Microsoft Does Image Search Right with Bing

I've been playing with Microsoft's Bing search engine over the last day to see how it stacks up to the others. The thing I always find when trying out a new search engine is that it's so hard to find what I'm looking for because I've grown accustomed to formulating Google queries just right.

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April 9th, 2009
RichCopy: Free Robocopy Alternative from Microsoft

At work I use Microsoft's Robocopy command line tool almost everyday for copying files between multiple environments. Digital Inspiration dug up a real gem though, and it's a tool Microsoft recently released called RichCopy. It not only has a nice graphical interface for copying files, but also comes packed with a few handy features.

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February 27th, 2009
Microsoft Tries to Remedy Sites that don’t Work in IE8

As you probably already know Internet Explorer 8 is going to be more standards compliant than previous versions of the web browser. While that sounds great to us geeks that understand what that means it also poses a problem for casual computer users who only care whether a site works or not.

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February 9th, 2009
New Poll: Have you downloaded the Windows 7 Beta?

It's definitely about time that we post a new poll. For our last poll, we asked you to tell us about your monitor(s). A monitor is one of those essential things that we as computer users couldn't live without. We'll get into the results of what kinds of monitors you guys are using, but first we'll introduce our new poll.

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December 31st, 2008
30GB Zunes Freeze on Startup

It sounds almost surreal to actually happen, but many Zune owners are waking up this morning to find that their 30 GB Zunes aren't working. Upon first reading the headline over at Gizmodo, we were thinking that it was just a few isolated cases, but after further investigation, it's happening to many, many people.

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