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After some considerations we decided to change some of the monitors in the office to new 19″ LCDs. I started looking at Samsung (I have them at home and they are very good), Sony, Mag and some others. Shortly after we received a good offer from one of the companies giving us hardware support.
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Getting a “FolderSync Window Class: msimn.exe - Application Error” when opening Outlook Express?
Here’s a short step by step instructions to solve the problem:
1. Close Outlook Express
2. Search the “folders.dbx” file on your primary drive (usualy C drive)
3. Once you find it, rename the file - Preferably something similar (like folders.old) so you’ll know where it
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Just as Microsoft’s support for Windows 2000 is about to be over the software giant has provided an update rollup with more than 50 security patches and system reliability fixes.
The update, which replaces Windows 2000 SP5, ships as a high-priority update on the Windows Update site, where it will be listed in the “Critical and
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For the second time in less than a month, users of ZoneLabs product ZoneAlarm Pro are experiencing severe difficulties with the programs’ TrueVector Engine.
Since Friday, June 24, reports have been flooding forum boards and blogs. The majority of users are experiencing TrueVector engine crashs. The VSMON.EXE system service seems to use 100% of
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Check out 3 new software, one Firefox plugin and a new web development platform. Read about the new powerful AMD processor or buy a Starwars AT-ST for your own comfort. If it’s not enough you can get ready to playing Quake on your mobile phone.

Hardware

AMD unveiled its most expensive consumer microprocessor, a $1,031 chip for
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The laws of physics seem to permit time travel, and with it, paradoxical situations such as the possibility that people could go back in time to prevent their own birth. But it turns out that such paradoxes may be ruled out by the weirdness inherent in laws of quantum physics.
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Want to build a homemade Air conditioning system? No? Tired? Read a free book from MS press. Want to chat on Xfire from your Linux box? It’s all here and much much more. Enjoy

Hardware

Build your own Air conditioning
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Software

MySQL connector for Microsoft Enterprise Library (January 2005 version) in case you want a connection between MS Enterprise
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Is it just me or Gmail became very ssssssssslllllllllllllloooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww lately?

Connect Via Books is a new social network that is meant to connect people through the books they like. Though it sounds like a good idea, it seems like the age of social networks is about to run out. Too many networks with less and less active users make most of them unuseful. The real
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Here’s another installation of the Daily Friction. Enjoy…

Hardware

Now this is what I call a harddrive, 500Gb baby or Maxtor to Launch 500GB Hard Drives.

Software

Moving from Blogger to WordPress? Want to move your Haloscan and/or Blogger comments to the new platform? use the Import-Haloscan script.
Add CSS to your RSS feed.

Information

Here’s an interesting table showing how different
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Some juicy technical details about the next generation Playstation 3 RSX graphic engine have been exposed.

Mobile giants Sony Ericsson and Nokia unleashed a bunch of new mobile phones. Though this is getting less and less exciting let’s have a look of the upcoming models.
Sony Ericsson announced five new phones, the J210, Z520, K680, S600i and W600a.
All phnes will offer a range of features between them including 1.3 megapixel camera phones
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It seems like efforts to settle for a common standard for the next generation DVD storage format were stopped or scaled back. Sony will be using their proprietary format, Blu-Ray, as the media for the upcoming PlayStation 3 gaming console - This will probably not change regardless of the efforts. Toshiba has now announced they
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Secunia is reporting: A seven year old vulnerability has been re-introduced in Mozilla and Firefox. This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the contents of web sites.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in Firefox 1.0.4 and Mozilla 1.7.8. Other versions may also be affected.
Test if your browser is vulnerable here.
Speaking of security,
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Now it’s official, after is was published EVERYWHERE, the official note from Apple is on their website.
Apple announced plans to deliver models of its Macintosh computers using Intel microprocessors by this time next year, and to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007.

Need a dial-up backup on your Linux box? Want to sharpen you Regular Expressions skills? Wondering what’s on Nintendo’s mind for the next clash of consoles? Its all here and much more.

Software

BlogWave RC3 is now ready for download and getting closer to v1.0 - This is a tool for doing some interesting things with
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Just a month ago I wrote about rediscovering Ask Jeeves and now comes this. It seems like Ask Jeeves installed a search tool on millions of Web browsers without users consent. Now investors are asking questions.

Why Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda, really doesn’t feel like playing games these days? See what he has to say about todays games and what Nintendo is going to do about it.

Sharp announced it will release one of the world’s largest LCD televisions, with a 65-inch screen, to the Japanese market commig Aug. 1st.
The LC-65GE1 features a full-spec high-definition LCD panel, “enabling users to enjoy beautiful, life-like, high-definition images on an impressively large screen that far surpasses other video systems, regardless of the brightness of the
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A few days ago I switched Techmount’s RSS feeds to full text. It seems to be working well.
This change will cause some aggregators to mark the last 12 posts as new or as edited (depending on the aggregator) or display them again. I apologize for the inconvenience.
I would still appreciate readers going to the
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