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Western Digital 500 Gig My Book

Looking for an external hard drive? Just picked up a Western Digital My Book & highly recommend!.

Features:

Easy to set up, easy to use – just plug it in and it’s ready to use. There is no CD to install; the included sof tware loads from the drive the first time you plug it in. [...]

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Skype price plan claims ‘more for less’

VoIP provider Skype has rolled out a new pricing plan that eliminates per-minute charges in favour of a connection fee for certain calls.
SkypePro subscribers will now be charged a connection fee of €0.039 to place a domestic call to a landline, regardless of the length of the call.
The programme will be launched in Europe, and [...]

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Microsoft starts work on Vista Service Pack 1

Microsoft has started development of the first service pack for Windows Vista, even though the operating system will not start shipping to consumers until next week, and has been available to large enterprises for only two months.
The software vendor has been contacting businesses that want to volunteer as beta testers.
Service packs typically contain bug fixes [...]

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Microsoft takes the plunge with Ajax

Microsoft has unveiled its ASP.Net Ajax 1.0 development tool, providing a graphical user interface for developers to create web applications based on the Ajax programming technique.
The company touted the tool as a solution for enterprise developers wishing to build online applications while using tools that integrate with the familiar Visual Studio.Net development kit.
The software [...]

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Tip #1: Win XP – Use your Windows Key

The Windows logo key, located in the bottom row of most computer keyboards is a usual way of doing things quickly:
Windows + E: Displays Windows Explorer
Windows + D: Minimizes or restores all windows
Windows + R: Displays Run dialog box
Windows + F: Displays Search for files
Windows + F1: Displays Help and Support Center
Windows + [...]

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World’s Fastest Harddisk? So Claims Seagate!

Harddisk drives just keep getting faster and faster. Seagate just announced what it claims to be the world’s fastest hard drive: a 15,000RPM 2.5-incher. Until its crown gets taken off by a competitor, this baby accesses data faster than the fastest out there right now by 2.9ms.

The drives will begin shipping soon in HP ProLiant [...]

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Trojans fuel ID theft boom

Identity theft, both offline and online, is on the rise with keylogging Trojan software often forming the weapon of choice for would-be fraudsters, according to a new study by net security firm McAfee.
McAfee reckons the number of keylogging malware packages increased 250 per cent between January 2004 and May 2006. The number of phishing attacks [...]

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