Now most of us have probably been Wowed! by the all new Windows 7 Pre-Beta and might be itching to get hands on or already had got some good experience. You’d already know that the Pre-Beta build will automatically expire after a trail period of 30 days.
Unless you attended the PDC 2008 and got an activation key, there is no way you could activate Windows 7 forever but you can expend it upto 90 days then the usual 30 days time.
Here is how you can reset the activation expiry date.
- Download Windows 7 Pre-beta and burn the ISO to a DVD.
- Install Windows 7 Pre-beta using the DVD and while installation make sure to not put any activation key.
- Once the installation is complete, open Command Prompt.
- Type any of the following three commands.
sysprep /generalize or slmgr.vbs –rearm or rundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindows
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Streaming media from various video and music sites is easily one of the most popular activity in the internet. Now I wonder if we could grab all this stuffs instead of streaming each time we wanna listen or view thus saving valuable bandwidth. TubeMaster could be your answer, as this all-in-one approach for grabbing and converting audio and video from nearly any web site that can stream it to you.
Great thing is that the app requires no installation just launch it, its built-in tabbed browser lets you simply launch it, head to Last.fm, YouTube, a site with proprietary Flash video, or nearly any other streaming media, and hit “Start Media Capture.” After the files are on queue, just convert and save to your format of choice. TubeMaster’s built-in media search tool covers nearly 100 video and audio-sharing sites. TubeMaster Plus is easily one of my must have applications, upgrading to a paid version unlocks downloads from adult sites.
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Unless you really love Vista blacking out your screen and asking you with annoying popups to give access to a program or not is a strict no no for us. Norton unlike there annoying activation nightmare products, this free application named Norton User Account Control replaces Vista’s default UAC with a more user-friendly and more secure UAC. Most of the people that switched there workspace to Vista quickly got annoyed with the UAC and decided to disable it altogether.
Norton UAC is a much friendly option, as it has a simple Don’t ask me again option and gives you better details about the program that was prompted by UAC, so you have a better understanding what actually is wrong. Norton UAC is a free beta download, requires Windows Vista.
Norton User Account Control [via lifehacker]
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Windows Vista isn’t the most loved OS by Microsoft by any means, partly because many software’s and games that ran happily in Windows XP are subjected to crashes and other problems when executed in Vista.
Most games and software’s after some patches and other tweaks. To run programs having compatibility issues in Vista, one can simply turn on the compatibility Mode. Most of the programs that had issues with Vista are able to run after switching to the original OS settings should run in most cases.
To run any program or game in compatibility mode, just right click on the program you wanna run and select Properties. You should see in the properties window a tab named Compatibility. You should find a check box against “Run this Program in compatibility mode for” from where you should then select the Operating system the program was designed for. Click apply and now your program would work in Vista with compatibility but its a kinda finding a needle in the dark because it may work or not work depending how aged the program is.
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I was wondering how you guys are feeling about the new open-source browser, Google Chrome. I’m quite loving it because of the ease of use and the less resource intensive operation. But unfortunately my Mac and Linux buddy is still missing out on the Chrome goodness as Google hasn’t yet committed for a official Linux or Mac version.
Luckily a new project called CrossOver Chromium could be a stop gap between Google Chrome and Mac and Linux users until any official version pops out.
CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Google Chrome web browser created by CodeWeavers. But beware fellows, according to the devs, Google Chromium shouldn’t be run as the default browser on any of the systems as this project is just a proof of concept and besides that a natively supported Linux and Mac version might just be around the corner.
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As you would know iPhone might be the lamest mobile device considering the present gen phone, but is a miracle mobile device when it comes to surfing the internet! Unfortunately iPhone can’t be used as a modem, which is one of its many short comings, but unless you are smart enough to hack it yourself, just go over this tutorial and make it work for yourself.
Thou iPhone is a breakthrough internet devices, still many users prefer that hard feel of a physical keypad or board and by default we can’t use it as a modem, sores bigtime! To help you utilize that lame data plan your provider is bounding you with, iPhoneModem is here to help you utilizes the iPhone as a modem for a computer.
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As you would have already discovered, Apple has finally came out with the all new iPod Touch 2.1 Firmware for download via iTunes and I’m sure most of aren’t willing to purchase it for $9.95. Paying for a firmware is utter nonsense, Apple is really turning out to be a big fat evil! I wonder people buy that iPhone which is just the lamest cellphone ever to come over to this planet, if you compare the features of the present gen phones.
Now moving over to our topic, here is how you can upgrade your iPod Touch to 2.1 for free.
- As we have already shown How to Update iPod Touch to Firmware 2.0 for Free , do it!
- Once your iPod Touch is on 2.0, open iTunes click update.
- This will automatically update your iPod Touch to 2.1 for Free.
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