While Microsoft Encarta Premium 2006 marked Microsoft’s commitment to the Web – Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 marks its commitments to its own technology. The new Encarta relies on Microsoft’s powerful, flexible, scalable, and adaptable.Net Framework 2.0. There a price to pay, of course: the time it takes to install the product is much longer and […]
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You have been using Screensavers till now. Did you know that you could interact with them? Yes, you can do that now. Do you wish to write your text and read it on a screensaver? You can change the text whenever you want. And it is all for free. Many of us always wished to […]
Recording telephone conversations used to require expensive hardware and dedicated recording equipment. On the low end, one could use a simple wire to connect a phone handset with a tape recorder. An office with multiple phone lines would need expensive solutions that integrate a PBX with call recording. PBXpress http://www.callcorder.com/ is a great example of […]
That’s a well-known fact: the Windows operating system becomes unstable with time. It regularly freezes, acquires a lot of useless functions and trash in the registry. Specialists recommend reinstalling Windows from scratch not less than once a year. Most users think of reinstalling Windows as a long, routine process usually accompanied by formatting the hard […]
You use Ctrl+Alt+Del to see what’s running on your PC, to close crashed programs and processes, and to check performance. You probably avoid a few processes whose names mean nothing to you, but they’re essential to Windows. svchost.exe sure likes to appear all the time and multiple times at that. What’s taskmgr.exe? Oh yeah, it’s […]
VCRs have been taking care of video recordings for decades, allowing you to capture a TV show to watch it later. But what if you want to do the same with audio? No matter what type of audio you’d like to listen to later, you would need a dedicated audio recording unit, maybe a tape […]