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Judge Opens Door For “Vista Capable” Class-Action Lawsuit

December 2006 was a great time to buy a new computer. Intel and AMD had some great choices in the market, and you could buy the XP OEM experience with the knowledge that if the computer was certified “Windows Vista Capable,” you could easily upgrade. There were many computers that shipped with upgrade certificates, entitling [...]

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Microsoft’s Wireless Keyboards Encryption Cracked

Dreamlab Technologies claims that it has cracked the encryption used by Microsoft’s wireless keyboards and its base station. As a result, Dreamlab can now sniff all keystrokes sent from Microsoft’s keyboards on the 27 MHz band. Dreamlab Technologies was able to tap and decode the radio frequencies by using just a simple radio receiver, a [...]

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Maximise Internet Explorer

Have you ever clicked on a link in Internet Explorer and it subsequentally opens a smaller Internet Explorer window to display the web page? This is OK but sometimes it results in Internet Explorer opening at the reduced size permanently which can be a right royal pain in the proverbial!! Well here’s a hand tip [...]

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