Get 180-day of ESet NOD32 service for free, a $20 value.
PPLive is a peer-to-peer streaming video network application, it currently runs a promotion with ESet, and you can get a free NOD32 id when you download and install the PPLive program.
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Get SDHC work in your old card reader.
SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity, SD 2.0), allows capacities in excess of 2 GB and is designed to meet the fast-growing demand of the high-volume storage market. It uses the same form factor as SD, but the SD 2.0 standard in SDHC uses a different memory addressing method (sector addressing vs. byte addressing) and were supposed to only work in SDHC compatible devices while standard SD cards work in both SD and SDHC devices. So in order to get SDHC work with your computer, you either have to get a SDHC supported card reader or use the card in the SDHC compatible device and connect the device to your computer to read/write from it.
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While ISPs start limiting BitTorrent Traffic, there are still some way to get around it. While there are valid arguments for and against these limitations, we’re not here to debate. We just want the fastest BitTorrent transfers possible.
Even though many of them deny it, most ISPs actively engage in traffic shaping, bandwidth throttling, connection denial or some such tactic to keep the amount of bandwidth consumed by high traffic applications on their networks to a minimum. While this does often ensure better performance for everyone in the neighborhood, it can mean painfully slow transfer speeds for those dabbling in P2P — legit or not.
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Keyboard shortcut is well known and widely adopted to speed up working. And there are lots of hotkey utilities around to launch your favorite apps without a mouse move. However, you might not know that, Windows itself, can assign hotkey to an application, without any 3rd party software(thus no additional resource consumed).
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JMicro controller found in 965P/P35(and maybe future X38) causes a lot problems with IDE optical drives, is there anyway to fix it?
Intel moves a big step since the release of 965P chipset, the new ICH8(R) southbridge, partnered with the it, is the first chipset to completely drop support of EIDE devices. While one could argue that the removal of PATA support is a needed step forward in technology, we firmly believe that Intel should have waited until the next generation ICH for this change. The Optical Drive market is still about 80% PATA based. While this development might spur the optical drive suppliers into offering additional SATA drives in the near future, it does not address the requirements of the current PATA installed base. Most motherboards using ICH8/ICH9 also add an additional chipset for PATA support, and the JMB361/JMB363 from JMicro are the most popular among them.
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The Zend Optimizer can accelerate php execution speed greatly. However, in some shared web hosting service, its not pre-installed and self installation is only available to accounts with shell access. It’s more of a marketing gimmick than technology limitation.
The Zend Optimizer is a freeware tool for parsing pre-compiled PHP files. These PHP files must first have been compiled with the Zend Encoder which however is not a freeware. The advantage of pre-compiled files is that they do not need to be parsed repeatedly and therefore execute faster.
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Microsoft doesn’t make all their patches publicly available, get them through backdoor…
Do you ever encounter this situation: something goes wrong, and, of course, as a geek, you try to fix it yourself. So after lots of diagnoses and searching, the suspect is identified: the Windows System you are running, or more exactly, microsoft.
