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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4350 on: March 21, 2015, 10:48:45 PM »
Opera acquires SurfEasy, a North American online privacy company
http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/2015-03-19


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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4351 on: March 21, 2015, 11:19:18 PM »
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4352 on: March 22, 2015, 01:00:27 AM »
When out on DuckDuckGo I use a nice userscript installed via Tampermonkey in Google Chrome named DuckDuckGo Extended . When you have Tampermonkey for userscripts installed in Google Chrome, you can install that script from here:
https://greasyfork.org/nl/scripts/7661-duckduckgo-extended
For those that dare, enjoy!

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4353 on: March 22, 2015, 03:37:52 PM »
When out on DuckDuckGo I use a nice userscript installed via Tampermonkey in Google Chrome named DuckDuckGo Extended . When you have Tampermonkey for userscripts installed in Google Chrome, you can install that script from here:
https://greasyfork.org/nl/scripts/7661-duckduckgo-extended
For those that dare, enjoy!

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More on Google Play:
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4354 on: April 02, 2015, 03:25:24 PM »

Many years ago, I used a technique called “Drop My Rights” and digging into my archives,
that technique can still be used today to help keep you safe.
This especially holds true for those that are still using Windows XP.
For more information, please take a look at the following: http://goo.gl/DESJ8g

Once you open this Google Drive Folder, simply follow the instructions outlined in the DropMyRightsInstructions.
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4357 on: April 07, 2015, 06:41:52 PM »
Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/aluminum-ion-battery-033115.html


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One example is ultra-fast charging. Smartphone owners know that it can take hours to charge a lithium-ion battery. But the Stanford team reported "unprecedented charging times" of down to one minute with the aluminum prototype.

Durability is another important factor. Aluminum batteries developed at other laboratories usually died after just 100 charge-discharge cycles. But the Stanford battery was able to withstand more than 7,500 cycles without any loss of capacity. "This was the first time an ultra-fast aluminum-ion battery was constructed with stability over thousands of cycles," the authors wrote.


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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4358 on: April 08, 2015, 02:18:53 PM »
Excessive Disk usage due to WmiPrvSE.exe
And as you can see, I've found a solution.
Open your Services program. The easiest way to find is just click Start, type Services, hit Enter.

Under Services (Local), scroll down until you find the “Windows Management Instrumentation” service and select Restart.









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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4359 on: April 09, 2015, 04:35:03 PM »
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4360 on: April 13, 2015, 03:15:02 PM »

Maelstrom - A new browser from BitTorrent enters Beta stage for Windows users.
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4362 on: April 17, 2015, 05:26:18 PM »

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4363 on: April 17, 2015, 09:11:18 PM »
Free Fixer

FreeFixer is a general purpose removal tool which will help you to delete potentially unwanted software,
such as adware, spyware, trojans, viruses and worms. FreeFixer works by scanning a large number of locations
where unwanted software has a known record of appearing or leaving traces.
I would suggest that unless you're an expert, you use this for analysis and leave the removal to an expert.
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4364 on: April 18, 2015, 06:33:19 AM »
Bob, did you try Free Fixer and Drive The Life. And if so was it in a VM.  Seems like these are programs that could bork your computer very easy if your not careful.