Interesting Software and System News

[AdrianH]

Get Free Keycode of Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 (Windows Version)
http://www.wondershare.com/topic/giveaway-liveboot2012.html

Rapidly Rescue You from Any Imaginable PC Crash Disaster with a boot CD
Features:
    Boot up any computer with a boot disk
    Rescue data from crashed or damaged computer
    Partition, format, clone, and deep wipe hard drive
    Rescue crashed Windows and hard drive
    Install Windows easily
    Reset Windows user/admin password
    Platfrom: Windows 7/Vista/XP (32 & 64 bit)

Tried this ........ got the key code, used the supplied download link which was painfully slow, (30 minutes on a 20MB connection) and what do we get? Invalid code or email supplied.

2 other people I showed this to have had the same experience ............  seems all they are doing is harvesting names and emails.  At least we will know to avoid this company like the plague in future.

[timcan]

 


Tried this ........ got the key code, used the supplied download link which was painfully slow, (30 minutes on a 20MB connection) and what do we get? Invalid code or email supplied.

2 other people I showed this to have had the same experience ............  seems all they are doing is harvesting names and emails.  At least we will know to avoid this company like the plague in future.

Hi,I got the invalid code or email supplied the first time also.
So I reread the email they sent which contains the license key.You must use giveaway@wondershare.com as the email address.

The disc works well here and has a lot of good utilities supplied.I'll take a ready made WinPe boot disc any day for free. JMO
Hope this helps, Tim

[AdrianH]

 


Tried this ........ got the key code, used the supplied download link which was painfully slow, (30 minutes on a 20MB connection) and what do we get? Invalid code or email supplied.

2 other people I showed this to have had the same experience ............  seems all they are doing is harvesting names and emails.  At least we will know to avoid this company like the plague in future.

Hi,I got the invalid code or email supplied the first time also.
So I reread the email they sent which contains the license key.You must use giveaway@wondershare.com as the email address.

The disc works well here and has a lot of good utilities supplied.I'll take a ready made WinPe boot disc any day for free. JMO
Hope this helps, Tim

I used the correct email address but got nowhere. Having tried a freshh download ( which was vwery quick) all is working now, I can only assume there was a problem with the original download.

[AdrianH]

Some folding projects that may be of interest

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2100222/cern-reaches-pc-laptop-users



LHC at Home   

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/

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Citizen Cyberscience Centre

http://www.citizencyberscience.net/ccc-partner.htm


Press release with links to other projects

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR13.11E.html



http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

Helping to find ways to produce clean water and oter medical research

[bob3160]

Download Lion Tweaks

NOTE: This is not for the Windows Operating System

(Information came from Web Trikz)

[Lisandro]

4t Tray Minimizer: Free Utility to Minimize Applications to System Tray in Windows
http://www.askvg.com/4t-tray-minimizer-free-utility-to-minimize-applications-to-system-tray-in-windows

PowerMenu: Minimize Any Application to System Tray in Windows
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-minimize-an-application-to-system-tray-in-windows/

[Lisandro]

Microsoft Releases Update to Improve USB Storage Devices Performance in Windows 7
http://www.askvg.com/microsoft-releases-update-to-improve-usb-storage-devices-performance-in-windows-7/

Improve your USB speed transfer from 64 kilobytes (KB) to 2 megabytes (MB).

[Dch48]

Microsoft Releases Update to Improve USB Storage Devices Performance in Windows 7
http://www.askvg.com/microsoft-releases-update-to-improve-usb-storage-devices-performance-in-windows-7/

Improve your USB speed transfer from 64 kilobytes (KB) to 2 megabytes (MB).

I downloaded it after going through the process of getting the link sent to my email. After reading the email, I'm hesitant to install it because it says it's not fully tested. It also says that it will be included in the next Service Pack for Win7 and advises waiting until then if you have any trepidations. You also have to manually edit your registry after installing it to get it to work. I just don't know.

This might seem like a dumb question but what exactly are USB storage devices anyway? Is it only talking about thumb drives or are external hard drives also included? I have yet to use a thumb drive. I don't even own one yet.

[Lisandro]

Dch48, there is a script to download and change the registry automatically.
All the hotfix say the same warning about testing. But, after all, it's up to the user.

[YoKenny]

This might seem like a dumb question but what exactly are USB storage devices anyway? Is it only talking about thumb drives or are external hard drives also included? I have yet to use a thumb drive. I don't even own one yet.

I have 3 thumb drives and they are quite handy even though they are only 1GB each.

[bob3160]

I have many of them ranging from 1 Gig to 2 TB
The 2 TB external USB device is used to do my image backups.
The rest are used for too many things to list. 

[Raveen Kool]

Google bought Motorola.........

http://www.technologyreview.in/web/38320/

[Marc57]

Internet Explorer 9 is Safest Web Browser, NSI Says

"Microsoft this week is touting the results of two recent studies from NSI showing that its Internet Explorer 9 web browser does a better job of protecting users from malware than the competition. In fact it's not even close."

http://www.winsupersite.com/blog/supersite-blog-39/internet-explorer2/internet-explorer-9-is-safest-web-browser-nsi-says-140224

[Marc57]

Microsoft Releases Update to Improve USB Storage Devices Performance in Windows 7
http://www.askvg.com/microsoft-releases-update-to-improve-usb-storage-devices-performance-in-windows-7/

Improve your USB speed transfer from 64 kilobytes (KB) to 2 megabytes (MB).

Thanks Tech, This does really seem to improve transfer times.

Update: This does a good job of improving transfer times with USB 2.0, it doesn't do anything with USB 3.0. (But then again USB 3.0 doesn't need any help) 

[YoKenny]

avast! Facebook Community Exceeds 300 Thousand
https://blog.avast.com/2011/08/16/avast-facebook-community-exceeds-300-thousand