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PDF Owner Guard PDF Owner Guard provides PDF (portable document format) security, copy protection, digital rights management (DRM) and a distribution management solution. Together, these technologies are used as a copyright enforcement mechanisms ... and sometimes as an alternative mechanism to copyright law. http://www.armjisoft.com Windows Command-Line Utilities This useful group of tools promises to make your Windows command line experience a much more convenient one. Included are: VSP: Very Small Pinger, SCRNMODE: Screen Mode Changer, RMMINUSR: Recursive Delete, DOFF: Print Date/Time With ... (view more)

Windows 7 Little Tweaker Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a small and simple-to-use utility that let you easily activate a few useful extras for Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows 7 Little Tweaker is a Windows 7-only portable ... application and will not run on any other Windows versions. http://leelusoft.blogspot.com Dvorak Keyset The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard is a keyboard layout and was designed to address the problems of inefficiency and fatigue which characterized the QWERTY keyboard layout. This tutorial explains how to enabled the Dvorak Keyboard using Windows XP. ... (view more)

Infopackets Reader 'Peneloppe' writes: " I have been hacked by someone I know through my IP address, and this is easy for him since he is a hacker. I have Kazpersky anti virus but still he has been able to tag all my conversations through Internet ... because he gets my IP addresses all the time. Before he used Trojans because he had access to my PC (not anymore). He has shown me files and files of all my conversations. At this point don't know what to do! Please I need help and want to report him to put an end to this never ending story. I am tired of him trying to have control over my personal ... (view more)

Microsoft has confirmed Windows 7 will get its official release on 22 October. It's also updated some of the details about the Starter edition which will appear on low-spec machines such as netbooks. The October release date had been widely expected ... since the head of Acer in the UK revealed one of his firm's new models would be on sale running Windows 7 on the 23rd -- one day out from the confirmed release date. October Release a Pre-Emptive Strike The release is three months before the earliest date Microsoft had previously hinted at (January 2010, three years after Vista's release). The ... (view more)

Microsoft has been making a lot of news lately about its dominance of the trendy netbook market. However, both Acer and RealNetworks have made splashes in recent days, announcing their intentions to use and develop for alternative netbook operating ... systems. Up to this point, Microsoft Windows XP has been the dominant OS for netbooks , the tiny 8.9" to 11.6" laptops with impressive web surfing speed but few hardware highlights. The majority of netbooks don't even have DVD drives, but given their sub-3 pound weight, miniscule width, and comparably cheap price tags, they've become awfully ... (view more)

If a company produces a product and then sells it, said company would expect to see their profits increase with each sale. When Microsoft attempts to follow this concept, the specifics on which product is being sold gets taken into account. In some ... cases, each sale could actually decrease their profits. Such is the case with Microsoft's long-standing love-hate relationship with netbook computers . On one hand, Microsoft loves being recognized as the leading operating system provider for most netbook models. Microsoft was given "alpha" distinction after stealing the title away from Linux, ... (view more)

Users of Mozilla's Firefox web browser may have received an unpleasant surprise when they performed a routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component. Tens of millions of computers have quietly installed an extra Firefox add-on whether ... users wanted it or not. Firefox .NET ClickOnce Addon The Firefox add-on shipped with a bundle of updates via Microsoft's .NET Framework Service Pack that was made available to users through the Windows Update Web site. If a user installs the .NET update, it automatically installs its own ClickOnce Firefox add-on that is both difficult and dangerous to ... (view more)

Another remote hacker threat has arisen, and this time it affects popular streaming media tool DirectX. Microsoft announced yesterday that it is currently working on a fix for the security exploit, which could allow someone to take total control of ... a system by using malicious QuickTime video files. DirectX Exploit: Affected Users The exploit involves Microsoft's audio/video sourcing/rendering software DirectShow and the way it handles the QuickTime format files it supports. Users of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP are those most affected and will want to keep ... (view more)

Windows 7 Setup Secrets This guide will help new users of the much-anticipated Microsoft Windows 7 operating system maximize its effectiveness and customization options by taking them through the setup process, picking the right kinds of features ... for their own particular needs. http://blogs.zdnet.com Construct Construct is a free, powerful, and easy to use development software for both DirectX 9-based games and applications. It includes an event based system for defining how the game or application will behave, in a visual, readable way -- easy enough for complete beginners to quickly get ... (view more)

Unconfirmed reports suggest Microsoft will drop a limitation on the Starter Edition of Windows 7 that would prevent users from running more than three applications at a time. This comes amidst speculation that guidelines for the Starter Edition have ... been rigged to benefit particular manufacturers. The Starter Edition, aimed at netbook users, will not be available for consumers to buy separately. Instead, only manufacturers are allowed to license it and install it on their machines. In the originally published specifications for the Starter Edition, users could only run three programs at any ... (view more)