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The signs are there …. and it’s true.

One of the main reasons softwares are invented are to make, we, users simplified our jobs on the PC and so on. The other aspect it can make us complacent and lazy as well.

When it comes to speech recognition softwares, there’s 2 ways you can think about it …. make it easier or make us lazier.

I was browsing through the internet yesterday and I was in awe when I saw the demo of this software, the “Dragon  Naturally Speaking 10″ speech recognition software.

It actually computes what you say in speech and actually processes commands to the computer via you talking without you actually touching the keyboard.

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It’s been a while (about 2 and a half weeks) since my last post and I would like to thank all my viewers for the overwhelming comments I’ve received ….. Thank You Guys…

Anyway, I have been away for quite a while and didn’t had time to do posting at this blog but now I’m back and hopefully to share new information to kick in everybody’s laptop experience.

Recently I’ve been trying some new stuffs lately at one of it is to change the look of my Windows laptop to match that of Windows 7, the new and upcoming operating system by Microsoft.

Take a look below.

As you can see the taskbar, as compared to the previous version, is a bit wider.

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Can you do that? Do you want to try?

Well this is possible …… it is not as easy as it seems like installing a new WIndows operating system on a new laptop ( not so direct though). But if you are up for the challenge then note down these steps below.

First let’s get the stuffs prepared for this operation (it ain’t going to be a medical room ).

1. A Dell mini-note notebook with at least 16 GB of SSD of hard disk space
2. A retail copy of Mac OSX – don’t use the oem version that comes with the MacBook
3. An  external USB drive
4. The “Type11 BootLoader” at this link here
5. A blank CD to burn your bootloader

After all of the requirements are satisfied, let’s begin the installation process …..

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Netbook (or mini-notebook) sales are on the rise and far becoming the trend for normal users who may use for internet and office applications.

But for gaming? Hey …. that’s too much to ask.

However gamers are finding ways to use mini-notebooks as the new gaming machine. Sounds bizarre but it is true.

Here’s are some advantages I feel gamers may move their games from their desktops or laptops to the trendy item called the mini-notebooks.

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Is it me or the title of this post just don’t make any sense.

Actually there is a new search engine in town and it is called Bing (hey I’m not binging around ).

Microsoft has actually decided to overcome its failure in the Live Search brand with Bing which is proclaimed to outstead Google and Yahoo search engines in future search use.

Why I’m covering this post  you might wonder, as it got nothing to do with laptops? For me, anything that has got to do with the internet has got everything to do with my laptop …. especially with this blog where I got to communicate with you all ….

I’m quite excited to test out the Bing feature (just to see how true Microsoft has evolved in search engine – Live Search is the one I normally avoid as it has just not live up to its expectation).

Here’s how the Bing Search engine looks like below.

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The Event Viewer? What’s that?

These are the questions I received often and to tell you frankly, it took me about 10 minutes at least to educate my friends on what is event viewer, why it is useful and when you wanted to know what happen to your laptop or PC.

The event  viewer is the least used and most under-rated tool (and I mean that) by fellow Windows users. The event viewer is simply a log which notes any instance of the operating system.

Let me explain in a much easier term.

I give an example :- When an application (let’s say Windows Explorer crashes), this instance will be logged to the event viewer.

The screenshot above shows there’s an error with the NetLogon and an error indication will be further explained once you double click on that error information.

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I’m attending my first ever Microsoft Certification (MCITP -Windows Server 2008 Server Administration) course right and during the break time i think why not I do another post for you guys.

Ever since Windows XP Service Pack 3 is released, changes made to Windows theme function has been more stricter  than ever.

Unlike what it used to be, just by renaming and overwriting uxtheme.dll can solved the problem in less than a minute …. it doesn’t seems that way …. well not until now.

There are 2 ways actually to change the theme of your Windows and apply third party ones to your desktop.

I’ll show how how to do it and where to get fantastic themes as well for free as what you see below.

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Since I’ve downgraded to Windows XP on my Lenovo laptop recently, I did suffer a slight dip in my internet surfing.

This is because unlike Vista, XP is only based in IPV4 protocol wherelse in Windows Vista you have IPV6 protocol to support internet connection bandwidth.

But one thing good about XP, is that, you can tweak settings ( that includes internet, themes and performance) to your hearts desire.

Being a great hobbyist on tweaking, I decided to do some tweaking on the internet connection settings.

I’ve downloaded a software called Cablenut.

With Cablenut I can set internet optimized setting in the registry directly via this software.

Let’s me share your my setting and it has improved my connectivity by 60%.

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