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I was surf anonymously (as ever) on my Lenovo Y300 laptop and stumbled on this new site that is creating quite a buzz recently.

Being a huge football fan, I think this site has something better as compared to YouTube.

Carlsberg - Part Of The Game is a new site launched by the brew maker dedicated to football and fan life. There are a total of 5 channels that showcase all aspects about football from the classic football matches to life as a fan. Check out video clips about football funnies and rituals from the Football Magic channel (something you won’t want to miss ).

As similar to YouTube, users can upload their videos to this site as well.

So check out this new buzz by Carlsberg at PartOfTheGame.tv .

www.partofthegame.tv

I have quite a few problems recently with my laptop and unfortunately I have deleted a few important files.

I know some of you will say ….. “Restore it from your Recycle Bin.”

Unfortunately it ain’t that simple.

I had “CCleaned” to cleanup my junk files and that includes my “Recycle Bin” folder.

I was searching for answers and finally stumbled on this software called “Undelete Plus“. This tiny piece of software does the job perfectly and I am able to get my files back. Furthermore, it is available for “FREE” for a limited time period.

When I mean “Free”, it is free to download and free to use.

Download this powerful application today !

I’ve tried a couple of free for personal use anti-virus on my laptop and most has been good but quite annoying.

Avg Free, Avira Anti-Vir, Avast Home Edition, Bit Defender has been good but a little annoying when it comes to certain files which falsely detected it as trojans.

This can be really annoying as some of the files application file needed to run a certain program like autoplay my portable hard drive … etc.

Another annoyance is that it tends to consume quite a lot of system memory during updating even some with an audio alert that says Your System has been updated thing.

It’s useful for novice users out there but for me I’m in a need to find much more better alternative.

Came in Threatfire.
This anti-virus come in the free and paid version.

One thing I like about this software is that it is light-weight, uses less system resource and updates in the background.

You might not even know whether it is updating !

But it does the job well ….. protects your pc against virus and spyware with less annoyances

Get Threatfire AntiVirus by clicking the link here.

Hi there it’s me again and recently I was renewing my son’s passport and guess what I did all with the comfort of my laptop.

You will, of course, need a digital camera, photo printer, your laptop and an internet connection .

Internet Connection? You might puzzled I supposed.

Yeah …. let’s get started.

First , you need to take your passport photo from your own digital camera. Depends on country regulations, you might a white or colored background of your country’s choice. Read up your official immmigration rules and regulations on passport photo.

Need once you snap that photo …. upload it to your laptop (resize it) and proceed to epassportphoto.com .
This site supports passport taking for numerous countries .

Click on the “Get My Free Passport Photos” link to get started. (Remember to choose of your country of origin before proceeding further). After that it is just simply following the passport making wizard.

Save the photo as a jpeg file and print it on your photo printer ……

You’re done …. it is simple as that.

Try it out …. It’s fun.

Recently (well its yesterday actually), I did a post on the new Open Office 3.0.

One of the functions that thrills me with the new Open Office 3.0 is definitely the PDF Importer.

Finally a freeware that allows you to edit your PDF file (well it’s a long wait really ).

Unfortunately this is NOT part of the installation files but it is an extension or add-on to the Open Office 3.0 suite. Do note this extension does not work with earlier versions of Open Office.

It is one of the hottest downloads of the moment; so HOT that it has already reach 254749 downloads at the moment and 58382 downloads from this week already.

What’s more users from various platforms are able to enjoy this breakthrough function. Windows, Mac OSX, Solaris and even Linux (x32 and x64) users can use this powerful tool on their already FREE Open Office 3.0.

To download the PDF importer for Open Office 3.0, click here.

To enjoy enhancing your Open Office with new extensions (if you are familiar with Firefox style of add-ons, this is very much similar) , Click here.

The alternative office suite for PCs (laptops included), OpenOffice.org, has now released version 3.0 of its office suite.

There are many new features in this new suite and for the first time ever ” a PDF importer”.

Which means you can import you pdf files …. edit them up and save as a document, spreadsheet, presentation or draw file (something Microsoft haven’t come out with ).

Though Microsoft has been working with third party ….. Able2Extract on this function to be in the future releases of Microsoft Office suites, Sun Microsystems has leapfrog a step further with this release.

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I’ve been quite busy fixing my blog which is having some plugin incompatibilities with my current wordpress (which is version 2.6.2) and I was thinking …… why not take a break for a while.

As I am doing some house cleaning (at that same time …. man I’m busy) , I stumbled across one of my favourite games which I’ve kept in my cupboard for quite a long time.

The game …you’ve guessed it ….. it’s Marvel vs Capcom 2.

Now my Lenovo laptop is running on Windows Vista Basic and my mmind went to be a bit wacko when I tried to install it on my VIsta. Note this is a very old game and one wonders will it ever work on Windows Vista …

Guess what …installation is smoking easy ( once you run on cmpatability mode), and the game can be played as per normal.

With just a mere laptop …. you can play one of the those great old-school games that is still hot at arcade game shops everywhere.

I’ve yet to do a screencast on that from my laptop but I came across a similar video from youtube to show guys.

Marvel vs Capcom on laptop is possible and best of all all you need is a laptop, a gamepad/ joystick and the game itself.

Check out the video below and you will know what I mean.

This game is unavailable in stores now but you can get it from ebay where a lot of people are doing their trade.

Hi there, welcome to another post from Laptop Info Today.

Anyway recently I’ve been to do some tasks lately on my laptop and that is to extract information from pdf files to an office file formats.

To make matters worse, some of the pdf files are needed to be exported in excel spreadsheet and powerpoint formats.

Whoa … this is a big challenge but nonetheless there is a solution in a software called Able2Extract.

This is NOT a freeware but it does a job for me, you never sometimes you came around request like these, especially if you are an IT Technician .

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