Many of the newest Windows games will take full advantage of the next-generation graphics technology in Windows Vista called DirectX 10. DirectX 10 provides an incredibly detailed experience for gamers of every type. DirectX 10 in Windows Vista delivers advanced graphics technology never before seen that will enable game creators to increase the game’s level of realism, enhancing details and complexity in gaming worlds, apply effects like dynamic lighting and weather. But unfortunately, DirectX 10 is only available for Windows Vista. How about Windows XP?
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DimDim Free Web Based Live Meetings
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required to host or attend meetings. This looks like another promising online meetings provider to complement my toolbox and reviews of other similar offerings such as Mikogo, Teamviewer , Yuuguu and CrossLoop.
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Image Processing with Mathematica
A really interesting feature introduced with Mathematica 7 was the addition of a suite of image processing functions from trivial to highly sophisticated. To apply them to images, you don’t need to use any form of import command or file name references. Just type the command you want to use, then drag and drop the image from your desktop or browser right into the input line.
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SlideShare Support KeyNote Documents
Now you can upload your keynote documents created on iWorks and share it to the world on SlideShare. All you need to do is compress your Keynote file as a ZIP and then upload that ZIP to SlideShare.
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How To Remove AVG AntiVirus Email Signature
AVG Antivirus scans your incoming and outgoing emails by default and includes a signature at the end of each email it has scanned. Removing the signature is easy to do and here’s how you can do it.
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Mikogo Launches New Version of Free Online Meeting Software
I had previously written about Mikogo and even used it to diagnose a problem on my brother’s laptop remotely (I’m in Australia and he’s in Malaysia). Version 2.0 of Mikogo has recently been released with several major improvements.
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Where To Download AVG AntiVirus Free Updates
AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool and is free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.
I’ve been personally using AVG Free for more then 2 years now and automatic updates is working great. But a question was recently asked if you can download the updates manually from a site or ftp.
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Integrate Outlook with Skype, Yahoo Mail, Facebook and LinkedIn
Xobni, my favorite plugin for Outlook, has just got better after more public API has been consumed and allowing it to interact with popular third party applications and web services such as Skype, Yahoo Mail and LinkedIn. You can now read your yahoo mail in outlook but will still need to open up the webpage of Ymail to be able to send a new email.
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Good Reasons To Upgrade To Office 2007?
I know what most people will say that new is better and that as a technology/IT worker you have to keep up with technology. I simply don’t buy into this crap. Technology is simply here to assist you to improve productivity and do whatever you want to get done, rather than making people feel cool just because the software introduces some shiny buttons and ribbon bars hanging on top of the screen shouting out for attention. Oh, I’m talking about Microsoft Office 2007, not Iphones or IPods (which appears to be shiny and sleek for some other good reasons).
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How To Set Default Internet Web Browser
Some people have different web browsers such as IE, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome or Safari installed on their computers. And for some reasons, some are having problem switching their default browsers back to what they want. The solution is actually, pretty simple.
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