38 days ago by Mike Halsey MVP

One of the more interesting features in Windows 8, certainly from my perspective as the author of “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” is the ability for Microsoft’s new operating system to self-repair and reinstall itself. This isn’t actually as clever as it sounds but as a simplistic explanation ...

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38 days ago by Raffy Pekson II

Browsing for books Whether for personal or commercial use, the Department of Finance (DOF) signed Department Order No. 57-2011 detailing the guidelines to this new law of duty- and VAT-free status of books imported into the Philippines, including clearance procedures for customs-related agencies. Th ...

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38 days ago by Mike Halsey MVP

Christmas was a good week for all of us, but a great week for apps with analytics firm Flurry reporting a 60% leap in app downloads on the previous week. The figures which cover smartphones and tablets for just iOS and Android operating systems estimated that 6.8 million iOS and Android devices were ...

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38 days ago by Mike Halsey MVP

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Metro themed websites are suddenly becoming very popular. I updated my own website (below) to Metro last month, partly because it’s Microsoft products I write about mostly, but also because it makes for a touch-friendly website and I firmly believe that all websites s ...

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39 days ago by Mike Halsey MVP

Microsoft have today confirmed that Kinect will be coming to the PC early this year “not as a hack but as a commercial product with dedicated PC hardware”. Some changes include a shorter USB cable and new firmware to allow close-up usage of the device. It is probably safe to assume the new Kinect fo ...

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39 days ago by Mike Halsey MVP

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips There was a time when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser had a healthy 95% of the overall browser market. This didn’t even mean that their main opposition on the PC had the other 5% as you had to factor into this the Apple Mac on which people ran Safari. Sadly this ...

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39 days ago by Mike Halsey MVP

Of the biggest tech stories in 2011 it was difficult to beat the news of the HP TouchPad fire sale where silly prices resulted in queues outside stores and websites crashing around the world. I was lucky enough to get a 32Gb TouchPad myself for a price so low I can barely remember paying for it at a ...

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43 days ago by Michael Becker

If you haven’t heard about SOPA and PIPA from the people in your online circles already, you will probably learn about it soon, especially if the major Web companies mentioned in this story do what they are threatening to do. The Stop Online Piracy Act, HR 3261, is a bill proposed by Texas Republica ...

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44 days ago by Mike Halsey

So it’s almost time to dust off the old new year’s resolutions, work out how many you kept (I kept all of mine for the first time), and then set some more to take you into 2012. But if I may I’d like to offer up a suggestion, and that is that you go into 2012 with a clean social networking profile. ...

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45 days ago by Mike Halsey

I get a fair amount of email in my inbox at mike@MVPs.org from readers asking questions about how to do or fix A, B or C on their PCs. One email I received this morning got me so riled that I felt it needed to be written up here, though it’s not the first time I have heard this story. Dan from Canad ...

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