In Case You Missed It: Week 42 Round Up
In case you missed anything this past week, we have everything from cooling with mineral oil to video editing on your iPhone. Enjoy. Gadgets Asus Keyboard PC Gaming Cool Your Xbox With Mineral OilPS3 Smashing Into A TV At 80 KMHOpen Source DS Bluetooth AdapterBlack Wii For The BritsRock Band For iPhone Now Available Hacking [...]
Microsoft’s App Lab
I’ll give Microsoft credit, when they want to be funny they are funny. The Windows Mobile Dev team released this video giving everyone a sneak peak from their super secret application development lab of the upcoming apps that will be released on the new Windows Marketplace. I love the under-tone of poking fun at Apple’s [...]
10,000 Hotmail Passwords Leaked
According to reports online with confirmation from Microsoft, Over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail passwords were posted to pastebin earlier today. The accounts are genuine and look like they are mostly Eurpean users who use the @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @live.com domains. More specifically the leaked accounts include usernames that begin with ar to bl. If your [...]
NirLauncher – The Ultimate Thumb Drive Toolkit
For those of you who love to carry with you everything you might ever need to fix a friends system NirLauncher is the right product for you. You get over a 100 utilities included right out of the pop and it even gives you the ability to tweak it and add more. You can easily [...]
Ubuntu 9.10 Beta
The world’s most popular Linux Distro just got a bit older. Ubuntu 9.10 code named Karmic Koala is quickly reaching it’s maturity date of October 29th when a full stable release will go out. If you have never used Linux Ubuntu is one of the easiest distro’s to use. It’s quick and easy to install [...]
Linux Distros That Don’t Suck
I, much like every other hardcore geek on the face of the earth, have multiple linux based distro iso’s laying around. Some of them are for testing and some of them contain tools that I use on a daily basis. I have had many people email me about the best distro out there. The only [...]
Mobile Firefox Alpha
The first Mobile Firefox Alpha codenamed fennec is up for download on Mozilla’s site. Currently, the only mobile device that it actually runs on is Nokia’s N810 tablet, but you can play with it on Windows, OS X and Linux. I’m sure it will only be a short amount of time before we start to [...]
Join The tech.nocr.at Forums
You asked for it so we brought it to you. The tech.nocr.at forums are live and functioning. Drop by and discuss anything that is on your mind. Think of it as an extended version of our comments but only cooler. Got a hack or mod that has been vexing you? Maybe you don’t know what [...]
Sync Files Across Platforms With Synkron
Looking for a simple way to synchronize files or folder across multiple platforms, if so then Synkron is for you. Synkron is a power file-syncing app that synchs files and folders across Windows/Mac/Linux platforms. You can sync multiple folders, schedule automatic synchs, and even has restore capabilities incase a file has been accidentally overwritten during [...]
Use Your PSP As An External Display
With a simple piece of software you can use your PSP as an external display. The software, which is available to download on their site, allows you to use the PSP as a 960×544 display. The data is sent over compressed and then decompressed for display. Although this sounds like it would slow things down, [...]
Helix 2 Released. 2 Not 3
Helix 2 has been released (not 3 as the graphic say). Helix is a great collection of computer forensics tools. You can find out all sorts of juicy information with this toolkit. Winlockpwn allows you to break Windows security, Volitility processes data our of raw memory, and a whole slew of others. This is the [...]
Rockbox 3.0 Sneaks In
Rockbox, the open source replacement firmware for many mp3 players (see all supported players here) quietly release it’s first major update in over 3 years. Included in the update is support and stability for more mp3 player, playback support of more file types, last.fm support, album art, games, and tons more. With this new release [...]
Clips Of Windows 7 In Action
Yesterday we gave you a tiny glimpse of what Windows 7 will look like based on the latest M3 build.. Today we bring you two tiny videos demonstrating Windows 7′s updated Start button animation and it’s new powerful integrated calculator. Don’t knock the calculator, with history lists and date-to-date measurements it looks like a calculator [...]

Windows 7: Will You Upgrade?
By Frank on Oct 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
With Windows 7 officially released, will you be getting up early to purchase your copy? It has been a long time coming (I really don’t count Vista as a usable operating system), a stable a somewhat decent OS from Microsoft. Let’s be honest, the form and function of the new OS from the boys at [...]
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