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Get a preview of IE9 now!

March 17, 2010

Later today in the MIX10 developer conference, Microsoft has revealed the first ever public preview of Internet Explorer Platform. No matter how hard Microsoft tries to name it in a politically correct way, it is what we’ll soon call – Internet Explorer 9! Currently it’s just bare bones but rather impressive one at that. I [...]

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Will you buy an iPad or the ExoPC Slate? One-to-one comparison

February 1, 2010

Jan 27 was the day when iPad happened and shortly after we caught a glimpse of it’s look-alike on a French company’s website – The ExoPC Slate and this is what it looks like: Too much of resemblance to the iPad eh! Even we think so. Now here’s the interesting part. It just doesn’t look [...]

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Avast 5.0 Beta Review

January 20, 2010

Avast is one of the well-known names in free antivirus category since years. It has been repeatedly ranked amongst Top 3 free antivirus products and now to add to its glory, Alwil has slipped out its stylized revamped avatar, Avast 5.0. I have been really happy with Avast and am using it since my college [...]

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How to: Change framerate of subtitles

January 15, 2010

While watching movies with subtitles it is very important to have same framerates for both – the movie file and the subtitle file. Although it does not apply to hardcoded subtitles, unsynced framerates is one of the most common annoyances when we use an explicit subtitle file to overlay on the video. Here, the change [...]

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“What browser to use during online transactions?”

December 2, 2009

I was unable to post for almost a week and there is a reason for that. A happy reason. Uptill now, TechExplorer was hosted on blogger platform and we recently made a switch to BlueHost and now using WordPress as our CMS. During the whole process I frequently dealt with online money transactions and which [...]

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Windows 7: Compatible antivirus programs

September 16, 2009

When we switch over to a newer operating system, we ought to look for the compatible programs that work optimally with the new OS platform. The final release of Windows 7 is just around the corner and that makes it important for the user to know the compatible software applications. Well, I can safely say [...]

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The best Windows 7 upgrade: Home Premium

July 19, 2009

There are loads of websites that are now talking about the available Windows 7 upgrade options. Initially it seemed that Microsoft is going to release just one Windows 7 flavor but it turns out, we now have 3 options to choose from and that is surely going to add a dilemma to users which one [...]

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Mini Notebook: Samsung NC20

June 29, 2009

After much anticipation, Samsung finally released NC20 laptop and added a charm to its mini notebook family. Samsung NC20 is reviewed so much positively that I personally wanted my hands on it. So I visited the Samsung store in my city and did my best to accurately test it. First of all, Samsung NC20 is [...]

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Bing: Not good enough

June 2, 2009

I can understand this whole brouhaha about Microsoft Bing. But why? Just because there is nothing more happening in the search engine arena. Or is it because people got bored of Google and wanted something new to just talk about or may be even worse, they got carried away by looking at a video of [...]

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