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The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient and immune to dust

By JMH on 28 Jul 2011

There’s a fundamental flaw with fan-and-heatsink cooling systems: no matter how hard the fan blows, a boundary layer of motionless, highly-insulating ...

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Automated Fix for Windows 7 SP1 Install Failures 0x8004a029, 0x80004005 - E_FAIL

By JMH on 28 Jul 2011

A few months ago Microsoft confirmed that some customers were experiencing issues when attempting to install Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. Specificall...

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Google+ Identity Crisis: What’s at Stake With Real Names and Privacy

By JMH on 27 Jul 2011

After a steady stream of angry blog posts and heated debate among its own users over the value of pseudonymity on the web, Google announced Monday tha...

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Mozilla aims to play the OS game

By JMH on 27 Jul 2011

Mozilla is plotting to join the operating system fray with an “open Web” twist. The group outlined a project called Boot to Gecko on its Wiki page:

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Facebook glitch exposes private videos

By JMH on 26 Jul 2011

Just as our friends at The New York Times and Link Removed are reporting

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Windows everywhere, or Windows nowhere? What is Microsoft's "single ecosystem"?

By JMH on 26 Jul 2011

In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and our community's answers. Eac...

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These Aren’t the Droids You Are Looking For … No Wait … They Are

By JMH on 26 Jul 2011

One of the earliest uses of the word Droid came in Star Wars when Obe-wan Kenobe when approached by some Storm Troopers said “These aren’t the droids ...

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IBM speeds storage retrieval with flash drives

By JMH on 25 Jul 2011

IBM has demonstrated a high-speed storage system that uses solid-state memory and a parallel file system With an eye toward helping tomorrow's data-de...

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Best free Portable Applications.

By JMH on 25 Jul 2011

This list provides a collection of portable apps from across Gizmo's Freeware and other sites. Portable freeware is an amazing development and is forc...

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Support Your Friends Tech Needs The Right Way

By JMH on 25 Jul 2011

Let’s assume for a moment, that you just got a call from ———– (fill in the blank), who wants you to walk him through transferring files from one compu...

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