How To Install Windows 7 With Only Upgrade DVD

To install Windows 7 using only the upgrade version follow these steps: 1. Install Windows like you normally would making sure to select the Custom option (I am not going to go over this in detail. If you need help installing Windows search for instruction on Google) 2. When you get to the step that asks for the product key leave it blank and finish the setup. 3. When it boots into Windows go to Start and type regedit in the search box. 4. From regedit search for MediaBootInstall and change the 1 to 0 and exit regedit. 5. Got to Start and type cmd making sure to push ctrl+Shift+Enter instead of just Enter 6. Type slmgr /rearm and push enter. Restart the computer. 7. Go to start and type Activate Windows. 8. Finish activating Windows including putting in your product key. Need...

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Mac App Store Opens January 6

Apple announced that the Mac App Store will open on Thursday, January 6th, launching in 90 countries and offering free and paid applications. "The App Store revolutionized mobile apps," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can't wait to get started on January 6." As with the iOS App Store, developers of paid applications will receive 70% of revenue, while Apple keeps 30%. Apple announced the Mac App Store at its "Back to the Mac" event in October, saying the store would launch for Mac OS X Snow Leopard users within 90 days. The January 6th opening date meets that schedule with two weeks to spa...

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RockMelt, the new social browser

RockMelt, a new browser that lives in thecloud and uses Facebook authentication to synchronize a user's browsing experience across machines, went into limited public beta today. It was built around the premise that the browser is busted. The thought is that older browsers aren't made for the way we now use the web, and maybe it's a solid way of thinking. After all, browsing is a passive activity, and the Internet is increasingly about interaction. There are some unique concepts here, namely the fact that RockMelt lives in the cloud. This allows your "browser experience" to be, in a way, profiled. Your settings, bookmarks, etc., are all backed up online. Using Facebook for authentication, your user environment can be replicated anywhere RockMelt is installed. And really, that's what RockMelt...

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Apple Researching Scratch-Proof Coating For iOS Devices

Apple is researching a new scratch-proof coating, presumably for its mobile devices, that would prevent scratches. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office published new application filed by Apple for “Nitriding Stainless Steel for Consumer Electronic Products” that describes a new system that avoid scratches by placing a layer of nitride over a stainless steel exterior. In addition to providing a durable, hard surface that is both scratch and impact resistant, the nitride layer allows for the natural surface color and texture of the underlying stainless steel to remain visible to the user... It is this natural surface color and texture of the stainless steel that adds to the aesthetically pleasing appearance of the consumer electronic product, thereby enhancing the user’s overall experience. Apple...

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Send Free Faxes Online With GotFreeFax.com

GotFreeFax.com allows you to send free faxes online to anywhere in the US and Canada but there's a catch. You can only send two faxes a day with a maximum of 3 pages per fax. Need more than that? Us the Pay-Per-Fax Service and you can send a fax up to 30 pages in length for $2.98. It's simple to send you free fax. Just fill out the form with your name and email and the recipients name and fax number and click Send FREE Fax Now. You'll receive a link in your email that'll you'll have to click before your fax is processed. Once clicked you'll receive another email stating that your fax is being processed and it'll provide a link to a...

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LimeWire Shut Down Permanently

File-sharing program LimeWire has been permanently shut down after a federal judge found it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement "on a massive scale." A legal notice on the company's Website reads: THIS IS AN OFFICIAL NOTICE THAT LIMEWIRE IS UNDER A COURT-ORDERED INJUNCTION TO STOP DISTRIBUTING AND SUPPORTING ITS FILE-SHARING SOFTWARE. DOWNLOADING OR SHARING COPYRIGHTED CONTENT WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION IS ILLEGAL." The case resumes in January 2011, when damages will be assessed. The statutory minimum for music copyright infringement is $150,000 per infringement, and the damages assessed may total up to as much as (or possibly more than) $1 billi...

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How To Rebuild Spotlight Index In OS X

1. Launch Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/)2. Enter this command:sudo mdutil -E /3. Provide your password when prompted4. Wait until index is finished rebuilding, this can take a while depending on the size of your hard drive, amount of files, e...

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PlayStation Phone

It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real -- but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for. As we reported back in August, the device you see is headed into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread), along with a custom Sony Marketplace which will allow you to purchase and download games designed for the new platform. The device snapped up top (and in our gallery below) is sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 (a chip similar to the one found in the G2, but 200MHz faster), 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and the screen is in the range of 3.7 to 4.1 inches. Looking almost identical to the mockup we hit you with this summer, the handset does indeed have a long touchpad in the center which is apparently multitouch, and...

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More Verizon iPhone Rumors

The mythical Verizon iPhone could become reality this January, as Apple is reportedly finishing the prototype for a CDMA smartphone. The news comes from Daring Fireball's ever-scoopful John Gruber, who says that N92 is the codename for an engineering verification test unit of a Verizon-bound iPhone 4.In the wake of the recent batch of countless Verizon iPhone rumors, Gruber, usually reliable for Apple-related scoops, speculates that the Cupertino company will unveil its CDMA version of the iPhone 4 at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011, with sales starting at the end of the month.Sources told Gruber that the Verizon iPhone prototype is not in production yet, but it is still at engineering verification testing (EVT) stage, a step before the device verification test (DVT) status (like...

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Mac OS X “Lion”

So, after a long hiatus I'm back and kicking things off with an announcement from Apple about the new version of OS X, 10.7 Lion, due out in summer of 2011.  It brings some of the features from the iPad to OS X.  First, one of those features will be an App Store specific for OS X but it's not specific to Lion.  It'll open within the next 90 days and will be added to the current version, Snow Leopard, as well.  Also new is the Launchpad application launcher, which will give you an iPad-like grid of icons and let you create iOS-style folders for applications, and the all-new Mission Control, which offers a unified view of all your open windows, open apps, and your dock.There's no specific release date as of this writing but look for it sometime in summer of 20...

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Long Time No Post, eh?

Yes I have completely abandoned this blog and forgot it even existed but I might be bringing it back with some new content soon if I can find the time so stay tuned...

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