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.



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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 spare.

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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 is all about: The user environment.
Users of Google Chrome will feel at home, because RockMelt is built on Chromium, the open source project behind Google's browser. The major differences are columns running down each side of the browser.
The left side depicts your favorite Facebook contacts. When a contact is listed on the left bar, you'll be able to quickly initiate Facebook chats with them or post content to their Facebook walls. You can also easily send them e-mails through the seamless contact popout.
Straddling the right side is your bookmarks -- and here's another area where RockMelt's cloud is put to clever use. Bookmarks are updated from the cloud, so content is cached and waiting for you when you log on.
All in all, RockMelt is an interesting twist on the browsing experience. The social elements of the browser make for a compelling and streamlined online interaction process. And because it's powered by Chromium, it not only supports Chrome extensions, it's guaranteed to support the latest and greatest aspects of the web, like HTML5 and CSS3.

RockMelt is in limited beta and you can apply for an invitation.

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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 acquired LiquidMetal in August 2010 gaining the technology behind a new metallic/glass substance that has twice the strength of Titanium but that can be molded like plastics.

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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 personal status page for your fax that'll let you know when it's been processed and faxed to your recipient.

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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 billion.

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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 prompted
4. Wait until index is finished rebuilding, this can take a while depending on the size of your hard drive, amount of files, etc.

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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 you can see in the photos that it's still bearing those familiar PlayStation shoulder buttons. For Sony buffs, you'll be interested to know that there's no Memory Stick slot here, but there is support for microSD cards.

The particular model in these shots is still in prototyping mode. As such, the unit doesn't have a custom skin (not even SE's Timescape design seen on the Xperia devices), and is said to be rather buggy. We're digging into more facts as we speak, but it's likely that much of what we reported earlier is still accurate, and though the device could still be headed for a 2010 release, 2011 is looking much more realistic. Still, there's a lot of time between now and the holidays... so keep your fingers crossed!

Source: Engadget

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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 the lost iPhone 4 prototype) -- the stage prior to mass production of the device. Gruber says the EVT stage is "right about where you'd think it would be if it were scheduled to go on sale in January."

Yes to CDMA, But Verizon-Only? Maybe
The CDMA version of the iPhone 4 is not necessarily Verizon-bound, Gruber says. In the U.S. it could be released on Sprint as well, and it would also work with Canadian CDMA carriers.

There are more than 164 million CDMA subscribers in North America, more than 36 million in Latin America, and more than 300 million in the Asia-Pacific region, according to figures from the CDMA Development Group. Instead of targeting only the U.S. Verizon subscribers, Apple could target the huge CDMA market in Asia, whereas Latin America's CDMA subscriber figures are not negligible either.

Source: PCWorld


I've pretty much given up on these rumors but who knows. What do you all think? Do you think that the iPhone is finally heading to Verizon and do you think that if it does that it'll be a big seller for Verizon? Let us know in the comments.

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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 2011.

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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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