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Being in the Pre-Press industry for a while I have faced my fair share of Microsoft Publisher files and the format seems to be gaining popularity as everyone with a PC at home is a potential graphic designer. For a busy design house or prepress studio, Publisher is also a damn pain to work with [...]

Can’t find a driver for your PC? You need to find a driver for your graphics card, webcam, sound card, motherboard and cant find it, not only can’t you find it, but Google returns page after page of spammy sites offering the download but failing to provide a simple download link! Maybe you have found [...]

The Web browser OS? After what seems like years since the rumours surfaced of a Google powered Open Source Operating system, Google has finally unveiled their plans.  Unlike The Google Android system, GCOS will be initially be targeted at netbooks with scope to move to higher end platforms. Google Chrome OS In fact it is [...]

The incredibly popular US Internet online retail outlet overstock.com is now shipping to Australia. Overstock.com now accepts orders from 34 countries. Available products, shipping rates and fees may vary though you can find some great gear not available anywhere else at great bargain prices. The most noteworthy aspect about this big online retail giant would [...]

ITC Processing ITC Processing has been available on ATI graphics cards since Catalyst 9.2 though it can have a positive or negative impact depending on your display device. Enabling ITC Processing for DTVs ITC processing is a feature that enables display processors to use the appropriate pixel data processing algorithms based on specific content type [...]

In a refreshingly to the point Internet Explorer 8 promotional stunt, Microsoft has buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet.  Be the first to find it and you keep it. How? Visit the IE8 $10,000 competition website and follow tengrand_ie8 on Twitter: To enter the competition, the entrant must follow clues released by @Tengrand_IE8 on Twitter [...]

For Windows XP:  If you have been unable to get AC3 or DTS passthrough via your ATI Graphics card with HDMI try this official ATI driver: ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 HDMI Audio Driver for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition The Catalyst™ Software Suite states that the HDMI Audio driver is supported on the Windows Vista OS only [...]

I recently put a 64 bit Vista formatted Drive into my XP HTPC box and found it was unreadable and could not be formatted.  Computer Management displayed the drive as a GPT Protective Partition. Unfortunately Windows XP cannot read or write this type of filesystem let alone mount the drive. A GPT disk uses the [...]

Radmin is one of the best and speediest remote desktop control software’s available for Windows based computer systems anywhere.  It even gives Nomachine a run for its money. Overview Radmin (Remote Administrator) is fast and secure remote control and remote access software that enables you to work on a remote computer as if you were [...]

I have been using the fabulous Power DVD 8 for a while on my HTPC mostly due to the ability to hardware decode High Definition content like h264 using only your Graphics card – utilising next to no CPU cycles.  This method works with Xp & Vista Media Centre and Open Source HTPC frontends such [...]