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Leave it to Google to help with IE. ?? Seems that if you download Google Chrome Frame (Beta), you can speed up Internet Explorer up to 10 times faster and add support for HTML 5.   Link

Microsoft LightSwitch: 15 Reasons Non-Programmers Should Try It Out – Application Development from eWeek.

Microsoft has announced a new product called Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, which the company claims is the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud.

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Over at Bill Mullin’s blog, he gives a good article on Identity Theft Score..Unless you’re in the cyber security business, it’s unlikely that you’re aware of this rather startling statistic – a cyber crime goes down every ¼ of a second.  More

Bill gives a link to your Free ID Score

IT hiring continues to improve, surveys show.

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Malware today can be removed using SuperAntiSpyware Portable, A-Squared, and other utilities  such as Malwarebytes.

What is the order to remove viruses and malware?  It varies.  Start here-

• Start the computer in Safe Mode (Press F8 when starting it)
• Run MSConfig and Unselect all Startup items
• Run CCleaner, DiskMax or FCleaner
• Run Kill.com or Kill.exe
• Run SuperAntispyware Portable
• Run Malwarebytes
• Run A-Squared
• Run A-Squared Portable
• Boot into regular mode
• Run Kill.com or Kill.exe
• Run SuperAntispyware Portable
• Run Malwarebytes
• Run A-Squared
• Run MV-RegClean
• Defrag your computer.
• Reenable your antivirus and other startup items you know are safe.

BE PATIENT let the scan finish in each one of the above programs.  The programs can find something the others didn’t. LET IT FINISH!

Where does Windows, Mac and Linux stand?  Link

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Here’s a quick YouTube tutorial on how to see your webcams on you cellphone.  The second video shows how to use your Droid to view your webcams on your phone.

The EasyWeather Station is less than $160.  With the ability to measure wind speed, wind direction, humidity, temperature inside and out and dozens of other features including the ability to upload the data to the internet, EasyWeather is a great deal for weather enthusiast.  Being completely wireless, the station transmits data from the station to a touch screen which is connected to a computer.

After receiving our station, Danny (student), Andrew (student) and several others helped to install and configure the station.  Carlton and Mike (students) helped to upload the data to Weather Underground. Station KTNSHELB3.

Even more awesome is Weather Underground’s interactive weather map. Link (Now the school is linked to Google Maps and Weather Underground’s radar map)

pics by Tasha

Looking for Business based icons?  Computer and Networking?  Rick posted an excellent sight that has thousands of icons you can use on your website or in programming.   Link

In an earlier post, we described how to use Wireshark to find people using P2P.  Here’s another example of how to see this and what to look for-

The Cable Guy over at technet has an excellent article and diagrams on how IPv6 will be migrated.  Link

Microsoft sets emergency Windows patch for Monday.

VA set to spend billions on IT.

With an extra 4 core AMD processor hanging out along with a hard drive and DDR2 memory, I think my next project will be a ZOTAC itx motherboard and case.     At a little over $80, I think it’ll be a good little project and a happy replacement for my old computer.  Link

Want to build an itx system?  Here’s a great article.

So what is the smallest motherboard?  Possibly the BeagleBoard.

ImRe resizes multiple images and can convert them to seven different formats.  At 1.2 mb, this program performs great in Windows 7.

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What happen’s if you scratch a DVD?  How will you fix it?

Copy Cat 2.0 helps to fix your DVDs.

Want to Backup and Copy your DVDs?  Use Dvdshrink. DVDShrink is software to backup DVD discs.  You can back them up to your hard drive or copy them.