Windows 7s draconian DRM?
Once again, we see fanciful claims about ludicrous DRM schemes in the new Windows operating system, but a closer look suggests that Windows isn't to blame after all. Most users, in fact, won't even notice Windows 7's DRM.
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18.2.2009 Windows 7s biggest threat: Journalists
When Microsoft finally releases its follow-up to Windows Vista and it's time for the business and technology journalists (yes, bloggers are included in that grouping) across the world to decide if Windows 7 is the kind of operating system most people should want to use, Microsoft will be facing a deluge of biased individuals that, aware of that bias or not, won't give Windows 7 a fair shake.
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17.11.2008 Windows 7s XP Mode Will not Run on Some CPUs
oping to use Windows 7's XP Mode on your new laptop? Better check your specs, because many big-name, Intel-powered notebooks including Asus, Dell Studio, HP Pavilion, Sony Vaio, and Toshiba Satellite models may not have what it takes to run Windows 7's XP mode.
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7.5.2009 Microsoft discusses Windows 7s XP mode in-depth
Earlier this month we reported that Microsoft was on the verge of announcing something major regarding Windows 7, and on April 24th our friend Paul Thurrott finally revealed what we were all waiting for.
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29.4.2009 Click 4 The Cause
Microsoft is trying yet another approach to see some positive growth for its search engine. This time, Microsoft is targeting all philanthropists who search the Internet.
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23.1.2007 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 Get Windows 7s AutoPlay-AutoRun
Even before the release of Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100 Microsoft announced that it would take extreme measures in order to increase end user protection and amputate the AutoPlay/AutoRun feature of the operating system.
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26.8.2009 One-Click Vista timestop crack
Thanks to Green Tiger, for this download. If you've had trouble using any of the previous timestop cracks. Then this is the one for you... heres the readme.
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23.2.2007 Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions
Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy “1-Click Podcast Subscription” process for podcast listeners or viewers.
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26.10.2007 Vista's User Account Protection: one click and it's gone
Vista's biggest security enhancement is "User Account Protection" (or "User Account Control" ) which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system.
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9.9.2006 Vista Activator FF 2.1.2.1.2 Stable
Thanks to frytz91 for this post in our forum. This is next GUI for Bios bypass activation of Windows Vista.
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20.4.2007 Windows 7 Build 7264 Activator
After Windows installtion, run the 7264.bat batch script (from x86 or x64 folder, depending on your system) as administrator!
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7.7.2009 Google, eBay Forge Click-to-Call Deal
eBay and Google have teamed up to offer "click-to-call" functionality into auction listings and ads, enabling consumers to initiate a voice call directly to a merchant or advertiser through Skype or Google Talk.
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28.8.2006 Unite Windows and Linux With a Single Mouse Click!
After the success I had with my previous tutorial about how to run Windows and a Linux distribution together on the same computer (with a single monitor, keyboard and mouse and no other magic tricks required), I decided to improve the installation method with an extremely easy-to-use one.
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12.2.2008 Paradox Vista activator + WGA crack
Mrx report this activator in
our forum by words: "This is the newest Activation+WGA crack, you can download all updates for now from Windows Update."
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5.3.2007 Remove or Restore New Briefcase At Right Click Menu of Windows 7 and Vista
Briefcase is an ancient feature in Windows operating system, existed since Windows 95. Briefcase works as a special folder that supports two-way file synchronization with another folder on local disk or external USB/FireWire drive and network drive.
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13.6.2009 Windows Vista All Versions Activator FF2.1.2.0.9 Beta
Thanks to shahjinn for this post in our forum. This is next GUI for Bios bypass activation of Windows Vista.
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26.3.2007 Windows Vista Activator 2007 x86 and x64
Windows Vista Activator 2007 Activate Windows Vista Completely. Now support for both Windows Vista x86 and x64.
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8.7.2007 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009 Windows Vista All Versions x86 OneClick Activator by CLoNY
Our annonymous user report this way to us. This crack enable user to bypass the product activation requirement of Microsoft Windows Vista x86 by emulating hardware-embedded BIOS ACPI_SLIC license information of so called "Royalty OEMs".
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14.3.2007 Windows 7 beta build 6936/7000 x64 Activator
Windows 7 64Bit Activation By Orbit30. NOTE: this method is based on windows 7 build 6936 64Bit AND NOW FOR 7000 x64 as well
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8.1.2009 Windows 7 RTM 7600 x86 and x64 activator - time crack
Here are 2 ways how to activate Windows 7 RTM 7600 x86 and x64.
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14.7.2009 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008Measuring up Windows 7s new "super" taskbar
Long Zheng: For some users, one hurdle of the new "superbar" is its enormous size, or so it appears. To set the record straight, I conducted a
little side-by-side experiment with two quick-launch items and two active applications on both Vista and Windows 7. Together with a measuring tape in
one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, I counted. Soon enough, I grew impatient and resorted to Photoshop instead. Here's how they measured
up...
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04.01.2009Windows 7's Calculator bundles real-life uses
Calculator is one of the programs that Microsoft has 'upgraded' to a much nicer interface (than what is available now) in Windows 7. The new
Windows 7 Calculator now has 4 different modes :
- Standard Mode
- Statistics Mode
- Programmer Mode
- Scientific
Mode
This default calculator goes above and beyond the brick on your desk by including unit conversions, date calculations, and a
neat new set of "templates" that let you do things like figure out gas mileage, hourly wages, mortgage payments, leases, and more. Check out some of
the calculator goodness in the Windows 7 Preview
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09.11.2008Google opens click-fraud Web site
Google has unveiled a Web site
"resource center" focused on
the thorny issue of click
fraud, which many consider a
potential threat to the
company's main source of
revenue: Pay-per-click
advertising.
Google developed the new
Ad
Traffic Quality Resource
Center primarily to give
its advertisers a single place
to find Google's information
about click fraud, said Shuman
Ghosemajumder, business
product manager for trust and
safety at Google, on
Friday.
In the pay-per-click
format, advertisers pay every
time someone clicks on their
ads, which are linked to a Web
page. Click fraud happens when
companies click on
competitors' ads to drive up
their ad spending. Another
common click-fraud practice is
for Web publishers to click on
their sites' ads to increase
their commissions. ..
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18.08.2007Bots Driving Click Fraud
Bot nets are driving up click
fraud, according to Click
Forensics, a click auditing
company.
"This is a
growing problem for the
industry and one that's
getting worse and not
better," said Tom Cuthbert,
president and CEO of Click
Forensics, Inc.
The
company's findings are based
on data from its Click Fraud
Network, which attempts to
identify and track
pay-per-click advertising
fraud across over 4,000 online
advertisers and ad agencies.
Click Forensics
claims that the overall
industry average click fraud
rate during the second quarter
of the year was 15.8%, up from
14.8% in the previous quarter
and from 14.1% during the
second quarter of 2006.
Traffic from bot nets --
coordinated groups of
computers that have been
subverted by an attacker --
doubled from Q1 to Q2 this
year, the company says, and
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19.07.2007Verizon Tapped for 'Click to Call' Integration
Microsoft has teamed with
Verizon's business arm to
provide consumers with
one-click phone calls to
businesses found on its Live
Search listings, the
telecommunications company
said on Monday...
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05.06.2007Zune gets 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions
Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy “1-Click Podcast Subscription”
process for podcast listeners or viewers. This 1-Click process will launch the new Zune Marketplace software and place the podcast subscription in
the users collection. The process will work best if the Zune user already has the new Zune Marketplace software loaded on a Windows PC, but if not
already installed, will then ask user to download the software.
The podcast feed does not need to be in the Zune Marketplace for the link
to work. Here are the instructions for setting up Zune’s new “1-Click Podcast Subscription” link URL for your podcast: ->
Read full story.....
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31.10.2007Google to Provide Click Fraud
Data
In an effort to prove that it
is serious about combating
click fraud, starting next
week Google will provide its
AdWords customers with
information on how many times
it believes their ads have
been clicked on fraudulently...
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26.07.2006Google Click Fraud Settlement
Hits Snag
Lawyers representing several
Internet search advertisers
who use Google's AdWords
service have filed suit hoping
to block a proposed $90
million settlement over
allegations of click fraud,
claiming it inadequately
compensates those affected...
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12.05.2006Yahoo appoints click fraud tsar
Yahoo has promoted one of its
staff attorneys to an
executive-level position that
is akin to being click fraud
tsar at the second largest web
search provider.
For seven years, Reggie
Davis helped the web search
company defend itself against
lawsuits by advertisers who
claimed they were overcharged
for pay-per-click ads that
resulted from click fraud.
Click fraud occurs when clicks
are generated by people paid
to click ads over and over or
by automated software
programs, usually for the
purpose of boosting revenue
for the website the ads appear
on.
Now, Davis is
the company's first vice
president of marketplace
quality, responsible for
reducing the amount of click
fraud and making sure
advertisers and publishers are
happy with the company's
display and search
listings.
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22.03.2007Yahoo Settles Click Fraud
Claims
A federal judge approved a
settlement where Yahoo has
agreed to extend its period
where it will review claims of
so called "click
fraud" back to January
2004. Additionally it will pay
$5 million in legal fees...
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29.06.2006Plaintiffs Object to Google
Click Fraud Deal
51 plaintiffs argued in court
that Google's proposed $90
million "click fraud"
settlement does not do enough
to prevent the issue, although
an independent study seems to
contradict those claims,
saying the search giant's
efforts were
"reasonable."..
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25.07.2006Amazon One-Click Patent Under
Review
The U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office will review
Amazon.com's claims to a
patent that covers its
one-click buying option after
a New Zealand actor successful
raised a "substantial new
question of
patentability," according
to a ruling by the agency...
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19.05.2006New Zealand Actor Wins Rejection of Amazon 'One-Click' Patent
In a symbolic victory for advocates of patent reform, a part-time motion-capture actor who has appeared - albeit masked by CGI animation - in the
Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, has succeeded in striking down Amazon's patent claim of having invented the single-click purchase
procedure...
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18.10.2007Google, eBay Forge
Click-to-Call Deal
eBay and Google have teamed up
to offer
"click-to-call"
functionality into auction
listings and ads, enabling
consumers to initiate a voice
call directly to a merchant or
advertiser through Skype or
Google Talk...
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28.08.2006Google Puts Tunes From YouTube a Click Away
In its continuing effort to find a way to make money from its YouTube unit, Google introduced on Tuesday a new type of e-commerce ad that YouTube
users can click to buy digital goods from Apples iTunes or Amazon.com.
Under the new program, viewers of a video with a music
track, for example, would be able to click on an icon to download that song from one of the two music stores.
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08.10.2008Google steps up click fraud war
Google is to introduce a new
service to its AdWords
advertisement management
service in April that allows
clients to block certain users
from seeing their ads. The
move will allow advertisers to
further combat click fraud, a
phenomenon in which website
operators click on ads on
their own websites to boost
revenues, or click on online
ads for their competitors to
deplete their marketing
budgets.
Controlling who is presented
with the advertisements allows
a company to prevent them from
being seen by competitors.
Click fraud is considered the
Achilles heel of pay-per-click
advertising. When advertisers
are no longer able to rely on
the accuracy of the billing
system, they are likely to
lose faith in the service.
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02.03.2007D-Link Introduces Wi-Fi, GSM Phone
Home network equipment maker
D-Link entered the mobile
phone market Tuesday,
introducing a new line of
"V-CLICK" handsets
that work with both
traditional GSM operators as
well as Wi-Fi networks. Users
can switch between the
technologies with a click of a
button...
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03.10.2006Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7
Steven Sinofsky: This post goes into the details of Windows 7s implementation along with some history and background. Greg Hitchcock is the
development lead on ClearType and has worked on it since the start. Hes also one of the most tenured members of the Windows 7 engineering team with
only 6 folks having been at Microsoft longer...
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23.06.2009Windows XP SP2 IE6 Workaround for security update 942615
Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require
that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.
To work around this problem, follow these steps:
| 1. | Click
Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. |
| 2. | Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet
ExplorerMainFeatureControl |
| 3. | On the Edit menu,
point to New, and then click Key. |
| 4. | Type
FEATURE_PROTECT_DECOMPRESSION_FILTER_FROM_ABORT_KB942367, and then press ENTER. |
| 5. | Right-click FEATURE_PROTECT_DECOMPRESSION_FILTER_FROM_ABORT_KB942367, point to
New, and then click DWORD Value. |
| 6. | Type
an asterisk (*), and then press ENTER.
Note The asterisk (*) represents any process name that uses the Urlmon.dll file. If you want to make
this change for an individual application that uses the Urlmon.dll file, use the name of that application instead of the asterisk. For example, use
Appname.exe. |
| 7. | Right-click the asterisk, and then click Modify. |
| 8. | In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK. |
| 9. | Exit Registry
Editor. |
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20.12.2007Microsoft Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions
Zune users should be happy to know that subscribing to podcasts is now quick and easy: just click a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on a
Podcaster’s website. The single click will launch the new Zune Marketplace software, assuming it is installed (else will prompt to download the
software), and place the podcast subscription in the user’s collection. Most importantly, the podcast feed does not need to be in the Zune
Marketplace for the link to work. The format is as follows (spaces between words in the PodcastTitle will work):
zune://subscribe/?PodcastTitle=PodcastRSSFeedURL
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