The second thing you can do to improve the performance of Windows Vista is to take advantage of ReadyBoost.
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There are two tricks you can pull to make Windows Vista faster. No, not fast enough that you’ll no longer be angry with how long it takes Vista to do some things. But at least you can make Vista run faster than it’s running now.
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Identify theft isn’t really a new thing. The hyperactive alarmists on the television like to tell you about identify theft as if it’s going to happen to you any time you even look at a computer. Not true.
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What’s ThinkCentre? it is nor RAM, nor disk,
Nor processor, nor any other part
Belonging to PC. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a Mac
By any other name would run as sweet;
So ThinkCentre would, were it not ThinkCentre call’d
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Have you ever been as bored as I’ve been? If so, then you too have probably visited one of the big computer shopping sites and configured one of their models with everything possible just to see how much it costs. I call it the Most Expensive Computer Playoffs.
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The very first computer I bought was a TRS-80 Model III. It cost me $1048, plus another $70 for the taper record. The tape recorder was the computer’s primary mass storage device. I kid you not.
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As that lady with the hick accent on TV says, in February of 2009 all broadcast television signals in the United States will go to digital. Your old analog television will no longer receive any signals not being broadcast. You can get a coupon from Uncle Fed to get a converter thingy for your old sets. But the whole situation got me thinking about television.
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