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Excellent Free Virtual Machine Software – VirtualBox

If you are looking for a free virtual machine software to run

Windows inside Mac OS X
Windows inside Linux
Linux inside Windows, etc.

you have to checkout VirtualBox.
I have been a long time Windows and Linux user for a long time and following our love for our iPhones, we just bought our first [...]

Failed SATA Drive? Replace With A SSD Instead

Are you upgrading your computer’s hard drive becuase it failed or because you want to increase capacity?
Before you go looking for a SATA hard drive, look at a great new option that is becoming common place in newer computers – Solid-State Drives aka SSD Drives.
Solid State Drives are more durable than the mechanical SATA hard [...]

Miranda IM Client Gets Facebook Chat

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. This venerable instant messaging client has recently added support for Facebook Chat making it even more attractive.
Miranda IM supports a wide variety of protocols such as

AOL Instant Messenger
Gadu-Gadu
IAX
ICQ
Internet Relay Chat
Jabber
MSN
Netsend
Tlen
Yahoo and more..

Miranda IM is based on a powerful plugin-based framework and has over 350+ plugins [...]

H&R Block At Home 2009 Deluxe Tax Software $20 (Taxcut)

It’s Tax season!
Amazon has H&R Block At Home 2009  Tax Preparation Software (formerly TaxCut) in Deluxe and Premium versions as CD or Download for $19.99 & $18.99 respectively.
Here are the links to the software CD version and the download version

H&R Block At Home 2009 Deluxe Federal + State + eFile CD $19.99
H&R [...]

Screenpresso – Feature Rich Screenshot Utility

Ok how many screenshot programs does a blogger need? Apparently yours truly (me) needs one more.
I keep coming across new and excellent screenshot taking software. I have long been a fan of FastStone Capture and recently reviewed PicPick.
I just came across Screenpresso – a free and feature-rich screenshot taking freeware utility.

Screenpresso claims to [...]

Skype 4.2 Supports 1280 x 720 HD Video Calls

Skype is the most popular video conferencing software used around the world.
I use it to chat with my family in India all the time and have consistently found the video quality to be better than any other options.
Skype has just announced in the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it’s latest version of [...]

Access GodMode Windows 7 Hidden Actions Folder

Windows 7 experts  A Microsoft MVP had uncovered this trick in Vista and this trick works in Windows 7 as well. (Thanks @nirmaltv)
An uber-cool Windows 7 Actions folder that is hidden from plain view. It is even called the Godmode!
This Action folder consists of shortcuts to just about every settings change and administrative function in [...]