• Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta for Vista
  The beta of the new Yahoo Messenger 9 is finally available. It sports a new skin, contact list, larger file transfers, Flickr integration, in-line media player, and VoIP features.
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  Apple’s MacBook Pro is the fastest Windows Vista compatible notebook computer tested this year.
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Windows Vista is a resource hog. Microsoft’s latest operating system will swallow every last bit of hardware resources you throw at it in the race for a top user experience, a concept synonymous with high performance. And yet, there are scenarios in which Vista will eat away CPU cycles, huge amounts of random access memory, completely hug a ReadyBoost USB device and still underperform. The operating system will choke even on the most common of tasks, abandoning the user to slowdowns in system performance and to unresponsive processes catalyzed by nothing more than routine and mundane actions. No doubt, Vista has a few rough corners in terms of reliability and performance, but there are a few solutions available, until Microsoft delivers the first Service Pack in 2008. (more…)

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Windows Vista - Features Slowing You Down?In earlier versions of Windows, to turn a feature off you had to uninstall it completely from your computer. In Windows Vista the features remain stored on…

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