APE (a.k.a Monkey’s Audio) is a popular lossless audio codec used to create very high quality versions of audio files. Since it is lossless, if you were to compress an entire audio CD to APE files using Monkey’s Audio, you would be losing no quality whatsoever, and could technically reconstruct the original CD-Audio completely. Compare that to lossy compression formats such as MP3, OGG Vorbis or Musepack (MPC). Once of the...

Microsoft has released the much awaited Beta of SP1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 to public which is available for download. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff183870.aspx Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta will help you: Keep your PCs supported and up-to-date Get ongoing updates to the Windows 7 platform Easily deploy cumulative updates at a single time Meet your users’ demands for greater business...

1. Goto Start -> Run and type regedit and navigate to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers 2. Delete the key igfxcui (for Intel) 3. Now, your desktop context menu will look nice and minimal and will not take any extra time in loading. Share and Enjoy:

The steps to perform scheduling backups for SQL Server 2005 Express in Windows 7: 1. Create a store procedure that allows generate the dynamic backup file name, with types of backup to run such as full, differential or transaction log backups and location of the backup files: USE [master] CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_BackupDatabase] @databaseName sysname, @backupType CHAR(1) AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; DECLARE @sqlCommand NVARCHAR(1000) DECLARE...

Now there is another way to get a 60-day trial version of Office 2010. Microsoft is offering Office Home and Business 2010 60-day trial version absolutely free. You can grab your copy using following link: Download Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 Free 60-Day Trial Version http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/try-office-2010-FX101868838.aspx Click on “Try it now” button for any desired version, enter your Windows Live...

Overclocking Mac Mini 2.53@3Ghz (Late 2009 model) - Windows 7 (32bit) - Nvidia nTune 6.05 The bottleneck is caused by the internal hard disk. I will upgrade the RAM to 8GB and hard disk to 500GB and keep it posted Stable @Freq : 2964.25 MHz (312.03 * 9.5) http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1061026 Share and...

Windows Activation Technologies helps you confirm that the copy of Windows 7 that is running on your computer is genuine. Additionally, Windows Activation Technologies helps protect against the risks of counterfeit software. Windows Activation Technologies in Windows 7 consists of activation and validation components that contain anti-piracy features. Activation is an anti-piracy technology that verifies the product key for the copy of...