Visit any technology related website and the likelihood is there will be an article on Windows 7 and how much better it is than Windows Vista. They point to performance, the taskbar, and a few other minor features that supposedly make it far superior. However, having tested the 7000 beta build, I find myself actually preferring vista. The new taskbar is actually harder to use if you only have a couple of windows open, it stacks all the open windows regardless of how many you have active. Although, the right click menu is a neat touch I found myself hating
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I’m really looking forward to this game after playing the demo and having a lot of fun, something that I’ve not experienced in many of the recent hyped releases such as GTA, COD and Bioshock. I can’t wait to try it online, a feature that was sorely lacking from the demo. Should be here either tomorrow or Friday so hopefully ill be able to give it a quick run through and post my thoughts on the final game by ensemble studios. I’m getting the limited edition too, so will post on whether it is worth it. Stay tuned thebettertwin

The second post in my series on useful freeware programs is one which can, and does very effectively, speed up everything that you download from the internet, be it videos music pictures or just documents. The program is called Download Accelerator Plus and can be found, for free, here: http://www.speedbit.com/ It may also be worth checking out speedbit’s video accelerator which speeds up the loading of internet videos like all of youtube; however, this is limited to certain sites. DAP works in the same way as your normal downloads, replacing either the Windows or the Firefox mode, depending upon your personal preference. (Windows
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While not staying up to watch the awards me and my girlfriend did watch the sky one coverage of the red carpet and found it to be utterly embarrassing. Not content with terrible audio glitches and miss-timed cut aways, Fearne cotton proceeded to encourage the stars to stay away rather than to come and talk to her. Her questions were often downright bizarre and horribly insulting and she continually engaged in the worst interviewing faux pas of pulling the mic before we could hear their responses. And Fearne, interviewing Ryan Seacrest, who managed to secure all the major interviews, is not an
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thought i would share the great free programs that i love which help make my computer look better and easier to use over a few posts the first is rocket dock with the stacks app, similar to the macs dock but more customisable and it works in windows check out my xbox themed dock below which includes all the applications that i use frequently