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Four Ways to Protect Your Data

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"A modern PC leads a kind of dual life. On the one hand, it serves as an entertainment center, offering access to games, online videos, and the entire Internet. On the other hand, it acts as a tool for collecting, creating, and storing important information of all kinds. If your computer is lost, busted, or stolen, switching to a new one has little effect on the entertainment side. But unless you've properly protected the personal data on that system, a theft or loss could become a data disaster. How can you head off such a disaster? Here are some hot ideas." More at:  PCMag.com :

Make it Count - A Nike Video

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Improve Your Windows 7 Registry With 7 Easy Tweaks | PCWorld

Take more control of your Windows 7 system with these quick and easy Registry tweaks. By Marco Chiappetta The Windows Registry is a powerful but confusing component of the Windows operating system. In earlier editions of Windows, editing the Registry was fraught with peril; if the user edited it with the wrong tool or altered a critical key, the result could be an inoperable Windows installation. Windows 7, however, is far more forgiving than its predecessors when it comes to modifying the Registry, if you use the built-in Windows 7 Registry Editor (Regedit)." More at:   PCWorld

Paint.NET Performance

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Paint.NET’s performance is an interesting topic. There are some areas, such as startup, where Paint.NET is very fast. There are other areas, such as selection manipulation, where it is quite slow, even laughably so in non-pathological situations. If you’ve ever worked with the Magic Wand tool on an image of more than about 4 megapixels, then you probably understand what I’m talking about." More at:  Paint.NET Blog :