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There is an excellent new software utility to help you recover those lost, corrupt, deleted or missing photos. The product is called Stellar Photo Recovery.

Now you can recover photos from any type of media device, including: cameras, USB drives, hard drives and much more.

It is quite common for photo storage devices and cameras to experience errors and cause data corruption. It is also very easy for photos to go missing on these drives. But there is no need to panic, and your priceless photos can be recovered.

With Stellar Photo Recovery you can recovery any type of image or photo file including: jpg, tiff, jpeg, gif, bmp and much more. You can also recover video and audio files, eg: mp3, mp4, .wav, .wmv, .mov etc.

This product is extremely easy to use. You just select which device/drive to recover photos from and you can also select which specific formats to find. Give it a try, the free trial download link is below.

Recover Lost Photos and Videos

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Have you ever had a locked Office document that you couldn’t open or needed to desperately access a protected Excel file, but nobody could remember the password?

Well most of us have experienced this at one point or another and it can be very frustrating. Quite often if you didn’t have the password, the file was useless and the work had to be started over.

Luckily there is now a very powerful tool available that can instantly access any locked or password protected Microsoft Office document. It can either retrieve the password or it can instantly decrypt and open the file. The password retrieval takes longer, but might be necessary in cases where you absolutely must have the actual password.

You can try it for yourself and see just how powerful this program is. Just try the decrypt method over any locked file and you will be able to get instant access to that file.

Microsoft Office Password Recovery – Free Download

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There was a post recently on the MSDN blogs about reliability and IE8. In particular, how IE8 will be much more reliable than previous versions.

There has been great improvements in IE8 in regards to performance, display and recovery. These three areas will now be much more solid than in past versions. Some of the new features in IE8:

• Loosely-Coupled IE: An architectural feature that helps isolate different parts of the browser from each other for smoother browsing performance.
• Automatic Crash Recovery: A feature that is designed to get users back to browsing as quickly as possible after a crash.
• Windows Error Reporting: A way for our customers to provide us with information to improve the reliability of Internet Explorer.

You can read the full technical details in the MSDN blog post, but basically the focus is on improved speed and simpler recovery from crashes. A browser crash and recovery will be smoother and faster. There should also be less crashing due to the loosely-coupled IE.

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Dell launched the Studio line of mid-range notebook computers for the consumer market on Thursday, spicing up its offerings by bringing a variety of color options to fashion and style-conscious users.

The new Studio line fits between Dell’s low-end Inspiron and high-end XPS. The Studio notebooks are available in seven colors and start at $799 for the 15-inch model and $999 for the 17-inch version. Both models feature built-in Webcams and optional LED displays, which offer higher quality graphics than standard LCD screens.

Dell was among the first to shape this trend last year with its mainstream Inspiron series. The new Studio 15 and 17 series could be seen as an expected expansion, with design elements that are carried over from the more stylish XPS series as well as eight different colors you can choose from: Purple, green, red, blue, pink orange, black and silver are available.

For a more subtly personalized laptop, Dell has added an optional high-gloss Graphite Grey choice that can be customized with contrasting black, blue, pink or red edge trim.

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Mozilla Corporation on Friday released Firefox 3 RC1, more or less the final form of this iteration of the popular open-source Web browser.

RC stands for Release Candidate and represents a stage in which the browser’s features are complete and the code is stable enough for public testing. Barring any serious bugs, RC1 will become the official release version of Firefox 3, which is planned for June.

The release candidate stage is the stage right between beta and final release, and it’s the last chance for developers to test their code against the browser before it’s push out into the world full-force.

It’s also the stage at which add-on developers can update their browser extensions without worrying about further code changes.

The release of Firefox 3.1 will also mark the likely end of life for support of the current Firefox 2.x browsers. The plan (as it has been since the release of Firefox 1.5) is to have security/stability updates once every two months or so, until the next ‘feature’ release — which is Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3 comes with more than 15,000 improvements, according Mozilla, but you have to be counting tiny changes very carefully to get to that number. More likely, you’ll notice maybe two dozen new and improved features.

Click here to download Firefox 3 RC1

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Many partners in the Microsoft galaxy are none too pleased about Redmond’s decision earlier this week to withhold downloads of Vista service pack 1 until mid-March. But after a firestorm of online protest from disaffected partners, it appears that Microsoft may consider revising its decision.

The RTM, or release to manufacturing, versions of both operating systems can easily be found on BitTorrent tracker sites such as Pirate Bay, which has made them available since yesterday.

One torrent of Microsoft Corp.’s newest server operating system, Windows Server 2008, lists 42 “seeders,” the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file, and nearly 190 “leechers,” or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent.

The Windows Server 2008 torrent installs a 60-day trial edition, according to users on Pirate Bay who have downloaded the 2.5GB disk image.

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With green as the official color of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), HP announced today its commitment to implement a 25 percent cut in energy consumption across its entire lineup of volume desktop and notebook PCs by 2010.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas the computer firm proclaimed its intent to cut the carbon footprint of its desktop and notebook PCs by adopting more efficient power supplies and lower energy chipsets and processors.

The company plans to reach its 2010 goal through a variety of strategies, including more efficient power supplies and lower-energy chipsets and processors, across its volume PC portfolio.

Customers will have the option of the Verdiem Surveyor remote power management software preloaded on certain HP PCs.

Thanks to its ultra-efficient 80 PLUS® power supplies, low-energy chipsets and other energy-smart systems, HP has maintained a long line of eco savvy products going back to the HP Compaq rp5700 – the first PC to receive EPEAT’s Gold certification.

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For the second time in a week, Microsoft said a version of its software is ready sooner than expected. On Thursday, the software maker made available a beta version of its Hyper-V hypervisor technology, a release that had been scheduled for early next year.

Microsoft didn’t change its timing for the final release of the technology, which is due to ship within 180 days of the release of Windows Server 2008. (That product is slated to be wrapped up ahead of its formal launch on February 27.)

“Delivering the high-quality Hyper-V beta earlier than expected allows our customers and partners to begin evaluating this feature of Windows Server 2008 and provide us with valuable feedback” said Bill Laing, general manager of the Windows Server Division, in a prepared statement.

By issuing Hyper-V in a beta version early and certifying it as “high quality,” Microsoft is sending a signal that it may not be as far behind in virtualization technology as it sometimes appears. The sooner it can get its hypervisor into the hands of developers, the sooner it can start competing for mindshare with market leader VMware and its ESX Hypervisor.

Rand Morimoto, president of Convergent Computing, Oakland, Calif., has been using Hyper-V for about four months and has been “extremely pleased” with what Microsoft has delivered.

“The beta has been very stable, and we’ve been able to take old Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC images and just ‘boot them up’ on Hyper-V. All of our previous Virtual Server 2005 images and demo images moved right across,” said Morimoto. “Hyper-V now supports 64-bit guest images, so now all of the 64-bit apps are working in virtual spaces.”

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MSI, a developer of high performance IT products, is out today with an overclocked gaming laptop. The new MSI GX600 is priced at around $1,500.

The MSI GX600 makes use of what MSI calls “Turbo Drive Engine (TDE) technology” to increase the speed of the CPU up to 20 percent by pressing a button. It comes outfitted with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 3D graphic card with 512MB VRAM and a 250GB hard drive.

MSI claims a boot time of less than 40 seconds. Under the hood is an Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile Processor, while graphics is handled by Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT. There’s also an HDMI interface plus Dolby 5.1 channel audio output. The GX600 laptop is available in two flavors: an Extreme Edition featuring a flame graphic on the exterior and a Performance Edition.

The laptop comes bundled with Windows Vista Home Premium, and features a 15.4″ WSXGA+ LCD display. 2 gigabytes of RAM, a 250GB SATA hard drive, integrated Bluetooth and 1.3 megapixel webcam round up the essential set of features.

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