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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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The Mozilla Firefox 3 release date has been announced for tuesday June 17.

It has been over 34 months in development with contributions from thousands of users and developers.

Firefox Download Day

Firefox is also hoping to set the record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period – this is known as Firefox Download Day. So if you want to help make history, then you can get involved now. All you have to do is download Firefox 3, which is going to be pretty cool anyway.

Click here to visit Firefox 3 Download Day

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The latest version (4.5) of Windows Installer has just been released on June 2. You can now download the latest version from here.

The Microsoft® Windows® Installer (MSI) is the application installation and configuration service for Windows. These are some of the new features you will find in 4.5:

Multiple Package Transaction: In a multiple package transaction, you can create a single transaction from multiple packages. In a multiple package transaction, a chainer is used to dynamically include packages in the transaction. If any of the packages do not install as expected, you can roll back the installation.

Embedded UI Handler: You can embed a custom user interface (UI) handler in the Windows Installer package. This makes a custom UI easier to integrate. You can also invoke an embedded UI handler from the Add or Remove item in Control Panel. Or, you can invoke an embedded UI handler during a Windows Installer repair process.

Embedded Chainer: You can use the embedded chainer to add packages to a multiple package transaction. You can use an embedded chainer to enable installation events across multiple packages. For example, you can enable the install-on-demand events, the repair events, and the uninstall events across multiple packages.

Update Supersedence Resiliency: This feature enables you to correct for changes in the FeatureComponent table during supersedence.

Shared Component Patching Resiliency During Uninstall: This feature makes sure that the most recent version of a component is available to all the products.

Custom Action Execution On Update Uninstall: This feature enables an update to add or change a custom action so that the custom action is called when an update is uninstalled.

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You may have seen or used one of those ‘USB toys’ such as a fan or a rocket, but did you realize that they can be potentially dangerous to your USB ports.

A USB peripheral pretty much just sources power from your USB port and in some cases it sources way too much power which will lead to your USB port burning out and becoming useless. With the amount of these ‘toy’ being used around the world at the moment its amazing that we haven’t heard more about the potential danger of these things.

If you do run a USB peripheral you can check exactly how much power it is running in both Windows XP and Vista. To do this you must;

• Open your Control Panel
• Click Device Manager
• Go down to Universal Serial Bus Controllers and open it
• Right click on the first ‘USB Root Hub’ and select properties
• Click the Power tab
• Here you will see the power being used in your USB ports

You will see your peripheral under attached devices and the power it is using. You will also see at the top of the tab the total power available for your hubs.

Basically all you need to check is that your USB peripherals are not going close to or exseeding your total power available. If this is happening you must take out your USB peripheral immediately and find an alternate power source otherwise you will burn out your USB hubs.

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Despite Microsoft placing a June 30 deadline on Windows XP, with all sales of the OS being cut off following that date, two of the world’s largest PC manufacturers are exploiting loopholes in Microsoft licensing terms as a means of supplying XP beyond its official end date.

Both HP and Dell plan to offer machines running on Windows XP way after June, taking advantage of the “downgrade rights” offered as part of the Windows Vista license agreement.

HP says that in the business sector it will continue to sell desktops, notebooks, and workstations “pre-downgraded” to XP, until July 30, 2009, over a year after Microsoft’s planned discontinuation.  Dell will stop taking orders for XP machines as part of a default package on June 18, but will thereafter offer the same “pre-downgraded” option on its website.

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