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I have played many first person shooter games, but I’ve never played one like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2. I haven’t played the other Rainbow Six games, so I can’t make comparisons (I do believe that this has altered my opinion of the game - if you’ve played older games in the series it will probably [...]

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Before you read, note that this article is meant for the less technically adept, those who would normally worry about a virus. If you’re the type who’s been reading my GPU comparisons, overclocking instructions, or processor workings articles, you probably belong on one of those pages instead, heheh.
The amount of concern for spyware and viruses [...]

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If you’re using XP or Vista (and what else would you complain about boot time on?), here’s a quick tip to speed up the booting process.

Open the “msconfig” tool, using Run, Start Search, or navigating to it in explorer. You can also do this by hand in the boot.ini file, if you prefer to get your [...]

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Before I begin, let me apologize for my hiatus the past two weeks.
Many Vista users complain constantly about the network speeds. “XP used to copy so much faster,” I hear quite often. The network stack in Vista has actually been completely rebuilt from the ground up to be much quicker. However, Microsoft, in it’s infinite [...]

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I’ve been waiting a copy of KDE for my gaming box for a long time, and finally that wait is coming to an end. If you don’t know what KDE is, do some reading up first. Before going into the new solution, let me explain why this is such a big deal…
In the past, there were two [...]

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Ever wish that you had dozens, even hundreds of high resolution (HD even) wallpapers without paying a dime? As a photographer and Photoshop-guru, I find myself typically only using my own wallpapers. When I want something else, however, I am quite picky. I tell you this because almost everything at InterfaceLIFT meets or exceeds even my [...]

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Mozilla, the company that brought us Firefox and Thunderbird (as well as many less-notable programs), has ventured into the media player business. Enter Songbird.

Songbird’s interface clearly takes a cue from iTunes, however is a far cry from it. It integrates a web browser with tabs and search, functioning very much like Firefox, including a specific [...]

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How do you instantly hack a Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, MAC, or BSD with the same tool, without bothering to ever crack a password? Why, you just simply plug your box into theirs via Firewire, and run some Python code. That’s right, it’s that easy. With each OS you want to hack, you simply [...]

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Before I even begin to cover this excellent game, let me say that it is also a Windows (and MAC) game, and was actually released for Windows first. It is categorized in this new series of Linux-compatible games because most games aren’t created to work with Linux due to the low gamer population. Without further ado..

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta seems to have been released. It’s supposed to be for web developers, etc., so that they can make sure their code works well before it is mass-installed on their largest userbase. However, this also gives everyone else a ticket to check out the new version.
Among the new features, Microsoft has decided [...]

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