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For sure some of you had requests from your friends to help them about troubleshooting in their PCs. Well, to help them, (before open the PC) the best way is to use easy and powerful diagnostic tools, with those tools we can analyze the problem the machine has and with this we can save time. So, recently I found an interesting tool that works like all in one, the PC Wizard 2008! This tool can give precise and useful information, like hardware, processors, hard disk, board, memories, optical drives performances and much more! So, why not use this free tool to check out our machine.

Hardware Information:
-Mainboard / Bios (Connectors, ID String, MP Support …)
-Chipset (FSB Frequency, Norhtbridge, Hub, Direct Media Interface, XMB, NSI, …)
-Main Memory (FPM, EDO, SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, DDR-2 SDRAM, DDR-3 SDRAM, RDRAM, FB_DIMM, Timings …)
-Memory Profiles : EPP (SLi Ready), Intel XMP.
-Cache Memory (L1, L2, L3, Size, Frequency …)
-Processors (Type, Speed, Multiplier coeff., Features, Model Number, Vanderpool Technology …)
-Coprocessor
-APM & ACPI
-Busses : ISA, PCI, AGP (2x, 4x,8x), SMBus/ i2c, CardBus, Firewire, Hyper-Transport … )
-DMI / SMBIOS
-Mainboard Sensors, Processor, Hard Disk & Battery (Voltage, Temperature, Fans)
-Video (Monitor, Card, Bios, Capabilities, Memory, Integrated Memory, Frequencies …)
-OpenGL & 3Dfx
-DirectX (DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound (3D), DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectInput, DirectX Media)
-Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick
-Drives (Hard Disk, Removable, CD-ROM, CDRW, DVD …)
-SCSI (Card, Controller, Adapter, Devices …)
-ATA/ATAPI & S-ATA (Devices, Type, Capabilities, S.M.A.R.T. Features, RAID)
-Ports (Serial, Parallel, USB, IEEE-1394)
-IDE & SCSI Devices
-Twain & WIA Devices
-PCMCIA (PC Card) Devices
-Bluetooth Devices
-Sound Card (wave, midi, aux, mix, AC’97 codec, High Definition Audio)
-Printers (Local & Network)
-Modem (Features, Speed …)
-Network (Server, Connexion, Firewall …)
-Security (Scan Ports …)
-PocketPC & SmartPhone Devices
and much more!

Free Download: PC Wizard 2008 1.85 (2.37MB)

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If you are a business owner, so this post should be interesting to you!
As you know you should have insurance company to cover your employees, being a business owner you know that health insurance is important to most employees. Well, nowadays this is one of the greatest challenges that many small businesses face today, where to find the best insurance company; we know there are thousands and thousands of insurance companies out there, but where is that company we want?!

Well there is a group health insurance California called KaiserQuotes which can help small business owners to decide what kind of health insurance is the best for their employees needs. So, if you are a business owner, check out this Health Insurance website and get there healthcare quotes!

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Do you want to meet a new kind of search engine?
After Google search engine, becomes very difficult to find another one like it or similar, well today I can say that I found an interesting search engine tool, but different than ohter search tool engine!
This tool has a different kind of views and its search is made in several well-known sources. So, I would like to present you the Viewzi! This search engine display in several kind of views, such as mp3, photo view, video search, celebrity photos, Amazon books and other things, well they are 21 kind of views in the total! If you want to check out this engine start to use the mp3 search tool.

Viewzi works on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera.

Webpage: Viewzi

Image: Viewzi

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If you are planning a trip out of the country and you need a car in your destination, well, you have an easy solution, to rent a car. But for sure you know there are thousands of car hire websites out there, well, what do you need is a website where can provide the lowest car hire rates available, and you can get that information on arguscarhire.com website! On this website you can see the Fantastic Offers section, here you have the low cost Car Hire rates available in several cities and I can say they are truly economical. This company has been established for over 49 years offering always excellent services; here you find travel guides, games and of course the possibility to book a hotel room.

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As you know applications for editing and creating images are a little expensive, but in the internet we can find free applications that can do the same as those expensive applications, of course they are limited. So, Sumopaint is a new offer, developed through the Flex platform from Adobe, with this free application the users can do images corrections and the possibility to do fantastic artistic creations online.
The layout is very similar as Adobe Photoshop, with its floating tool bars, the layers support with the different kind of effects and more. Well, for a free application the Sumopaint is very functional.

Webpage: sumopaint

Thanks Steve

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Are you planning a trip to Las Vegas? Do you need to find a hotel there? If so, I know a website called i4vegas.com that has all information about las vegas hotels that have incredible rates!
This website has an incredible 25 thousands visitors per day, as you can see this place is very searched for people wants to book a hotel in Las Vegas. So, jump to this website and check out their promotions and Vegas tips sections; and have a nice trip!

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Would like to do some tests on your computer? CrystalDiskMark can do that! CrystalDiskMark is a free application which allows you to test your hard drive disk, CPU, memory and video. Those tests result in a useful information and that information should be analyzed by you. The information that you get it’s about how fast your memory read and writes, then it gives a cache score. This test is important to detect failures in your hard disk. It has an easy-to-use interface makes it extremely easy to use.

Free Download: CrystalDiskMark 2.1 (380KB)

Link & Image: Crystal

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Did you know that your bathtub can be made into a walk in tub?
If in your family you have a handicapped or elderly person don’t worry because the KitchenBathstore.com website can help you to provide an easy access to your bathtub. On this website you find walk in tub solutions for your bathing needs. Take a look to this website and give an easy and safety way to the elderly person in your life.

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You are searching for an application which can store your application serial numbers?
So, I have great news for you, because there is a fantastic free tool called RapidoSerial that allows you to store all of your application license files, serial numbers and other important information you may have. This application is very simple to use and is compatible with Tiger and Leopard, available in English, French and Chinese.

Free Download: RapidoSerial 2.1.1 (3.28MB)

Link & Image: app4mac

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All of you know with the economy cost rising, more and more and people start to have difficult to “survive”, cost of health care, car maintenance, hospitals, home improvement or any other priority expenses, this make people to need instant cash.
Well if you are in this situation, don’t be worried, yeah, don’t be in panic, because there are in the internet places that can help you to get the money you need.

Yes, I know, there are thousands and thousands of loan providers available on the internet waiting for you, and those providers has an huge range of different kind of cash advances and the money advance procedure conditions are very impressive, you need submit many faxes of financial documents, to summarize, you need to deal with a lots of paperwork to see your load amount approved.

But, not all are bad news, because there is a website called personalcashadvance.com that can help you with your financial problems and the best of all with no faxing payday loan document required, great isn’t it?! You only need to read and filling their online form after that a loan representative will contact you via phone or email to confirm your details, and then you will get your payday loan electronically in your account. So, just click here to view it now!

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Fresh news for NVIDIA Fans!
NVIDIA has lunched the new final version of its graphics cards. This new pack was built for 5,6,7,8 and 9 series, available for the 32 and 64 bits versions. NVIDIA has a deal to support Windows Vista in the actual versions and of course, the future versions too. In each new release NVIDIA ensure a better performance in its graphic cards for Windows XP and Vista.

Free Download:
Download for 32bits: ForceWare 175.19 WHQL WinXP (36.8MB)
Download for 64bits: ForceWare 175.19 WHQL WinXP (48.1MB)
Download for 32bits: ForceWare 175.19 WHQL WinVista (35.2MB)
Download for 64bits: ForceWare 175.19 WHQL WinVista (50.4MB)

Link: nvidia

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If you are thinking about your family future financial protection, so you should invest in a term life insurance, but to find the right term life insurance is very difficult, because there are a lot of offers available on the internet, however there is a website that can help you to choose the perfect life insurance quotes and rates. The wholesaleinsurance.net! Here you can get easily your future term life insurance quote from all of the best term life insurance companies. Click on the link above and find out how you can easily do that!

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Cars!? You love luxury cars? So, this post is for you!
 I heard that people, well, people who lives from oil, they lives like kings, or better than kings. I already saw pictures of beautiful houses, palaces, boats and cars of those people, but today I was surprised when I saw these pictures! Yes, this is a Mercedes covered with beautiful diamonds! No, this is not my car ;-) This car belongs to the Prince Waleed, from Prince Saudi Arabia. Oh, if are thinking to see this car, don’t touch on it, because you if you do that, you have to pay $1000.

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You have a field or any area that you want keep saved, well, nothing better than a wire mesh fence for that. So, if you are looking for a wire mesh, wire cloth or any kind of metal wire products, well, there is a company that has all this, PWS, Petro Wire and Steel based in Houston, Texas. This company has wire cloths, such as wire mesh, space cloth, welded utility mesh, insect screen, crawfish and crab mesh and much more! Some of these products they can offer in rolls, slitting, circle cutting, blanking and also stamping.
But you can know more about their products at pwsteel.com website, here you can find out all information you need for your needs.

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Before known as Xbox Media Center, the XBMC is an interesting media center open source with huge range of compatibility with different formats. Available with more 20 different languages, this player can execute infinite media formats and also the capacity to create play lists, slideshows, skins and other functions which could be worked with plug-ins. The program was developed in 2002 for the first Xbox console generation. Nowadays this application can be executed on the Windows platform, working as media-player jukebox and entertainment hub.

Free Download: XBMC media center (31MB)

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Today I bring a post for boxing fans! I like to watch Boxing on the TV, is an exciting sport, well, this sport is for strong and courageous men, is necessary to have high physical capacity to resist to all punch in the body and of course in the head.

So, if you are a Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Oscar De La Hoya fan, well I have for you great news! Last month the super welterweight super fight with De La Hoya and Mayweather took place at MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, well, this match was one of the most lucrative boxing matches ever, do you know how much was the profits? Over $120 million, this is extraordinary, isn’t it?!

On this match the super fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. won by a split decision over Oscar De La Hoya in great 12 rounds, with this win, the fight Floyd Mayweather Jr had the light middleweight title the World Boxing Council light middleweight title.
But this not the end, because there is schedule another match, will be on September 20th, 2008, for sure will be a long-awaited fight! Perhaps this match can bring another enormous amount of profits that the first one did.

So, if you would like to watch this game live at MGM Grand Garden Arena, you can purchase Oscar De La Hoya vs Floyd Mayweather Jr. tickets at TeamOnetickets.com website. On this website you can buy online tickets for several matches. So, quickly, go to this website and make sure you get your tickets in advance, because it will be a great match!

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Do you remember Super Mario 64? This game was/is very addicted, well, now you can play it on your Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD with the Mupen64!
Mupen64 is a fantastic Nintendo 64 emulator, this emulator allows you to play Nintendo’s games. The graphics and the sound quality are extraordinary, with this emulator you can play the most popular Nintendo’s games. Like Super Mario Bros, Pokemon Stadium, The Legend of Zelda and others. This emulator is totally free and is available in several languages.

Free Download: Mupen64Plus

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You have more than one computer at home with different platforms and you would like connect them to each other?! Well, there is a little device that can help you to do that, the KVM Switch! This device allows you (as I said) connect several computers and manage them over IP. But you can get more information about this and other device at blackbox.com website. Check it out!

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It’s very easy when we want rename a file, with the F2 button or right mouse button we can rename a file. But when we want rename a lot of files, well, this become a hard task! What we have to do to simplify this? On the internet we can find an open source tool called Metamorphose! This cool application is very simple to use, it has a lot of interesting options to use which can provide us a way to rename a huge selection of files. So, if you have files of your photos to rename, well, this can help you to do that.

Free Download: Métamorphose 1.1.1 (4 MB)

Link & Image: Métamorphose

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Mobile phones have changed our lifestyle, they have changed the way people communicate, in a question of seconds we can communicate with somebody around the world, this extraordinary progress in the communications brought new concepts in the communication, like video and text messaging. Well, the new mobile phones don’t have only this, they have capacity to reproduce music, games, photos and wallpapers, is really extraordinary this little devices can do.
According some reports, more than 60% of mobile phone are been using with text messaging, this can be like a chatting or invitations.
This kind of communications is also one the best ways for reaching out people or other kind of identity, recently I found an interesting article at sjamobile.net.
This company has launched a new kind of SMS, the:

SJA Mobile & FBI Launch SMS Tipline
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SJA Mobile today jointly announced with the FBI’s Washington D.C Field Office and Metropolitan Police an initiative which will enable D.C-area citizens to anonymously report crime tips via a novel new medium – SMS. SMS, or “text messaging,” has up until now never been used before as a medium for crime tips.
Citizens in the D.C area can report a crime or homeland security tip by sending a text message with the tip to the number 50411. The 5-digit number to text to is called a “Short Code.” Currently the service is available on all major wireless carriers, along with several Tier 2 carriers.
SJA Mobile is in talks expand the service to several other major cities.

This service is excellent you don’t think so? Now you can be a hero, you can report a crime anonymously! This service is very helpful!
The SJA Mobile company provides businesses with comprehensive technology solutions for the mobile marketing, mobile billing called “Premium SMS”, mobile web, and mobile content delivery markets. This company has recognized clients such, as CocaCola, Willow, Disney, Fiba, United Nations, Universal and much more. As you can see this company has innovative solutions for mobile providers.

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You are somewhere in the world and you don’t have TV?!
Don’t worry because TVUPlayer can help you! TVUPlayer is a free application which you can let you to watch TV channels of some countries in the World. It lets you to watch more hundred TV channels from cable and satellite platforms. Here you can find soccer, movies, news, leisure and more. It has a simple interface and it works with the TVP2P technology. The last version was launched in May 2008 and it runs in all windows versions.

Free Download: TVUPlayer V2.3.6 (4.35MB)

Link & Image: tvunetworks

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Travel is so fascinating, is the best way to know new places, new people, new customs, well, is fantastic to travel. When we are thinking to travel to some where, we should visit website guides, on those places we can find great stuff and tips. For example the ShermansTravel website has excellent travel guides, such as Las Vegas travel guide, New York, Portugal, Paris, Barcelona, Prague and much more travels guides. Well, if you are planning to go somewhere, you have to visit this website to get travel tips before you go.

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Do you want to create different presentations? I think all of you know the PowerPoint from Microsoft OS, but there are others alternatives to it and 280 Slides is one of them! 280 Slides is a fantastic free service which let you create extraordinary presentations, this free service has a lot of tools and cool themes. After created your presentation you can download it into Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 format, you can share your work on SlideShare, embed it on your own blog or website and e-mail it to your friends. To run the application you don’t need installation, because it runs in your browser.

Webpage: 280slides
Thanks Ana

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Are you planning to build a website for your business? For sure you are looking for the right web hosting, right? We know (web owners) that is very difficult to find the most appropriate web hosting for us on the internet, because there so many offers available on the web which can make us very confuse, but don’t worry there is a website called webhostinggeeks.com that has a list of the best webhosting providers. As I said, here you can find the best web hosting providers by rank, by features, their bonus features and a section with hosting reviews. Well, this website has all information regarding web hosting, like Web Hosting Awards, Web Hosting Reviews and Webmaster Resources and much more! You’ve got to check out this cool website!

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If you like to play piano or if you would like to play a piano and you don’t have one, well, now you have an opportunity to have one! Not a really piano, bur a virtual piano! This free application is very cool, it has different kind of sounds and you can produce it through your keyboard. So, this free tool can be your opportunity to be a famous musician!

Free Download: Virtual Piano 1.0 (19.3KB)

Link & Image: pablosoftwaresolutions

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