It has been a while since Intel talked about its Moorestown platform which appeared in the roadmap after the Silverthorne as ultra low power silicon dedicated for UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) and MID (Mobile Internet Device) market, but it seems that the available information is very limited to public. Now more information has been disclosed and some of the manufacturers could have started to align their roadmap accordingly.

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Email is an important communications tool that is very commonly used nowadays. It is fast and easy to use. However, there is always a critical argument on how secure Email is. Email travels from sender to recipient across the internet; therefore, anyone (possibly with malcious intent) can intercept it, copy it, edit it or even stop it. Neither sender nor recipient will know the email has been viewed or amended. That is the ugly side of using email. To protect email’s content or privacy, the best way both sender and recipient need to do is to encrypt the message. Nevertheless, email encryption is quite a tedious job.

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Vista Shutdown Timer or Vista-ShutdownTimer is a free, advanced yet easy to use sleep timer or scheduler for Windows operating system, supporting almost all versions of Windows including Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows 2000 and etc., albeit the name of “Vista” Shutdown Timer. Vista Shutdown Timer allows user to preset schedule a time to shutdown and turn off computer automatically, and support various features to make it a must have shutdown scheduler.

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Have tons of music tracks and albums in the media library of Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center, and having a hard time to update and manage the album titles, album artist names, and most importantly album arts aka CD covers? WMP and WMC does not provide an easy way to manage the albums’ arts and details. Furthermore, the album artworks may be incorrect, erroneously assigned to wrong CD, empty (music album not tagged with album art and shown with generic album art), corrupt or messed up.

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Windows Vista has included built-in MPEG-2 decoder or codec from Micrsoft into the system. Thus, unlike in Windows XP or earlier, users can watch DVD and view live telecast or recorded TV shows without the need to buy or download and install third party DVD MPEG-2 decoder such as PowerDVD and WinDVD, or free MPEG2 codec or DirectShow filter.

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When installing Joomla version 1.0.x or Mambo CMS (Content Management System) using web browser, the web based Joomla! installer pre-installation check screen displayed Not set, Unwritable in red for session save path parameter, indicating that the session save path is not defined in PHP.INI configuration file, not configured with correct permission or does not exist. If you continue installation, Joomla! still install but users will facing symptoms such as only can login to the front end but not the administrator backend, with the login process jumped back to login screen without any message such as incorrect user name or password.

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The future of Joomla! CMS, Jomla! version 1.5, has new framework with code based for the Joomla! core completely re-written and built with PHP 5. Thus, a lot of existing extensions, plugins, templates and modules for Joomla! version 1.0.x does not work or fail to work properly in the Joomla! 1.5, sometimes not even able to upload and install the package. Users will get error messages such as “Direct Access to this location is not allowed” and “Must Enable Legacy Mode In Global Config To Complete This Task.” Joomla! developers is kind enough to provide a legacy mode in Joomla! 1.5 that supports compatibility with extensions designed and developed for older version of Joomla.

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After installing Apple Quicktime, it’s essential to test the QuickTime installation to verify and ensure that the QuickTime is installed properly and worked as desired. Testing allows you to playback any streaming video or HD (high definition) movie contents immediately embedded on web browser or downloaded without delay or having to spend time troubleshoot the QuickTime codec or decoder again. It’s also useful to test if there has been issues with QuickTime installation.

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