DNS (Domain Name System) is a resolution mechanism to translate, resolve and return real IP address of the serving machine against the fully qualified domain name of the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), aka link location. Whenever a domain has been resolved, the DNS resolution is stored and cached locally for future use.

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Almost all new Windows operating system such as Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and other Microsoft products such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Money, Office Accounting and etc. now require user to activate online against activation server in order to continue using the full version product, using a mechanism named Windows Product Activation (WPA) (also see WPA FAQ and description for WPA).

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Blip.tv is an unique video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content that focuses on “episodic content” or “shows” and “series”, rather than viral video, in the cases such as Youtube. With the popularity of mobile devices, especially iPhone and iPod, Blip.tv also has special file formats that cater for viewers from iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch and other portable media players.

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Even wonder how you can access your desktop or any favorite folder’s contents while doing web browsing in firefox. Normal way is you have to minimize the web browser first and then go to desktop to have access to the files. But incase you have to access favorite folder that are stored few level lower in root directory, this simple trick may work for you. With only a few easy steps, user will be able to create a shortcut to be appeared in the bookmark toolbars in your firefox web browsers. In anytime during the web browsing, you can just click on the shortcut and it will bring you to the favorite folder for fast file accessing.

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Occasionally you receive some important email from clients, business partners, etc. You might wonder why the email is sent as a carbon copy (cc) to some unknown parties and you’re probably keen to find out who these people are. Well, if these unfamiliar people names use Gmail service, a small trick here probably can help you find out who they are.

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Trend Micro OfficeScan is normally deployed in corporate network environment to provide endpoint security. Administrators can remotely uninstall the Office Scan client, and user at the workstation can uninstall the client program using built-in uninstall mechanism too (i.e. Add and Remove Program in Control Panel). If for some reason, the Office Scan client cannot or unable to uninstall, or user doesn’t have the required password to remove the OfficeScan client, try the following workaround to manually uninstall and remove Trend Micro OfficeScan.

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Trend Micro Internet Security Pro, Internet Security 2008, Internet Security 2007, Internet Security 2006 and Internet Security 2005 has included necessary uninstall option via Control Panel Add and Remove Programs (Uninstall Programs and Features in Windows Vista), and also via Start Menu Trend Micro folder’s Uninstall PC-cillin Internet Security command.

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AVG 8 introduces several feature enhancements to protect computer users against malicious threats and phishing websites or web pages that increasingly mushrooming across the Internet. One of the feature is LinkScanner with Search-Shield for safe searching and Active Surf-Shield for safe surfing/browsing, and e-mail scanner for mailbox security.

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