Acer Iconia

Acer recently released a unique new product into the market, the dual-screen Acer Iconia, which they call, “the world’s most advanced touchbook.”

Outwardly the Iconia resembles your standard modern notebook, but its differences become apparent once you
open it up for the first time. The Iconia features two 14" touch-enabled displays,one in the traditional spot and one placed where you’ll usually find the keyboard. (more..)

Quick specs: 

• Intel Core i5 M480 @ 2.67 GHz
• 4 GB DDR3 RAM
• 640 GB HDD
• 2 x 14" 1366 x 768 displays

Firefox 4 Final RTM Official Download

After twelve betas and two RCs (Release Candidates), Mozilla has finally announced and released the final RTM/RTW version of next generation Firefox 4 web browser. Firefox has redesigned user interface (GUI) especially to functionality of tabs management, greatly improve performance and page rendering speed with Gecko 2.0 engine and new JägerMonkey JavaScript engine, in addition to GPU hardware acceleration support. Another feature, Firefox Sync allows user to synchronize settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, open tabs and other customizations across multiple devices."

Firefox 4 for Windows: Firefox Setup 4.0.exe
Firefox 4 for Mac OS X: Firefox 4.0.dmg
Firefox 4 for Linux (x86-x64): firefox-4.0.tar.bz2

PCMark 7 Announced For Windows 7

 "Futuremark®, the developer of the world's most popular benchmarking software, announced PCMark® 7 today, a new benchmark offering complete PC performance analysis for Windows 7. PCMark 7 includes 7 separate test suites combining more than 20 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming. A release date has not been announced though the official website states that PCMark 7 is coming soon. www.pcmark.com

Remove / Disable the Shortcut Arrow From Your Desktop Icons.

If you have a great looking wallpaper and a nice theme to work with than you probably
don’t want to see the arrows on your desktop shortcuts. They are just not the most pretty
looking things to look at on your desktop.


Go to start.
Select Run
And Type in regedit and click OK



Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile
Delete the IsShortcut registry value
Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile
Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ConferenceLink
Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DocShortCut
Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut
Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
Select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WSHFile
Delete the IsShortcut registry value.


Now close down your registry editor and reboot your system and all your icons are arrow free.
Do note that in some cases deactivating the arrow for *.LNK files might lead to duplicate items in the Explorer Context menu.