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How To Protect Your Family Using A NAS Device? (Network Attached Storage)

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As technology becomes cheaper, faster and more accessible, our appetite for data is growing at an incredible rate. In order to maintain control over this fast-growing data, we have to become smarter about how we store and manage unstructured information.

One of the best methods for handling this growth is through storage consolidation.

In a typical modern family, you might have 3 or 4 computers. Each machine has its own hard drive, full of precious memories, files and information. If one of these computers should ever crash, it would be a tragic event for the entire family.

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Of course, manually backing up 4 machines on a daily basis isn’t practical. That’s why computer families are now turning to Network Attached Storage (NAS) boxes for their home data management.

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10 Top Free DVD Decrypters Download

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DVD decrypter tools are especially useful for decrypting copy protected movies. They usually remove Macrovision content protection, CSS, region codes, and user operation prohibition of a DVD.

DVD decrypter tools facilitate the removal of copy restrictions and allow users copy DVD content into harddisk. Here’s 10 top free DVD decrypters that decrypt protected DVD on the fly. Details next!

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15 Most Useful Windows 7 Tips and Tricks You Should Know

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Windows 7 has sold over 90 million licenses to-date. It’s the fastest selling operating system in history. From the record we understand that users are responding so positively to Windows 7.

However it always takes times to explore a new program especially when dealing with a powerful OS.

Instead of exploring Windows 7 step-by-step or go through a super long list of tips in forum or blog, we’ve compiled our version (hand-picked and tried-and-true tips) to help you get the most out of your new OS.

This week we gonna showcase 15 most useful Windows 7 tips and trick you should know to spice up your Windows 7 experience.

Details next!

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How to Share A Webpage to Twitter or Facebook Quickly with Google Toobar

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The latest version of Google Toolbar offers a new option for users to share a webpage to social networks on the fly.

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31 Top Free Online Antivirus Scanners and Antivirus Softwares

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We all know that having virus protection is important because one of the biggest threat of using a computer is virus infection. Therefore, antivirus software has become a must-have tool for many computer users.

If your computer is infected and not able to install antivirus software, online antivirus scanners are very good alternative options for you to save your computer.

This week we gonna show you 31 top free online antivirus scanners and free antivirus softwares to keep your computer clean and healthy. Details next!

Online Antivirus Scanners

  1. avast! Online Scanner

    avast! Online virus scanner gives the possibility to check your files quickly and free of charge. Each time you may check only one file with size not exceeding 512kB.

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40 Free Softwares to Recover Deleted or Damaged Data, Files and Photos

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Data loss is an unpredictable disaster which normally caused by virus attacks, human errors, software / hardware failures, technical problems and many more.

This post serves as a collection of free softwares to recover deleted or damaged data, files and photos. Details next!

Files and Data Recovery Tools

  1. DataRecovery version 2.4.6

    DataRecovery is freeware and written by TOKIWA to undelete accidentally deleted files even from recycle bin.

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How to Remove PDF Password

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One of the easiest way to view a password protected PDF files is to remove the password by decrypting it with a software.

Here’s a free software (Free offer expires on Feb 24, 2010) – PDF Password Remover, designed to help you remove PDF password from your encrypted PDF file instantly.

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14 Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of GTalk

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Google Talk (GTalk) is a free Windows and web-based application for instant messaging and voice over internet protocol (VOIP), offered by Google Inc.

Today, Google Talk (GTalk) is widely used for sending instant text message, voice chat and see real-time availability and status of friends online.

Here’s 14 tips and tricks we collected to allow you get the most out of Gtalk. Details next!

  1. Extended Talk

    Extended Talk is an add-on for Google Talk. It has over 15 different features including file transfer, custom images, active status, slash commands, smileys, and desktop friends. Extended Talk is the first add-on to add file transfer and is currently the only add-on to do so.

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How to Convert PowerPoint File (.PPT) to YouTube Video (.MP4)

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As default, Microsoft PowerPoint doesn’t allow its use to save a PowerPoint file as a video file. If you have created a fancy PowerPoint presentation and wanted to share it online as a video clip, here’s a tool to solve your problem – Free Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube.

In short, Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube helps users to convert a fantastic PowerPoint file (.ppt) to a YouTube video (.mp4) for free.

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How to Fix Damaged Zip File

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Zip file format is widely used for data storage or transferred of multiple files in a batch over the internet. Due to its highly sensitive to corruptions, standard zip tools will not be able to extract its content if any minor damage of the zip file occurred.

Here’s a zip tool which we think it might be the best solution to repair a damaged zip fileDiskInternals ZIP Repair.

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