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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Improved Preformance and Privacy in Firefox 21.0  Mozilla has released Firefox 21.0 Final, a major new version of its cross-platform, open-source web browser for Windows, Mac and Linux. Version 21 gives users more control over their tracking cookie preferences, extends the social API to support four new providers and implements support for tools to help with troubleshooting and performance issues. Also included in this release are...

Monday, May 13, 2013

nVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows 320.14 Beta Recommended driver for Nvidia cards. It is Microsoft WHQL-certified and will also be available for download via Windows Update.  nVIDIA GeForce Drivers for Windows 320.14 Beta Latest Changes - Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 20% for GeForce 400/500/600 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce...
Homedale::WLAN Monitor Homedale lets you search for Wi-Fi / WLAN Access Points and monitor their signal strength. See an overview of all available access points with their signal strength, encryption [WEP/WPA/WPA2], speed and channel. You can also monitor the signal strength of selected access points in a graph over the time. With a right mouse click, you can start logging to a text file and create a screenshot. Make a right mouse click...

Friday, May 10, 2013

Monitor and Log TCP Connections With TcpLogView TcpLogView is a free connection monitoring software for Windows. You can use TcpLogView to monitor and log TCP connections. When a process on your system creates a connection, both the process name and the location where it has connected will be logged. TcpLogView is portable, you can use it from a USB flash drive for example. Without any active TCP connections on startup, the list that you...

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for May 2013 Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for May 2013 Issued: May 9, 2013 This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on May 14, 2013. The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for May 2013 can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms13-may. This bulletin advance notification...
PerfView Performance-Analysis Tool For isolating CPU and memory-related performance issues PerfView is a performance analysis tool focusing on ETW information (ETL files) as well as CLR memory information (heap dumps). It can collect and view ETL files as well as XPERF CSV files. Powerful grouping operators allow you to understand performance profiles in ways other tools can't. PerfView is used internally at Microsoft by a number of teams...
Microsoft Puts A bandaid On IE8, Users Are Still Advised to Upgrade to IE10 Microsoft has issued an advisory, and  "Fix it" for Internet Explorer 8. However it's  more a temporary stop-gap than a real resolution for the flaw. Microsoft stresses that "CVE-2013-1347 MSHTML Shim Workaround" is "not intended to be a replacement for any security update". This Fix It can also be disabled if for some reason you have an issue with it. The...

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Change Your Password Lately? You Should I get calls, support tickets, and family telling my that "My computer has been hacked, or my Facebook has be broken into. This is more common that one would think and my question is alway; Have you changed your password lately? As long as there have been computers there have been passwords to login to them. Many people including persons in IT use common non-complex passwords often using 123456, password,...
Rid Your Inbox of Unwanted Subscriptions: Unroll.Me If you are like many your receive tons of subscriptions you don't want, and even some you do. This can become a hassle and clutter your inbox with tons of unwanted subscriptions and spam. It is very time consuming to open each email, select unsubscribe and with most have to wait 1-3 days for the action to fully unsubscribe your from their mailing list. In comes Unroll.Me, a very easy, quick...

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

A few weeks back Microsoft merged Messenger and Skype in to a single package and flipped the switch on Messenger forcing users to use the new client. A fan of the old Messenger and not wanting to use Skype I found a way to install Messenger without having to use the merged client. Messenger Reviver 2 automatically installs, repairs and/or modifies Windows Live Messenger 2012, 2011, 2009, and 2008 (as well as Windows Messenger) so you can continue...
Microsoft has confirmed the successor to Windows 8, Windows Blue 8.1 will roll out later this year, Julie Larson-Green, Windows co-chief, took to the podium at the Wired Business Conference today to confirm that a developer preview of Windows 8.1—a.k.a. Windows Blue—will be made available during the company's BUILD conference in June. Windows 8.1 AKA Windows Blue Developer Preview June 2013 There is speculation that Microsoft will bring...

Sunday, May 5, 2013

If you like most want to change settings on your Windows Phone, here is a list of  diagnostic codes that you might want to check out. Windows Phone Diagnostic Codes As with all diagnostic codes, and hacks please remember to backup all your data in case you experience an adverse actions while using the below diagnostic codes. TechBetaPlus takes no responsibility for damage caused by the use of these codes and the end user is using at their...