DOWNLOAD Getting Started: Your Guide to Windows 8

DOWNLOAD Getting Started: Your Guide to Windows 8: "Become familiar with Windows 8. Whether you’re already using a Windows 8 device or just wondering what’s new, we’ve got the manual for you: “Getting Started: Your Guide to Windows 8″. From author Christian Cawley, this guide outlines everything new about Windows 8, from the tablet-like start screen to the new “app” concept to the familiar desktop mode."

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How to Change and Manually Start and Stop Automatic Maintenance in Windows 8 - How-To Geek

How to Change and Manually Start and Stop Automatic Maintenance in Windows 8 - How-To Geek: "Windows 8 has a new feature that allows you to automatically run scheduled daily maintenance on your computer. These maintenance tasks run in the background and include security updating and scanning, Windows software updates, disk defragmentation, system diagnostics, among other tasks."

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The Beginner’s Guide To Tabbed Browsing - How-To Geek

The Beginner’s Guide To Tabbed Browsing - How-To Geek: "Tabs allow you to open multiple web pages in a single browser window without cluttering your desktop. Mastering tabbed browsing can speed up your browsing experience and make multiple web pages easier to manage."

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The Best Free Alternatives to the Windows Task Manager - How-To Geek

The Best Free Alternatives to the Windows Task Manager - How-To Geek: "The Windows Task Manager is a built-in tool that allows you to check which services are running in the background, how much resources are being used by which software programs, and the all-to-common task of killing programs that are not responding."

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Still more reasons why all HDMI cable are the same | TV and Home Theater - CNET Reviews

Still more reasons why all HDMI cable are the same | TV and Home Theater - CNET Reviews: "Even after two articles, and a tremendous amount of page hits, there still seems to be lots of questions about HDMI cables. I credit this to the complexity of the topic and the mountain of misinformation out there, rather than any particular failing of the writing on my part. Judge as you see fit."

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How to prepare your gadgets and electronic lifelines, for the next hurricane | ExtremeTech

How to prepare your gadgets and electronic lifelines, for the next hurricane | ExtremeTech: "With the incessant warnings to stock water and food for Hurricane Sandy, little was said about caring for what has become an essential part of nearly everyone’s lives — personal technology. Smartphones and computers are as much of a lifeline for most of us as land lines and light bulbs. A depressing number of people found themselves with dead cellphones and unusable computers within hours of the storm reaching their area, while in most cases a few simple precautions would have saved the day."

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Can’t Stand The Slowness? The Top 10 Reasons for Poor PC Performance

Can’t Stand The Slowness? The Top 10 Reasons for Poor PC Performance: "Has your computer loaded this webpage yet? If it has, you’ll be halfway toward working out just why it seems to be running so slowly. There are many reasons for desktop and laptops to chug along at their own, slow pace, defying the system specs and performing more like a relic from the 1990s."

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Get Windows 8 for Dummies: Pocket Edition e-book for free | The Cheapskate - CNET News

Get Windows 8 for Dummies: Pocket Edition e-book for free | The Cheapskate - CNET News: "I've made no secret of my total hatred of lack of excessive fondness for Windows 8. I think unless you're getting it on a tablet or smartphone, the OS is best avoided."

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Oak Ridge unveils Titan, the world's most powerful supercomputer

Oak Ridge unveils Titan, the world's most powerful supercomputer: "The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has just introduced Titan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer. The size of a basketball court and using enough power to run a small town, the water-cooled circuits of Titan are capable of 20 petaflops or 20,000 trillion calculations per second. This makes Titan ten times more powerful than ORNL’s previous computer, Jaguar and 200,000 times more than the average PC. What’s more, it achieves this through components originally created for gaming computers."

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Get More from Windows 7 ALT+TAB App Switching: Tricks You Didn’t Know About

Get More from Windows 7 ALT+TAB App Switching: Tricks You Didn’t Know About: "There’s more to Alt+Tab than just pressing Alt+Tab to switch between windows. There are a variety of hidden keyboard shortcuts that make the Alt+Tab switcher quicker and easier to use. There are also ways to customize the Alt+Tab switcher, reverting to the old-style, classic Alt+Tab switcher or disabling the window previews that appear while Alt+Tabbing"

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