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Hey, if Bill can give away tens of billions of dollars, the least we can do to celebrate his last day is to give away some Microsoft-powered stuff, right? Next up: a full, non-upgrade copy of Windows Vista Ultimate.

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Hey you. Yeah, you. You’re about to beam that resume facsimile-style to a prospective employer, aren’t you? If said machine is a Hewlett-Packard Fax 1010 or 1010xi, we’re recommend firing (ahem) it over through email instead. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with HP, has issued a voluntary recall for the aforementioned fax machines after receiving three reports of “overheating,” two of which resulted in “minor property damage.” If you just so happen to own one of these machines, and you’d prefer your abode not be burned to the ground anytime soon, we’d suggest following the read link and applying for your rebate. After you unplug the machine and shove it in the freeze, of course.

Here’s a peculiar one. Medion’s Akoya Mini — you know, just one of the legions of low-cost laptops you’ve barely heard of — is finally on sale after being showcased at Computex. But it’s not the mere fact of being on sale that’s intriguing; for whatever reason, Medion has decided to offer the unit up in Austria’s Hofer, which is the foreign equivalent of America’s Aldi. So you know, while you’re browsing around picking up a few bits of produce and a 20-pack of Fun Dip, why not snag a 10-inch netbook for €399 ($628) to round things out?
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You didn’t really think we’d make it through his retirement without running the sexiest of all Bill photos, did you? We have to wonder what he’ll feel like tomorrow morning, though — we hear the headache on a 33 year software hangover is absolutely vicious.

Anyhow, just because the man’s left the building doesn’t mean you can’t take home a few of his fine products. Hit the contests below, they close up Sunday night.

Apple hasn’t sued Psystar yet, so it’s no surprise the company is pushing the envelope as far as it can — it’s just introduced two rackmount servers that come with OS X Server pre-installed. The OpenServ 1100 and 2400 are both configurable with 2.5 GHz Xeon processors and up to 16GB of RAM, with the 1U 1100 sporting four drive bays and the 2U 2400 rocking six. Just like Psystar’s other products, you’re on your own (or at the mercy of Psystar) for service and support, since Apple won’t help you — and considering Psystar kept sending us support tickets for that DHCP issue but never actually called us to resolve it, that might make enterprise customers a bit wary. On the other hand, with prices starting at $1599, we’re certain some desperate render shop will take the plunge.
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We knew driver-enabled PhysX support was due for NVIDIA’s line some time soon, but HotHardware’s reporting that GeForce 8 and 9-series owners will finally have it when ForceWare 177.39 ships alongside the GeForce 9800 GTX+ in July. The preliminary benchmarks seem to show some serious GPU performance gains for PhysX operations, so with any luck you’ll soon be rendering Independence Day fireworks at greater framerates than ever previously imagined.
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Sure, you’ll be able to pay out the nose for a Vista machine with a XP Professional “downgrade” soon enough, but Dell just pushed back its cutoff for straight-up XP machines. They’ll be selling select Inspiron and XPS desktop with whatever flavor of XP you choose up until June 26th, at precisely 6:59AM EST. Naturally after June 26 you’ll be able to buy a Vista Biz or Ultimate machine and downgrade to XP Pro, but we’ll hope it doesn’t have to come to that. We heard that one guy even got a printer to work with Vista. Things are looking up, folks!
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Mobilink, one of Pakistan’s oldest GSM network services provider, has recently showcased the iPhone in one of their new TV ad commercials.

While the short ad film is not exclusively about the iPhone, the way the camera focuses around it multiple times is just way beyond usual. Some of the iPhone shots from the ad film can be seen below.

Full motion ad film can be viewed on YouTube.

Right now its hard to believe if Apple would ever officially plan to release the iPhone in Pakistan as the target market is not too fond of touchscreen devices and some hardly even know what is 3G.

Probably, Mobilink planned to use a Jailbroken iPhone just to make their ad film more interesting and controversial however I will be confirming this through inner sources soon.

Firefox has an amazing password manager which stores all your login credentials and allows you to easily login to websites but the problem is that you still need to type the username everytime.

Secure Login is a Firefox add-on that will allow you to login to websites instantly just with one-click.

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The part where Apple iPhone fails to prove itself as a user-friendly device is when you have to copy music or contacts back from iPhone to PC. Symbian devices on the other hand can be used in mass storage mode to transfer data back from the device to the PC.

iPhoneBrowser is a software for Windows which will simulate and allow you to use iPhone in mass storage mode thus giving you access to all its files and folders.

The iPhoneBrowser provides a Windows based GUI for manipulating files on the iPhone.

It will not only let you browse through your iPhone files and folders but will also let you copy them back to your PC. Plus you can even preview media files such as images, videos in real-time.

The only downside is that you need to have a Jailbroken iPhone to use this application.