There are two variations of all the different Windows 7 versions available, a 32 bit version and a 64 bit version. If you want to try the 64 bit version you will need a 64 bit processor from either Intel or AMD and you need to make sure that your PC meets the minimun requirements.
The published minimum system requirements for Windows 7 64 bit are:

1 gigahertz (GHz) 64-bit (x86) processor
2 GB RAM (64-bit)
20 GB available hard disk space
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

By using 64 …

The question is can your PC run Windows 7? If you are considering upgrading Windows on your current PC, then there are two ways to check if your PC will work with Windows 7. The first is the manual way, read the system requirements and compare them to your PC, the other is the automatic way, run the Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade advisor.
The published minimum system requirements for Windows 7 are:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM …

The Hi-Tech Squad’s blog can be found at http://hitechsquad.com, in fact this is where you’re currently reading this post. The Hi-Tech Squad is dedicated to posting news, tutorials, tips, reviews and links to what is happening in technology around the Web each day.
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Gary Sims of LearnFreeNAS.com has created a new FreeNAS tutorial video which has been uploaded to YouTube.
Following the success of the first FreeNAS tutorial video this second video is a sneak preview of ZFS which is coming in FreeNAS 0.7.
The video will also be uploaded to the LearnFreeNAS.com website.
You can also get more information on FreeNAS here.
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If you live outside the US and love listening to online radio, you might remember Pandora, probably the greatest free online service where you can listen and tune your music to your taste. Well, as Pandora is now only streaming to US-based listeners, what are people outside to do? Head to globalPandora, where you can listen to it without a problem (at least for a while, because we’re certain the site will be *nicely* asked to cease, although now that it’s proved possible, similar ones will pop-up soon).
We have tested …

Got an e-mail in my inbox this morning from Pandora with the thing all UK-based users of this service have feared: Pandora will stop streaming to the UK as of January 15th. They have been forced to isolate everyone except the UK for a while, in hopes they might still be able to work out a deal. I guess it did not work out.
Oh well, there’s always Last.fm or HotSpot Shield. Yeah, you read me right! While it’s been intended as a protection over your wireless connection, HotSpot creates “a …

One of my clients’ Linux server got hacked somehow recently and after discovering the hacker’s files on the server I proceeded to re-securing the system and removing all traces, files, programs of that user. While doing this I stumbled upon this nice article on how to remove a user and lock down all files and access for that user on your system. Maybe it’s a former company employee or like in my case, a hacker, you can take these steps to make sure that user cannot log in again… after …

When you have to start a new web project from scratch and you get absolutely no indication from the client as to what colors he/she would like on their site, or if they have just one base color to start with, where do you turn to? Color scheme generators? No? Sure?
Anyway, here’s a short list of my favorite color tools for the web:

My main and favorite one: ColorMatch Redux, is a very simple web-based color theme generator. Just paste a hex color value in the “Hex” field and click “Use …

In the latest release (Beta version 4.1.7076.4458) of Google-earth there is a fine add-on for those who like virtualisation: the Flightsimulator. If you have dedicated hardware, like Joystick, Steering-wheel, Flightyoke, etc. you will enjoy a better experience.
Just it the special keyboard shortcut: CTRL-ALT-A (Command+Option+A on the Mac) and you get a requestor allowing you to choose from two types of aircraft – an F-16 or a SR-22, and choose from one of several airports.
If you want to check this out you should get the newest version here.
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That “Bong” is nice to hear if you first boot up a Mac. After several times it might happen you wish it wasn’t there, for some people after the first time. Get rid of it! Use StartupSoundPrefPane, a nice piece of software that comes under the FREEWARE licence and is currently at version 1.0.4. System requirements are Mac with PowerPC processors and Mac OS X 10.2 or later. There is though a beta version tested successfully on an Intel based Mac.

You can download the package here.
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