Process Explorer 15.0

July 19th, 2011 by Alex Lay

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.

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WD Scorpio Black 750GB Notebook Hard Drive Review

July 19th, 2011 by Gabrielle Plain

You can never have enough storage and if you primarily use a notebook you more than likely know that storage space is a precious commodity. Most pre-configured notebooks that are available at brick and mortar stores come with 250GB or 320GB hard drives is seems. That may sound like a bunch of space when you are standing in the store, but after you put all your programs, games and digital media on the drive it usually doesn’t leave you with much space for future growth. If you have reached or are nearing full capacity on your storage drive then you might want to consider upgrading to a larger 750GB or 1TB 2.5″ notebook hard drive.

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Unusual Twitter Spam of the Day

July 18th, 2011 by Alex Lay

I love the smell of some Twitter spam in the morning. iPads, iPods, books, movies, videogames, free holidays: I’ve seen – and blocked – them all.

Then this happened.


Yes, Twitter users are being sent, er, a free “arse”. Quite a lot of them, actually:

“Why did you send me an arse?”
Good question, random person on Twitter. All of these messages are coming via an application called Giftifyme, where you select a “gift” to send somebody and then off it goes. Read all post…

Python – Advanced Racing Simulator from Motorsports Simulator

July 18th, 2011 by Gabrielle Plain

For those who just haven’t enough time to hit the tracks or those whose dream of becoming a racing champion was left in the past a company called Motorsports Simulator developed the Python.

The racing simulator is equipped with a large Triple 58-inch plasma display and a computer system that boasts an i7 Quad core processor.

In addition, the system has RAID configuration disks and a 200+ frame rate.

It is worth mentioning that the motor controller design changes provide both higher acceleration and better speed via each of the 3 axis motions, i.e. Read all post…