If you are a netizen then you know one thing is for sure. Google is watching over. Now they have come one step ahead and wants you to share your energy information with them. Perplexed? Google will announce a free web service tomorrow called PowerMeter that'll let users track energy consumption in their homes or business, provided there's a means to upload the data. Google PowerMeter, now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up to get access to his home electricity consumption right on the iGoogle homepage.

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Graphics cards and drivers are preferable when they are already installed. Lol. Whenever a re-formatting is needed or suppose a new OS is to be tried in your computer, one can not but be unsettled with questions like will the beta or early release support my graphics card, or in many cases several graphics cards and will the frame rate suffer, what if it doesn't install and so on and so forth. So before you try out Windows 7, you must know what two of the best graphics card manufacturers prescribe you.

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Cmd or command prompt in Windows have been one of the very places in Windows where you can get things done by your way. Now the main problem is we don't get to know about all the commands we should to help ourselves. So here is a collection of 65 of such commands which are used to  monitor network activities as well as system issues of your Windows which will not only take you through the processes you want to but also open some unknown doors to you. So all the best

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15th anniversary of Check Point Software (since it first started to release Firewall-1) is being celebrated in a big way. ZoneAlarm Full article (102 words) »

One of the main focus points of Microsoft while developing Windows Vista was to make it a visual delight. Though Windows was successful in doing that, Vista had a very weak and perhaps the worst reviews from all over the world. A bug-prone and almost half finished project that it was, Windows had to come up with an OS who is here to stay. Windows 7 (codenamed Windows Vienna) dreams of that lost market of Windows to recover again. While the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) didn't reveal much about Windows 7, I am here to take you through the probable features that might come with Windows 7 along with many more still kept secret (I mean almost all of them are set to privacy unless you sit and go through Windows 7 news keenly. Not to mention, I had a horrid time discovering the following points)

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Should we use to represent a constant String such as browser's user agent or simply use public static final String as before?
Using public static final as enum has many problems, such as: Full article (450 words) »