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Extended File Details is a portable tool for Windows to view various file information in detail. With Extended File Details tool, one can view following details: # File Name # File Type # File Size # File Version # File Attributes # File MD5 # File CRC # Company Name # Description # Legal Copyright # Legal Trademark # Language # Comments # Date Created # Last Accessed # Last Modified # Internal File Name # Original File Name # Large and small icons On top of that, you can also save all these information to a text file. Extended File Details is available to download from the link mentioned below. Download Extended File Details Download 100+ Beautiful Wallpapers For Windows 7 Growl For Windows – Awesome Notification Tool For Windows How To Recover Windows 7 Product Key Download EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 5.0.1 Worth $69.95 For Free Analyze Disk Space Quickly With TreeSize Free Tool

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Why Wipe Data Securely? Whether you are preparing to reuse a hard disk for another operating system, clear off your junk shelves by passing along outdated drives to a friend or relative, donate an old PC to a charity or school, discard a too-small USB drive or flash memory card, or repurpose an SSD, you don’t want to leave any information on the storage device. With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Why Erasing Files Is Not Enough Sure, you could erase the contents of the drive, but keep this in mind: the act of erasing a file does not remove it from a storage device.

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Growl for Windows is a useful notification tool for Windows. With Growl, one can view all notifications including system notifications in a customized way. Once the Growl is installed on your Windows machine, you need to do add applications to the list to customize notification settings. To add an application, you need to download it first from the applications page. The page features over 40 applications including Windows Media Player , Media Center, Visual Studio, System Monitor, Outlook, Google Wave Notifier, Firefox, Foobar2000, Feed Monitor and more

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Some MS Office users were put off a bit by the Ribbon feature in 2007 for being cumbersome and confusing. Today we look at a cool new feature in Office 2010 that allows you to create your own custom tabs with specific commands for easier document creation. Create a Customized Tab In our example we’re using Word, but you can create a custom tab in the other Office apps as well. To do so, right-click on the Ribbon and select Customize the Ribbon.

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Activision has announced that it is planning a new Call of Duty game that will NOT be a first person shooter for release in 2011, following the shock move of sacking a number of senior execs at CoD developer Infinity Ward. The new non-FPS Call of Duty title is to be created by developer Sledgehammer Games, headed up by Dead Space veterans and former Visceral Games bosses Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey. Activision’s plan is to extend the highly lucrative Call of Duty franchise “into the action-adventure genre”. New CoD genres The company also announced the creation of a dedicated Call of Duty business unit, plus announced that Steve Pearce, CTO, and Steve Ackrich, head of production, will now take over Infinity Ward following the shockdeparture of execs Jason West and Vince Zampella

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LG has introduced a more sweetly priced slider phone – the Chocolate BL20 – to try and tempt style-savvy phone buyers not interested in the more feature packed (but higher-priced) Chocolate BL40 . Sporting a similarly sleek design, the LG Chocolate BL20 is the latest update of the original LG Chocolate phone (KG800 ) that first appeared in mid-2006. Central to the chic look is a smooth, glossy piano-black casing that features hidden touch-sensitive controls on the front panel that glow red through the casing only when the phone is activated. It’s a more refined look than earlier Chocolates, echoing the BL40’s design – although the Chocolate BL20 has fewer high-end features than its touchscreen range-mate. The new Chocolate BL20 instead offers a more typically mid-priced mobile package – including HSDPA high-speed 3G data connectivity, a 5MP camera, media player functionality and an FM radio

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Sony has announced that the UK’s first TV range with an integrated Freeview HD tuner is hitting the shops this week. The HX, NX and EX range of TVs from Sony all have been given Sony’s monolithic design – think 2001: A Space Od yssey – and are said to fit into any living space without proving to be an eye sore. The main kicker for the UK is that these TVs have a Freeview HD tuner in-built. So, you can now get HD content without the need of purchasing an expensive set-top box. 3D Ready Other features of the TVs include their IPTV capabilities.

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Do you like to autohide toolbars such as the Menu and Status Bars to conserve screen real-estate? Now you can add the Bookmarks Toolbar to that list with the Bookmark Autohider extension for Firefox. Before For our browser there were three ways that we could hide the “Bookmarks Toolbar” if desired but all of them required manual intervention. First the “View Menu”… Then right clicking on one of the toolbar areas… And finally using a “specialty” toolbar button. If you can autohide the other toolbars why not the “Bookmarks Toolbar” as well

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My head still continues to have problems comprehending just how wide 16:9 screens are. I’m sure that monitors will gradually evolve to the point where they’re just a single pixel high and 20,000 pixels wide. Iiyama’s latest – the ProLite B2409HDS – is a 16:9 letterbox beastie, and I’ve had to move some of the crap on my desk just to fit it on.

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Do you have a netbook and need to make the most of your screen real-estate? Now you can choose how much (or how little) of Firefox’s GUI Bars are visible with the Hide GUI Bars extension. Before Here is our test browser with all of the usual toolbars displaying.

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