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How to Get a Google API Key – To fully take advantage of Google maps and to integrate it into a blog or website, you’ll have to sign up to receive a Google API Key. This allows you to insert Google maps into your own web pages on your own domains.

Repair Internet Explorer with Fix IE Utility – In case Internet Explorer on your PC is corrupted due to any change in registry settings or due to any malware or virus attack, then you can fix it using the simple utility called Fix IE.

Repair, Optimize, Manage and Protect PC with Argente Utilities – Argente Utilities is another free tool to repairs, optimizes, manages, modifies, removes and protects your system from all types of errors, failures and malwares.

Convert PDF to Text with PDF Text Extractor – PDF Text Extractor is a free and easy to use utility which can convert PDF files to text format. PDF Text Extractor is very powerful & accurate tool enables you to extract all the text from a PDF file.

Create VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) Versions of Physical Disks – Disk2vhd is a newly released utility from Sysinternals which can create VHD (Virtual Hard Disk

System Rescue Super Grub Disk Download – PC Boot Specialized Disk – Want to restore Linux? Want to make potentially dangerous operations to the MBR in a safe way? Want to learn about bootloaders and the booting process? Want to repair the booting process? Super Grub PC Boot Specialized Disk is for you.

Status Address Bar Increases Screen Real Estate, Still Shows Where a Link Is Pointing – Whenever you hover over a link, Firefox extension Status Address Bar displays the URL a link is pointing to in your Firefox address bar, eliminating the need for your status bar and freeing up precious screen real estate

Go.USA.Gov! Our Taxpayer Money Hard At Work Shortening URLs. – Apparently, the U.S. government thinks so. It just launched http://go.usa.gov as a link shortening service for government employees. It shortens links from any .gov, .mil, or .si.edu site.

Cisco’s Starent Buy Puts Juniper at a Crossroads - Did Cisco snap up Starent on the eve of the telecom equipment provider announcing a partnership deal with Juniper Networks, Cisco’s rival in both switching equipment and telecommunications gear?

Google Accounts for 6% of All Internet Traffic – This data comes from a new report put out by Arbor Networks, who has just completed a two-year study of 256 exabytes of Internet traffic data, the largest study of global traffic since the start of the commercial Internet in the mid-1990’s.

Want to Remotely Start Your Car? There’s an App for That – Today, Directed Electronics, who make the popular Viper remote start systems, are taking remote-start one-step further: start your car with your iPhone.

Apple starts selling contract free iPhones – This allows consumers to pick up an iPhone 3G without committing AT&T for two years

Custom PC makers finally get Windows 7 preinstallation kit – On October 12, Microsoft provided system builders with the Windows 7 OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) tools and related documentation they need to preload and customize Windows 7 on multiple new PCs.

Windows 7 Professional feature to feature comparison chart – Windows expert Greg Shultz, compares over 50 separate characteristics and features common to the Windows XP Professional, Vista Business, and Windows 7 Professional versions in a free, downloadable, PDF chart.

Cloud Based Desktops a Reality – IT Jedi Rick Vanover outlines how one company is providing a desktop cloud experience that is fundamentally different than other cloud offerings.

Top 10 Features that Apple stole from Windows – In the battle between Mac OS X and Windows, here’s a reminder of where Microsoft supplied the innovation first.