April 2010

Man Wins $100.00 Finding PC Matic Easter Egg

By Steve Hogan

Very meticulous people are an asset to any business. They are also the ones that get FREE CASH from PC Pitstop.

Will your keen eye make you some loot? Keep clicking, you may be next.

Paul almost overlooked it but it wasn’t long before his clerical roots and curiosity got the best of him. Paul went back and scoured every line until he found the source of the the mysterious flash. At first he didn’t recognize what he was seeing.

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Windows 7 SP1 Leaked

By Steve Hogan

A quick peek around the web this morning had me tripping over reports of SP1 Beta for Windows 7. Geeksmack posted the first screen shots of the suspect on April 6th along with the build string:

6.1.7601.16537.amd64fre.win7.100327-0053

I don’t suggest giving it a try until the official release. Why mess up a good thing!

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Extreme PC MakeOver #3

By Rob Cheng

I ran into Mark Tobias here in Rio de Janeiro. We were both attending a party to commemorate the third anniversary of the passing of a dear friend of ours, Doug Matheson. I soon found out that Mark is known as the tax man. No, he doesn’t work for the IRS, so don’t fly an airplane into his building. He is the software tax man. As our sales tax code gets continually more complex, Mark is the expert that writes the software to make sure that all the sales tax codes are being followed when we make an online transaction.

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