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Is Windows 7 causing battery problems in laptops?

Filed under: News, Windows, Microsoft

A growing contingent of new laptop users are experiencing extremely poor battery performance, and complaining about it loudly online. The thing is, the problem doesn’t seem limited to be any one laptop manufacturer, or even any one battery manufacturer. It’s starting to look like the only common denominator for the users [...]

Open source disk tool UltraDefrag hits version 4.0

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source

If you haven’t heard it mentioned before with other disk defragmenters, UltraDefrag is a solid open source alternative to tools like MyDefrag and Auslogics’ Disk Defrag.

Ultra Defrag is packed with functionality, offering whole disk defragmentation and optimization, file and folder defragging (via your right-click context menu), boot-time defragging, and scheduled [...]

Twitter Reactions Chrome extension reveals the buzz on any website

Filed under: Utilities, Web services

If you’ve ever written a blog post and wondered who’s tweeting about it and linking to it on Twitter, wonder no more. A Google Chrome extension called Twitter Reactions can quickly show you the buzz on any webpage you visit. While its most obvious use is the Twitter equivalent of a [...]

Adobe claims they don’t ship Flash with known crash bugs, user proves they do

Filed under: News, Adobe, Apple, Freeware, Beta, Web

Apple’s recent iPad product announcement fanned the flames of the Flash debate, namely whether it belongs on Apple’s mobile devices — or not. Since the release of the iPhone Apple has been staunchly against putting Flash on its mobile devices, citing performance and stability issues. In fact at [...]

How Can More Money Make You Less Dependent On Money?

Suppose your earning is not stable. Now You receive a considerable amount of money. How this money can be used to make you less dependent on your regular earning?

Bit.ly Pro enters open beta — get a free, custom URL shortener!

Filed under: Utilities, Web services

We’ve written before on Download Squad about Bit.ly’s plans to offer a premium service, including custom URL shorteners like the ones they provide for sites like The New York Times. Well, Bit.ly Pro has entered a public beta phase now, and you don’t have to be the New York Times to [...]

CubeMe for Google Chrome lets you pretend you’re browsing on an iPad!

Filed under: Google, Browsers

There’s a very good chance that Chrome OS tablets — unlike the iPad — will support Adobe Flash. Google is, after all, one of Adobe’s partners in the Open Screen Project.

Suppose, however, you share the Jobsian distaste for Flash and the CPU abuse perpetrated by carelessly crafted .SWFs. What if you actually [...]

Windows Mobile 7 coming soon — here’s some leaked details

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows Mobile, Microsoft

With the Mobile World Congress now just around the corner on February 15th, details of Windows Mobile 7 have started to leak — and judging by the comments over at PPCG, it doesn’t look like good news. It seems like, for all intents and purposes, we’re going to be [...]

How To Make Money While Being A College Student?

Im currently a college student and I’ve been looking for ways to make money. I have made a website and been trying to promote it at the same time I been trying to make money.
Is there any way for a student like me to make money because there no openings in my area?