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Don’t Feel Like Activating Vista? It’s Cool, Take As Long As You Like

With a simple registry tweak, you can take that 30-day activation deadline and shove it—possibly forever. According to Brian Livingston, publisher of Windows Secrets, the activation delay hack previously thought to work for 120 days can be reused “indefinitely,” though it varies from copy to copy. The haxx0ring? Change a registry key (SkipRearm) hex value.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Games for Windows Makes You Pay $50 a Year to Play With Xbox 360 Owners

Xbox 360 owners are already used to paying every year for the privilege of playing with their friends on Xbox Live, but now Windows get to cough up cash too. For $50 a year, Windows Live will give you—tweed jacket-wearing Windows guy—the ability to play games like Shadowrun and Halo 2 with your buddies on…

Tech News Jason Chen

Samsung Q1 Vista-based UMPC Launching at CeBIT

Attention those of you who care about UMPCs. Samsung‘s Taiwan site “accidentally” put up a shot of what they’re going to reveal at CeBIT, and among the devices is a Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC. The insides will have an Intel CPU, 1GB RAM, 60GB hard drive, a 1024×600 display, 1.3 and 0.3-megapixel cameras, QWERTY, Bluetooth,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Intel and Department of Transportation Avoid Vista Like the Plague

Confirming what everyone pretty much already knew—that Vista upgrades are going to be slow coming—Intel CEO Paul Otellini told attendees at the Bank of America Technology conference that he knew “of no organization doing an upgrade before SP1,” adding that “Intel isn’t upgrading either (until SP1).” https://gizmodo.com/media-watch-bogus-trendspotting-from-the-nyt-on-vista-233876 The U.S. Department of Transportation and FAA are…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Microsoft Vista Hacked, Brute Force Keygen Opens Pandora’s Box

Finding the secret keys to the kingdom has become an international sport, and now we’re hearing that the mighty product activation for Microsoft Windows Vista has already been compromised. Using a brute force technique of checking 20,000 possibilities an hour, it might take a few days to find a valid product key, but it works.…

Tech News Charlie White

DIY: Install Windows Vista Using a Flash Drive

A flash drive that can install an operating system is one of the most useful tools for any computer repair monkey (I should know, that occupation took many years away from me). Like its older counterpart, Vista also has the ability to be installed via a USB flash drive, with a little work on your…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Windows Mobile iPhone Edition: The Movie

If just seeing wasn’t believing, here’s a video that shows the Windows Mobile iPhone skin in action. Most of the icons are just shortcuts to the equivalent apps on Windows Mobile, but the most impressive thing must be the screensaver and the scrolling. The screensaver lets you whisk your finger to the right to unlock…

Tech News Jason Chen

Adtron’s 160GB Flash Disks Runs Vista Faster

Adtron’s latest solid state disk, the 160GB A25FB and I25FB, are IDE and SATA disks that are entirely made up of flash memory. ReadyDrive, the feature Windows Vista has to optimize read/writes for flash hard disks, hasn’t been talked about much. That’s because other than a handful of Korean manufacturers, there hasn’t been many flash…

Tech News Jason Chen

Will Vista’s Media Center Bring DVRs to the Masses?

For as long as we can remember, the only real contender in the DVR game was TiVo. After all, if your parents were to get a machine, what would they pick besides TiVo? A linux solution? Yeah, right. Even Windows XP Media Center 2005 was a stretch for most people, since they had to ask…

Tech News Jason Chen

Five Gadgets You The Average Person Shouldn’t Buy Right Now

AOL’s Money section has a piece on five gadgets you shouldn’t buy right now. The “you” in that statement is different from the “you” of Gizmodo readers, obviously, as you probably already have most of the items on this list. For the average person, they recommend holding back. The list onsists of High Def DVD…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Unreleased Mac vs. PC Ad: Hodgman Delivers Message from Jobs

Is this a video of John Hodgman improving a Mac vs. PC commercial, tearing apart Vista shred by shred by improv? There isn’t any of that "baby music" and the audio sounds raw. The language seems to be in the personal style of his book, Areas of My Expertise, which I find incredibly inspiring and…

Tech News Brian Lam

How to Piss off Balmer and Steal Vista

Steve Ballmer is trying to find something to blame Vista’s slow sales on besides Microsoft. His scapegoat for Vista looks to be pirates. Not the scourge of the seven seas, but the scourge of software developers. Billions and billions of dollars and they didn’t take into account Vista being pirated for their sales forecast? I…

Tech News Ben Longo

Windows Live Search for Mobile Goes Final, Still Great

Remember that Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile and Java phones we took a look at a while back? Well, it’s gone final. We loved the beta for its local business search, maps, directions, and overall great usability, and this final version builds on that with some bugfixed and new features. The team tells us…

Tech News Jason Chen

Windows Vienna: Vista Successor, Out in Two Years

With Vista just hitting shelves, Microsoft is already looking ahead to their next OS codenamed “Vienna”, that is slated for a 2009 release. This from development VP Ben Fathi: We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don’t know what it is…Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Windows Vista Destroys Photo Metadata

A bit of bad news about Vista if you’re a photographer. Apparently if you tag a photo’s metadata in Vista, it destroys other important metadata used by image editing apps such as Photoshop. Microsoft’s gotten reports of RAW files generated by Nikon cameras being unreadable after being tagged with Vista or Microsoft’s Photo Info tool.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Windows Mobile 6 First Impressions

The lid was supposed to be kept on this until 3GSM next week, but Microsoft just couldn’t wait to show off their Windows Mobile 6: Crossbow. How does it match up to our old Windows Mobile 5? Here are some impressions. Besides the renaming scheme we talked about already, crossbow is supposed to be faster…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Most Ridiculous Windows Video Ever

Click to viewIf you thought the Vista Ads were boring, check out this Windows 386 ad from the early 90s. I’m not sure what kind of designer drugs these people were on when they made this, but we’re pretty sure it’s currently used for farm animals and prison inmates sterile. Thanks Seth!

Tech News Jason Chen

10 Vista Myths Debunked

Even though our own experience in using Vista on a day-to-day basis side by side with our OS X machines have been pretty decent, there’s been lots of rumors and misconceptions floating around about Microsoft’s new OS. Here are ten. The first is that you have to buy a high-end PC to run Vista. Well,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Vista Not Quite Working With Some MP3 Players

Apparently iTunes and Vista aren’t the only things not playing well together. Several Korean manufacturers have issued statements that a few of their players aren’t quite working with Microsoft’s new operating system. https://gizmodo.com/apple-on-itunes-vista-issues-just-dont-get-vista-233718 Three companies so far—Samsung, Cowon, and iRiver—have noted that a few of their players are incompatible with Vista. Each company will release…

Tech News Jason Chen

Vista’s SuperFetch and ReadyBoost: How Does it Affect You?

Since you’re all up to speed on Vista’s SideShow feature, it may be time to check out Vista’s other new introductions—SuperFetch and ReadyBoost. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-vistas-sideshow-232608 SuperFetch tracks what kind of apps you use and loads them into RAM so they can be launched faster. ReadyBoost uses a USB 2.0 flash drive as cache in order to…

Tech News Jason Chen

Don’t Feel Like Activating Vista? It’s Cool, Take As Long As You Like

Games for Windows Makes You Pay $50 a Year to Play With Xbox 360 Owners

Samsung Q1 Vista-based UMPC Launching at CeBIT

Intel and Department of Transportation Avoid Vista Like the Plague

Microsoft Vista Hacked, Brute Force Keygen Opens Pandora’s Box

DIY: Install Windows Vista Using a Flash Drive

Windows Mobile iPhone Edition: The Movie

Adtron’s 160GB Flash Disks Runs Vista Faster

Will Vista’s Media Center Bring DVRs to the Masses?

Five Gadgets You The Average Person Shouldn’t Buy Right Now

The Unreleased Mac vs. PC Ad: Hodgman Delivers Message from Jobs

How to Piss off Balmer and Steal Vista

Windows Live Search for Mobile Goes Final, Still Great

Windows Vienna: Vista Successor, Out in Two Years

Windows Vista Destroys Photo Metadata

Windows Mobile 6 First Impressions

The Most Ridiculous Windows Video Ever

10 Vista Myths Debunked

Vista Not Quite Working With Some MP3 Players

Vista’s SuperFetch and ReadyBoost: How Does it Affect You?

ASUS TUF 27” HDR Gaming Monitor Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing for a Limited Run in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

‘Speed Racer’ Is Getting a Glorious New Remaster

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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