Why You Should Be Using Drive Imaging

Best Free Drive Imaging Program

Disk Imaging has rapidly become a must have tool for most users because of its convenience, speed, and altogether ease of use. With disk imaging software a user can safely recover their computer from a system crash or a bad virus infection without having to worry about reformatting and reinstalling the operating system. With drive imaging there is almost no reason at all to have to reinstall Windows because it offers you the ability to restore an image to your hard drive in a fraction of that time and accomplish the same thing while keeping all of your programs and important data. For many users this has made Windows backup and other file backup solutions redundant.

Philly newspaper gambles on online gambling

Though Google CEO Eric Schmidt and seemingly everyone else is telling publishers they should place some bets on potential new business models, The Philadelphia Inquirer's new venture may not be exactly what they had in mind. Philly.com, the online unit of the Inquirer and sister newspaper the Philadelphia Daily News, has launched a legal online betting service called Instant Fantasy Games.

Apple refreshes its MacBook Pro notebooks

Apple on Tuesday updated its MacBook Pro line of notebook computers with faster processors and new Nvidia graphics. The biggest news amid the new MacBook Pro changes is that the 15-inch and 17-inch models now use Intel's Core i5 and i7 processors. The 13-inch model will continue to use Intel's Core 2 Duo processor.

Twitter rolling out plan to make money with tweet ads

Twitter Inc. users on Tuesday will start seeing the first examples of the company's new business plan to generate income by adding sponsored keywords to tweets. The San Francisco microblogging service will launch a new "promoted tweets'' platform to about 2 percent to 10 percent of Twitter users. In a blog entry posted at midnight, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the "first phase" of the new platform will launch with advertisers that include Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks and Virgin America.

Why Microsoft did the right thing in ditching XP for IE9

I recently expressed a lack of surprise that Internet Explorer 9 will almost certainly not be supported on Windows XP. In Redmond's words, a "modern browser" needs a "modern operating system," and Windows XP doesn't qualify. Much to my surprise (well, not really, I know that XP is still used and, apparently, loved by many), many doubted my characterization of XP as "obsolete," and they questioned my lack of surprise at this decision.