Free, broadband Internet service could become available across the country if the government okays a proposal to open up unused public airwaves to bidders. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to vote Dec. 18 on whether to auction off the so-called AWS-3 spectrum, an unused chunk of airwaves. The winner would have to agree to use at least 25 percent of the spectrum to build a free, national broadband network (one free of porn, too, for anyone except for "adults" who click online agreements claiming to be 18 or older), but could charge a fee for faster service on the remainder. [more]

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) said Monday, December 1, 2008, that the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, making official what most Americans have already believed about the state of the economy. Direct comparisons to the Great Depression have become more common in recent weeks, given the collapse of the stock market and consumer spending. But those comparisons overlook many key facts. During the Great Depression, the unemployment rate surged to 25% and GDP contracted by 28% between 1930 and 1932, an unthinkable prospect in today’s environment, thanks to a long [more]

Recuva is one of the most popular on the market freeware portable undelete utilities. It was developed by Piriform LTD, London-based private software development company, famous also by the most popular utilities as CCleaner and Defraggler. Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted [more]

Occasionally, we have to deal with customer computers, when the original administrator account is modified, and nobody can enlighten us on the new administrator user name and password. There are multiple ways to regain control on the computer by resetting the master administrator password, including boot-up disks and Floppies. There is one of the ways to do the job easy, with no additional software or deep computer knowledge. Password resetting procedure consists of 5 simple steps. 1. First reboot Windows XP in safe mode by re-starting the computer and pressing F8 repeatedly as the computer [more]

Merchant of Venice (MOV) is a free, open source comprehensive stock market trading program, supporting portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading, and experimental methods like genetic programming. It features a graphical user interface with online help and includes full documentation. Detailed Features List MOV supports the following features: [more]

Shock AdSense is a freeware utility allowing checking your Google AdSense account statistics at the convenience of your desktop. It can generate reports containing eCPM, impressions, daily revenue, CTR and other related information. Shock AdSense will also be able to prepare different visually enhanced graphic performance presentation as diagrams that will enable you to analyze your AdSense accounts long-term behavior. The utility represents one-step upper level of report than that can be provided by an official AdSense site. It is helpful for user to monitor the program activity on a daily [more]

In 1980 the BBC reported that Big Ben, a London landmark in the clock tower of Westminster Palace, in order to keep up with the times, was going to be given a digital readout. It received a huge response from listeners protesting the change. The BBC Japanese service also announced that the clock hands would be sold to the first four listeners to contact them, and one Japanese seaman in the mid-Atlantic immediately radioed in a bid. Big Ben Hoax Additional Reading: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax7.html http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/comments/890/ [more]

How many times in your life you accidentally clean your wastebasket on your desktop and felt sorry a minute ago. Too late, the file you planned restoring was gone forever. The tool presented in this publication will change the situation. You will be able to get your file back with high probability for the success, if the time between deletion and recovery attempt is small. SoftPerfect File Recovery is a free and useful tool to restore accidentally deleted files from hard and floppy disks, USB flash drives, CF and SD cards and other storage media. It supports the popular file systems such [more]

Mobile GBlogger Basic is the completely free version of the GBlogger service. It is also the easiest to get going with. Simply download and install the client for your Windows Mobile device and you're ready to go. With Mobile GBlogger Basic you get the following features: Publish or save as Draft full blog posts for all of your blogs Insert preset HTML tags and objects such as hyperlinks, text formatting, YouTube Video objects, and others With the free GBlogger service a small, one line advertisement for Mobile GBlogger is inserted at the end of the post. You can find more [more]

The Problem Have you seen your PC's performance decline in the days since you bought it? Does your system take a long time to boot up and to load simple programs? Maybe it crashes more frequently, or stalls when loading Web pages? The problem could be that your PC is running unnecessary or even overtly malicious code, compromising all areas of your computer's performance, from speed and stability, through to security. But where do you find a list of all the processes that your PC is running? And even assuming that you find them, what programs are these processes associated with and are [more]