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Taking Care of Your Solid State Drives

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It seems more and more people are using Solid State Drives (SSD’s) than ever before.  Part of that is because the price has finally started to come down to a reasonable level and if you do some shopping for deals you can find SSD’s at about $1 per gigabyte.

SSD’s, sometimes referred . . .

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More Free Microsoft E-Books

I came across this post on MSDN by Ray Fleming from the Microsoft UK Education Team and in it he highlights several free Microsoft e-books that you can grab.

Here is the summary of the books he mentions:

Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold 24 chapters from the Windows . . .

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Programming Windows Phone 7 Free Electronic Book

This book got a lot of coverage in the last several weeks as a free giveaway and now Microsoft has made it available for download at the Microsoft Download Center.

This free electronic book download is in PDF format and is just 13.1MB.

Develop your first applications for Windows Phone 7 using . . .

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Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Gameplay Trailer and Free Need For Speed: Shift Game

Of all the racing/car games I have played Need For Speed: Most Wanted, which came out back in 2005 is my favorite.  This was the game that brought back police chases in the free roaming environment and the opportunity to climb the Blacklist of drivers to become the best.

Well Need For . . .

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Get Your Bing On

 

Are you on Xbox Live and looking for a little freebie for your avatar?

Well thanks to @MajorNelson and the @Bing crew plus a little collaboration your wish is their treat:

What do you get when members of the Xbox LIVE team hang out with members of the Bing team?  Good ideas…that’s . . .

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