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How to open Office 2007 .docx files?

It happened to me a couple of times so far - A friend or colleague send an email with a Word file attached, but it’s a .docx rather than .doc file.
This means it is saved in the Word 2007 format which my Office 2003 can’t read.
Ghacks.net tries to answer the question of How to open [...]

Xobni - The free productivity addon for Outlook

I’m a very heavy Microsoft Outlook user. First and foremost at work, but even on my own private machine.
On both I use Microsoft Outlook and 2 Outlook addons I simply can’t live without.
The first one is SpeedFiler - Written by a dear friend actually, I’ve already posted about it before. Go ahead and check out [...]

The fastest way to defragment your hard-drive

I’ve been defraging my various hard drives for many years now.
Ever since the DOS days and Norton Utilities, and all the way up to the current XP machine, I’ve always been aware a defragmented drive is a better drive.
There have been many different theories and arguments about the best way to defrag your HD, what [...]

Windows PowerShell (Monad) Released

Windows PowerShell, Formerly code-named Monad, has finally been released today!
I think what I always loved best about Linux was the amazing power the shell gave you, and the awesome stuff you can easily do in the command-line.
Even when using Windows XP, I always made sure to install Cygwin, so I have the awesome Linux command-line [...]