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Take charge of Windows 7 with these 10 power tips You can get a lot more mileage out of Windows 7 if you perform a few tweaks and tap into some timesaving tricks. Here's a collection of 10 popular Windows 7 Quick Tips. Read more Tablet timeline: A retrospective Resource of the day Data Center Projects: Standardized Process This paper presents an overview of a standardized, step-by-step methodology for data center upgrades that can be adapted and configured to suit your individual project requirements. More from TechRepublic   Weed through your files Part Two: Windows 7 Group By and Filter features In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz explains how the Group By and Filter features of Windows 7's Windows Explorer work and shows you how to effectively use them. Read more Three IT leadership challenges and solutions Information Technology management can be a hard job. Scott Lowe provides you with a look at three personnel-related challenges and how you might mitigate them. Read more Review: Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is now available. Mark Kaelin puts the Web browser through its paces and shares his review. Read more What video games should the Smithsonian display? The Smithsonian American Art Museum is putting together an exhibit about the history of video games and is asking the public to vote on which game titles to display. Read more News from ZDNet   Nokia: Work has begun on Windows Phone handsets Nokia has already begun work on Windows Phone handsets, Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop told Reuters. Simultaneously, Elop dismisses claims that Microsoft is interested in buying Nokia outright. Read more New England IT salaries, jobs rising Software and IT services companies in New England had a good 2010 and are looking at a good 2011, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Beige Book, released earlier this month.The... Read more RIM's PlayBook: Pent up demand? Research in Motion reports its fiscal fourth quarter results next week and analysts are largely focused on the launch of the PlayBook and sales expectations. Read more Microsoft's ServiceOS: A potential piece of Microsoft's cloud play, post-Windows 8 Last summer, Microsoft researchers were describing their ServiceOS project as a "multi-principal OS-based browser" designed to provide control of web applications and devices. This year, the... Read more House GOP group to work on WiFi, Skype and revamped House.gov Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) appointed Republican members of the House of Representatives to a Technology Operations Team that is tasked with giving the House a technology facelift.... Read more The tethering police are coming, unroot your phones Those who jailbreak or root your phone to allow free tethering better be ready. The tethering police are coming, and they know who you are. Read more BUSTED! AT&T begins crackdown on iPhone jailbreakers using MyWi tethering Now that Apple is offering iPhone users a way to legitimately get WiFi tethering through using the new Personal Hotspot feature in iOS 4.3, it seems that AT&T has begun a clampdown on those... Read more iPad experience: One week with the iPad 2 removes all my doubts I have now spent a week with my 64GB AT&T 3G iPad and am convinced this was the right purchase for me and I cannot put it down. Read more Splunk 4.2 Operational Intelligence Steve Sommer, CMO of Splunk, and Sanjay Mehta, senior director of product marketing, stopped by to introduce me to the improvements and enhancements that Splunk 4.2 is offering. As usual, the... Read more Paying for a data plan DOESN'T mean you can use it any way you want! In my earlier post on AT&T cracking down on those with jailbroken iPhones using apps such as MyWi to tether other equipment to the 3G connection, some of you seem to think that you can do anything... Read more Facebook wedding photos result in polygamy arrest An investigation leading to the arrest of an alleged bigamist all began with a few wedding photos on Facebook. Read more Featured multimedia   Apple iPad 2 experience: Favorite applications after a week of use There are over 65,000 tablet applications available for the Apple iPad. As you can see in this screenshot gallery there are some compelling apps that have me loving my iPad 2 more every day. View on site How to connect an iSCSI storage target to ESXi over IPv6 Ethernet-based storage provisioning is one of the areas that may not get much coverage related to the IPv6 transition; but it is fully supported. Virtualization expert Rick Vanover shows how to configure ESXi to communicate to an iSCSI target over IPv6. View on site Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0: What's new? A quick look around the new Facebook for BlackBerry 2.0, including a new user interface and integrated chat. View on site Sprint HTC Arrive: Windows Phone 7 is not ready for landscape keyboards Sprint and HTC are getting ready to release the first CDMA Windows Phone 7 device. The hardware is quite nice and the slide-out QWERTY keyboard is one of the best ever on a phone, unfortunately the operating system does not really support these types of keyboards. View on site Life in a Tron home (photos) Milan Design Week will feature a concept home designed with all the creepily sterile accoutrements you'd expect to find in a Tron abode. View on site Today's recommended downloads Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Cooling strategies for high-density racks and blade servers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Improved Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets (American Power Conversion (APC)) Physical security in mission-critical facilities (American Power Conversion (APC)) Data Center Projects: Standardized Process (American Power Conversion (APC))   About this newsletter The Tech Sanity Check newsletter is my daily update on the world of technology. You'll get my opinions, reviews, user polls, and hand-picked stories of the day. Jason Hiner TechRepublic Editor in Chief My Twitter feed: @jasonhiner Gallery: 10 more Sysinternals tools to simplify routine Windows admin tasks As a follow-up to his list of must-have Sysinternals tools for Windows admins, Derek Schauland adds 10 more that make routine tasks a little easier. 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