[TechRepublic] Goodbye Firefox. Hello Chromium.

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Goodbye Firefox. Hello Chromium. After using Firefox for six years, I've finally come to the end of the road with it. Learn why, as well as why I chose Chromium to replace it as my primary Web browser. Read more Resource of the day Osterman Research: The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats Read this Osterman Research paper to learn how organizations must implement a layered defensive strategy to protect against messaging, internal and Web-based threats and how Sunbelt Software can help. More from TechRepublic   A smartphone that does it all: The possible dream? The dream of many on-the-go professionals, who are burdened with carrying a phone, a laptop, and maybe a tablet, is the day when one device will do it all. Deb Shinder explores whether that is an impossible dream. Read more Three leadership behaviors of successful project managers Andy Makar discusses three leadership behaviors that every project manager should strive to demonstrate. Let us know which leadership behaviors you would add to the list. Read more Save battery life and customize tasks for your Android device with Tasker Saving battery life is a must for business users and IT pros when it comes to an essential tool -- your smartphone. Derek Schauland recommends Tasker to help optimize Android devices. Read more Use this Excel tool before you make your next IT expenditure Planning for the expensing of a significant piece of information technology equipment over several years can play a major role in your purchase decision. This Excel tool can help. Read more 10 tips for delivering bad news Giving someone bad news is never easy, but there are right ways and wrong ways of going about it. Calvin Sun has some advice on the best methods for sharing unpleasant information. Read more What are your strengths? Ask a colleague We all hate the canned interview question, "What are your strengths." One way to get around the awkwardness is to ask your colleagues to answer it for you. Read more News from ZDNet   Has Motorola only sold 100,000 Xooms? According to Business Insider, Motorola's Xoom tablet is a 'flop' having only sold 100,000 units so far. But are these numbers accurate? Do they even matter? Read more Motorola's Xoom: Are 100,000 units sold disappointing or decent? The guessing game swirling around Motorola's Xoom tablet sure is fun to watch. One analyst is estimating that Motorola Mobility has sold about 100,000 Xoom units so far. The big question is... Read more HTC bigger than Nokia, RIM; tablets not included HTC, the top Android smartphone maker, has passed Nokia in market cap, a stunning achievement. The Taiwanese handset producer was early to jump on the Android platform, a good move. Read more LinkedIn opens APIs to broader Web: Will you use your professional identity? LinkedIn opened up its application programming interfaces to all developers in a bid to sprinkle your personal identity throughout software and the Web. Read more Breaking news: Senate repeals one of the health care act's more onerous provisions Had it gone live, it would have been a bookkeeping nightmare. Read more iPad at Work: The Essential Guide for Business Users Apple's iPad is an impressive piece of technology. Here's what you need to know to get the most out of it as a business tool. Read more Cisco's network gets a tune up Cisco CEO John Chambers has been bold in his experimentation with ââ¬Åco-ordinate and cultivateââ¬? over ââ¬Åcommand and controlââ¬? at the helm of the forty billion dollar global behemoth over the... Read more HP plans to create software hub in Bay Area HP said that it will consolidate software offices around the Bay Area that became company property via the acquisitions of Fortify and ArcSight among others Read more 20 Years of Linux down, and the best is yet to come The movers and shakers of Linux gather in San Francisco to celebrate Linuxââ¬â¢s 20th anniversary and to look to its future. Read more Yahoo: The Linux Company Everyone knows that Google runs on Linux, but at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Yahoo revealed just how much it too replies on Linux. Read more PlayBook due in a fortnight: Still no advertising campaign With less than 14 days before the BlackBerry PlayBook hits the stores, the advertising campaign has yet to begin. Or maybe it already has, and this is it: sweet nothing. Read more Is a non-3G Samsung Galaxy Tab attractive at $349? Samsung is rolling out a WiFi only Galaxy Tab for $349, but I think a 3G Galaxy Tab makes more sense with the 7 inch display. Read more WeFi -- Crowdsourced hotspot locator for mobile professionals Mobile professionals know the value of finding free WiFi hotspots, and one of the best ways to find them is with WeFi. Read more MLB stops streaming free games on Facebook for regular season Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB.com, says the trial was successful, but it wasn't popular enough to warrant being extended for future games. Read more Dish buys Blockbuster in bankruptcy: Internet streaming rights key Dish Network won a bankruptcy auction for Blockbuster with a bid of $320 million and on the surface the deal sounds a little bit crazy. What's Dish going to do with 1,700 store locations and a... Read more Featured multimedia   Vintage Computer Advertisements from the late 1970s Check out these computer advertisements from the 1970s! View on site 10 iPad 2 apps for business iPad 2 owners will be able to find more apps for business that take advantage of the gadget's increased processing power. View on site Samsung Galaxy Prevail hands-on (photos) Boost Mobile will get its first CDMA Android device in late April, but CNET has a hands-on preview right now. Check out the Samsung Galaxy Prevail. View on site Images from the Kepler, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer space telescopes This gallery features images from the Kepler Space Telescope, as well as images from other space telescopes -- specifically, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer -- that offer valuable insight into the Kepler research project's objective. View on site Apple MacBook Pro Quad-core i7 teardown Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2011 Apple MacBook Pro. This series notebook sports an Intel Quad-Core Intel i7 CPU, AMD Radeon HD 6490M GPU, 150GB Toshiba SSD, and 4GB of RAM. View on site Today's recommended downloads Free White Paper: Improving the Efficiency of Large UPS Systems (American Power Conversion (APC)) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Osterman Research: The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats (GFI Software) Preventive maintenance strategy for data centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Free White Paper: Establishing a Data Center Floor Plan That Works (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 Celebrating 20 years of ZDNet, and my first Internet address ZDNet just turned 20 years old. Learn how it got started, hear about its rivalry and merger with CNET, and learn how it's related to the story of Jason Hiner's first Internet address. 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[TechRepublic] Save battery life on your Android device with Tasker

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Save battery life and customize tasks for your Android device with Tasker Saving battery life is a must for business users and IT pros when it comes to an essential tool -- your smartphone. Derek Schauland recommends Tasker to help optimize Android devices. Read more Resource of the day Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software Easily manage, measure, and monitor all your physical, virtual, and cloud assets across platforms, applications, domains, and multiple datacenters. Additional TechRepublic resources   When to upgrade VMware vStorage VMFS volumes Managing storage for virtual environments is one of the biggest challenges for a vSphere administrator. Virtualization expert Rick Vanover identifies the specific cases for upgrading VMFS volumes. Read more SCCM Right Click Tools eases sys admin tasks Motivated developers created SCCM Right Click Tools to plug holes in Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager 2007. See what you can do with SCCM Right Click Tools. Read more 10 things to look for in a KVM switch KVM switches can make your life infinitely easier -- unless they don't support the features you need in your environment. Erik Eckel offers some suggestions for making sure you don't wind up with the wrong KVM for the job. Read more Five reasons new MacBook Pros are business users' best laptop choice Erik Eckel lists his reasons for recommending the Apple MacBook Pros as the best business laptops available. Read more Printing to AirPort shared printers from Linux While the Airport Extreme wireless base makes sharing printers easy with a Mac, it's not so simple to make a printer directly available for Linux. Vincent Danen shows you the best way to do it. Read more Featured multimedia   10 iPad 2 apps for business iPad 2 owners will be able to find more apps for business that take advantage of the gadget's increased processing power. View on site Today's recommended downloads Osterman Research: The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats (GFI Software) Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Tech Report: Guidelines for Specifying Data Center Criticality/Tier Levels (American Power Conversion (APC)) Preventive maintenance strategy for data centers (American Power Conversion (APC)) Five tips for becoming a tech writer If you've been reading tech books and articles for years and thinking, 'I could write stuff like this,' you may be right. Veteran author Katherine Murray shares a few tricks of the tech-writing trade. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight Net admin galleries 10 Sysinternals tools you shouldn't be without 10 more Sysinternals tools to simplify routine Windows admin tasks 12 of the most recommended network monitoring tools Network diagrams highly-rated by IT pros Featured training courses   CCNA Boot Camp v2.0 ICND1 - Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices 1 VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V4] Understanding Networking Fundamentals SNAF - Securing Networks with ASA Fundamentals Browse all training courses Presented by Global Knowledge

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[TechRepublic] SCCM Right Click Tools eases sys admin tasks

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SCCM Right Click Tools eases sys admin tasks Motivated developers created SCCM Right Click Tools to plug holes in Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager 2007. See what you can do with SCCM Right Click Tools. Read more Resource of the day Osterman Research: The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats Read this Osterman Research paper to learn how organizations must implement a layered defensive strategy to protect against messaging, internal and Web-based threats and how Sunbelt Software can help. Configure the iSCSI initiator in Windows Server Core or Hyper-V Server Provisioning storage to the Windows Server Core can be a challenge. Rick Vanover describes how to configure iSCSI storage on Windows Server Core or Hyper-V Server. Read more When to upgrade VMware vStorage VMFS volumes Managing storage for virtual environments is one of the biggest challenges for a vSphere administrator. Virtualization expert Rick Vanover identifies the specific cases for upgrading VMFS volumes. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Four misconceptions you have about me and dumping Windows XP Mark Kaelin strongly advocates that business users dump Windows XP, but there are some misconceptions about why and how. Read more Why system admins should put the Microsoft Management Summit on their conference calendars Brad Bird wants to counter the naysayers that think conferences are a waste of money. He makes a pitch for the learning and networking opportunities at the annual Microsoft Management Summit. Read more Managing Active Directory with ADManager Plus The Active Directory Administrative Center built-in tools continue to improve, but you may still find ways in which a third-party management tool eases your burden. Derek Schauland takes a look at... Read more 10 best practices for Windows security Security risks continue to grow for organizations both large and small. Brien Posey offers 10 suggestions for making sure your networks are as well protected as possible. Read more Featured multimedia   Screenshots: Give every window in Windows 7 a tabbed user interface In this edition of the Windows Desktop report, Greg Shultz introduces you to WindowTabs and shows you how to configure the application to add a tabbed interface to Windows Explorer. View on site Net admin galleries 10 Sysinternals tools you shouldn't be without 10 more Sysinternals tools to simplify routine Windows admin tasks 12 of the most recommended network monitoring tools Network diagrams highly-rated by IT pros Today's recommended downloads Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Tech Report: Guidelines for Specifying Data Center Criticality/Tier Levels (American Power Conversion (APC)) Osterman Research: The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats (GFI Software) Installing Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server (GFI Software) Free White Paper: Establishing a Data Center Floor Plan That Works (American Power Conversion (APC)) Perennial favorites   Use Sysinternals Active Directory Explorer to make a domain snapshot VMMap Sysinternals tool provides visual memory map 10 Sysinternals tools you shouldn't be without Five tips for becoming a tech writer If you've been reading tech books and articles for years and thinking, 'I could write stuff like this,' you may be right. Veteran author Katherine Murray shares a few tricks of the tech-writing trade. TechRepublic newsletters   Get smartphones news, product reviews, and need-to-know lists in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Smartphones Product Spotlight Five Tips 10 Things Featured training courses   Configuring, Managing, and Maintaining Server 2008 MCITP: Server and Enterprise Administrator Combo Boot Camp Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Implementing and Administering Windows 7 in the Enterprise Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Browse all training courses Presented by Global Knowledge

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