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Here’s a way to get 35% off (up to $250) of an Ebay “Buy It Now” purchase through the use of PayPal and Micrsoft Live Cashback. Let Microsoft give us $250 off of an 80gb PS3 MGS4 Bundle.

1. Go to http://search.live.com
2. Search for one the following terms:
   • cheap ps2
   • cheap ps3
   • cheap ipod
   • cheap ds
   • cheap rebel
3. Look for the sponsored link that says “You may get 35% off with PayPal if eligible.” Click it. ( Image a.)
4. You will now be sent to Ebay. Make sure you see the green Microsoft cashback 35% off. (Image b.)
5. Search for any item you want, maybe a Limited Edition Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle.
6. Make sure you have the Buy It Now tab selected.
7. The offer is valid for 3 purchases and a cash back of up to $250, so to maximize the discount the final price should be around $715. $714.3 * 35% = $250 Cashback.
8. Pay with your PayPal account.
9. Go back to your Ebay account.
10. Go to My Messages, you will receive a message from Ebay, “You’ve earned Cashback.” (Image c.)
11. Click on the Get Cash back button or go to http://cashbackaccount.search.live.com/CashBack/welcome.aspx
12. Create a live.com account if you don’t already have one.
13. It will take a day or two before your Live Cashback account shows your pending cashback amount. (Image d.)
14. Go to Payment Preferences and link your PayPal account to your Live Cashback account.
15. In 60 days you will get your cashback into your PayPal account.

Now you can buy a PlayStation 3 or anything with up to $250 off thanks to Microsoft. [PS3Mods]
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The teenage hacker who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.

George Hotz, of Glen Rock, N.J., said he had reached the deal with CertiCell, a Louisville, Ky.-based mobile phone repair company. Hotz posted on his blog that he traded his modified iPhone for “a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones.” “This has been a great end to a great summer,” Hotz wrote.

The 17-year-old Hotz said he will be sending the three new iPhones to the three online collaborators who helped him divorce Apple Inc’s popular product from AT&T’s network. The job took 500 hours, or about 8 hours a day since the iPhone’s June 29 launch.

Hotz made the deal with Terry Daidone, co-founder of CertiCell, who also promised the teen a paid consulting job.

“We do not have any plans on the table right now to commercialize Mr. Hotz’ discovery,” Daidone said in a statement.

Want a free 2GB e-mail with a cool e-mail address called @vista.aero ? If so then head on over here and get your own today!

Want an IP address of a friend on WLM? Then here are 8 simple steps you need to do in order to get it.

1: Goto your Messenger screen, go to the menu, then click on ‘tools’, and select ‘options…’
That’s step one out of the way.

2: Now, we are on the options page, goto ‘Connection’ on the tabs menu.
This basically tells you, if there are any server problems.

3: Now we are at the connections page, I know what you’re thinking, yes this is the
easy part.
Click ‘advanced settings’ and wait for that to load up.

4: We are on the advanced settings page. Now you want to get your msn to send
you IP’s of people.
Click the box that says, ’save a log of my server connections to help troubleshoot connection problems.’ There is the log file, which will store ALL of your msn details smile.gif

5: Now the person who you want the IP of, simply send them either ‘audio’ ‘video’ or send file itself.
Note: Even IF they cancel, you still get there IP.

6: Now we have a log, but where is it?
Ahh, simple answer, goto your ‘My Recieved Files’ folder, and look around.
The file should be called ‘MsnMsgr’ it is a .txt file.

7: Simply look down the log, it grows each message, for the IP of your victim.
I would suggest sending an invite to someone, WITHOUT you being spammed.

8: You now have their IP on log file.

Time to have a bit of random fun.

Note: That IS their IP. Also, MicroTechXP is not responsible if you do anything stupid with the IP.

A new software tool has been released by Linchpin Labs that allows the loading of unsigned and legacy drivers on Windows XP, 2003, and most importantly Vista.

One of the system management and control methods that Microsoft implemented with Windows Vista is requiring system drivers to be digitally signed before they will load properly within the system. If a user or administrator wishes to load an unsigned or legacy driver, they will either need to reboot into a limited functionality mode or just do without the functions that the driver would have provided.

As others have pointed out, this step will do nothing to prevent malware authors from being able to load their drivers into the system. Either they will exploit the lax jurisdiction and corporate oversight of various countries to establish a corporate shell and gain legitimate digitally signed driver certification, or they will just exploit weaknesses in already-signed drivers.

View: Full Article @ El Reg

Want to fix your Vista Performance? Then apply these patches and then your Vista will be as reliable as XP.

Note: These fixes break all current methods of bypassing driver singing requirements except the good old F8 during boot (that you have to do every single time you start vista).
IF you are using Rivatuner, atitool and or Peerguardian on 64bit vista, you will have to use F8 every single time to disable driver signing requirements to use those two programs. x86 version is unaffected.
These updates should go official on the next patch Tuesday (in one weeks time). To download read one.

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Released for businesses in November 2006, and for the general public in January 2007, Windows Vista is but a couple of days away from passing the first six months of availability milestone.

The operating system’s first half a year has been everything but an easy ride, with Microsoft struggling to convince on all the promises it delivered with Vista: security, usability, reliability, increased adoption rate etc. In January 2007, Windows XP became suddenly expired, and was pushed to the background. Vista only has room to grow by eroding the operating system market share currently occupied by XP, so Microsoft started drowning XP in Vista. Additionally, all other references to future releases under the Windows platform were muted under the reign of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group.

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VistaTweaker is a complete and free tweaking utility designed for Windows Vista and Windows XP.

From the Author:

I know there are tons of free programs for tweaking windows, but i noticed that many of them were a little bit outdated and with ackward interfaces. Also only a few offer guidance on every tweak so many people don’t know what every tweak is supposed to do.

These are the main reasons, among many others, i decided to write my own tweaking program. I called it VistaTweaker because its main goal is to work with the new OS from microsoft and also because it is the OS im running now…

It works on XP and Vista, but there are tweaks that works only on Vista. I will come up with something to let the user know wich ones work on XP.

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Do you want a Intel Core2 Quad Q6600? Do you want to have a next generation processor? Well today is your lucky day! For Americans you can  buy it from Newegg for $299.99 with free 3 day shipping and for all the people in the UK you can buy it from Overclockers for £176! Now get into the next generation with the Quad Core Processors from Intel!

View: Newegg
View: Overclockers

Do you want an @live e-mail address? Then follow these instructions and you will be on your way to getting one, BUT HURRY! This may be closed as soon as Microsoft finds out!

Follow these steps to get an @live e-mail address:

1. Go to www.hotmail.com, click on Sign up, and choose a free account, as before.
2. Now, you will be taken to a signup page that shows an @hotmail.com domain for your email address.
3. Go to the address bar, make hmnewuser.aspx read newuser.aspx and look along until you see &hm=1, after removing that hit enter.
4. Your @hotmail magically becomes @live.