Watch A Man Start A Game On a PC, Continue On Windows 7 Phone, Finish on Xbox 360

Microsoft's "Live Anywhere" concept, whereby Xbox Live can be shared across multiple platforms, isn't quite yet with us. But when it is, it may look something like this. More »

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FlashHacker Keeps Flash Videos in Full Screen on Your Dual Monitors

Windows: If you've got more than one monitor, you've probably tried fullscreening a Flash video on one monitor while working in another. The problem: Flash exits fullscreen as soon as you click on something. FlashHacker fixes this problem.

A few months ago we highlighted a somewhat complicated method of tweaking Flash to fix this problem, but it hasn't been updated for a while and doesn't work with Flash 10 (the latest version of Flash). FlashHacker, on the other hand, should work like a charm on all versions of Flash. Just fire it up and click the big Hack My Flash! button. (Blogger Mike Pegg reports that he had to first click unhack and then hack, so if it's not working the first time, you may want to try that.)

FlashHacker is a free download for Windows only. Any Mac or Linux users figure out how to address this issue? Let's hear about it in the comments. Thanks badgerz!

FlashHacker [jmaxxz via Mike Pegg's Blog]

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AutoPatcher - Keep your Windows 7 Systems Patched

Windows: AutoPatcher, the small but powerful utility that makes it easy to install Windows updates while offline, and on multiple systems, has added support for Windows 7, giving users more control over when and how they update their systems.

We've previously offered big props for AutoPatcher, because for people with slow connections, big jobs to pull off, or quite a few systems to keep updated, it's far more convenient than going the official Microsoft Updates route. To use this version, you'll download the package, run "apup," then let AutoPatcher build its own program from the most recent updates. Once that's done, run AutoPatcher from your initial downloaded folder, and tell it which updates you want to download and, optionally, install. Because it's a portable application, those updates you grab can be brought to any other Windows 7 system, and you can grab updates for XP, Vista, and other editions as well.

AutoPatcher is a free download for Windows systems only.

AutoPatcher 5.6.0.100 and ApUp 1.3 [AutoPatcher Blog]

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Turn off FireFox Compatibility Check

Hate the annoying firefox compatibility check? Here's how to turn it off.

1. In the Firefox address bar type “about:config”
2. By-pass the warning screen (Anything worthwhile is a little dangerous!)
3. Right click in the list of settings, choose New > Boolean
4. Type the phrase “extensions.checkCompatibility” and press enter
5. Choose “false” as the value
6. Restart Firefox

Now all of your “incompatible” add-ons should be working.

Launch AD from run window

If your logging in to a server that doesnt have MMC setup you can enter:

mmc dsa.msc

To launch AD with out having to drill down through the start menu.

Multi Desktop 1.0 App

Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys.

Desktops v1.0

Using Shared Networking (NAT) with a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine

"Virtual PC has a convenient feature called 'Shared Networking'. What this is is a small virtual NAT (network address translation) router - which is quite similar to the cheap hardware broadband routers that a lot of people use (myself included). The advantage of Shared Networking is that your virtual machine can access the external network with needing to be directly connected to it*. This is handy if you don't want to have to worry about whether your virtual machine has all the latest security patches, or if you regularly move your physical machine between different network configurations (e.g. moving a laptop from you work network to your home network).

Normally using Shared Networking is very simple. You just enable it and set the guest operating system to use DHCP - and everything works. This is not the case with a Windows Server 2003 guest though. The problem is that Shared Networking configures the guest operating system to use the same DNS servers as are used by the physical computer. However - all DNS packets are actually returned from '192.168.131.254' - which is the virtual gateway used by Shared Networking.

Windows Server 2003 looks at the DNS packet, sees that it is coming from a source other than the DNS server it requested the information from, and rejects it. A simple fix for this is to manually assign the DNS server inside the virtual machine to 192.168.131.254 - then everything will work just fine."

Source: Blogs.msdn.com