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Bypass Reduced Functionality Without Activating Windows
3:00AM Adam Pash | If you’ve installed Windows 7 (or Vista) but still don’t have a product key, you’ll eventually end up with an activation nag screen and “reduced functionality” until you get a proper key. Still not ready to buy? Temporarily bypass the problem instead. More »
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CyanogenMOD Hits Stable 4.2.1 Release, Reduces Home Screen Lag
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | One month after Google’s cease-and-desist action, the popular custom CyanogenMOD Android firmware has hit a stable, presumably legal release point. It’s as up-to-date as you can get on an Android phone, and it nearly fixes a seriously annoying slowdown issue. More »
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CyanogenMod Wiki Is A How-To For Android Modding
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | “Rooting” and loading a custom ROM onto your Android phone isn’t something you can pick up and wing until you figure it out. More »
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Step-By-Step Installation Of CyanogenMod’s “Legal” Android ROM
1:30AM Kevin Purdy | As promised, custom ROM builder Cyanogen has delivered an unofficial firmware with speed enhancements, system and app backups to SD cards, and a few other great tweaks — without the copied Google apps that caused a cease and desist last time around. More »
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CyanogenMod To Continue Offering Custom Android Builds
8:00AM Kevin Purdy | A few days after Google sent a cease and desist letter to the maker of the CyanogenMod custom Android firmwares—the kind we really dig—there comes some reassurance that the hackers won’t fall silent. More »
Fix
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Bummed because you’ve got a new Wii and the Twilight Princess hack won’t work on it? Have an older Wii but you don’t want to buy Twilight Princess just to install Homebrew? Try the free and easy bannerbomb exploit. More »
Hack Your Wii For Homebrew Without Twilight Princess
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Bummed because you’ve got a new Wii and the Twilight Princess hack won’t work on it? Have an older Wii but you don’t want to buy Twilight Princess just to install Homebrew? Try the free and easy bannerbomb exploit. More »
Fix
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Don’t want anyone seeing what you’ve recently accessed on your Windows 7 PC? Reader Marz offers a handy registry hack to get rid of the document history. More »
Disable Recent Documents History In Windows 7
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Don’t want anyone seeing what you’ve recently accessed on your Windows 7 PC? Reader Marz offers a handy registry hack to get rid of the document history. More »
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Get Root Access In Android With One Click
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re an Android phone owner eager to try out some custom OS builds, a helpful hacker explains how to get root access to your phone’s underlying system. More »
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Delete Outlook Emails With The Middle Mouse Button
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Grigory writes in with his ubergeeky script that deletes messages in Microsoft Outlook just by middle-clicking on them in the list—so you can make short work of cleaning out your inbox. More »
Fix
10:22AM Angus Kidman | If you’re a keen user of Google’s Latitude, you can hack your phone so that the application runs automatically. More »
Hack Your Phone To Start Google Latitude Automatically
10:22AM Angus Kidman | If you’re a keen user of Google’s Latitude, you can hack your phone so that the application runs automatically. More » 
