The biggest hassle for overclockers is the risk of warranty void when a processor fails while running beyond the specific operational range of Intel’s factory tuned specifications. However to meet the demands of enthusiasts, Intel have offered an optional warranty plan Performance Tuning Protection Plan.

The Performance Tuning Protection Plan being offered by Intel is a chance for you to experiment with the overclocking features of your processor without the worries of what will happen if you push the procesor too far. The Plan allows you a single processor replacement, hassle-free, from our customer support. This is in addtion to your standard 3 year warranty. In other words, if it fails under normal usage, we will replace it under the standard warranty; if it fails while running outside of Intel’s specifications, we will replace it under the Performance Tuning Protection Plan.

So what we are saying is this: Go ahead and push it, we’ve got your back.

The Plan covers all unlocked processors (with a X or K suffix), and any processor in the LGA2011 socket, starting with Intel® 2nd Generation Core™ processors.

For more information, please check the FAQ section -> http://click.intel.com/tuningplan/BsiFaq.aspx

Intel Core i5-2500K -> $20.00
Intel Core i7-2600K -> $25.00
Intel Core i7-2700K -> $25.00
Intel Core i7-3930K -> $35.00
Intel Core i7-3960X -> $35.00

This warranty scheme is separate from normal 3 year box pack warranty. If the processor fails under normal operational range, it will be replaced via 3 year box pack warranty scheme given as default.

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This handy feature allows you to carry password, user form, add ons, extensions and bookmarks.

Often we buy new storage device and plugin to some of our very important systems (PC or server or notebook) thinking it to be totally safe since its a brand new device. How ever a recent news may send scare through any IT professional working with a system having sensitive data or information.

An Australian film maker Darryl Mason, bought a new hard drive from a well known Australian departmental brand Dick Smith. The reason for purchase was to back up video footage of his upcoming films from his laptop. The data was very sensitive and precious in terms of effort was put in to shoot, hence he never connected the laptop to any other storage or to Internet to prevent any malware infection or such.

However to his utter surprise, he found the new hard drive already had few Pirated Movies and after connecting the hard disk, his laptop is reporting file corruption with many of his videos and files indicating presence of possible malware in the device.

Read in Details -> Exposed: ‘new’ Dick Smith hard drive full of pirated movies

It should be warring to all IT professional and home users too. Never to trust even a new device. Always pre-scan the device before plugging it to an important system if there is no security software present in that.

Tip for home users

Malware protection is not that costly by the way. Microsoft offers a real time scanner called Security Essential for free to all Windows users.

Download is simple, easy to use (infact all it needs is installation and it works in background) and update. Comes with real time scanner to protect the system for unwanted infections and very light weight on system resources too.

Microsoft Security Essentials -> http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/mse.aspx

Skype now supports integration with Facebook with its latest version.

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Download Skype -> http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/

Microsoft Windows Intune is a web based management console which works with a cloud service hosted by Microsoft to allow IT administrator to manage the computers of the organisation they belong to for deployment, configure, secure and lot more.

Quick Overview of Windows Intune

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Windows intune would require a monthly substitution for each PCs and can be accessed and manages from anywhere using a browser. The service is hosted by Microsoft under their infrastructure.

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Read more -> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windowsintune/explore.aspx

Virtualizations are not limited to Computer platform only. With ever growing hardware power of the mobile phones and complex smaprt phone OS platform, Virtualization companies like VMware is moving towards pushing mobile virtualization to mainstream for corporate users.

Take a look at the demonstration video of VMware to understand the power and potential of Mobile Virtualization for IT companies and their employees.

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This is a very interesting and new concept which may change the way we use our phones for official requirements.

Waterfox is basically a 64-Bit (x64) version of Firefox. The Firefox source code is taken and compiled to run specifically for 64-Bit Windows computers. To make Waterfox stand out a bit more, it’s compiled with optimizations so that it will run more efficiently and faster than just compiling Firefox as a 64-Bit program.

Download waterfox 8.0 -> http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/downloads

Run time required for running WaterFor

• Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64)
• Adobe Flash Player x64 -> http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
• Sun JAVA Run time x64 -> http://www.java.com/en/download/windows-64bit.jsp
• Microsoft Silverlight x64

Why going x64 ?

With compatible platform (Windows x64 and x64 platform processor) this specific build has performance advantage with faster loading time and browsing experiences.

Download FireFox 8.0 (Windows / Linux / MAC OS X) -> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html