Abeon Tech

The Windows 7 downloaded image that many online software retailers supply is simple too large to install from a single CD, being about 2.2Gb
This short guide has step-by-step instructions on how to install Windows 7 from any USB device with more than 2.3Gb free space.

You will obviously need an original Windows 7 DVD or image file.
If using an image file it will need to be mounted on a virtual drive so you can access the files inside.
There are many free tools available for this, but I use Daemon Tools.
You will also need a Vista or Windows 7 PC as Windows XP doesn’t have the “diskpart” or “bootsect” tools.
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I often get asked how to properly align divs and containers on website pages.
The most common bugbear is centering divs either vertically and horizontally, which can be a pain unless you know how.
This post has three examples of how to position the divs and should help clear up any confusion you may have.

Text is simple to align with css using the “text-align” property, as below:

// CSS
.positionme { text-align:center }
 
// HTML
<div class="positionme">
Position Me!
</div>

Positioning a div to center vertically and horizontally is a little trickier, but easy when you know how!
Let’s start with centering the div horizontally:

// CSS
.positionme { text-align:center; width:250px; margin:auto auto }
 
// HTML
<div class="positionme">
Position Me!
</div>

We can use a similar trick to get the div positioned centered vertically too:

// CSS
.positionme { text-align:center; width:250px;height:250px; 
       left:50%; top:50%;
       margin:-125px 0 0 -125px;
 }
 
// HTML
<div class="positionme">
Position Me!
</div>

Turbine has announced the release of Update 5: Rise of the Guilds.
Update 5 will be available for VIPs on June the 28th and premium / F2P accounts shortly after.

This update will include :

• Guild housing (well… airships, but close enough), Guild Renown and Guild Trophies!
• Carnival of Shadows adventure pack.
• New Bard & Favored Soul Hireling classes to help you fight for greater glory and treasure! Available in the DDO Store.
• New Monk & Cleric Enhancements grant you more power than ever before!
• New spells give Sorcerer’s & Wizards an edge over the competition!
• New Feats allow Fighters & Rogues to take it to the next level!
• New trap parts allow Rogues to create their own deadly landmines and explosive grenades!

This is an exciting update for me, personally.
I think it’s a sign that DDO is growing with it’s new found member base where so many other MMOs have stagnated.

This will mean Abeon Elite has a Guild house and all the junk that comes with it and may mean I play DDO a hell of a lot more than I have been recently!

More information is available below:
DDO Update 5 Release Notes
DDO Update 5 Lamannia Release Notes

While the Mac OS may be almost impervious to trojans and virii, the iPhone isn’t.
In recent weeks there have been three different trojans aimed at taking control of jail broken iPhones and one of these trojans tries to steal any banking data stored on the phone! As more and more banks release iPhone apps to make banking on the move easier, the possible attack vector for the malwares creators get larger.

This article covers what the risks are and how to prevent this type of attack…
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With the explosion of online media and social network sites a need has come to keep a list of contact points, sometimes under many different aliases.

The average person now has several points of online contact ranging from Email addresses, Facebook, Twitter, personal website or blog and usually a few others.

I believe a service for consolidating these contact points is just a matter of time.
It has been attempted before with web sites like LinkedIn, Friend Feed and such like. These, however, tend to focus more on social networking than contact point aggrigation.

Could the Digerati be leading the way for another revolution?
I believe that changes are coming, and in a big way!

Heres why…

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