If you’re looking to mount or open an MDF file, the first thing to do is find out what it is. An MDF file is a media disc image file, similar to a NRG or ISO file. It’s just another format used by disc mounting software. Alcohol 120% is a known program that will create MDF files. The MDF file is usually accompanied by a file with the MDS extension, where the track and header information is kept, while the MDF file stores the biggest chunk of the disc data. The typical use for the MDF file is the backing up of a disc and it’s often seen on torrent sites.

In order to open an MDF file you can use a couple of different programs, including Alcohol 120%, MagicISO, CyberLink PowerDVD 12, IsoBuster, WinMount and Daemon Tools.

The first one, Alcohol 120%, is commercial but it comes with a free trial and it will allow you to mount the MDF file. If you want to open the MDF file, Magic ISO will do that, and it will also mount it if necessary, but the trial version is a bit too limited for my taste. IsoBuster is one good choice, which has a free trial option without any time limits, but the one we’d recommend would be Daemon Tools, which is commercial, but it has a Lite version which doesn’t have time or functionality limits. In order to mount or open the MDF file you need to use either of those programs.

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Minecraft players know already that this game can be incredibly fun and it’s especially so if you’re the one creating the rules by which you play it. Learning how to make a Minecraft server should be a must for everyone and on this page I’ll try to help you do just that, with instructions available for Windows, Mac OS X and for Linux.

The steps outlined below will allow you to create a Minecraft server by using the software provided for free by Mojang for this purpose. All three major operating systems can be used to create one, so you’re not forced to use just one of them. …click here to read more

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If you’re interested in unblocked games at school, the truth is that the options are pretty much endless these days, thanks to the widespread use of mobile phones. As long as you have a smartphone with Internet access, you can play any game you want, without worrying that it will be blocked by the school.

Now, below you will see some of the games you can play on your phone, which are designed for iPhone and Android. Choose any of them, or visit the official marketplaces and pick the games you want.

If you’re looking for unblocked games at school because you want to play something online, and your only WiFi connection in the area that will allow you to use bigger amounts of bandwidth is the one the school provides, then there are options for that as well. Even though the school might be blocking certain sites from being loaded from their Internet connection, there always option. You might not be able to play Facebook games this way, but there are other options, with browser based games. In browser based games you actually don’t consume that much bandwidth, so you might not even need the Internet provided by the school to get online.

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Gigabyte S1081 is a Windows 7 tablet that was just announced. It’s a high performance model, with a display of 10.1 inches, which uses the latest Atom Cedar Trail platform from Intel, said to be both energy efficient and powerful. There will be two models offered of the Gigabyte S1081, one with an SSD and the other with a 500GB HDD. Besides the display which will be a multi-touch capacitive model, you also get an optical trackpad, which allows for extra precision. Other specs include Bluetooth 4.0, USB 3.0, a webcam of 1.3MP, VGA port, HDMI and Ethernet.

The tablet will give you the possibility to dock it to a multimedia station which will have a DVD drive and a very nice audio system. [Source]

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The Dospara Prime Slim Magnate GM is a desktop PC that was just released. Its processor is a Core i3 2120 at 3.3 GHz and it runs on a chipset from Intel, the H61 Express. The PC also has a hard drive of 1TB, 4GB of RAM, DVD drive and its OS is Windows 7 64 bit. The price of this desktop PC in Japan is 54,980 Yen (~$710). [Dospara]

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It appears that rumors are saying that Lenovo and Acer are preparing to release tablets with Windows 8 on them in 2012. These rumors come from component suppliers based in Asia, according to DigiTimes. It appears that these manufacturers are working on new tablets with this ON on them and with Clover Trail chipsets from Intel.

This chipset is seen as PC vendors as a better option for mobile devices, thanks to its power consumption and performance. The launch date for the tablets from Acer and Lenovo seems to be during the third trimester, according to DigiTimes.

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The Samsung NP530 is an ultrabook which was announced for the first time in Asia two weeks ago. This ultrabook is now offered in Europe and pre-orders are available for it. The Samsung NP530 comes with a Core i5 2467M CPU at 1.6 GHz, a hybrid storage drive HDD/SSD of 500GB/16GB, 4GB of RAM, a resolution of 1366×768 and a battery with 4 cells which allows it to run for a maximum of 6.5 hours.

The body of this ultrabook has a thickness of just 0.7 inches and it weighs 3.15 pounds. Other specs include the Bluetooth, WiFi, one USB 3.0 port, two USB 2.0 ports, VGA, HDMI out, stereo speakers, webcam of 1.3MP and a card reader.

The price of the Samsung NP530 in Europe is 799 Euros (~$1,040) for the 530U3B-A01 model.

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It appears that the Nokia Ace will be the first phone which will come with 4G and Windows Phone 7 on it. This is one of the three phones which will be released at AT&T in the beginning of 2012, according to Paul Thurrott, a Windows blogger. The launch date for the Nokia Ace is expected to be on March 18th. The other two phones launched at AT&T with support for LTE will be HTC Radiant and Samsung Mendel.

The first rumors of the Nokia Ace appeared in October 2011 and they speak of a phone with an AMOLED screen of 4.3 inches, a camera of 8MP, a single core CPU at 1.4 GHz and internal storage of 16GB.

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According to an announcement from Microsoft, its marketplace of apps for Windows Phone 7 and 7.5 now have over 50,000 apps. That’s obviously a small amount when you compare it with the 500,000 found on the App Store from Apple or the 300,000 available for Android. The 50,000 number counts both games and apps.

It appears that every single day there is an average of 265 apps being added to the market. During the last month, over 8,000 apps were added to the market. During the first year, the market had 40,000 apps added to it, but the last 10,000 were added in just 40 days.

Some other interesting figures are the free vs paid apps available. 58% of all apps available on the marketplace are free, 14% come with a trial period and the other 29% are paid.

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The LG Optimus U1 is a smartphone which will be released in 2012. Its major feature right now, for us at least, is that it will come with the new operating system from Google, the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, making it the first LG phone with this OS on it. The LG Optimus U1 will have a dual core CPU, a 720p HD display and a front facing camera. That’s pretty much all we known right now about this phone. [GSM Arena]

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