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Ben McCann

Co-founder of Zenos.
Investor at C3 Ventures.
Google and CMU alum.

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July 2012

Installing Windows 7

07/29/2012

If you need to re-install Windows 7 because you got a new hard drive, you can download a copy of Windows from Microsoft here and then enter your existing product key.  ABR provides one way to get your existing product key.  You can also get a product key for Windows 7 Ultimate and Microsoft Office from Read More

Google video chat volume on Windows

07/22/2012

I frequently use Google video chat. It was common for the person on the other end to have difficulty hearing me, which I eventually realized was because the microphone level kept being auto-adjusted to very low levels. It turns out that it was Google video chat constantly auto-adjusting the volume level and that the behavior Read More

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