Microsoft settled for Windows 7 as the final name for the next windows OS code named Windows 7, Mike Nash announced on Windows Vista blog. Microsoft will share pre-beta releases of windows 7 with developers at PDC and WinHEC conferences. Windows 7 name is finalized because it is the seventh ... Read More →
Archives for October 2008
Download OpenOffice 3
The popular open source office suite OpenOffice 3.0 is released today. It's a major release and introduces new features, it now runs natively on Mac OS X that means no need of Unix shell X11 to run on Mac systems. OpenOffice 3 can open Microsoft Office 2007 formats like .docx, .xlsx etc, it can ... Read More →
Norton User Access Control for Vista
The User Access Control (UAC) in Vista is designed with good intentions to enhance security of the system, but often it is irritating, i disabled it altogether. Microsoft will introduce a better UAC in Windows 7, if you can't wait until Windows 7 is released Norton has a solution to it. Norton ... Read More →
Firefox Mobile for Windows Mobile Devices Coming Soon
Firefox is working on a mobile web browser for quite some time, codnamed Fennec. It is only available for Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Today Mozilla developer Brad posted screenshots of Firefox mobile browser running on windows mobile device. The browser is not yet ready for windows mobile OS but we ... Read More →
Zoho Mail launched with offline access
Zoho Mail launched today for public with offline access, it was in private beta for quite some time from now. The Zoho Mail is the latest in the suite of online office programs Zoho offers. Well really who wants another email program anyway, but this makes a good fit for Zoho business applications. ... Read More →
Political Streams: Political meme tracker from Microsoft Live Labs
Twitter recently launched election twitter to keep up with the political discussion and now Microsoft Live Labs came up with Political Streams, sort of meme tracker. Political streams tracks news stories from blogs and media sites and ranks them. ... Read More →
Download Windows Embedded theme for Windows XP and 2003
There is a new theme available for windows XP and Server 2003, the theme is extracted from the Windows Embedded Standard CTP Refresh. This is an official theme so there is no need to touch system files. ... Read More →
Opera 9.6 Released
Opera 9.6 is released today with some cool features and with speed and performance improvements. The new features include Opera Link that now lets you synchronize search engines and typed history apart from other settings to other computers. Feed Preview allows to view feeds in a magazine ... Read More →
Geode: Your browser knows where you are
Mozilla labs released an addon for Firefox 3 that helps websites detect user current location. The addon emulates the functionality of future Firefox support for W3C Gelocation Specification. Mozilla says it is helpful if you are in a new city, you canfireup Firefox and see where you are and ... Read More →
Gmail Goggles: Stop drunk emailing
Gmail Labs has introduced a new feature today that helps you to not to send emails when you are drunk or tired. The feature is called Goggles which is active on weekend late nights by default. Gmail Goggles can activated from Gmail -> Settings -> Labs. Once activated it shows a random math ... Read More →