Microsoft shows IE8 at Mix
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008
LAS VEGAS–Microsoft offered its first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday, a prospect that had general manager Dean Hachamovitch struggling to figure out what to cover.
“I’m so excited that I had to figure out how to focus,” he told the crowd. The marketing folks naturally suggested he point to three major advances, but [...]
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Microsoft goes public with Office Live Workspace beta
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Regular readers of this blog know that I don’t believe that Google Apps is a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Office.
While Microsoft is not releasing a completely online version of its Office on Tuesday, it is releasing Office Live Workspace, an online-collaboration tool for Office that works in cooperation with the desktop application suite.
Workspace enables users [...]
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Record Free Screencasts with uTIPu
Sunday, den 2. March 2008Windows Only: Record free screencasts with the robust, freeware screen recording utility uTIPu. uTIPu includes the ability to both record audio and draw on your screencasts, and even has left and right click indicators to really help your viewer follow along. In addition, free accounts with 250 MB of storage are available for uploading and [...]
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How To: Recover Files Using Vista’s Built-In Shadow Copies
Tuesday, den 26. February 2008
Windows Vista only: Shadow Copies, an automated file version saver built into all copies of Windows Vista (and enabled by default), isn’t a complete backup solution, but it could be a life-saver in certain situations. As The How-To Geek blog points out, however, it’s pretty hard to find, let alone extract files from. Luckily, a [...]
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The Daily Download: UltraExplorer is nearly perfect
Sunday, den 24. February 2008
UltraExplorer combines customization and a wide range of useful features.
UltraExplorer overhauls the file-browsing experience. Many things will seem similar, yet several key features have radically different work flows from the Microsoft file navigator. It also combines the best aspects of Windows Vista’s explorer with those from XP, and then throws in a few spices of [...]
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Featured Windows Download: Keep Programs Close at Hand with Vista Start Menu
Monday, den 18. February 2008
Windows only: Vista Start Menu offers an expanded, feature-rich Start menu for Windows 2000/XP or Vista, one in which program menus, power-off options, and a number of control panel items are available right from the first click, instead of requiring menu mouse-overs to unfold. Vista Start Menu runs as a system tray app and doesn’t [...]
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Download of the Day: Process Explorer
Saturday, den 16. February 2008Windows only: Free program Process Explorer, by the good people at Sysinternals, is a Windows Task Manager replacement tool with all kinds of added functionality.
Introduction
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. [...]
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Featured Windows Download: Stream Netflix "Watch Now" Movies, Manage Queue in Media Center with MyNetflix
Monday, den 11. February 2008
Windows only: Manage your Netflix Queue and stream Watch Now videos directly through Windows Media Center with freeware Media Center plug-in MyNetflix. Just install, provide it with your credentials, and voilà—you can tackle all your Netflix management from the comfort of your couch. Probably the most exciting feature of [...]
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Media Center Plug-In: Internet TV
Friday, den 8. February 2008
MiraWorldTV is a free plug-in for Windows Media Center that lets you to stream Internet TV from around the world straight to your Windows Media Center PC or TV. The plug-in, which works on Vista Ultimate or Vista Premium, provides thousands of mainstream channels built into the app and its database is updated frequently. The [...]
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The only Internet Explorer 7 add-on you’ll ever need
Wednesday, den 30. January 2008
The tech community’s love affair with the Mozilla Firefox browser shows no signs of waning, but the fact is, most people still use Internet Explorer. If it’s such a terrible browser, why does it remain so popular? Part of the reason may be that it’s so tightly integrated with Windows: It takes an effort to [...]
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Grab and convert YouTube videos in one go -
Monday, den 28. January 2008This is a good way to pump up those Zunes.
There are tons of YouTube video-grabbing downloads out there, but relatively few also convert those FLV files for later viewing on a cell phone, iPhone, or other flavor of mobile device. Since we don’t like using two apps when we can use one, here’s a hand-picked [...]
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This could be the first video footage of Windows 7
Saturday, den 26. January 2008Obviously a lot of people cried fake when those screenshots purporting to show Windows 7 Ultimate popped up — possibly because they looked a lot like rebadged Vista screens — so the blogger who originally posted the images has followed up with a video for proof. And we do have to say, if this is [...]
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5 Programs for Tweaking Vista
Saturday, den 26. January 2008
Was TweakUI your favorite PowerToy? Have you been searching for something similar for Vista? Several different programs are available that may be what you’re looking for. Here’s a quick list:
TweakVI is a software program designed just to tweak and optimize Vista. The program comes in 3 editions - basic, premium, [...]
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RocketDock - Like having the Max OS X’s Dock in Windows
Wednesday, den 23. January 2008RocketDock behaves much like the Mac OS X Dock. Its smoothly crafted icons sit in a skinnable Dock interface that can be "stuck" to any side of Power’s desktop for instant launching of programs. He can minimize Web pages and documents to RocketDock, make the icons "bounce" as the program launches, and he can drag [...]
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How To: Disable Vista’s Aero Effects for Certain Programs
Thursday, den 17. January 2008
You may like having Vista’s pretty-fying Aero effects enabled while you’re working, but many modern games can make you want to devote every last bit of memory and power to their 3-D awesomeness. The How-To Geek shows how to easily disable desktop effects by editing (or creating) a shortcut [...]
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The Daily Download: The nuts and bolts of the Vista SP1 RC Refresh
Wednesday, den 16. January 2008
It’s called the Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Refresh. It’s supposed to be a bug-fixin’ and feature-enhancin’ behemoth that makes your Windows Vista leaner, meaner, taller, and sexier. It’ll do your dishes and take out your garbage, too.
Microsoft released this "Release Candidate refresh" only one month after the initial RC made its debut. [...]
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IE7Pro 2 Lets You Pause and Resume Downloads
Saturday, den 12. January 2008
The very popular Internet Explorer add-on, IE7Pro, has just released a big update. The new IE7Pro 2 offers many new features, most notably, a download manager! The download manager displays your downloads in a separate window, similar to Firefox, but the IE7Pro 2 download manager also offers a "Pause" option to start and stop your [...]
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Windows Home Server Power Pack Announced | Larry Larsen | Channel 10
Monday, den 7. January 2008
Windows Home Server Power Pack Announced
A new update for Windows Home Server was announced last night at CES. The update, called Power Pack 1 (formerly code named UR1) will ship in the first half of 2008 and hit servers via Windows Update. This update will include new Home Server connector software (this is the [...]
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GPSed.com: Use your GPS in your Windows Mobile Phone to Track Your Every Move.
Saturday, den 29. December 2007
This is from the "So Cool its Scary" department.
Record tracks of your trips anywhere on the Earth from your mobile device. Tracks are traced on a map and stored in an online archive. All you need to start tracking is a mobile device with the internal or external GPS receiver. [...]
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See what’s taking up all that disk space with WinDirStat
Wednesday, den 26. December 2007
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: the directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size; the treemap, which shows the whole contents of [...]
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