At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes, and that many bundled applications would be unbundled and shipped with Windows Live instead. There have also been occasional screenshots of some of the new applets like Calculator and Paint. Now that...
The good: MobileMe is built to keep the same data up to date on a Mac, PC, iPhone, and iPod Touch; expands storage from .Mac; interfaces of Me.com are easy to learn and attractive. The bad: MobileMe's rocky launch made us question its stability; Calendar lacks key features; free or cheaper services can fill the needs of many of MobileMe's features.The bottom line: If Apple irons out the kinks, MobileMe could be worthwhile for...
Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier! Wubi is SimpleNo need to burn a CD. Just run the installer, enter a password for the new account,...
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in...
As Intel's smallest and lowest power processor?, the Intel? Atom? processor enables the latest Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), and another new category of devices for the internet called netbooks and nettops.Newly designed from the ground up, 45nm Intel? Atom? processors pack an astounding 47 million transistors on a single chip measuring less than 26mm?, making them Intel's smallest and lowest power processors.? All this while delivering the power and performance you need for full...
MAMP: Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP The abbreviation "MAMP" stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X! MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge. MAMP is installed in the...
Want to make your web site standout in crowded favorites lists in browsers and address bars? How about displaying your logo next to links to your site. First, you have to create a logo for your site; a very tiny logo to be specific. The size of the logo should be 16x16 pixels and it should be saved as a Windows icon file (logo.ico for example). Once you have an icon file with your logo,...
Picasa 3 Windows : Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize
Paint.NET 3.36 :Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run XP, Server 2003 or Vista. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it.
Turn your PC into an easy-to-use virtualization platform with Sun xVM VirtualBox, the free and open source software that runs on all major operating systems and eliminates the need for tradeoffs or multiple hardware systems.
Flookey is a media player that helps you to create meaningful playlists and navigate your personal media library. The program analyzes your music files and listening habits and instantly suggests similar songs from your collection in form of an automatically generated playlist. To get started with Flookey, you need to tell the program where your music folders are (or import your iTunes library), let it analyze the content, and then simply select the song(s) you want to hear. The program will learn from your choices and constantly improve its recommendations. You can also set bookmarks, boost selection by keyword, export playlists to .m3u format and more.
For the second year, YouTube on Friday unveiled a holiday feature that lets users create hosted video cards to send to friends and family. Users can select this option from any YouTube video, or from a special page that houses selected community videos and links to a user's own clips.
There's also an option to make a more personalized greeting straight from a connected Webcam. For now, only one video can be attached to a given greeting card.