Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Confirming what it admitted was the “worst kept secret” in the video game business, Microsoft on Tuesday announced its Xbox 360 Elite, an upgraded version of its 16-month-old next-generation console family.
News of the Elite console has been making its way around the blogosphere and video game sites for days; Microsoft’s announcement did not contain any real surprises.
Essentially, the new console, at $479, is set to include a 120-gigabyte hard drive, as well as an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) port, an HDMI cable and a wireless remote, all in black. The Elite package will not, however, include an upgrade to the Xbox 360’s behemoth power supply.
Full article: ZDNet News
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
You’ve got rather a lot of mail…
Yahoo! will begin offering unlimited storage for its free web-based email in May. The move makes it the first of the major free email providers to offer unlimited storage but, in all likelihood, it will not be the last.
Yahoo! currently offers 1GB for its free mail service and 2GB for its premium fee-based service. Google’s free Gmail service offers more than 2.5GB of storage, and Windows Live Hotmail offers 2GB for free.
Read more: silicon.com
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Mobile search tool targets handsets
Google has released a new mobile search engine designed to make it easier to find web information using a handheld device.
Launched today, Google?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s mobile service can be accessed from a mobile browser and customised to feature pre-selected weather, news, stocks and movies information, tailored to a specific geographic area.
Full article: pcadvisor.co.uk
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Office Communications Server 2007 delivers streamlined communications to your end users, while integrating painlessly with your existing infrastructure.
Office Communications Server 2007, the next evolution of Live Communications Server, delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most - like Microsoft Outlook. And when you download the beta software, you’re automatically registered to access valuable beta resources assembled in one convenient Beta Central location.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP
Download: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Public Beta
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Ever get tired of searching for a setting inside the control panel? Inside Windows Xp are hundreds of settings that require endless clicking through the Operating System that can get really frustrating. Windows in a Box was designed to eliminate all that. Sits on your desktop, easy to navigate, and puts an end to all the frustration of endless searching for settings. Spyware, Adware, and Malware free.
Download: Windows in a Box 1.0
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Agnitum Spam Terrier protects your inbox from spam - the junk emails you don’t need or want. Absolutely free!
With Agnitum Spam Terrier, you will:
- Save time and inbox space by having Agnitum Spam Terrier automatically filter out unwanted correspondence.
- Defend against malicious and fraudulent messages.
- Never miss a valid message from a friend by having Spam Terrier define white and black lists, along with your personalized settings.
- Enjoy the highest accuracy of message processing by training Bayesian filter and adjusting sensitivity thresholds.
- Never get lost. Spam Terrier delivers a user interface that is easily manageable, with convenient, intuitive controls attached to the main client application.
Agnitum Spam Terrier supports the following mail clients: Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and Outlook Express 5.0, 5.5, 6.0.
Download: Agnitum Spam Terrier 1.0.90
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Public testing closed to new users as Redmond tweaks filters
Microsoft has temporarily closed the door to new users of its Soapbox video sharing site, which was opened up to public beta just last month.
The software giant claimed that putting a hold on new accounts for the next two months will help it limit the amount of copyright-protected content being uploaded to the site.
Full story: vnunet.com
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
ImRe is a simple tool to resize multiple images.Using this software,you can easily resize multiple pictures and save them in one of the seven different image formats which includes Jpeg,Bmp, Gif, Tiff, Png, Emf, Wmf.The main attraction is that you can resize multiple images in one click i.e batch mode is supported, also you can convert batch of images from any of the mentioned format to any of the mentioned format . The only thing you need to do is to specify new height and width of image in pixels or in percentage of original , or for conversion , only you can specify new height and width as 100%
Download: ImRe 2.1 Windows XP/Vista
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Tray Helper is a SMALL Windows application that takes only ONE place next to your tray system clock, ‘eats’ only a little of memory and CPU power but can:
· quick send colorful e-mails with emoticons
· TRACK if / when and how many times your e-mails are read!
· remind YOU about all YOUR meetings, important events, birthdays etc..
· check all YOUR e-mail accounts (up to 100 !) in background
· auto-delete spam messages on these accounts, important messages can be forwarded to your mobile device. There is also a build in auto-responder.
· build-in e-mail reader is much more SECURE than MS Outlook
· watch your browser’s windows and kill all unwanted pop-ups
· take advantage of Tray Helper’s plugins
No adware, No spyware. No nag screens, never expires.
Download: Tray Helper 5.2 Win 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
REDMOND, WA, United States (UPI) — Microsoft Corp.`s Windows Vista sales topped 20 million in the first month, the Redmond, Wash., software company said Monday.
By comparison, Vista predecessor Windows XP sold 17 million copies in its first two months, Microsoft said.
Read more: Monsters and Critics
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Microsoft has announced 10 percent discounts for UK small businesses and home users wishing to purchase additional licences for Vista.
Nick White, product manager on the Vista launch team, revealed the extension to Europe of the Windows Vista Additional License programme in his in his blog. The programme allows small businesses and home users to install the same edition of Windows Vista on additional computers, once they have purchased the operating system. Customers can purchase up to five additional licences at 10 percent off the suggested retail price.
However, comments posted on White’s blog show some users have not welcomed the move by Microsoft, with many people finding the operating system too expensive.
Full article: ZDNet UK
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Washington chooses howls of protest
Intel has announced plans to build a $2.5bn wafer fabrication plant in China.
In what is seen by many as a politically significant shift in strategy towards high-tech exports, the move into the growing Chinese market looks set to ruffle some feathers in Washington.
The Financial Times reports that Congress is said to be concerned by China’s growing influence on the US economy.
Full article: The Register
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Warezov strikes again
Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned on Thursday.
The attack is similar to threats that target instant-messaging applications. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with the text “Check up this” and a link to a malicious executable called file_01.exe on a website, Websense said in an alert. If the user runs the file, several other files are downloaded and run, it said.
Read more: silicon.com
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
KO Approach is a desktop utility application designed to speed up file navigation in Windows Explorer. Unlike the traditional way of accessing files where a window needs to be opened to reveal a folder’s content, Approach offers a convenient and easy to navigate set of hierachical menus.
KO Approach is an extention to the Operating System; it runs on the background and does not need to be open at all times. In fact, unless you need to change some of its settings, you may never know Approach is there at all!
Just click on any folder in Windows Explorer, hold down the mouse key and a menu will appear, displaying the contents of the selected folder as a list of items. Highlight folder icons to expand sub-menus and move further down your directory structure, or select a file to open it in the same the way you do it from the Start menu. It’s that simple.
With KO Approach, even the most deeply buried file can be located in a matter of seconds! Also, KO Approach supports dragging and dropping.
You can also preview pictures instantly. The supplied plug-in can display thumbnails of most common graphics formats, right from KO Approach menus.
Play back WAV sound files right from Approach menus. All you need is the InstantWave plug-in included in the Download package.
You can also preview text-based files using a separately available InstantTxt plugin. It installs in seconds and enables you to view the contents of any txt file.
Download: KO Approach 0.4.3 Build 162 Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
So, 10 gigabit Ethernet too slow for you? How about 160 gigabits?
That’s the latest breakthrough from IBM researchers, who have come up with an optical networking chip measuring 3mm by 5mm but has 16 times the throughput of today’s networking chips.
Now before you think this will mean more MP3s and dirty videos, think again. First, IBM doesn’t expect it to see the market until 2010, and when it does, it will be for massively parallel supercomputers like its own Blue Gene, the fastest supercomputer in the world.
Full story: internetnews.com
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
XP SysPad provides easy access to all of the prime Windows system info and utilites, such as the individual control panel applets. XP SysPad is a launcher which makes access to Windows system utilities its specialty. Plus, access a host of other valuable functions, such as retrieving Windows 2000/XP Product Key, get your IP adress, exectute web queries, identify and kill any running proccess, launch any program, search files, and more.
Launch all of the prime Windows system info and utilites such as the individual Control Panel applets, Microsoft Common Console, and Windows System folder ulitities can be launched with the click of one button, which makes it easier than hunting around the explorer pane or waiting for menus to fold out. For convenience, it also can minimize itself to the system tray. It launches over 145 functions in all!
System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP
Download: XP SysPad 7.9
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
If VoIP is the future, and Microsoft believes strongly in it, then one of the first things that needs to be done is improve the ability of Joe User to make calls that don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t suck. Users do insane things like place their microphones 4 inches away from their desktop speakers, which are blaring at high volume (of course). Surely the VoIP revolution isn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t all about line echo and feedback!
To this end, Microsoft is working on ?¢‚Ǩ?ìvirtual headphone?¢‚Ǩ¬ù technology that would allow your desktop speakers to function more like headphones, and in the process, make it more convenient to use voice services from a PC.
Full article: Ars Technica
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
communications and instant collaboration
neos mt is an instant messenger that can connect to multiple networks (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber)
Features
• Shared digital whiteboard
• VoIP
• Audio/Video conference
• File Transfer
Languages: English / Spanish / French / German / Portuguese/ Chinese
Runs on Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: neos mt 1.2.1
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.
OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and, with OpenLaszlo 4, DHTML. The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.
OpenLaszlo is “write once, run everywhere.” An OpenLaszlo application developed on one machine will run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems.
Download: OpenLaszlo 4.0.0 Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/UNIX
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