Remember those Firefox 4.0 mockups which were released recently and showed full Aero Glass support under Windows 7 and Windows Vista? Well SpewBoy from deviantART has released an awesome looking theme for Firefox 3.5 or later which will skin it to make it look like Firefox 4.0 with all the Aero-like transparency effects from Windows 7. Follow the steps below to install the theme.
Just installed Windows 7 Starter edition on a low-end spare notebook for testing purposes when I found this new wallpaper which ships with this edition of Windows. I have customized the original wallpaper with Windows 7 Starter logo just to make it look more cool! Both the original and the customized version with Windows 7 Starter branding can be downloaded from the links given below.
Here is my definitive list of the top must-have apps that every blogger must know or have on their iPhone and/or iPod touch.
When working with WPF/Silverlight in Blend, it is quite irritating having to actually switch between Visual Studio and Blend throughout the course of the project by opening the project from its folder location again and again. I bet you might have wondered atleast once whether there was a way to open your project in Blend directly through Visual Studio!
Windows Mobile team at Microsoft is clearly at work these as we get to see new improvements every week. The latest Build 23022 of Windows Mobile 6.5 is out. It has got all the features ported from Build 219xx plus some more new features and improvements. The whole UI looks much more cleaner now and is much more speedy plus memory management in this new Build is said to be excellent.
I have just updated my Windows 7 Wallpapers and Windows 7 Themes Gallery with four new themes & wallpapers, inspired by Windows 7 Box Art.
Microsoft today has announced the availability of the final version of Windows 7 (RTM Build 7600.16385) for Microsoft Connect, MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. TechNet Plus and MSDN subscribers can now download and evaluate Windows 7 before the official public consumer launch in October.
The new version 3.3 of the popular instant messaging client app from SHAPE Services called IM+ has gone live! This new version brings in support for uploading and sending videos to your loved ones, much to the delight of iPhone 3GS owners.
Windows Virtual PC along with XP Mode (RC) was released yesterday for Windows 7 Ultimate, Enterprise and Professional users. We all know that Virtual PC 2007 didn't have the support to enable Windows Aero in guest machines because of the built-in VM virtualized graphics driver which couldn't support true GPU hardware acceleration. Thanks to the powerful set of “Integration Components” in Windows Virtual PC and enhanced version of Remote Desktop in 7, we can now have full Aero Glass experience in Windows 7 VMs provided the host machine has Windows Aero enabled.
The near final bits (Release Candidate) of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 RTM are now available for download. Windows XP Mode (XPM) is basically built as a side feature of Windows Virtual PC – the next version of Microsoft’s client virtualization technology and comes with a free fully licensed and pre-configured copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3).
