"Every once in a while a new revolutionary product comes along that changes everything" - Steve Jobs, MacWorldExpo 2007
These are the famous words of Steve Jobs which he said at MacWorldExpo 2007 and you cant deny that Apple at least on two occasions in past 10 years have done justice to this statement. First with [...]
Its time to check Windows Update again because just a few moments ago, Microsoft has released Windows Search 4.0 to Windows Update as Recommended update for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 based computers.. []
I finally got my Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote to work with Windows Media Center under Windows Vista Ultimate. Xbox 360 owners might already be aware of the fact that the only way to get your Xbox 360 universal media remote to work with Media Center machine is to connect your Media Center PC with [...]
I came across this German site WinHistory.de which contains lots of info about all the history of Windows right from version 1.0 to Windows Vista. Here is the English translated version of the web site. The site has a great collection of all the box shots, screenshots, version history and even virtual machine images of [...]
We’re half way between the 3 year difference between Windows Operating Systems. The hype and rumor about Windows 7 is growing steadily, and it’s well known that Windows 7 will build on Windows Vista’s foundation. It’ll use the same driver model, provide a new native UI framework, use virtualization at a certain level, WinFX
Our friends at LiveSide posted this very nice tutorial on how to synchronize your browser favorites using Live Mesh. I have been using this technique successfully ever since the launch(the private beta in May) of Live Mesh and I have also been using it to synchronize my RSS feeds across multiple devices.
So here at Redmond [...]
Not many of you would know that you could actually run Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 on your regular Windows Vista machine. Origami offers touch features and is basically designed for Windows Ultra-Mobile PCs also known as UMPC’s which are running Windows Vista. You would be wondering what’s the use of running a software optimized for [...]
There are times when you just want to listen to some music on your notebook/laptop and want the display(LCD) of your notebook to remain off while the lid is still open, while there are small amount of notebook manufacturer’s who provide this simple option of turning off the notebook’s LCD when not in use [...]
Yesterday, Apple launched the successor to their .Mac service in the form of MobileMe. I decided to check out the site and to my surprise, MobileMe site returned me the following error:
I was using Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 in IE7 mode by using “Emulate IE7″. I thought well yea.. maybe IE7 just wasnt good [...]
Microsoft has announced that the long awaited successor to their RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) SQL Server will hit RTM mark this August. SQL Server 2008 was originally scheduled to ship with Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008 in this years HEROES launch event but since SQL Server 2008 wasnt ready for prime time in [...]
