Internet Explorer 8 comes out of beta

internet-explorer-8 Released in last March, Internet Explorer 8 today has come out of beta as first Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for the Microsoft Windows users undergoing the final testing. Microsoft claims Internet Explorer 8 has come up with some new innovative features which makes browsing experience faster, easier, and safer. Today Microsoft made it official and released IE8 Release Candidate1 in 25 languages and made it available Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server and with the binary Mac missing. Read the official announcement by Microsoft in IEBlog.

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January 27th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Silver Jubilee for Macintosh

Mac-25-years-ago Just happen to see a post from Dave Winer who posted a video in which Steve Jobs giving his first ever presentation of the Macintosh computer and things have changed a lot from then for Steve jobs and Macintosh. Dave Winer has also written an article  What made the Mac different which is quite interesting. That was awesome and just wanted to post it here attributing to the original. Its silver jubilee for Macintosh computer which was introduced on January 24, 1984 which came with a keyboard, mouse and 3.5" floppy drive.  There are also few posts in ReadWriteWeb and QuickOnlineTips which have posted some quite a lot of information.

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January 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Uninstall windows applications silently

Add or Remove programs Uninstalling software or any other application in Windows operating system is a tedious and unclean process though it one can use Add or Remove Programs which comes with the operating system. The problem with Windows Uninstall applet from control panel is memory, loading time and the left over entries sometimes if there is a problem with the installer. Also there are not much good freeware alternatives to Control Panel utility Add or Remove Programs to do the job in a much better way. Safarp will help you in that case which can be a portable and light-weight alternative to the control panel utility offering some extra features.

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January 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Play with your photos using PhotoJoy

photojoy Most of us don’t play and make the most out of the photos apart from sharing it with friends online. Not everybody knows how to create a collage, 3D screensaver using those photos. One can check PhotoJoy in that case which helps one to create photo widgets, 3D Screensavers, Collage using your photos and photos from web. PhotoJoy is freeware tool for your desktop to  turn your photos into PhotoToys, 3D Screensavers and Wallpaper Collages easily without having any expertise.

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January 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Visualize your project before it begins

serena-prototype-composer Visualization and creating prototype for a project is very essential these days with the growing business requirements and competition in the IT market. Creating prototypes and visualization ensures that there is no gap in the requirements and avoids any costly rework. There are not much free visualization and prototyping tool available in the market like Serena Prototype Composer prototyping simple and complex business applications. This is a very good Agile Application Prototyping tool for Technical Architects and Business Analysts to show the end users how applications will look and function before the programmers start writing the code.

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January 22nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment