Archive for December, 2009

WordPress 2.9 update puts WP DBmanager out of service

WordPress recently have released the WordPress 2.9 update to patch up and address few security and performance issues along with minor feature improvement. However it has caused a major problem for regular bloggers, specifically speaking those who are pro-bloggers having large blogs with lots of activity. One of the widely used and one of the [...]

Download all the Official Windows 7 Themes from a single location

It was Windows 95, where we first had the option to switch themes to enjoy a new desktop everyday. Back in those days it helped to refresh the old computers with new themes but some how with Win2k and onwards, themes went missing as the OS started come with just 2 option, one graphics hungry [...]

Quick look at TATA Photon TV -> Wireless television streaming / broadcasting via TATA Photon+

TATA indicom becomes the first Indian ISP to offer live television streaming via its EVDO / HSIA wireless network. Recently TATAindicom has tied up with Apalya Technologies, a Hyderabad based company to launch the Photon TV service on Adobe Air platform. TATAindicom is presently providing the CDMA 1x service in 22 states and has a [...]

How to install / How to create a bootable installation USB / flash drive of Windows 7

Netbook computers are fast becoming mainstream products. To cut weight of the portable devices, its now becoming a common practice by vendors to ship portable computers (Laptop / Notebooks) with smaller screen and without any optical (CD / DVD) drive. Ever since we have stepped in to the broadband edge, people are finding it easy [...]

List of Mounting / Virtual (CD/DVD) drive software supporting Windows 7

Daemon Tools (Free / Paid) Daemon tools is one of the oldest and widely used software in this category. There are 2 versions of this product available, as both free and paid-ware. Supports Windows XP / Vista / 7 (x64/x86). Since the time they have started to sell a paid copy of the product, the [...]

How high can you go – Intel demonstrates a processor with 48 cores

Intel is working hard to push their terascale computer platform research to new limits. Recently Intel researchers demonstrated an experimental single die multi core platform, which allows them to run 48 cores under a single processor.

Mobile (smart) phone to run Windows XP

According to a report published at TomsHardware, ViewSonic is currently developing a phone, which is suppose to run Windows XP as its OS. It is supposed to be powered by Intel Atom long with 512 MB of RAM and a 8 GB flash drive.

Use Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to fix Faulty / bad / corrupt installation of any software

Some time due to many reasons, installation of a software may go wrong and the left over can cause trouble for your Windows. Many software vendors provide cleanup utility for their specific software, where as many doesn’t.

Do you have a genuine Windows ?

Here is a Microsoft video, explaining users about Piracy and certain ways to determine genuine product along with the benefits of a genuine product. Microsoft also lists samples of counterfeit or pirated products. List of such can be seen given in their Counterfeit Gallery.