Archive for May, 2011

Buy a PC and get a free XBOX 360 (students only)

Microsoft will offer Free XBOX 360 to students who would purchase a Windows 7 PC costing USD 699 or above. Offer valid for US / Canada and France. http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2011/05/12/students-we-ve-got-you-covered.aspx

How to avoid 100MB / 200MB system reserved hidden partition of Windows 7 installation

When you proceed to install Windows 7 on a clean hard disk, at the time of creating new partition, Windows 7 installation would create a 100MB or 200MB system reserved and hidden partition to store certain Windows restoration features. To some advance users, the extra partition is waste of system resources and to some its [...]

Even gods can bleed.. Blogger service down for last 30 hours

Google came, Google saw and then Google ruled the web industry. Undoubtedly to many, Google is god of internet services as in any department where they work, they succeed. Performance and unmatched reliability is one of the key pillars of Google’s success and sainthood. However, recent events show, even god can bleed. The worlds most [...]

Play angry birds free online using your web browser

Google Chrome web app store have Angry Birds listed as free app. However the game seems to be working with any browser, including IE (Microsoft Internet Explorer), FF (Mozilla FireFox) and Opera too. If you are feeling bore in office and wish to do little time killing, this is the game for that and now [...]

35 years of tech history via a personal collection

Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton have no intention of creating a tech museum but his personal hobby of collecting technological devices is giving us a tour in past via his 35 year old collection to allow us to view how the technological market evolved, and how certain devices got popular while other ideas went extinct. His [...]

NetBooks are getting powerful and feature rich

Some may have predicted that NetBook market would soon die infront of the raising market demands of the tablets like iPAD (Apple iOS) or motorola XOOM (Android). However due to their low end pricing and powerful hardware, NetBooks are far from being phased out. HP recently came up with a 1.3kg (3 lbs) netbook with [...]

Download Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 for free

Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 costing USD 50 a year is now offered free for first year license. The Security suite includes a VB100 certified Comodo AV engine along with award wining firewall and other protection features. Download one year free subscription -> http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/internet-security-pro.php The Software supports Windows XP / VIsta and 7 under both [...]

PC vs MAC.. Let’s compare..

Microsoft has launched a new advertisement campaign against Apple MAC. Aiming towards the upcoming summer sessions, this campaign offers an in-depth comparison of a MAC (all the range) with similar PC counterparts to show the price and configuration difference and available options on the PC platform. Starting from 11″ MacBook Air to the highest end [...]

One laptop / notebook / iPAD casing which can protect a 500ft drop

G-Form, a little known extreme sports safety gear development and manufacturing company from USA came up with a notebook / laptop casing, which can protect your computer from some extreme condition, such as drop from balcony, or even from a height of 500ft. The products are around USD 80 and the company is now accepting [...]

World’s most powerful laptop/notebook -> The Alienware

You have a swimming pool full money ? You want the best no matter you dont know what to do with the best ? You have 3/4 Stewart always ready to serve you and travel with you where ever you go ? Then this is the product you must have.. Weighting a whooping 6-8 kg, [...]

Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) update -> Works with video too

Couple of years ago Microsoft Research came out with a nice piece of software, the Microsoft Image Composite Editor. A software that gave effort less ability to any one with any camera to create beautiful and amazing panoramic pictures. Recently, Microsoft has released a new version for the ICE with ability to create panoramic images [...]