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Software
All the software we use with Windows !!
Download the Free trial of Microsoft (MS) Office 2010
Jul 29th
Microsoft Office Professional 2010 is available for Free trail download.
Just put in your email address to obtain the product key and start the download (586 MB). It includes Microsoft Office Word / Excel / Power Point / Outlook / Access / OneNote 2010.
iPhone 4 signal (Network) issue…
Jul 5th
All the technology blogs are on fire with the news of new iPhone 4 and its network related issue. Its reported that you face network related issue with a certain way of holding. Infact apple has went on to issue a public letter on their website explain about technical aspect of the issue.
CNN tested this issue first hand and posted a nice simple video for users to understand the matter properly.
Playing with the mouse – How much has it traveled or how many clicks have you done ?
May 8th
Ever wondered how many kilo meter does your mouse travel in each month inside your tiny computer screen or like how many times in total you have clicked it ? Most people are surprised to see that some time, their mouse pointer travels more than they do in a month’s time span.
Win-o-Meter (Freeware)
This small utility measures your computer activity.
It counts the keyboard / mouse presses and computes trajectory that you have arrived by your mouse.
You can easily set it up to be automatically loaded on startup if you would like to have captured all your activity.
Every day is saved into history, so you can make statistics of your activity (averaging..).
You can also export your whole history to a CSV file (comma separated values) which may be used later in e.g MS Excel. You can do it using the right click menu or directly from the command line (e.g. winometer.exe /exporthistory history.csv)
Download -> http://www.tjelinek.com/main.php?section=w
OdoPlus (Freeware)
OdoPlus tracks the distance your mouse pointer travels on the screen. It also keeps record of how often you clicked each mouse button and in which part of the desktop.
- Tracks overall and intermediate distance
- Click counts for left, right, center buttons
- Now supports wheel mice!
- Graphical click distribution view
- Only needs about 500K of your RAM
- It’s Freeware
Download -> http://www.fridgesoft.de/odoplus.php
Google Chrome 5 is now in public beta
May 5th
Google Chrome team have released their latest browser to the public beta. You may get / download Google Chrome 5 beta via below mentioned beta channels,
Windows: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel
Mac: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac
Linux: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux
They have also released a video on how they / Google chrome team does speed testing of their product. Take a look as how your browser works faster than bullet.
Second hand games to be sold in US
Apr 20th
Game Trading Technologies, Inc. partnering with 7-Eleven, Inc, a US based retail store operator has launched a program called “Great Games Below $20“. Under this program, 7-Eleven plans to list various gaming titles (all re-slod games) on all gaming (hardware) platform under their 3000 store location across the US.
Re-sold software can be a good option to counter piracy in countries like India , China and other emerging market. Price is a major concern hence it drives more and more users towards pirated products.
We have already seen if the price of a software is affordable and affordable in means of buying power of local users, they do tends to prefer Original over the counterfeit.
Kaspersky Internet Security 3 user pack is available under Rs. 550/-, that’s USD 12. Meaning a PC can have Full year of anti virus protection at a cost of USD 4. Which in terms is cheaper than a pirated software.
So is Kaspersky losing out big by selling their product at 10-12 times lower price than usual ? I don’t think so, as I have observed, although the OS and most of the software is pirated, but user insist on having genuine Kaspersky product.
I can only hope, not only Kaspersky, but all other software vendors would learn about the fact and can start selling their product at such rate that an user wont even think of buying counterfeit !!!
Quick look at TATA Photon TV -> Wireless television streaming / broadcasting via TATA Photon+
Dec 12th
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 large EDVO / HSIA network on most of the big cities.
How to get Photon TV
You may start the service by downloading the TV viewing tool. Which is around 17MB and available for free download.
Do take a note here, the Adobe Air run time given with this tool seems to be out dated as right after the installation, my adobe update center informed me that there is an updated version of Adobe Air run time available. Meaning another 10+MB of download.
Presently the application supports only Windows platform and I have tested and found it working with XP (x64) / Vista (x64) and Win 7 (x64).
The Application interface / How to use TATA Photon TV
List of Mounting / Virtual (CD/DVD) drive software supporting Windows 7
Dec 8th
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 free version has started to pack some bloatware like browser tool bars and certain add-ons. However you would be presented with options under custom installation to install the software without these add-ons. Where as the paid versions allows you to create 32 virtual drives supporting Blue-Ray also.
Use Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to fix Faulty / bad / corrupt installation of any software
Dec 1st
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.
Microsoft ZUNE 4.0 (Software upgrade for your old ZUNE)
Nov 22nd
Microsoft have released an upgrade to its ZUNE player management and PC sync software. The ZUNE 4.0 comes with new features to help you discover more entertainment to enjoy anytime, anywhere. Also is comes with a free 14-day Zune Pass to browse, stream, and download millions of songs.
So lets take a look as whats new about this upgrade.
The ZUNE 4.0 is available as free download from Zune.net. It supports both 32bit (x86) and 64bit (x64) version of Windows. Make sure you download the right version for you as there are different version for Zune on x86 and Zune on x64.
Installation
Download Google Chrome OS (VMware Installation) for free
Nov 20th
Within few hours of launching of the source code, some folks got it compiled and few managed to release a working running copy of The Google Chrome OS as VMware file.
The copy (Google Chrome OS) is available as free download @ GDGT and you need to have VMware installed to virtualize it.
Windows 7 goes RTM (Release to Manufacturing)
Jul 30th
Microsoft has achieved a milestone today for Windows 7 by pushing it to RTM stage. The company has already started to ship the products to the OEM partners and by October 22, we would be able to find the OS at our nearest store.
Microsoft would continue to distribute the RC (Release Candidate) via the official download location and users can continue to obtain the product key for free. The download would be available till August 20, where as Microsoft would continue to provide RC keys till March 2010.
An important thing is noticeable in this announcement that although the retail copy is going to be out by October 2009 but the RC product (CD) key distribution would continue till March 2010. Meaning, indirectly acting as a demo version of the OS.
Mean while, reports suggest that crackers / pirates have already cracked and validated a pirated RTM copy of Windows 7, even before it can come out to the public.
Windows Live Movie Maker trial extender
Jul 25th
Those who have Windows Live Movie Maker installed, must note that present version of the product has expired on Jun 30, 2009. If you try to run the program, it would give you an error informing about the reason and would shut off.
“This trial version of Windows Live Movie Maker Beta has expired. Would you like to see if there is a new version available?”
Microsoft has issued an (2.8MB) update to counter the issue. The update is meant to extend the trial period till December 30, 2009.
The update is available for download free.
CCleaner 2.20.920 released (May 28, 2009)
May 29th
CCleaner has a new update on its company web site. The version comes with following changes,
- Added support for Google Chrome recently closed tabs.
- Disabled removal of most recent System restore point.
- Fixed bug with Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View settings.
- Improved uninstaller support for Windows 7.
- Enhanced right-click menu options for Cleaner screen tree.
- Added extra information under title for Options and Tools screens.
- Added right-click menu to Registry screen tree.
- Added support to multi-select items in Include, Exclude and System Restore screens.
- Added language support for Estonian and Farsi.
- Internal 64-bit improvements.
- Minor bug fixes.
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Wolrd’s smallest CD / DVD burning tool -> NCH Express Burn Plus
Apr 14th
Its been like a monopoly for Ahead with their burning application NERO. It has almost become one of the must install application for many PC users since it comes bundled with almost all major DVD / CD burners !!
However Nero is an expensive software and under many cases, the new version’s of this product has become quite large in size and heavy on system resource consumption.
In search for alternative, I have already taken a quick loot at Ashampoo burning studio but recently I have found another grate application, which must be the smallest burning tool I have ever seen with size of just 390kb.
Quick look at NCH Express Burn Plus
At 390kb, the NCH express burn plus probably is the world’s smallest burning application. Compare to NERO at USD 80, its half the price and almost 1000 times smaller in size.. Unlike Nero you don’t get any bloatware either to eat your hard drive space and consume valuable system resources.
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