Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Now Available to Download
Microsoft just releases the Virtual PC 2007 SP1 and is now available to download for free. Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 lets you run multiple operating systems on a single machine. You can switch between virtual machines with one click. Use virtual machines to run legacy applications, provide support, train users, and enhance quality assurance.
The Virtual PC requires a 400 MHz Pentium-compatible processor (1.0 GHz or faster recommended), and requires approximately 35 MB of disk space.This Virtual PC runs on Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Vista SP1 (Enterprise, Business, Ultimate), Windows XP SP3.
via: WinBeta
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Get a Free Licence code of iolo System Mechanic - Download Now!
The System Mechanic is one of the most popular PC tuning software's. It makes your old PC run like new. It automatically repairs errors and fragmentation, cleans out clutter, and tunes up your PC so that it runs smoothly, reliably, and up to 300% faster!
Features of System Mechanic
- Remove junk files and folders and duplicate files
- Protect against security vulnerabilities
- Protect your privacy
- Stop popups
- Block online advertisements (Internet Explorer, version 5.01 and later)
- Clean your system registry
- Fix or remove broken shortcuts
- Uninstall or relocate software
- Get rid of old uninstaller links
- Recover deleted data
- Perform routine PC maintenance through a wizard or a scheduler
- Optimize your Internet performance
- Manage your system startup
- Customize Windows
- Speed up your hard drives
- Manage your memory
- Track system changes
- Remove parasites including spyware, adware, and keyboard loggers
How to Get a Free System Mechanic License code
- Visit this page and click the Continue button.
- You will see a page with the Item Code, Description, quantity etc. It will show you the order total 0ドル.00. Click the Secure Checkout button.
- Fill the form, make sure to use a real email address, you will get the licence code via email. Click Continue button.
- Make sure Email Delivery is selected. Click Continue button.
- It will show you the Review Order page. Click the Place Order button.
- Here you will get a Thank You page showing your order number.
- Download the System Mechanic if you have not Downloaded it.
- Check your email, get the licence key and enter it in the software.
The Licence you get is valid only for one year.
Thanks to Raymond who found this fantastic offer and shared with us.
Picasa 2.7 Released for Linux, Download Now
Here is Picasa 2.7 a new version of Picasa for Linux and is now available to Download for Linux users.
"Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your computer. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized. "
This release includes the same feature as in Picasa 2.7 for Windows.
Web album upload and download, folder hierarchy views, better raw support, localization in many languages. For those interested in open source aspect of Picasa 2.7, This software uses these open source technologies: WINE, Mozilla.
New Features:
- Upload to Picasa Web Albums
Use the new "Web Album" button to post your best photos online to share with friends and family. - Download from Picasa Web Albums
Download albums from Picasa Web Albums directly into Picasa using Firefox. - Save edits to disk
Save edits, undo saves, and revert to the original file with ease. We've got batch saving too! Picasa will even match the jpeg quality of the original. Right-click on your saved files to try the new "locate original" feature. - Folder hierarchy views
Browse through folders Explorer-style. Use the button at the top of your Albums List to try them out. - Improvements to Import
Import into an existing folder- we know you've wanted this feature for a long time! We've made importing photos from your camera faster too. - Better RAW support
Now you can work with RAW files from the Canon 30D, the Nikon D200, Adobe DNG files, and more. - Internationalization Improvements
Enable support for non-english languages. - Many other enhancements
Larger thumbnails, better caption editing, ability to configure the row of buttons, special "Starred Photos" album, search by ISO and focal length.
With these all new features Picasa 2.7 also has some known issues. To see the knows issues goto Linux Download Page.
Related: Picasa Web Albums Now on the iPhone
Google Earth 4.3 Available with a Whole New World
Today Google released the latest version 4.3 of Google Earth. Google added lot more feature in this latest version and with all of the great user-created buildings in the 3D Warehouse. With the Redesigned Navigation system you can fly very smoothly from the heavens down to the streets of your town. The most important feature I like is, you can view the exact date of a particular satellite image.
Here are some of the Feature available in Google Earth 4.3
- New navigation - We've improved the zoom control so you can swoop down from outer space to street level in a single seamless motion. And with the addition of the "look" joystick, you can look up at buildings or across a mountain range.
- More, faster 3D buildings - It's more fun to navigate through a lot of new 3D content. Besides adding thousands of buildings contributed by people around the world, we've added dozens of photo-textured cities and towns in the U.S. and elsewhere.
- Street View - The popular Google Maps feature makes its Google Earth debut.
- Sunlight feature - Never seen the sunrise over the Alps? Now you can.
- New languages - There are 12 new languages, including Danish, English (UK), Spanish (Latin American), Finnish, Hebrew, Indonesian, Norwegian, Portuguese (PT), Romanian, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
- Imagery Dates - As I said above, You will be able to see the dates of a particular satellite image.
Here is a Video Tour of Google Earth 4.3 from gearthblog.com.
[埋込みオブジェクト:http://www.youtube.com/v/V4LfKcn3WxE&hl=en]Download - Google Earth 4.3
Latest iPhone Firmware lets users save pictures in Safari
A good news for all iPhone users, now you can save pictures directly from Safari Browser and into the Photo Album. The latest beta version of Apple's iPhone 1.2.0 firmware gives you the possibility of saving pictures straight from Safari. You just have to hold your finger against an image for a longer time than usual and the popup dialog will appear.
[via Gizmodo]
Related: Google unveils its own Phone
Increase your Productivity with DarkCopy
DarkCopy is a distraction-free online full-screen text editor, it is free and is a web-based clone of WriteRoom.
DarkCopy lets you only focus on your work may be your blog post or your any work you are writing, so you can work distraction free. Anyone who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, and wants to increase productivity by focusing only on writing can use DarkCopy.
When you finish your writing, you can save it as .txt file. No Registration is required to use this online text editor.
Related: Shup - Capture and Upload Screenshots to Several Storage Services
Tab Effect: Give a 3D Flipping Tab Effect in Firefox
Tab Effect is a Mozilla Firefox add-on, which adds a 3D cube rotation effect when you flip or change the Tabs. This extension uses DirectX 8 to create the 3D Cube rotation effect while switching the tabs.
This add-on is good to impress your friends. But Not that much important for a geek as it slows down your browsing speed. I used it for a while and got bored then removed it.
Related: OpenDownload: Run Downloads in Firefox Instead of Saving Them
OpenDownload: Run Downloads in Firefox Instead of Saving Them
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The difference between Internet Explorer and Firefox while downloading a file from internet is, Firefox will only let you save the file to your computer and then you have to Run it manually. Internet Explorer gives you facility to Run the file from its location (the file you run is downloaded and stored in a temporary folder). By this you will save the Hard Disk Space because the data within temporary folder will be deleted periodically. It will help when you want to use a file just once.
OpenDownlaod is a extension Firefox which adds a Run option like IE in Firefox download dialog box. When you select the Run option, it will download the file to your temporary directory. Then the file will run with the default application. After 24 hours the file will automatically be deleted from your system.
[via CyberNet]
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5 Ways to Know your Systems Uptime
Uptime is a measure of the time a computer system has been "up" and running.
The system uptime is very important for system administrators. Many times normal users like to keep the track of their PC.
Here I am showing 5 ways (Some Commands and Some Very Small and Free Utilities) to know How long has Your System been Running without Reboot.
- Using systeminfo command
The systeminfo command tells us all about a computer system. Here you can get the system uptime as well as the original date and time of the OS installation. This command works on Windows XP Pro. Not tested in XP Home (Some users said it wont work in XP Home).
- Click on Start > Run
- Type CMD (Will open Command Terminal)
- Type systeminfo
- Find system uptime there, you will also get install date and time above the uptime
System Uptime
In the above screenshot, you can see the format of the system uptime is Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds.
- DC Uptime
DC uptime is a simple and very small utility command line tool designed to view how long your computer has been running, accurate to the second.
This tool support almost all Windows OS.
- Easy HR Computer Uptime
Easy HR Computer Uptime is a simple tool designed to show you the computer name, and how long your computer has been running (uptime) since it was last rebooted. Easy HR Computer Uptime also tells you the current user name and the current running Operating System.
This tool supports Windows 98, Me, XP
- System Uptime Monitor
This is a small GUI tool which shows the System Uptime, the System Startup Date and Time. This tool has another feature that you can schedule any task like Shutdown, Logoff, Restart, Hibernate, Alert or any specific task you want to execute based on the System Uptime.
This tool supports Windows 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista
- System Uptime
This small GUI utility will display your current System Uptime in Weeks, Days, Hours and Minutes. There is no install/uninstall. Download XP_SystemUptime.zip and extract the EXE file to your hard drive. Create a shortcut to XP_SystemUptime.exe in your Startup folder, or anywhere you desire. To remove System Uptime, simply delete the EXE file and any shortcut you create. This application is freeware.
Windows XP (may run on Windows 2000). Requires VB6 Runtime Library (installed on XP by default).
If you know more utilities for System Uptime please let us know. You can send it through comments.
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- Shup - Capture and Upload Screenshots to Several Storage Services like Flickr, Imageshack, Photobucket, Stashbox
- Music Created using Windows XP and 98 Sound Effects Only
- Blue Screen Of Death screensaver from Microsoft
- Taskbar Shuffle - re-arrange Taskbar Buttons by Dragging
- Add the programs you want to Control Panel
Shup - Capture and Upload Screenshots to Several Storage Services like Flickr, Imageshack, Photobucket, Stashbox
There are so many tools available to download images from storage services like Flickr. For instance you can get FlickrDown - A Flickr Mass Downloader to download images from Flickr. But some useful tools are available to upload images to storage services like Flickr, Imageshack, Photobucket, Stashbox.
Shup is a great way to capture and upload Screenshots to several Storage Services. It is a small memory resident app that can upload files to several online storage services straight from Windows’ right-click context menu. Shup is great for uploading all kinds of files, especially when combined with the included Windows shell extension.
Shup can upload files to these Storage Services
You can also create custom site profiles and upload to your own web server; they even provide a sample PHP script to get you started.
Shup keeps track of all your uploads in a searchable database, as well as a local archive of uploaded images (optional). The history window displays information such as the local filename and URL of the uploaded file.
Built-in Image Editor
As a Shup user, most of your time will likely be spent in the image editor, as it is designed to make creating/editing and uploading images as easy as possible. The image editor provides a paintbrush and a highlighter pen for drawing, as well as a rectangle tool for flood filling and cropping your images. And it supports unlimited-ish levels of undo, so you can roll back changes if you like. You can also upload your image as many times as you want, directly from the editor (known as checkpointing around Shup HQ).
Screenshot Capture
You can use Shup's system-wide hotkeys to capture your desktop or a specific window into the image editor for manipulation or upload. The hotkeys are customizable and optional, even, for those who like to live outside the box.
Operating System Support
Shup supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
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Windows Vista SP1 available to Download
Today, Microsoft has released the Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. You can download standalone installers for x86 and x64 systems. Both updates will be in 5 languages English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
For those people who happy to wait - The SP1 will start arriving to their PCs automatically in mid-April. The second release of Windows Vista SP1 will be available in the remaining 31 languages. The second release of Windows Vista SP1 is scheduled for later in April.
What Microsoft say about this release -
"Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from our customers. In addition to previously released updates, SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards. SP1 also will continue to make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage Windows Vista."
Download: Windows Vista SP1 Five Language Standalone (x86) (x64)
Internet Explorer 8 is available to Download
Microsoft has released the public beta of their next-generation browser Internet Explorer 8. On this release Chris Wilson, IE Platform Architect says
This release contains some great advances in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and layout, programming model, performance, reliability, usability and service integration. We are eager to ensure that the transition to Internet Explorer 8 is seamless for you and your audience, and to give you a head start on using many of the new features with your sites and services. We encourage you to test your sites and services, and our platform implementation, and give us feedback!"
The beta is now publicly available for download.
Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Click on the above link, choose your operating system and that's it.
IE8 supports Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Here is the screenshot of Digital Passion on IE8 Beta 1
Websites doesn't appear accurate, nearly all websites has some problem with it. In the above Digital Passion screenshot, you can see the search box is not appearing properly and the bottom of this site is also missed its background.
The Internet Explorer Crashes so much when I try to open my blog, but the new feature Automatic crash recovery recovers it immediately. It stops loading my blog. If you face any problems handling Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, If you handled it, share your experience with us.
I will be in touch with you about latest release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Taskbar Shuffle - re-arrange Taskbar Buttons by Dragging
Taskbar Shuffle is a small program which allows you to arrange your buttons in the taskbar by just dragging and dropping. This program is freeware and it provides two functions.
It allows you to rearrange the buttons on your Windows taskbar by dragging and dropping them. It also allows you to rearrange icons in system tray, just you have to press 'CTRL' key while dragging and dropping the system tray icons.
In the option window it has options like start with Windows, Show System Tray Icon etc.
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To set with which hotkey you want to drag and drop the system tray icons, I repeat system tray icons. The last option Enable tray icon shuffling by holding down this key is used.
You don't need to press 'CTRL' key while dragging and dropping the taskbar buttons.
This tool supports XP/Vista/2000/NT/95/98. And is only for WINDOWS users currently.
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Download Youtube video with IE7 PRO
IE7 Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE secure, customizable and more useful.
Most peoples use Internet Explorer and want to download video from Youtube, this tool provides them the ability to download video from Youtube directly. This add-on is also compatible with Internet Explorer 6 and can download videos from video sites like Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace, Break.com, Putfile, Dailymotion, Sevenload, MyVideo.de and Clipfish.de.
Just follow these steps below and you are ready to download videos.
- Download and Install IE7PRO
- In Internet Explorer, goto TOOLS then IE7Pro Preferences
- You will see a window, Select User Scripts
- In the right side box select (check) Download Video From YouTube
- Click OK, you are done.
When ever you view a YouTube video page you will find a Download Video link.
Click the Download link, and save the video file as .flv file. IE7 will try to save it as "get_video", you need to change the file type to .flv type, and change the name to whatever you prefer.
Now you need to download a media player if you don't have, that can play .flv file types. or you can download a program that converts .flv file types to other media formats.
I highly recommend you to use VLC Media Player. Download VLC Here.
Know more features of IE7PRO .
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IE7 Pro - Add Firefox features to Internet Explorer
If you like Firefox add-ons and wish if you could do these tasks in Internet Explorer then this IE7 Pro add-on is for you. This is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer lovers who just want to work with IE. This add-on includes lots of features to make your IE browser more secure, customizable and useful.
The main problem I don't like in Internet Explorer is, when I open many of tabs or windows it crashes immediately. The Firefox is much better than IE. It gives much better speed, it provides security and is customizable. With themes you can change the way it looks plugins and add-ons extends it's usability.
IE7 Pro offers some features in Internet Explorer so you can make you can make your browsing secure and fast.
Tabbed Browsing Management
Spell Check
IE7Pro Spell Check will check any text you enter and alert you to possible errors by adding a red underline to any potentially misspelled words.
Inline Search
Adds the inline search bar like firefox has, finds as you type, use the F3 and Enter Key to cycle between multiple results, highlight all results.
Super Drag Drop
With Super Drag and Drop enabled, you can open new links by simply dragging and dropping the link on the page. You can also Drag and Drop to search selected words with the default search engine or save the selected photo when Shift is held down.
Crash Recovery
Crash Recovery automatically restores all opened pages after a crash happened.
Proxy Switcher
Different internet connections do often require completely different proxy server settings and it's a real pain to change them manually.
Mouse Gesture
Mouse Gesture allow the user to execute commonly performed tasks (open/close a tab, go back, go forward , print , scrolling page etc.) by drawing a simple symbol on the screen.
AD Blocker
Blocks all forms of advertising, including Flash ads, rich media, fly-ins, slide-ins, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware and adware ads, and messenger ads.
Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform
IE7Pro Script is to Internet Explorer7 as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts.
Webpage Capturer
Flexible and easy-to-use tool that converts html page from any URL to image. It captures the whole web page's content into JPG, BMP , GIF , PNG or TIFF on the fly.
Tab History Browser
Web Accelerator
Flash Block
User Agent Switcher
User Plug-ins and many more power packed features.
This add-on is compatible with Windows NT /2000 /XP /2003 /Vista. Supports IE 6 & 7. IE7 Pro is also available in many languages. I think this tool is worth a try, what you think.
Download IE7 Pro | IE7 Pro Blog
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Firefox: Celebrating 500 Million Downloads
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Congratulations Firefox!
The most popular open-source web browser "Firefox" crossed the 500 million downloads. The Firefox was originally named Phoenix and the 1.0 version was released in November 2004. In September 2007 Firefox crossed 400 million mark and today it reached the milestone. Users will soon get the latest version 3.0 of Firefox.
To celebrate this milestone, Mozilla is inviting people to play a game over at freerice.com to help donate rice to those in need. They said,
With your help we can break another milestone today with FreeRice.com by donating 500 million grains of rice.
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How to turn a Photo into Talking Character
PQ Computing Corporation released a software PQ Talking Photo to convert any photo into talking character.
They are giving this software Free for a limited time only to Bloggers. Which is worth 59ドル.90. You just have to blog about there new software and inform them so they will give a copy of PQ Talking Photo to you. To blog about them your blog must not be newly created and it must have at least 10 previous posts.
Let me show you a Demo of it.
[埋込みオブジェクト:http://www.pqdvd.com/talkingphoto/demo3.swf?action=]
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Features of PQ Talking Photo:
- Create animated characters from any photo you want.
- Easy to use. With simple mouse clicks, the animation can be generated in a few seconds.
- Only one picture is needed to construct a realistic 3D face for animation
- Animate any human or animal photos, paintings, drawings or even sketch's.
- Automatically match lip movement with voice.
- Support any spoken languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
- Create your talking photo album, live avatars on blogs, funny greeting card, pets talk show, etc.
So grab your Free copy of PQ Talking Photo by Bloging about it. Hurry up because you must blog before 01/15/2008.