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After the long spreaded rumors of Leaked RTM over the net, Today it became a reality. The final build is 7600, the final validations were done today and Microsoft’s Windows 7 are all set for Release to Manufacturers, reports Microsoft Official blog by Brandon LeBlanc. This officially means that the development of the latest installment […]

Windows 7′s popularity has raised its market share at a sky-high pace. Within 3 months of its official launch, it has crossed the Mac OS to capture 8% of the OS market. A while back, we discussed that Windows 7 features a half-baked “SoftAP” feature, also called “virtual Wi-Fi,” that allows a PC to function […]

Most Open Source/Linux lovers will never migrate to Windows 7. But Surely the look and feel is attractive for everyone. So why not transform your Ubuntu 8 or Ubuntu 9.x to Windows 7! Windows 7 Transformation Pack for Ubuntu transforms Ubuntu into Windows 7 and gives complete new look. Windows 7 Transformation Pack includes following […]

If you happen to be on a fast (and really fast) broadband connection, this tip would actually help you out getting there, even faster. Most of the modern day web browsing speed is limited by the peeks of the IO of your hard disk drives. High seek times and relatively slow transmission rates when compared […]

Very Often certain Internet applications prove out to be Bandwidth hungry and often choke the internet connection. As an aftermath, the other apps struggle to steal bandwidth. There’s an app called NetBalancer that let’s you throttle your internet connection (and even LAN connections) by limiting per-application bandwidth. You can choose to assign priorities to each […]

Here’s a tale of how a humble Mac Mini system outperformed my cutting-edge quad-core system. It’s also a story of how Apple can’t write good software for the Windows platform. The other day I was chatting to George Ouabout professional grade digital SLR cameras that offer 1080p video capability. He then mentioned how his system […]

In yet another listed breakdown of work trends, a company called CareerBliss has compiled lists of the happiest and unhappiest cities in which to work. Here are the happiest: * San Jose, CA * San Francisco, CA * Jacksonville, FL * Miami, FL * Washington, DC * Memphis, TN * El Paso, TX * Los […]

Because there’s a stampede of Android smartphones barreling into the market — including both excellent models and a few duds — many people feel a little overwhelmed when trying to choose one. I get a lot of the “Would you get this one or that one” questions as well as plenty of requests to rank […]

Google Android began with the greatest of intentions — freedom, openness, and quality software for all. However, freedom always comes with price, and often results in unintended consequences. With Android, one of the most important of those unintended consequences is now becoming clear as Google gets increasingly pragmatic about the smartphone market and less and […]

Within days of the Microsoft Kinect’s release, a set of open-source drivers surfaced letting people hack it to work with devices other than the Xbox 360. PC and Linux hacks appeared almost instantly. Now an independent developer by the name of Theo Watson has adapted an existing library to enable the Kinect to work with […]

Someone should make a soap opera about this, Tim Sneath vs. Paul Rouget, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) vs. Mozilla. A battle of words to figure out whose new browser is the real modern browser. The current chapter: Microsoft steps up for a lecture on what a modern browser really should look like. The message: Firefox has […]

Yesterday Amazon added Instant Videos to its Amazon Prime service, giving members the ability to stream over 5,000 movie and TV show titles. Hot on the heels of that story, today Netflix worked out a deal to stream a big portion of the CBS library of TV shows on its service. Looking at what the […]

That sound you hear is the silent death of Google Chrome’s URL bar—or at least, the contemplative consideration of such over at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. An email sent to the Chromium developer mailing list by product manager Jeff Chang indicates that Google has, “a number of UI / frontend efforts under way” […]

Microsoft is generally tight-lipped about its operating system releases, but its efforts to stay mum on the topic were apparently undermined by one of its own last week. In an Oct. 22 blog post from Microsoft Netherlands, the writer noted: “Furthermore, Microsoft is on course for the next version of Windows. But it will take […]

Microsoft got a huge boost by the deal it did with Nokia. This will ensure the platform has legs and will probably ensure the slow death of HP/Palm WebOS which announced three new products this week. While the WebOS looks like road kill, let’s not forget the Nokia-Intel joint venture: the MeeGo OS, a Linux-based […]