Archive for April, 2009

AutoRun feature in Windows 7 gets modified

30, Apr 2009

The Windows 7 team has made an announcement in which they stated that certain modifications are made to the AutoRun feature in Microsoft’s latest operating system.
AutoRun feature is used to initiate certain number of programs automatically when a CD, DVD or some other media is inserted into the computer. The intention behind this feature is [...]

Motorola’s first Android phone – Calgary

30, Apr 2009

Motorola’s long awaited debut Android handset has finally been announced, and it has QWERTY-keyboard Calgary, which would be the first of its type on the market.
Previously Samsung announced its first Android device, and of course the HTC Magic goes on sale from tomorrow but the Calgary, with it’s full slide-out QWERTY and sleek touch-screen could [...]

Google Docs incorporates spreadsheet protection

30, Apr 2009

Google has launched a feature for spreadsheets in Google Docs called Sheet Protection. This newly added “sheet protection” feature to Google Docs gives an additional layer of control over who can edit individual sheets, using the list of people invited as collaborators. Just go to the sheet, bring up the menu, and choose Protect sheet. [...]

Gmail Labs comes up with more emoticons

30, Apr 2009

Gmail Labs is a way for Gmail users to take lots of the ideas that  are not picked normally and let Gmail users to decide whether they’re good or not.
So most of us were so excited to see emoticons in Gmail and even started taking a bit longer to compose that special mail and adding [...]

Google becomes world’s first 100 billion dollar brand

30, Apr 2009

The Brandz fourth annual Top 100 Most Valued Brands have been revealed, Google gets the top spot among TOP 100 most valued brands. Google remains number one of the Brandz Top 100 Most Valued Global Brands for the third year running.

Google is followed in the top 10 by:

Microsoft

Coca-Cola

IBM

McDonald’s

Apple

China Mobile

General Electric (GE)

Vodafone

Marlboro

In 2008, nine of the [...]

2pl.us – URL shortner with password protection

29, Apr 2009

Today I came across a very good and effective service, which is URL shortner with password protection. As we all  know the fact that URL shorteners are in immense amount. But there does not exist any URL shortner that provides you with the password protection of the shortened URL.
2pl.us is a same like other URL [...]

Microsoft releases SP2 RTM for Vista and Windows Server 2008

29, Apr 2009

Microsoft yesterday announced the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) for Service Pack 2 (SP2) of  Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. SP2 is an evidence of Microsoft’s intentions to strive for continous improvement and serving its consumer in the best possible way. This update contains all the update they rolled out since SP1, supports new types [...]

Windows XP Mode Beta to be made available on 30th April

29, Apr 2009

During the last week , we informed you about what Windows 7 ’s compatibility feature known as Windows XP Mode (XPM) is, and what it can do and what it cannot. Just to remind you, it is a technology to support Windows XP applications and make it possible to run them in Windows 7. This [...]

Top 3 online file hosting services

28, Apr 2009

From the time being, technology provides flexibility to the users of internet to make their work more efficient and  more faster than ever before. Today, I am presenting top 3 online file hosting services. File hosting services provides you with the ability to save your file and save your time on internet  because in today’s [...]

Vine : A social web application by Microsoft

28, Apr 2009

Microsoft recently released Vine a social web application. This application was rolled out as a Beta to testers in Seattle Washington.
The recently released application is basically a Windows based desktop client enabling its users to post information using email or SMS as the transmission medium. This app collects local news from about 20000 sources and [...]


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