With the Windows Live Essentials suite, you get the chance to add to the standard Windows 7 default list of applications with Windows Movie Maker, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger. While it is a simple matter to select which components of the suite you don’t want to install you may find that you [...]
READ MORE »If you want to access only ‘ext2′ filesystems: ‘ext2ifs‘ is a very cool program to access the linux ext2 file-systems from windows. However, this works only on winXP or Vista, but not on Win7. No problem! win7 supports a compatibility mode where one can the programs on XP or Vista. To do so, right click [...]
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Setting your Windows PC to use a different browser is simply a case of downloading Firefox or Opera and configuring it as the default application for browsing the web – however if you intend to prevent access to Internet Explorer entirely, there are things to consider before proceeding. In older versions of Windows, you cannot [...]
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Mozilla have recently announced their newest version of their email messaging client – Thunderbird 5 Beta. Like their Firefox browser, this client will also be a part of their rapid release schedule. Updates to the Thunderbird email client will be quick in keeping with their rapid release program. The last version was Thunderbird 3.3, so [...]
READ MORE »Forbes has an interesting interview with Jo Harlow, Nokia’s Executive Vice President of Smart Devices. Best of all, she shared some new info: Harlow declined to confirm that Nokia will launch a Windows Phone device in 2011 but hinted that the deadline will be met. “I’m quite pleased with our progress,” said Harlow. “Our target [...]
READ MORE »Microsoft may be getting ready to show off a refreshed user interface and user experience for its Windows 8 tablet environment next week at the All Things Digital conference. The tablet UI will closely resemble the Metro UI on Windows Phone 7 to help users access important information quickly. News of the rumored preview of [...]
READ MORE »Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has confirmed that the company plans to release a ‘new generation’ of Windows next year. The announcement came during a speech at a developer’s conference in Japan, during which the bombastic Ballmer also used the name Windows 8 publicly for the first time. He explained that despite the success of Windows [...]
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