Cairo – A Windows Shell Alternative
Microsoft has always been loathed for creating User Interfaces with Windows, that aren’t much effective. And in that regard OSX has always come out on top for superior UI and usability. Well Microsoft did work hard with Vista, but the Usability of Vista has only gone from bad to worst compared to Windows XP. A bunch of developers are working on a Windows Shell Replacement called Cairo, that aims to provide a superior UI and rich usability compared to OSX. Cairo has been in stealth development for quite sometime now,... Read The Rest →
Happy First Birthday to Windows Vista
Windows Vista, the latest new kid on the block, turns One today, making over a 100 million friends in just a year of its growth that has continuously come under fire from Blogs and Tech Journalists like me and everyone seemed to favor its big brother, but things seem to smoothening now for the Sixth child of its parents, who are already working together for their seventh child, but the doctors don’t really seem to have an idea when the seventh kid will arrive. And do you think the seventh... Read The Rest →
Is Qtrax Heading for the Deadpool In Its First Week?
The much hyped Qtrax (read as disgusting) that released yesterday to much fanfare, had one of the most disastrous launches a product or a service could have probably asked for. The people behind Qtrax thought that it was Ok for a web company to lie to its user base. When I first read about Qtrax, my first thought was “hey this could probably take everyone by storm”. I put up a note on my To-Do list and made it a point to check them out once they launched. But things... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Disable UAC for Certain Applications in Vista
If you are a Windows Vista user, there is nothing more bugging than the UAC in Windows Vista. UAC which was supposed to bring improved security in Windows, does it pretty well but at the cost of user friendliness. There are lots of apps and softwares that I run on my Machine, and Vista bugs me everytime I open them. For quite some time I’ve been looking to disable UAC for select applications, rather than disabling it all together, as that could possibly create a security havoc. After some time... Read The Rest →
Internet Explorer 8 Clears Acid2.. Really??
Well the Whole Blogosphere has been talking about IE8 Clearing the Acid2 test. Lets hear to what the IE8 team has to say about the milestone : As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode. Before I answer the question that I raised in the title of this post, let me tell you what the Acid2 test is all about :... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Shutdown Windows Faster
If you are in a hurry and you want to shutdown Windows as fast as it can get, without all the program terminations and the hangs that are normally associated with Windows here is a tip that can shutdown Windows real quick… By real quick I mean real quick, as in Blink of a eye. Its not that difficult either, all you need to do is go to the Run Prompt and type shutdown -f -t 0. Well executing this command at Run would make Windows shutdown real quick, by... Read The Rest →
Microsoft Reveals What Windows Vista SP1 Offers
With the first release candidate of Windows Vista SP1 just a few days away, Microsoft is now finally opening up and revealing what can be expected in the first service pack to Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows Vista. Simply put, Windows Vista SP1 will add tons of added hardware compatibility, loads of compatibility, better system reliability, and Ofcourse better performance and better energy saving for laptops etc.. The standalone installer will come in at about 450MB, but if you were to download Service Pack 1 through Windows Update, it would... Read The Rest →
Reopen Accidentally Closed Program with GoneIn60s
If you are one of those people, who are always shuffling between a bunch of open Windows, you surely know how frustrating it is when you close a Window by mistake, and you end up loosing hours of work. Well here is a simple solution for all of you who have closed that Window accidentally and want to recover it. The Saddest thing is that Windows doesn’t have an Undo key, so some smart developers, gave it that functionality in the form of this tiny app called GoneIn60s. What GoneIn60s... Read The Rest →
Vista Transformation Pack 8 Will Make Win XP Look Like Vista
If you are a sucker for beautiful and organized desktop, then I’m sure you love the all new UI that Microsoft brought with Windows Vista. But I know a lot of you might not want to install Vista just for its looks, if you are one of those people who love the stability and features that Windows XP offers, but you want to have the Vista look, then Vista Transformation Pack is for you. The Developers of Vista Transformation Pack have just released the latest in the series of the... Read The Rest →
Autopatcher is Back! But not as Powerful as Before
Autopatcher was the software almost everyone I knew used, to download Windows Updates, without having to connect to the Microsoft Servers. We Could download updates, burn it to a CD and share with all friends. But Microsoft wasn’t too happy about all this, and they decided to fight against Autopatcher, and had it almost shut down.
