Hack Attack : Get Windows XP SP3 Through Windows Update
Well If you have read my previous Hack Attack on How you can download Windows Vista SP1 through a Hack and it worked for you then here is another Hack that will allow you to download Windows XP SP3 RC1 directly from Microsoft. Windows XP SP3 will be the final service pack that we will see for the World’s biggest Operating System from Microsoft. SP3 will bring a host of bug fixes and some new features borrowed from Vista. Well here is how you can download SP3 straight from... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Use Your ZUNE 2 as a Flash Drive
Its been a only few days since Microsoft released Zune 2, the portable music player that everyone hates. I really liked the hype that Microsoft built up for Zune 2 and believe me it does look like a solid Music Player and manages to beat its chief Rival Apple iPod in a quite a few places. Leave all that apart, I am now going to tell you how you can use your Zune as just another flash drive using the USB port. Please note that this is a registry hack,... Read The Rest →
Firefox Tip : Number the Tabs for Quicker Browsing
If you are Firefox Power user, I am sure you have a lot of tabs open while browsing. Shuffling between Tabs can be quite tedious and difficult at times if there are too many of them. But luckily Firefox has a handy feature built in that allows you to shuffle between Tabs knowing their number. Say you want to go to the 5th Tab just press Ctrl + 5. To reach the first tab, press Ctrl + 1, for the second tab, press Ctrl + 2, and so on until... Read The Rest →
Miro gets a 1.0 Release, and its Lovely!
Miro, the free open source Video player, just got through a major milestone. The Miro team launched an all new version 1.0 that brings a host of new features that make Miro the best Video Player out there. I just couldn’t prevent myself from trying it out, so I downloaded it, and trust me, it completely blew me off. I was using Joost till now to watch quality Video content online, but now Miro is going to replace Joost, Believe me, its that good. Miro is way better than Joost... Read The Rest →
Firefox 3 to get Beautiful Tab Switching
Mozilla continues to innovate with the Firefox browser. I believe that the upcoming version of Firefox will be the best ever release we will see from the Firefox team over at Mozilla. A Lot of new features and enhancements have been added to the core of Firefox 3. One of them happens to be Tab Switching that is gorgeous to look at and it kinda mimics the Alt -Tab feature in Windows. The only question is weather this piece of innovation will make it into the Firefox core.
Microsoft Comes up with a Google Gears Competitor
Well Microsoft has finally come up with a product that potentially looks like a competitor to Google Gears that was launched earlier this year. Dubbed as Microsoft Sync Framework it will help developers take their web services and Databases offline to work in an environment without being connected to the internet. The Framework will offer P2P synchronization of any file type, including contacts, music, videos, images and settings, and provides built-in support for synchronizing relational databases, NTFS/FAT file systems an RSS feeds. According to Microsoft, “The advantage of a synchronization-based... Read The Rest →
Windows Update Brings Thousand's of PC's to a Standstill
The latest series of Windows Updates have wrecked thousand’s of PC’s worldwide bringing them to a standstill. A lot of server administrators are furious over Microsoft for doing this and preventing the job from being done for the companies meaning higher expenses for them. Well this time around Microsoft decided to automatically install a resource hungry application called Window’s Desktop Search on computers worldwide. This slowed down corporate networks bringing the network to a standstill. What is more important is that all this happened even though administrators had configured their... Read The Rest →
Webrunner now becomes Prism – A Mozilla Labs Project
If you have read about our previous review of Webrunner over here at dailyApps then I am sure that you would have noticed that Webrunner has a lot of potential to do well for productivity freaks like me. Well Mozilla took a step in the right direction and has updated Webrunner to a new version and has decided to call it by a slick new name "Prism". Well Apart from a new name, Webrunner aka Prism has also added a host of new features that should make Prism an exciting... Read The Rest →
New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to BitTorrent
Well this is the 3rd major leak for Microsoft, this month, first it was Windows Vista SP1, then Home Server and now its Windows XP SP3′s latest build that was released to Connect testers just a few days back. The latest build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been leaked on BitTorrent and is available on almost all popular torrent trackers.
Hack Attack : Crack Date Protection in Trial Software
Have you ever had the software that you always wanted to have, but unfortunately it was a trial software that would expire after a specific period of time. Did you ever wish to take the trialware to last till anyday you want, and not the generic 30 days trial. Well there you go.. A Freeware called Date Cracker 2000 allows you to just that. It allows you to extend the trial of your favorite software to virtually any date in the future.
