From the monthly archives:

September 2007

SPB Mobile Shell

September 24, 2007

SPB Mobile shell is an extension for the boring default user interface of a Windows Mobile powered Pocket PC phone. Key feature include:

Phone style menu
Weather forecasts 
Photo speed dial
World time
Launcher
Big dynamic tabs on Today
Color based themes
Smart contact search

The SPM Menu based [...]

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ZAR – Data Recovery Software

September 23, 2007

Contrary to what most people think, deletion of file on windows does not mean permanent loss of the data.
When the file is deleted, its not “shredded” Instead, the table of contents that points out the location of the file is erased. To put in more simpler words, the attribute of the space used by the [...]

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

September 19, 2007

Along with Windows Live Writer Beta 3 there were a bunch of other tools released as part of the Windows Live Suite. It included

Windows Messenger
Mail
Photo Gallery
Toolbar
OneCare

I have been using the Photo Gallery application from the past one week and looks like I have fallen for one [...]

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Windows Live Writer Beta 3

September 10, 2007

Windows Live Writer Beta 3 was released a few days back and this is one tool from Microsoft that deserves a lot of praise. It definitely simplifies the task of writing posts for your blog.
Beta 3 has the following new features:
 
 

Insert videos using new ‘Insert Video’ dialog

Upload images to Picasaweb when publishing to your [...]

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Indiatimes Mail !

September 9, 2007

Check out this ad for the new “futuristic”, “user friendly” email from Indiatimes

After seeing this ad and many other marketing campaigns on print from Indiatimes, I was tempted to checkout what was “futuristic” in this E-Mail service. After reading the “Features” page (which had so many typographical errors) and after seeing the pathetic login page, [...]

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gCalc – Calculator for Windows Mobile

September 2, 2007

The default calculator that comes bundled with Windows Mobile 6 isn’t made for touch phones. Also the application hasn’t received an upgrade from a long time. Even my 5 year old Casio Pocket PC is running the same calculator application !

gCalc
gCalc is a simple calculator application which works great on a touch based phone and  is also good [...]

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