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Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

March 3, 2008

The demonstration of WorldWide Telescope made Scoble cry and in his follow up post he did explain as to what made him cry.  I didn’t cry (not to prove that I am stronger than Scoble ) , but was definitely impressed after seeing the following video. (Note: It’s a lengthy video and the streaming isn’t [...]

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HowTo : Delete a Windows Service

February 21, 2008

Many a times I have been in a situation where I need to delete a windows service and every time I end up “googling” to find the easiest/fastest way of doing this. Most of the posts in the search result talk about modifying the windows registry to delete the service, which isn’t always foolproof. The [...]

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Xobni – I have 5 Invites

January 15, 2008

Xobni Insight is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers email management and provides instant access to the most important information in your email. Xobni also supposedly exposes the hidden social network in your email. The add-on has several features, including fast email search, email analytics, automatic phone number discovery, threaded conversations, and more. When [...]

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Configuring Synergy

January 12, 2008

Synergy is an open source software lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk. I have a similar setup at work and till now I was struggling while switching [...]

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Newsgator providing its RSS reader for FREE !

January 10, 2008

I have been a great fan of Newsgator products, particularly the desktop based feed reader FeedDemon ! I have been recommending the same to many of my friends. After trying out lot of RSS readers including RSS Bandit and Google Reader, I finally found that none of them could match FeedDemon’s simple yet powerful user [...]

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Launchy 2.0

December 21, 2007

One of my favorite tools, Launchy just got upgraded to 2.0. As the website says, Launchy is an utility desinged to help us forget about the start menu in Windows. I have recommeneded this tool to many of my friends and  not one of them have complained about it. Its like a “must have” tool [...]

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PocketCM Keyboard

November 1, 2007

In one of my earlier post, I mentioned a couple of popular keyboard applications for smartphone/pocket PC running Windows Mobile operating system. One of the reader of that post, Idan pointed me to another cool virtual keyboard application from PocketCM. The keyboard does look a lot like the iPhone keyboard and works a lot better [...]

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Windows Mobile Device Center

October 28, 2007

After upgrading to Windows Vista, setting up the communication between Vista and my HTC Touch was a PITA ! And I would like give the entire credit of this pain to Vista ! On Windows XP, Activesync did a very good job in syncing with the smartphone and I also managed to synchronize over Bluetooth. [...]

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Live photo Gallery can now upload to Flickr

October 24, 2007

Live photo gallery was one of the recent applications which got added to my favorite application list. In my previous post on Live Photo Gallery I had wished that the application provided integration with Flickr. The Photo gallery team headed by Michael Palermiti has heard to this wish and the latest update of Live photo [...]

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Upgraded to Windows Vista

October 20, 2007

I have been tracking and trying out Vista since the Beta days and have written a lot of posts on the same. Windows Vista Beta 2 Windows Vista logs into India Planning to upgrade to Windows Vista ? Acer – Upgrade to Vista Planning to upgrade to Vista ? From the past few months I [...]

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