Windows

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 navigation loads faster and you can [...]

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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 [...]

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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 more product from [...]

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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 [...]

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Currports – View active TCP/UDP ports

August 17, 2007

The other day one of the application server wouldn’t start up because of a required port being used by another application. This, I am sure is of the common problem faced by many developers The task manager in Windows shows only the active processes and gives no detail on the ports opened by these processes. One [...]

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Setup ActiveSync via Bluetooth

August 7, 2007

ActiveSync, a synchronization program developed by Microsoft allows a mobile device to be synchronized with a Desktop PC. Other than syncing your contacts, calendar, tasks and notes you can also sync the Emails on the Exchange server. ActiveSync also allows you to Copy files between PC and the Mobile Device Install/Uninstall Mobile Applications ActiveSync can [...]

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Tabbed Windows Console

August 5, 2007

If you are used to a tabbed browser or a tabbed text editor you would also love a tabbed Windows console. As we all know the windows console isn’t the prettiest of the applications nor its usable when it comes to selecting text or pasting text. (I am not sure if the console application has [...]

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PortableApps – Alternative to U3

July 3, 2007

In yesterdays post on Sandisk Cruzer Micro, I was mentioning how U3 Smart technology allows you to carry your favorite PC programs on the flash drive. Turns out that U3 is not the only technology available to accomplish this task. There is an open source project called PortableApps using which you could turn any flash [...]

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Sandisk Cruzer Micro

July 2, 2007

I have been planning to buy a USB flash drive from quite some time now. My current 256MB flash drive is of no use in the sense that it runs out of space too quickly. My 30GB iPod could have served as an alternative; however its little bulky to carry around and the “proprietary” cable [...]

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Plaxo 3.0

June 29, 2007

Plaxo is an online address book service founded by Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen, and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ringand. I have been a loyal user of this service from some time now. I happened to meet a person named Ghanshyam Dass in Shanghai airport (during transit), who later turned out [...]

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