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Search for “Desktop Search”

June 2, 2007

The other day I was reading about the popular Desktop search tools on a popular technology site. The 3 tools featured were Google Desktop Search Microsoft Desktop Search Yahoo Desktop Search I was immediately keen to know as to how Google, Microsoft and Yahoo display their respective desktop search products on their search engines. Search [...]

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Windows Live Writer Reloaded

June 1, 2007

Microsoft‘s Windows Live Writer is a powerful desktop based weblog client and is currently the only product I like from Microsoft’s stable. The initial beta had lot of interesting features which made it a must have for any blogger. Review of Windows Live Writer Beta 1 There are lot of free and licensed desktop weblog [...]

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Windows XP Themes

January 5, 2007

Windows XP has the ability to use “Visual Styles” to change the user interface. However, visual styles must be cryptographically signed by Microsoft to run. Many people are stuck with the default Luna theme that ships with Windows XP. Energy Blue was another theme officially approved by Microsoft and was a welcome change. The only [...]

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I want Windows XP SP3

November 26, 2006

This might sound crazy; but I make it a point to reinstall Windows every 6-8 months. I install a lot of tools/applications and over the period of time the PC becomes very slow. Even if I do DiskCleanup and Registry cleanup, its not of much use ! Some of the steps I take before reinstalling [...]

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Suse Linux 10.1

November 7, 2006

Suse Linux 10.1 is a mammoth 3.5GB installation. I spent almost 30 hours downloading it via the torrent and I should say it was worth that effort. I had Suse 10.0 installed previously. SuSe 10.1 has lot of improvements in terms of installation and hardware drivers. For the first time I could install any linux [...]

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Mozilla gets a cake from Microsoft

October 26, 2006

I am not sure how true this is, but it seems that Mozilla got a cake from Microsoft IE Team for the release of Firefox 2.0 ! Checkout some interesting comments for this post on Digg even their cake probably has bugs in it It was a nice gesture from the IE7 team. I guess [...]

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Steve Ballmer

October 26, 2006

I am not sure if this guy is crazy or over energetic ! Check out these videos Steve Selling MS Windows 1.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqH2XrteqRc Steve Ballmer Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVlEmYZjw0 Steve Ballmer “singing” developers ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftsByyqazF0

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Firefox 2 is out !

October 25, 2006

Firefox 2 (codenamed Bon Echo) is now officially released and is available for download here. I checked for updates from within the browser, however I was prompted with a message saying that no new updates were available. This means that Firefox 2 is not being pushed via the update mechanism as of now ! I [...]

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Running Multiple Instances of Yahoo and Google IM

September 18, 2006

Check this screenshot: This is the memory usage of Yahoo IM when its initially started on my machine ! So with this kind of memory usage, why would anyone want to run multiple instances of Yahoo messenger ? My first E-Mail ID was with Yahoo and was created 8 years back. I recently created a [...]

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Planning to upgrade to Windows Vista ?

September 16, 2006

If you are planning to upgrade to Windows vista, you should also start planning to upgrade your PC hardware ? But do you really need to upgrade your hardware ? The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is the right tool to answer this ! It recently had an “upgrade” to RC and the same is available [...]

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