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Google Yahoo Maps

September 9, 2006

Here is another mashup which puts both Google Maps and Yahoo Maps together. When you scroll a map in one of the maps, the other map is also automatically updated. One thing you immediately notice is that the level of detail in each map is different. In some cases, Google Map seems to have more [...]

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Windows Live Mail Beta

August 12, 2006

Few months back when I tried to sign up for the Windows Live Mail Beta, I was just asked to register and was told that I would be notified when the service is available. It was never done ! Few days back when I was checking the Windows Live Ideas Page, I happened to see [...]

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Install Vista using Microsoft Virtual PC

July 15, 2006

The Beta2 version of Windows Vista was released a few weeks back. I had quite an adventure installing the Vista on my notebook. Check this post for more on this ! One of the requirements for Vista installation is that it requires a NTFS primary partition. I was so enthusiastic that I formatted my XP [...]

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Howz This !!

June 2, 2006

No I didn’t create these effects using some Adobe or Corel product.. The latest beta of Word 2007 comes with a nice Picture Style Toolbar from which you can choose a host of formatting styles for the images. Microsoft Office 2007 also introduces a feature called “Live Preview“, which temporarily applies formatting on the focused [...]

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Office 2007 Beta 2 Released

May 24, 2006

The Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2007 is available at this link. The load on the server might be too high (I tried for 1 hour yesterday), in which case you might need to try at a latter time. The download size of Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007 is about 450 MB. This package includes: [...]

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Windows Media Player 11

May 19, 2006

As we all know the release of Windows vista is delayed till next year. However Windows Medial Player 11 which was supposed to be shipped out with Vista is not planning to wait till then. The beta version of the player is available for download here The new version has a file indexing feature which [...]

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Disable USB Drives

April 30, 2006

In windows xp, its easy to disable the floppy or cdrom from the Bios. Disabling USB is also possible, however it disables all the USB ports and this become difficult if you are using a USB mouse or keyboard. There is a simple registry change that will keep the USB storage drivers from starting when [...]

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Google Finance

March 30, 2006

I discovered few months back that you could type in a stock “code” in google search it shows up with the latest stock quote as the first search result. For e.g. If you search GOOG in google, the first result will be the stock quote of Google !. It also sets up link to Yahoo [...]

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