Windows

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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Vista Wallpapers

July 14, 2006

Grab hold of the Vista Wallpapers at this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephensilber/

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Get Clear with ClearType

July 14, 2006

I have been a big fan of ClearType fonts and it was one of the features that I liked very much in IE7 and Windows Vista. For those who have not read my post on IE7 Beta3, here is the excerpt of ClearType: ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability [...]

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Colibri

July 12, 2006

One of the features I liked in Google Desktop was the Quick search. Using this, I could quickly invoke the programs in the Start Menu, other than searching the files in my computer. But there were other reasons for me not using Google Desktop in the first place. It didn’t work well in my office [...]

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Speech Recognition in Windows Vista

June 18, 2006

One of the cool new features introduced in Windows Vista is Speech Recognition. The feature allows you to control your computer through voice. You can dictate documents and e-mail messages, fill out forms on the web using voice commands, and manage Windows Vista and applications by saying what you see. In older version of Windows [...]

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Windows Vista Update

June 12, 2006

Finally I was able to download the beta 2 release of Windows Vista. The ISO was a massive 3.125 GB file and it was quite an adventure downloading such a big file in a bandwidth constrained India. I initiated the download on Friday (June 9) 11 PM and my download manager (Free Download Manager) cribbed [...]

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Windows Vista Beta 2

June 9, 2006

Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available for public download at the following link: http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm However when I tried to download I got the following message (Guess I need to wait for few more hours) Tags: Windows Vista Beta 2

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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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Something Is Broken At Google

May 24, 2006

There is a post at digg which is worth checking out. An online privacy service portal Cotse.net found that one of the main keyword in google search that bought users to their portal was “privacy service“. In recent days they found that none of the search results for the keyword “privacy service” was pointing to [...]

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