This is a rare thing to happen but sometimes, due to OEM crap ware, the power plans in Windows 7 (or Vista, if that’s your thing ) either disappear or are renamed to something else than what they are in a clean Windows 7 install. Recently, due to a certain HP app, the High Performance power plan just disappeared from my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition install on my notebook and I was just left with 2 options for power plans, Balance and Power saver. Upon doing a little research, I found the fix for this.  Read more...

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Angry Birds is taking over the world! It is now available on the most popular operating system in the world, Windows. Rovia have used Intel’s AppUp store, an app store for netbooks, to launch Angry Birds. For a price of $4.99, you can get started playing Angry Birds on your PC right now.  Read more...

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Apple have released an update to iTunes, version 10.1.1 which contains a few important bug fixes. I haven’t faced any of these issues but it’s always good to stay up to date just to be safe. The update is really small, just 39.4 MB as compared to the huge updates we normally get for iTunes.  Read more...

Permalink: iTunes 10.1.1 Released with a Number of Bug Fixes for Mac and Windows

It’s been a few days since Internet Explorer 9 Beta was made available for download for Windows Vista and Windows 7 in many different languages. Microsoft did some major changes to the UI and the underlying rendering engine as well making it way faster than any before as well as more standards compliant. How a JavaScript engine is integrated into the browser is as important as the engine itself for real-world JavaScript and HTML5 performance. Microsoft started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences. Accordingly, Internet Explorer 9’s Acid3 score has continued to rise and it now scores 95/100 which is totally GOOD.  Read more...

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After a long wait, and a few leaked builds, Microsoft has finally released the public beta of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4. Windows Live Essentials is a collection of free apps that improve the functionality of Windows with apps such as Photo Gallery, Mail, Messenger, Movie Maker, Writer and much more. The great thing is a lot of great features in these apps are for free!  Read more...

Permalink: Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta now available for Download

Internet Explorer 6 is one of the most hated web browsers in the world, or let me be harsh and say the truth: it is the most hated browser in the world. Why is Internet Explorer 6 still used despite being so vulnerable to security attacks? Most websites don’t even support IE6 and vice versa because it’s that old. Was it always this way? No. Internet Explorer 6 was a good browser in its days (according to some) – the bygone days of 2001 to 2006 ( when Internet Explorer 7 was released ). But even Motorola Razor was an awesome cell phone in the past. Would you use it now when you have better alternatives?  Read more...

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A few day ago, Firefox 3.7 mockups were discovered which made good use of Aero Glass available in Windows Vista and 7. Now, mockups for Firefox 4.0 have surfaced on the Mozilla Wiki which aren’t too different than the previous ones, but show some interesting new additions to the UI. Two versions are proposed, the conventional Tabs on bottom, and the Chrome like tabs on top. The stop and go buttons as well as the location of Tools button really seems inspired from Google Chrome. After Safari 4, Firefox seems to be taking some lessons from Chrome over browser UI.

Check out the complete mockups below. But let’s hope that they fix the memory issues with Firefox before changing the UI.  Read more...

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If you all can take out the issues you had with Windows Vista out of your mind for a minute and think hard, you’ll remember it had a very useful sidebar gadget called Notes. It let you quickly scribble down ideas, phone numbers and all sorts of texts and looked just like real sticky notes. It also had a few options for different fonts, font sizes and stick note color.  Read more...

Permalink: Get the Vista Sticky Notes Sidebar Gadget for Windows 7

Microsoft has created a comparison chart between Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 based on business and enterprise features to help IT Professionals. The chart has 34 features compared ranging from file organization and search to security, remote access, management and deployment. The chart is available in a PDF from Microsoft Download Center, but I’ve snipped the image for convenience. Click on the image to see a larger version. Print it out and keep it close if you’re an IT professional, it might come in handy when trying to convince other people on Windows 7’s new and improved features for enterprise.

Permalink: Windows XP vs Windows Vista vs Windows 7 for IT Professionals

Windows Vista SP2 is finally available for the public to download. The RTM build of Vista SP2 was available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers since some time now, and people were questioning the delay for the release to public.  Read more...

Permalink: Windows Vista SP2 now available for public