From the monthly archives: October 2009
After all the buzz about windows 7, it is finally in the market and has been praised for its boot time and performance. Today I enlist some features of windows 7 that most of you might not know. 1. Libraries : It’s now possible to manage all your Documents,Music,Videos and Pictures as libraries than the [...]
As my friend just pointed out MacHeist has a cool new bundle up, unlike their other ones this one gives you 6 apps worth $154 for free. I dont know about you but if i see the word free next to a software i jump onto it, lord knows there is precious few softwares on my Mac that are not pirated.
The Android 2.0 platform was officially unveiled yesterday, introducing a number of enhancements to the open source smartphone operating system. The new Features include:Contacts and accounts Multiple accounts can be added to a device for email and contact synchronization, including Exchange accounts. (Handset manufacturers can choose whether to include Exchange support in their devices.) Developers [...]
Microsoft is doing its best to beat Google at search engine war. Now it has entered into a deal with Twitter and Facebook. According to this deal now Bing will be able to search within these social network’s user status messages. Twitter integration is already done and is in beta state. Facebook has to wait a bit. Twitter searches are accessible at bing.com/twitter
First of all let me tell you why you should create a local repository. It happens many times that we need some software for our Linux OS but internet connection is too crappy or inaccessible at times. A local repo comes handy in these cases. Also install speed increases considerably because of rapid download. Organizations [...]
Apple introduced a new multi-touch mouse today called “Magic Mouse”. The mouse uses the same multi-touch technology found in the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Mac notebook trackpads. The entire surface of the mouse is a seamless multi-touch surface.
Ever since i migrated to a Mac I have been on the lookout for a good Direct Connect client for Mac. On windows DC++ used to work great for me. Initially I used Shakespeer for Mac, it was pretty but its functionality and features were limited. For one, downloads happen form only one source, no auto-grant slot, no upload /download queue, limited sorting option (like sorting users by size of shared content), when getting the file list it didn’t take me directly to corresponding folder and many other things i found normal on the Windows version.
