There is all kinds of Silverlight news going around right now because of Microsoft’s 3–day MIX Conference. It started with the announcement with Microsoft giving away 4GB of hosting space for developers to store their media, and then came one of the much awaited demonstrations…
Last week we mentioned the Firefox Companion for eBay that had just been announced, and at the time it wasn’t yet open for the alpha test program. Recently we were able to download the extension and give it a try.
YouTube has just launched a service called Active Sharing as a way to get even more video views. If you decide to opt-in for the service YouTube will track which videos you have watched in the last 30–minutes and share that with other users.
It never ceases to amaze me what people will do for money. Really, it’s appalling sometimes. I’ve seen some interesting eBay auctions before like people selling the free toiletries from hotels, but this is the first time I’ve seen people selling software that’s free from the developers on eBay.
Object Desktop is a nice little suite of applications that can really change the way your Windows computer looks and feels. The $50 suite includes programs to replace icons, modify the right-click menu, skin Windows, and much much more. There are so many different programs that you can install with Object Desktop that we had a hard time covering them all in our detailed review.
Lately it seems as though bloggers are suffering from a mentality of “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine,” in order to peek their way into the Top Favorited Blogs on Technorati. In other words, I’ll favorite your blog if you favorite mine.
In Ashley’s article this morning, she mentioned one of my favorite programs for Vista called Switcher. It makes use of Vista’s advanced graphical capabilities, particularly the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) to provide features that can’t be found in Windows XP. So why is it that they can’t be found in XP?
Windows Live Writer has become one of the most popular blogging tools for Windows-based PC users. It’s free, and a quick download which makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog. And on top of it, Live Writer works with WordPress, LiveJournal, Blogger, and others.
The Desktop Window Manager introduced with Windows Vista has opened the doors for developers to create a lot of great applications for those running Vista with Aero enabled. One of the best applications that I’ve come across so far that takes complete advantage of DWM is called Switcher.
Google is big on providing their services in multiple languages, but in order for that to happen they have to first get some translators. One translator in particular felt like sharing some of his recent findings.
