We’ve covered several utilities in the past that can be used to tweak Vista: TweakVista, TweakUAC, and Vispa. All of those provide some nice functionalities when it comes to tweaking Vista, and there is a new one that was just released called VistaTweaker (Download Mirror).
If you’re a student, you’re going to love this for writing research papers! The website is Bibme.org and it takes all the hassle out of writing a bibliography because it essentially does it for you. Had this been around when I was a student, I definitely would have used it.
A couple of weeks ago we were able to give out 16 Pownce invites to the first 16 people that commented. This week we’ve got 18 invites to give away! Remember, Pownce is used to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends, and the only way to get involved is with an invite.
Any guesses what the best global brand is for 2007? I’ll tell you this much, it’s not Google, but the good news for them is that their brand value has improved quite a bit over the last year.
I can honestly answer with a big NO, I’m not addicted to mobile email. I’d need a mobile email device first before I’d be able to have an addiction! I just use a simple Motorola phone for making and receiving calls, and checking voicemail. That’s all.
I don’t know how, but I missed the release of Full Circle Magazine issue #2 which was available a month ago. So I thought today I would write a combined post that covers issue #2 as well as #3 which was just released.
We’ve talked about Secunia’s online software inspector before. It doesn’t require that you download any application, and it operates completely through your browser. The purpose of using it is to find out-dated software on your computer.
Need a way to waste some time today? Checkout Fichey. It just launched and it serves as a way for you to browse through sites that are currently popular. You can also browse through sites that were popular previously by selecting a date on their calendar.
After viewing some of the old-school tech commercials I dug-up below, you’ll probably be as thankful as I am at how far we’ve come!
It was a big disappointment when the FastStone screenshot application turned to shareware, but there is another free alternative available that has some really nice features (especially for Vista users). It’s called Window Clippings and it is available for Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista.
Just a few weeks ago we wrote about Sony’s latest promotion to offer five free Blu-ray movies with a Blu-ray Disc purchase as a method to boost their sales. Now it appears as though Microsoft is following the lead of Sony with their offer of five free HD DVD movies with the newly re-priced Xbox HD DVD Player.
Microsoft just wrapped up their annual meeting with financial analysts today where they disclosed that since the January launch of Vista, 60 million copies have been sold. To break it down, from January 30th to February 28th, 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold. By mid-May, they had gotten to the 40 million mark, and between May and the end of June, another 20 million copies were sold.
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s CEO, announced on her blog today that Thunderbird hasn’t been receiving the attention that it deserves. As a result they are looking at a number of options to let Thunderbird continue to grow and flourish, but I don’t like how all of this sounds. Take a look at this snippet from the post:
There was a lot of chatter yesterday about Joost and their recent milestone of one million beta users. One million is an impressive number for a start-up, there’s no doubt about that, especially since they haven’t officially launched yet. But, that doesn’t mean that those one million beta users that signed up are actually Joost.
When I was a student, had I written research papers and cited Wikipedia as a source, my professors would have laughed.
My favorite dedicated BitTorrent client has always been uTorrent, and with the new uTorrent mUI you’ll be able to control your Torrent downloads no matter where you are at. It is optimized for mobile devices, and works great on Opera Mini or on the iPhone. When you pull it up you’ll quickly be able to gain access to all of the important information regarding your current Torrents:
One of the nice features that you get in Windows Vista with the Aero interface are thumbnails of running applications. These thumbnails are seen when you perform an Alt-Tab, and we’ve already shown you how you can increase the size of those.
On my laptop that runs Vista (with the Aero Glass enabled) I receive about 4-hours of battery life on full screen brightness. I would say that is pretty darn good, but I can often squeeze out an additional hour or two if I use the free Vista Battery Saver.
One of the things I use the most in Gmail is the "View as HTML" feature for previewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are attached to an email. This lets you scope out what a document is about without having to download it to your computer.
Come August 8th the Xbox 360 might be seeing a $50 price cut! Both Hollywood Reporter and Xbox Scene are reporting the news, although Xbox Scene wasn’t given the details on the amount of the price drop.
