Even though Microsoft's new Vista theme didn't impress me very much I do have to say that they made a smart design move with the new Office 2007 theme. The two current themes available in Office 2007 Beta 2 are not that appealing to me. One is a light blue color that seems to give a soft feeling to Office while the other theme is black and is kinda overbearing.
Are you tired of those PDF files taking forever to load because of how slow Adobe Acrobat opens? If so then you should checkout Foxit Reader. It has a lot of great features like the small 1MB file size and the fact that there is no installation required. So it is fast, small, and easy to setup.
Digg plans to add new ways to monitor real-time activity starting next Monday. One new visualization tool, called the Stack, is pictured above and we heard about it a month ago. Multiple stories are displayed on the screen and are represented by the vertical bars. When a story is Dugg a small block falls from the top and lands on it.
Google has released some headsets for Google Talk that will allow you to easily communicate with your friends and family. Great idea, right? Well, all that they really did is slap the Google Talk logo on these Plantronics headsets and mark the price up a little bit.
I am sure that many people want to get their hands on 5472 but this release is only limited to Microsoft Connect testers. However, I have already found 3 screenshot galleries that may tide you over until Release Candidate 1 gets released sometime in August (hopefully): Paul Thurrott's Gallery Bink.nu's Gallery The Hive's Gallery
It was about 4-years ago that I was looking for a nice piece of software that would clean up my music a little bit. I always took the time to make my filenames for my MP3 files look nice by formatting them as "Artist - Song.mp3" and I would place all the songs from the same artist in a single folder.
Microsoft has released Windows Vista 5472 to the Technical Beta participants, which means this one is still not available to the general public. The build ID is "5472.5.winmain_idx01.060713-1900" which means it was just compiled on July 13, so this is a pretty recent version.
CNet is now reporting that Dell has no intentions of overclocking the XPS 700 at the factory. However, they will make it easy for customers to overclock the system themselves by offering the option right in the BIOS.
The team working on IE7 beta 3 has announced that it is now available in multiple languages. Those languages are:
Many companies have tried to give Windows users the same style of widgets that Mac owners get. Widgets have become very popular because it gives you quick access to some of your most important items, and not to mention it adds a little eye candy.
