Archive for October, 2006
Windows Vista : Cool Stuff packaged
Windows Vista has got a new cool package skin now. No more naggy names and technical names on the package. The colors are very decent and cool to eyes.
You can view the high resolution box shots out here…
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista Home Basic
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows Vista Business
Orkut no longer requires an Invitation
The above picture says it all. Orkut (A google company) has removed the “By Invitation Only” concept and now allows any user to join Orkut. This could be a major hit on the concept behind SPAMless social communities…
Technorati tags: orkut, google
My Photoblog
Well, I am back from a hectic + cool vacation spent in Coorg Valley. I would be writing a detailed travelog on my visit (I should write atleast for the enthusiasts who might wanna visit Coorg in future..). Meanwhile I am a bit busy in shaping up the snaps I have clicked during the visit. I [...]
Windows Vista Team finds a new place to blog…
No..its no longer “blogs.msdn.com/windowsvista” and that sleepy community server templated blog
Windows Vista team has skinned thier blog with a shiny Windows Vista skin..
Visit : www.windowsvistablog.com
You can also read Jim Alchin’s post about the new Team blog here
Via: Scobleizer
Technorati tags: windows vista, jim alchin
Microsoft clears the clouds over Vista Licensing
Since a week, there are too many discussions around Windows Vista licensing. It has created enough ripples in existing windows user community and had given much boost to anti-MS activists.
According to the licensing terms, if you buy a windows vista, the license will be tightly coupled with your hardware and can be activated [...]
How to take professional looking photos ?
With out a professional camera and a professional ? You must have seen some amazing effect in most of the professional photographer’s snaps. I used to wonder many times, how could I get that kind of effect and used to think I must buy a EOS/SLR camera for that along with cool lens and filters. [...]
Who wins the race?
I hear many people seriously discussing about IE 7 Vs Firefox on speed. Why only IE Vs FF? FireFox is really that much faster than IE or any other browsers? Is there any browsers out there to compete? Well, you are wrong if you think Fire Fox is an ultimate killer in Performance. Infact it [...]
Internet Explorer Trivia
Do you know Internet Explorer 1.0 was shipped along with Microsoft Plus ! pack ?
“Mosaic” was the name before it was branded as “Internet Explorer” ?
“Mosaic” was originally developed by a company called “Spy Glass” ?
Internet Explorer uses a Layout engine called “Trident” and “Tasman” (for Mac) ?
Indic support in Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo messenger has announced that it will be supporting Indic languages in thier new Yahoo messenger with Voice. Yahoo has come up with various plugins to support tabbed chatting and chatting in Indic languages like Hindi, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil. You can see how telugu plugin works in Yahoo messenger as shown below.
You can [...]
Infy started Corporate Blogging
Indian IT Giant “Infosys” (INFY) has entered the big world of Blogging with thier corporate blogging @ InfosysBlogs. This is a MovableType hosted blogging system. Currently I can see two major blogs on Infosys blogs system..
One is dedicated for Microsoft technologies and can be reached at http://infosysblogs.com/microsoft/
Another blog was dedicated to corporate lessons, Industry strategies [...]