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Windows Live Toolbar

Windows Live Toolbar 3 invites you to festoon your Internet Explorer browser with icons linking to handpicked plug-ins. As part of Microsoft's rebranding efforts for its free Web-based tools, this tool replaces the MSN Toolbar. Unlike the Firefox-, Mac-, and Linux-friendly toolbars from Yahoo and Google, Windows Live Toolbar works...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Toolbar, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Live Toolbar 3

Product reviews 2006-07-28

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Windows Mobile magazine ends, but iPhone Life launches on September 9th

While I get the majority of my news and content online, I still do subscribe to a few magazines including MacWorld, Laptop, and Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine. I am very saddened by the news that there will be one final issue of Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine. As you...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Magazine, Smartphone, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb drive

It's Labor Day weekend. Have you given your computer a fresh Windows install for the holiday? (If you're the kind of guy or gal who's into periodically wiping your hard drive, this tip's for you.) The How-To Geek over at Lifehacker recently posted a...

Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows Vista, USB Flash Drive, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Where the Linux laptops live

Almost one-third of the 25 top-selling laptops at Amazon.com are sold with Linux. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: ASUS, Linux Laptop, Dell Computer Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, Linux, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Mobile access to your SIS

Several student information system SIS vendors offer to sync data with a Palm Pilot or Windows Mobile PDA. This is a handy feature for teachers on field trips, assistant principals stalking the halls, etc. It's fairly limited in it's utility, though since it generally only provides a static...

Tags: Mobile, SiS, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition

Microsoft said Friday that it will acquire Greenfield Online, which owns Ciao, a price comparison, shopping and reviews site in Europe, for $17.50 a share, or $486 million. The goal: Expand Live Search in Europe. Greenfield Online, which also owns an Internet survey business, will be split...

Tags: Acquisition, Europe, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Ciao, Survey Business, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Netbooks just want to be free

At a trade show in Berlin, T-Mobile confirmed that it will sell an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with built-in 3G. If the prices on these bundles come close to what's been rumored, they could start to catch on. In the UK, Asus already offers a free...

Tags: ASUS, Bundle, T-Mobile, 3G, Modems, Microsoft Windows, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Microsoft Windows XP, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-29

News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies

Blog posts 2008-08-29

PikySuite (exe)

PikySuite is a set of 3 products (PikyBasket, PikyFolders, & PikyTools) that eliminate day-to-day computing frustration from activities such as copying files & accessing favorite/recent folders. PikySuite is meticulously designed to save a lot of unnoticed time & effort wasted on trivial file/folder tasks everyday. PikyBasket is a file copy...

Tags: Conceptworld, File, PikySuite, PikyBasket, PikyTools, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-08-29

Instant Services (zip)

Instant Services is prepared for annoying length of path to reach the Services when you want to start or stop a service. Instead of keeping a shortcut permanently in your desktop, just use this simple tool to start or stop any Windows Service by selecting it. And it will start...

Tags: Service, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-08-29

SmartLayouts (exe)

SmartLayouts is easy, Innovative and powerful layout manager for Windows forms on .Net platform to ease the designing and development of GUI. It helps in arranging various winforms GUI elements and controls the behaviour of various elements when form is resized or repositioned. It uses unique methodology and algorithm for...

Tags: GUI, Smart Components, SmartLayouts

Software downloads 2008-08-29

Quotes (zip)

Displays a quote from a file on startup, when resuming from standby or hibernation, after a given delay or at the users request. The user can add, delete and modify quotes in the file and files can be opened and saved. There are options for starting with Windows and showing...

Tags: File, JBWare, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-08-29

Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

Say goodbye to Yahoo! MashSocial networking is the problemThe whole "social networking" paradigm has a fundamental problem, and that is that keeping in touch with other people shouldn't be an objective in and of itself.Yet a lot of these "concepts" are just that: get people into a herd mentality so...

Tags: Social networking, Yahoo! Mash, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?

The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...

Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-28

FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possible

FBI warns 'electronic Pearl Harbor' possibleWake Up!Just when are the public and the goverment ever going to realize that there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO SECURITY when it comes to computers? It makes no sense for banks and any goverment agency to have their networks connected to the internet. How many more...

Tags: Federal government, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Financial services, Pearl Harbor, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Nokia E71, Palm Centro, Treo Pro, iPhone, BlackBerry Curve (Image Gallery: Palm Treo Pro Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device)

Nokia E71, Palm Centro, Treo Pro, iPhone, BlackBerry Curve (Image Gallery: Palm Treo Pro Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device)Where are the BIG screens?Is it just me ... ???Why can't we have some WM phones with screens as big as the iPhone ???

Tags: Palm Treo, Palm Inc., iPhone BlackBerry, Palm Treo Pro Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

The depressing future of the Internet

A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...

Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?

Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...

Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pricing strategy, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?

I'm really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath because the chances of seeing an open debate on pricing is highly unlikely, but I can dream, can't I? by Adrian...

Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into

Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled intoI agree "One OS to unite them all""One price to keep all happy" In the end it's just a marketing ploy different versions each with their own "missing" pieces. In many ways it looks like double dipping...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, marketing, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-28