- Recalling the Bill Gates era
Bill Gates- the man with a vision & a legend is retiring today, leaving behind his legacy. He will still be the Chairman of Microsoft but will now be spending more time guiding Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Internet faces changes beyond recognition
Internet will face radical changes as early as next year. The Internet’s ruling body- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICAAN) today agreed to open up the strict rules for the Top Level Domains (TLD).
- PC configuration for the month of June
Here’s the PC configuration of the month for home/office use. For gaming you may add a graphics card as per your budget.
- Improving Windows Vista’s reliability
Here’s an excellent article I found while surfing the internet. If you are having reliability problems in Windows Vista, then it is a must read for you.
- Browsers Shootout
With the release of Opera 9.5 & Firefox 3 in the past few days, the browser war has once again begun. Apple released Safari 3.1 for Windows with big claims which started ‘who’s the fastest’ war & now all three claiming to be the fastest browser.
- Firefox 3 released
Mozilla, on June 17, released Firefox 3. Mozilla had created much hype with it’s release by ‘urging’ users to download it on the Download day- i.e. June 17, to create a new world record, the move which has been widely criticised by many.
- UK students get free web hosting. Courtesy- Microsoft
Microsoft is offering free Web hosting to students of the United Kingdom. Reason? Well it’s simple enough. Linux/Apache based hosting is pretty much cheap but Windows hosting is unaffordable for the students.
- Opera 9.5 Out
Opera Software has released the major update of it’s internet browser for Windows. The new Opera 9.5 browser has been given a cool new look. The new browser boasts of some interesting new features as well.
- Coming July 11- Apple iPhone 3G
Apple, on Monday, announced the launch of 3G iPhone in the Worldwide developers conference (WWDC) 2008. The 3G version of the iPhone was a much awaited release and internet was flooded with fake 3G iPhone images.
- ReadyBoost your system
ReadyBoost in Windows Vista can be used to boost system’s performance when more RAM is required and cannot be upgraded due to some reason. You can use Flash memory devices such as Pen drives to ReadyBoost your system.
- Windows Vista's better memory management system
We all have heard a lot about Windows Vista being a resource hog & it using almost every single bit of RAM installed in our system. The task manager ‘proves’ this by showing very less Free RAM. Most of the people panic when they have a look at current system resources.
- Photoshop non-destructive techniques
Photos are very dynamic. For one, you cannot reproduce the same photograph again. And two, even if you have a backup of your original somewhere safe (which you should), you can never reproduce your work done on a Project no matter how hard you try.
- Remove Linux without reinstalling Windows
After we install Linux the boot control is given to GRUB, which is a boot loader. It is GRUB which presents us with the boot options like which Operating System we want to load. Now what we have to do is give the boot control back to Windows.
- Clean your Keyboard aka Mr. QWERTY
Our computer keyboard is the most used part of our computer along with the mouse. Most of us use the computer even while eating food & drinking beverages.
- Partition your hard drive in Windows Vista without any application!
I’ve been asked by many of my friends about partitioning their computer’s hard disk drive. The question is how to partition it & which application is to be used. This question is also asked on most of the forums particularly by new notebook owners.
- Reclaim your precious disk space after installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1:
After you’ve installed Windows Vista Service Pack 1 you might have noticed that the free space on the installation drive has reduced significantly. Where’s the free space gone?

