Archive for October, 2006

Paul Thurrott managed to get the new Windows Vista, Office 2007, product packaging images and Application icons coming with Windows Vista.


Windows Media Player released its new revamped version 11, it does a nice job of organization, ripping, syncing, and has some new features you will like. Besides being the eye-candy, this version logically organizes all types of media and by default provides many different views you can use to quickly drill down to the media you want. Creating playlists [...]


Windows Live Messenger 8.1 has been officially released on Windows Live Ideas and following features and improvements have been introduced in this beta:

|| New contact cards
|| Your display name, status and personalization roam with you to any computer
|| Changes to the emoticons, backgrounds, display picture menus
|| Updated Icons that didn’t make it in 8.0.
|| Improved sign-in performance

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Microsoft released Office Accounting Express 2007 for free, designed specifically for early startups, very small businesses, and home-based businesses. The software is an updated version of the previous Office Small Business Accounting 2006.
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Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007
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Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, Audiosoft, Audio Explosion, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins, plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins.
Winamp Remote, and Winamp Dashboard are new features introduced. Remote lets you access your Winamp music library from anywhere on the [...]


Mozilla has officially released the final version of Firefox 2 and is available for download.
If you haven’t used previous release candidate, new in Firefox 2 is an updated theme, built-in phishing protection, as-you-type search suggestions, Session Restore, improved feed previews and subscription options, inline spell check, microsummaries, Live Titles, and a variety of security, performance, [...]


orkut, Google’s social network, doesn’t need an invitation anymore. You can sign in using your Google Account.
orkut is an online community website designed for friends. The main goal of this service is to make your social life, and that of your friends, more active and stimulating. orkut’s social network can help you both maintain existing relationships [...]


As mentioned earlier, Microsoft’s plans of pushing its IE7 for public distribution. Yes,  Internet Explorer 7 is done! Microsoft has finally managed to roll out the new IE7 on their scheduled day October 18 2006. Download Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 by clicking here.
General Mananger for Internet Explorer has posted the IE7 Release Announcement on the [...]


FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. I’m using this for quite some time and I must say it’s pretty impressive.
It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick [...]


Right! Firefox 2 RC3 has just been released and you could get it from the official download page.
You might not notice too much of a difference from Firefox 2 RC2 as bug fixes are under-the-hood.
Final release is round the corner and for this there are currently 267 Firefox Launch Parties scheduled around the world! Join in.