 | It is being predicted that Microsoft will ship their new product Windows 7 in six different flavours. The provision for upgrading to the new version from older ones is still available but only after paying a license migration fee, which I suppose will be equivalent to the price of the DVD box set of the… |
 | Windows 7 provides you with a tool called the Snipping Tool, with the help of which you could actually select a portion of the screen whose screenshot is to be taken. This is very helpful since you are now freed of the hassle of ‘Prnt Scrn’-ing the entire screen and cropping the required portion out…. |
 | For users who Dual Boot Windows and Linux, accessing files from their linux partitions while in windows has never been a good enough experience. But, we now have many tools that make this problem a cakewalk. Let us see a few of these softwares and their features: |
 | Firefox is already one of the fastest browsers out there but some simple tweaks could actually turn your firefox browser into a blazingly fast browser. The tweaks which we will describe below actually deal with http pipelining, link prefetching and the last trick involves the use of the temporary filesystem but this trick is valid… |
 | Google Gears is software offered by Google that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser. One of it`s feature is that it provides a LocalServer module that caches and serves application resources like HTML, JavaScript, images, etc. There are a number of applications that use Google Gears, including Google`s… |
 | Installing Windows 7 from a USB Memory Stick (or, a Pen/Thumb Drive) is not only a cakewalk but also blazingly faster than the corresponding DVD install. What you will be needing for this memory-stick-based-install is a 4GB USB Memory stick, since the DVD itself is a 2.8GB approx ISO. Remember, you will be able to… |
| Getting the Quick Launch Toolbar back on Windows 7 is very easy. As is probably obvious, the concept of having a set of pinned shortcut icons is now integrated directly into the new taskbar, which is actually good and I am liking the feature but many others are not. So, this is how you go… |
