From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Mini Notebook: Samsung NC20

June 29, 2009

After much anticipation, Samsung finally released NC20 laptop and added a charm to its mini notebook family. Samsung NC20 is reviewed so much positively that I personally wanted my hands on it. So I visited the Samsung store in my city and did my best to accurately test it. First of all, Samsung NC20 is [...]

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Get individual standalone installers of Windows Live Essentials

June 23, 2009

You must be aware of the fact that Microsoft has striped down utilities like Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, Windows Messenger etc. from Windows 7. So these utilities won’t be available out-of-the-box but one has to download a package called ‘Windows Live Essentials’ in order to install these utilities. Windows Live Essentials include the following utilities: [...]

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Microsoft Morro (Beta) now available for download

June 23, 2009

Previously we discussed about the upcoming new antivirus product called Morro from Microsoft. Well, Microsoft has now released its Public Beta. So without elaborating further, here’s the link to the official download page. But there are two things to keep in mind. First, you need to sign-in to Microsoft Connect and go through a little [...]

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Tutorial: How to add a favicon to a Blogger blog

June 17, 2009

One of my friend and a blogger asked me how to add a favicon to a Blogger powered blog. So I decided to write a post on it so that many others having the same question can get their answers. A favicon is a small (usually 16×16 pixels) image that appears in the title bar [...]

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Microsoft to release free antivirus called ‘Morro’

June 16, 2009

The recent news is that the software giant is on its way to give away free antivirus which is currently in its alpha testing stage. Microsoft has revealed that it is going to release a free antivirus, codenamed ‘Morro’ by the end of 2009. However, this is not the first step of Microsoft in the [...]

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Facebook introduces usernames

June 9, 2009

Popular social networking site Facebook announced today on its blog that from June 13th onwards, it will allow users to have their own usernames for their Facebook profile. Till now, the user profile had a random URL address but once the user chooses his username, his/her profile URL becomes much more justifiable and simple to [...]

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Firefox 3.5 Preview released with cool new features

June 9, 2009

I always wanted to post this. Mozilla has released the preview version of Firefox which is very stable compared to its previous Beta versions. What makes this brand new browser special are the new features that are power-packed in Firefox 3.5 Preview. As Mozilla claims it, Firefox 3.5 will have the following features: 1) Full [...]

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IE 8: The ‘New Session’ feature

June 3, 2009

Ever wished to open multiple GMail or Yahoo accounts in your browser without signing out from one. This situation is faced by many people as they have multiple accounts from the same provider and the glitch arises when we wish to switch to a different account, we need to sign-out from the first and then [...]

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Bing: Not good enough

June 2, 2009

I can understand this whole brouhaha about Microsoft Bing. But why? Just because there is nothing more happening in the search engine arena. Or is it because people got bored of Google and wanted something new to just talk about or may be even worse, they got carried away by looking at a video of [...]

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