Windows 7 Beta ISO leaked on torrent
Saturday, December 27, 2008
That's right, there's already been an ISO file leaked to several torrent trackers.
The ISO appears to contain the Windows 7 M1 build (7000) highlighted by Paul Thurrott on SuperSite. So far the new build seems to perform slightly better than 6801, and memory usage has been improved. A number of previously hidden features - like the iconized task bar - are also now active.
If you want to get your hands on it, check your favorite torrent search site. Also keep in mind that this is a leak, and there's always the possibility that the ISO has been tampered with.
Labels: Software
Google Image Search adds search by style feature
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Google has added a new search by style feature to its Image Search page. You can search for pictures from news items, pictures with faces, clip art, line drawings, or photos.
For some items, like "Apple" the results are impressive. If you click faces, you get pictures of Steve Jobs. If you click clip art or line drawings, you get cartoon-like images of apples. But some queries return funnier results. For example, a clip art search for "juice" returns plenty of drawings of juice boxes and glasses of juice. But when you click on the news content tab you find pictures of OJ Simpson, among other things.
Labels: Google
Wiki turns friendly to mobiles
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
While you were always able to access the site via any normal WAP enabled handset with HTML support, it would either take too long to load the page or look a little off due to either compression or your browser struggling to house the site in entirety.
Well worry no longer mobile maniacs; Wiki has gone mobile with a mobile friendly site mobile.wikipedia.org. It’s an extremely simple interface that enables you to get your Wiki info a whole lot easier than ever before. True there have been Wiki-friendly applications and services via SMS etc. but there isn't anything like the original.
Labels: Online Tools
Google Chrome (BETA)
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Google reports that Google Chrome is now out of Beta.
"Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We're excited to announce that with today's fifteenth release we are taking off the "beta" label!Google Chrome is a better browser today thanks to the many users who sent their feedback and the many more who enabled automatic crash reports, helping us rapidly diagnose and fix issues.
Some of the areas where we've made great progress include:
Better stability and performance of plug-ins (particularly video). Video and audio glitches were among the most common bugs fixed during the beta period. If you had problems watching videos with Google Chrome in the past, you should be pleasantly surprised with the performance now.
Even more speed. Google Chrome starts up fast, loads pages quickly, and just keeps getting faster. Since the first beta, the V8 JavaScript engine runs 1.4 times faster on the SunSpider benchmark and 1.5 times faster on the V8 benchmark — and there is more speed to come.
Bookmark manager and privacy controls. We heard you! Better bookmark features were a top request from our users. It's now easier to switch between another browser and Google Chrome with the bookmark import and export features, and we added a new simple way to manage large numbers of bookmarks, too.
Download Google Chrome and try it out. Let Google know what you think.
"Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We're excited to announce that with today's fifteenth release we are taking off the "beta" label!Google Chrome is a better browser today thanks to the many users who sent their feedback and the many more who enabled automatic crash reports, helping us rapidly diagnose and fix issues.
Some of the areas where we've made great progress include:
Better stability and performance of plug-ins (particularly video). Video and audio glitches were among the most common bugs fixed during the beta period. If you had problems watching videos with Google Chrome in the past, you should be pleasantly surprised with the performance now.
Even more speed. Google Chrome starts up fast, loads pages quickly, and just keeps getting faster. Since the first beta, the V8 JavaScript engine runs 1.4 times faster on the SunSpider benchmark and 1.5 times faster on the V8 benchmark — and there is more speed to come.
Bookmark manager and privacy controls. We heard you! Better bookmark features were a top request from our users. It's now easier to switch between another browser and Google Chrome with the bookmark import and export features, and we added a new simple way to manage large numbers of bookmarks, too.
Download Google Chrome and try it out. Let Google know what you think.
Labels: Google
Airtel Launches "Self Care"
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Airtel Telemedia Services has launched 'Airtel Self Care' - an online account management facility for its broadband and landline customers.
With Airtel Self Care customers can view their last four bills, get unbilled usage details, make bill payments online through credit cards and debit cards, subscribe to the monthly e-bill service, segregate their personal calls, view their bill analysis and summary, place online requests/complaints and view their status, update their demographic details and see graphical representation of their calling patterns and usage.
With Airtel Self Care customers can view their last four bills, get unbilled usage details, make bill payments online through credit cards and debit cards, subscribe to the monthly e-bill service, segregate their personal calls, view their bill analysis and summary, place online requests/complaints and view their status, update their demographic details and see graphical representation of their calling patterns and usage.
Customers need to log on to www.airtel.in and register themselves to avail of this facility.
Labels: Online Tools
Google Friend Connect Beta released..
Friday, December 5, 2008
Google has released Friend Connect today.
What exactly does this new feature do for you? The
Official Google Blog has more on it, but essentially it allows you to sign into sites using your logins from Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID, and “join” a site so that you can communicate with other people who have joined the same site. Essentially you can think of it as a Web wide social network.
Site owners can add other widgets to their site beyond the community module (pictured to the right), but thus far we have yet to see any site with other modules installed. As you can see, you’ll be able to browse the other members of the site you are on, and you can also see how many of the members of the site are already friends of yours.
To learn more, please visit www.google.com/friendconnect.Labels: Google
Next Gen USB 3.0 on its way
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has finalized specifications for the next-generation transfer technology. USB 3.0 will replace the USB 2.0 specification that was released in April 2000 and standardized by the USB-IF in late 2001.
SuperSpeed USB will offer a speed improvement of up to 10 times over USB 2.0, that offered up to 5 gigabytes per second.
The technology provides the capability for devices to draw additional power for quicker battery charging of portable devices. It will also be backwards-compatible with previous versions of USB.
Since late 2007 - apart from HP, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, ST-NXP Wireless and Texas Instruments that initially the USB 3.0 Promoter Group - more than 200 companies have stepped in.
The initial target markets for USB 3.0 will be PCs and devices that connect to the PC that require high-speed data transfers, including external hard disk drives and DVD players and recorders.
Labels: Technology
