Location-based operating system concept: “Locus OS”

Just as I’m about to leave for Mobile World Congress, an interesting video caught my attention that seems to be more timely than ever considering Microsoft’s upcoming announcements about its future mobile strategy.
The video by Barton Smith, a designer from Australia of all places, appears to be a prototype UI for a conceptual “Locus OS” [...]

Written by Long Zheng on February 7th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Increase Firefox Browsing Speed with AdBlock Plus

The most safest way (without registry tweaking) to increase the speed of your web browsing experience is to disable all those advertisements. The Addon “AdBlock Plus” does all that for you! I strongly recommend you to install this add-on in you…

Written by ChampDog on February 7th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Microsoft Press Conference @ Mobile World Congress 2010 group liveblog: mark your calendars

Without a doubt, Microsoft has set its eyes on the consumer mobile space this year. Unless you’ve been hiding under an iPhone, you might have noticed excitement has been building around the mobile event of the year, Mobile World Congress 2010 where Microsoft is expected to reveal the much anticipated Windows Mobile 7 platform, among [...]

Written by Long Zheng on February 6th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Windows 7’s IE8 and Media Player Configuration

Some customers that will attempt to view media files using default Windows 7 components such as Internet Explorer 8 and Windows media Player, will find, that in certain scenarios they will be unable to do so. Microsoft explained that the improper con…

Written by Jason on February 6th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Sapphire ATI HD5450 Video Card Review

The SAPPHIRE HD 5450 graphic cards offer the most features and functionality in their class with complete DirectX 11 support and the world’s most advanced graphics, display features and technologies. Go here for the latest pricing http://tinyurl.c…

Written by PCWizKid on February 4th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Make Adobe Reader shine like it should under 64-bit Windows 7/Vista

When faced with a buggy piece of software, most users probably work-around the problems in silence, others might voice the issue at the developers, but there’s also a growing minority who whip out their development tools and attempt to fix it themselves.
In the case of the broken Adobe Reader 9.0 PDF preview and thumbnail handler [...]

Written by Long Zheng on February 4th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Download Windows 7 Shortcuts Ebook

Windows 7 shortcuts ebook has been recently released at TheWindowsClub. This ebook comprises of more than 200 keyboard shortcuts which works in windows 7 and its default programs like Paint, WordPad, MS Office, Calculator, Help, Media Player, Media C…

Written by Jason on February 4th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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More than one EULA in your copy of Windows

Want to know what your Windows EULA looks like? Windows XP’s EULA is stored in a file located here:
C:\Windows\System32\eula.txt
XP also has a help file associated with the EULA. The help file is located at:
C:\Windows\Help\license.chm
In Vista…

Written by Jason on February 4th, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Bring the quick launch bar in Windows 7

If you have been using Windows 7 you may have noticed that the quick launch bar is missing.
The quick launch bar was available in Vista, XP, and Windows 2000.
Here it is a shot of it under Windows XP:

There is probably a good reason for them to remove it. With the complete redesign of the [...]

Written by Steve Wiseman on February 3rd, 2010 with comments disabled.
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Security Process that Bulletproofed Windows 7

Microsoft is making it easy for third-party developers to bulletproof their software using the same security assurance process that the company applied when building products such as Windows 7 and Windows Vista. In this sense, the software giant cont…

Written by Jason on February 3rd, 2010 with comments disabled.
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