I love Windows as much as the next guy however there are certain features on Linux that I really wish were in Windows. E.g. The Power of Bash or Multiple (Virtual) Desktops.
Thanks to Microsoft’s Code Plex program I stumbled across a program that allows users to run multiple desktops within Windows XP & Vista. Its a completely open-source program (yay) and even supports Vista’s DWM based aero interface (They seem to have found a way around the slowness of the SDK however).
This virtual desktop program takes advantage of this new API and uses some tricks of its own to provide a powerful virtual desktop manager with a full screen thumbnail based preview. You can have as many desktops as you want and can seamlessly switch between them.
Some of the programs key features include:
- Multiple-monitor support
- Per-desktop backgrounds
- Sticky windows to exclude windows from the virtual desktop manager
- Live Vista thumbnails of all of your windows (Will only work in Vista-XP does not support WDM)
- An infinite number of desktops only limited by the amount of memory in your computer
Download and toy around Virtual Desktop Manager here http://www.codeplex.com/vdm
Pretty cool huh?
Written by Patrick S on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Here’s a way to play with Vista Ultimate, Media Center, Xbox 360, and more. All you need is to be a blogger that is attending CES.
Written by Joe on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Here are some trick you can play with your microsoft word and window folder. Just for fun let try and you can see something…
Lets start first trick:
* Go to start and open an empty notepad file
* Ok now you type “Bush hid the facts†(without the quotes)
* Save notepad as whatever name you want and now close it.
* Now open it again..LoL what you can see there? (more…)
Written by Jason on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Vista4Experts is kind of a treat for computer experts who don’t want security center notifications, User Account Control dialogs, automatic Windows Defender scannings, automatic update installations (which cause you to reboot your system if you don’t react quickly enough). People who want MSDN (or google) set as default search engine in the Internet Explorer search bar, who want the start menu power button to shut down the system instead of hibernating it, etc. These and many more fixes are included in Vista4Experts. All of these changes can be discarded, enabled or reversed. Vista4Experts is the first expert utility of its kind and works on every platform. (more…)
Written by Jason on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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This year at CES we're partnering with PodTech to provide ground transportation specifically for bloggers attending CES via the Windows Vista Media Center Express. This is an executive-class coach with a distinctive, custom exterior design, so you'll Read More......(
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Written by Windows Vista Team Blog on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Natively, Windows Vista supports a wide range of formats and standards, allowing users to streamline file management to a maximum. But, there are scenarios in which Vista, in the configuration it ships by default, is unable to handle some file formats. Case in point: camera RAW file formats. Professional photographers will tell you that universal standards, such as JPEG, do not even come close to satisfying the need of capturing and having available as much information as possible in a single digital photography. This is where RAW comes in. The RAW file formats are proprietary standards, intimately connected with SLR cameras (varying with make and model) that offer superior image quality to mainstream formats. (more…)
Written by Jason on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Some say Danes are strange - this is the proof 
A guy installs an Oracle database with his nose only - go check out “The Nose Job”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzV4LZnvHc
Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Mark your Google calendars. Bill Gates’ departing Consumer Electronics Show 2008 pre-show keynote is happening this Sunday. If you’re not in Las Vegas to see it live, Microsoft has generously set up a series of tubes so you can watch blobs of Bill and co. from the comfort of your very own home.
The show is scheduled to begin at 6:30pm Pacific US Standard Time but it never does, but be sure to get in early before the tubes are clogged like they always do. Start from the highest quality feed and work your way down. The webcast URLs are:
Alternatively, download the details for this event (iCal) to import into your calendars.
Expect to see new stuff from Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Windows Auto, XBOX 360, Zune, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server and Mediaroom (IPTV). Should be a great “going away” show.
Written by Long Zheng on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Microsoft is to implement a random number generator in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which has a known flaw, described by security researchers as a 'back door'. The weakness could, at worst, allow an unknown attacker to decrypt EFS-protected data and SSL sessions such as used for internet banking and World of Warcraft logons. It's not all doom and gloom, however: the flawed RNG will be bundled with a second, more reliable version which will be selected by default. It does make you wonder why Microsoft have bothered implementing the flawed version, known as Dual_EC_DRBG, at all. The algorithm, approved by the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (which, for you paranoiacs out there, works closely with the No Such Agency), is based on elliptic-curve mathematics and uses a set of constants to 'seed' the generation. It has been determined by security researchers Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson that these constants have a special relationship to a second, secret set of numbers. In theory, anyone who has the second set can determine what 'random' number the algorithm will pop out at any given time. Which has cryptologists such as Bruce Schneier suitably worried. By default Vista SP1 will use the CTR_DBG algorithm (based on the Advanced Encryption Standard) which is thought to be more secure than the possibly-backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG. As a result, a developer would actually have to make a concious effort to use the possibly-insecure algorithm and thus put the security of encrypted data at risk. Still, it's a disquieting thought that the heart of any system designed to offer users privacy could have such a major flaw and still get shipped to end-users.
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bit-tech
Written by ShaDow on January 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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When you call the ChangeDisplaySettings function,
you can pass the CDS_FULLSCREEN flag to indicate
that the change is temporary.
But if you don't also save the changes in the registry,
how can they be permanent?
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