Latest incarnation of the Mozilla Firefox namely Firefox 4 may be the most refined and fastest version yet of the popular browser. However, apart from all the positives aspects one cannot help but feel for some of the controversial decisions on Mozilla’s part. I have already talked about them at great length in some previous articles. So, I will not go in to that, but here I want to point-out a new “feature” in Firefox 4 related to the visual transparency effects that it adds to the Windows ...

Many of us don’t have enough spare money to spend on very expensive Mac based systems (including myself). So, these users usually go with Windows based machine as they are much more affordable. Another reason for users opting for Windows path is of course the huge amount of software that is available for MS Windows based systems. If you are one of these many Windows users you might still be interested to get the look & feel of Apple’s latest & greatest Mac OS X Lion in your Windows ...

Well, it seems to be a screensavers day at Inspired Geek…. We covered a simple video screensaver for Windows earlier, and now time for a screensaver based on the Windows 8 logon screen! It provides a number of options for the customization including an alarm clock.Here are some features of the Windows 8 Logon Screen Clock Screensaver as mentioned by the developer: •Easy Install/Uninstall with option to auto apply Screensaver and load settings.Themes for Background\Font Color\Time&Date ...

Despite all the advances and incremental improvements in terms of new functionality/features in Windows 7 as compared to the previous versions, there are still some features completely ignored by Microsoft which might be very useful for some users. Take an example of the Screensaver, apparently as I can see there is no way to set any video of your liking to be screensaver. This feature could be very interesting for some Windows users. Although, back in the days screensaver were used to reduce the ...

After Windows 8 leaked to the Internet there is a lot of info about new features that Microsoft will bring in the stable builds of the Windows 8. Previously we have reported on the integration of the built-in PDF reading capabilities in Windows 8 as well as the use of ribbon based user interface to be employed now system-wide. We also mentioned that latest OS from Microsoft is expected to include a built-in webcam capture application. We also looked at an interesting new feature called Portable Workspace ...

I think Firefox 4 tab management system is one of the best when compared against all other available current generation browsers such as Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer. One of the things that might bother some power users that tend to do a lot research & keep open a dozen or more tabs at the time is that tab width also starts to decrease as Firefox have to accommodate more tabs in the same tab-bar area. As a result visible area of any tab title also starts to shrink. If you prefer to widen ...

Firefox 4 users can make a much better use of the status-bar (or new “add-on bar” as they call it) by installing some extension that shows useful information in this area. As in new Firefox 4.o add-on bar is supposed to be used by the Firefox extension developers to show some useful information to it’s users. One of the extremely useful extensions that I have come across recently is called StatusbarEx. After installation it adds some useful information to the Firefox add-on bar like Memory/CPU ...

Since the time Windows 8 has leaked to the Internet there is a lot of information coming our way about new features that Microsoft is planning to bake in the stable builds of the Windows 8. Previously we have reported on the integration of the built-in PDF reading capabilities in Windows 8 as well as the use of ribbon based user interface to be employed now system-wide. We also mentioned that latest OS from Microsoft is expected to include a built-in webcam capture application. We also looked at ...

A new version of the iTunes namely iTunes 10.2.2 is available for the download. It is a minor update over the previous release that fixes few issues and brings stability improvements.Here is a changelog for this release: iTunes 10.2.2 provides a number of important bug fixes, including: • Addresses an issue where iTunes may become unresponsive when syncing an iPad. • Resolves an issue which may cause syncing photos with iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to take longer than necessary. • ...

We have already reported on the integration of the built-in PDF reading capabilities in Windows 8 as well as the use of ribbon based user interface to be employed now system-wide (if early Windows 8 builds are any indication). But after the Windows 8 has leaked on the Internet there is a flurry of information coming our way about all kinds of new features that MS is planning to bake in the stable builds of the Windows 8. We have already mentioned about the interesting new feature called Portable ...