Building panorama images by taking snapshots of a place by rotating/moving your camera and stitching them together is not a new concept in general. As we have already seen applications for Windows that can build panoramas based on a set of input images. More recently after the world dominance by iPhone, we have seen a number of applications that are available in the App Store that allows to achieve the same effect. However, in my experience most of these applications available in the App Store are ...

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 ...

Well, today Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 and is available for the immediate download. However note that Internet Explorer 10 is not yet ready for the primetime yet as this release is mainly aimed on the early adopters and the web developers so that they can get a glance of the direction of the future web technologies in worlds most popular web browser. Let’s hope that MS can continue the significant improvements that it originally started with the Internet ...

These days all kinds of images and features are leaking around the internet for the upcoming highly anticipated Windows 8 OS from Microsoft. We have already shed light 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). Now more recently some images were floating around the web that showed the apparently the Microsoft App store in action. Although, ...

Earlier we told you how to add Windows 8 user tile to Windows 7 taskbar? Discoveries about the new features coming in to Windows 8 continues. Well, still there is nothing earth shattering so far but now Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott reveals an other visually subtle but pleasing feature related to the Windows, taskbar and other GUI elements color. As we know Windows 7 already supports the new Personalization features but set of customization seems to be a bit limited. Microsoft has improved the ...

These days all kinds of images and features are leaking around the net for the upcoming highly anticipated Windows 8 OS from Microsoft. We have already shed light 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). One of the features that was clearly visible in the very early leaked images of Windows 8 was use of a currently login user’s tile that ...

As the time is passing by Windows 8 based rumors and news are heating up. Microsoft is already hard at work to shape the future of Windows. Over the past of couple of days a number of new GUI elements from a pre-alpha version of the Windows 8 has leaked to the web that are now painting a slightly more clear picture of what to expect in the next generation of the OS at least in terms of the user interface and some other features. Although still not much about the backend and behind the scene technology ...

An alpha version of the WP7 Root Tools has been released in the XDA developer forums by the forum member & developer Heathcliff74 on which he was working for many previous months. This tool allows to root many parts of the Windows Phone 7 based mobile devices. Although, for now this tool can only work for the Samsung based WP7 devices as some of the component that are being used rely on the Samsung specific hardware. WP7 Root Tools will allow you high privileges with which you can alter low level ...

Windows 7 was released with many great new features. Most of these fall in to the visual eye candy and refinements to the GUI to have a smoother experience for it’s users as compared to the Windows Vista. In particular, Windows 7 taskbar got a big bump in terms of new functionality. One of the new features was the introduction of the real-time taskbar preview for the running application with their buttons listed in the taskbar. Regarding this functionality a problem that many of the users might ...

Recently released Internet Explorer by Microsoft is really a strong web browser which is a marked improvement over the previous Internet Explorer 8 in every imaginable way. However, one thing that I am sure many people might have noticed is the lack of a real-time spell checker. This is somewhat of disappointment for the people that were expecting it to be coming in the latest incarnation of this popular Microsoft browser. But fortunately for us this limitation can eliminated by using a free real-time ...