Most people that are in the loop for the development status of the Firefox 4.0 know that Mozilla has made major changes to our beloved Internet browser, including both underlying and upfront GUI changes. While for the most part these changes are welcome, there are some GUI related choices that many users are not particularly happy about. Talk for example about the Panorama feature, Bing Orange Menu button at the top, removal of the statusbar and among some others. But today I am talking about an ...

Microsoft Chief Research & Strategy officer demonstrated a new radical approach of interacting with your computer. The interface he demonstrated is a complete departure from what we are used to see so far say in Windows 7, Linux or Mac OS X. This is because in this conceptual GUI interface there are no icons at all! Apparently all the interaction seems to be based on the bubbles. There are already pre-built bubbles for the main categories (entertainment, gaming, social activities etc.) and new ...

Apparently, a new leaked Windows 8 screenshot has surfaced in the online press. This is released by the Zukona – who is known to give accurate Windows beta information. This screenshot is from 6.2.7930.0.winmain_win8m2.110217-1825 build. The alleged copy of Windows 8 shows a new “restart if required” option before installing Windows Updates in the screenshot. This screenshot don’t give any idea about the new features in the Windows 8. Although, Windows Aero seems to be in use. On a side ...

If you remember those days when all the fuzz was about the Windows Vista and many new features introduced by it? One of those features was called DreamScene that allowed to use WMV or MPG video files as an animated desktop wallpaper. Cool wasn’t it? Although, it was just an eye candy but still good enough to stair at if you had some time to kill. Somehow, this feature is missing from the Microsoft’s latest and greatest offering – Windows 7. Although, you can create a slide show of pictures ...

Norton products particularly released in the past are known to be devil that completely infest your system, and even slows down it considerably. Even frustrating is the fact that when you want to remove the product it refuses to complexly uninstall! This is particularly true about some of the antivirus products released by Norton in the past. Norton Removal Tool is a simple tool that allows to remove Norton products from your Windows system, if you happen to be in one of the above mentioned scenarios. ...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) are finally officially released by the Microsoft for the public. However, in terms of the new features there is nothing to get excited about as there are only patches for performance, security fixes and other bugs in the software. One exception is the improved HDMI audio output that we are informed about, apart from that there is not so much to talk about. This is particularly true for the users that have kept their systems continuously updated ...

Game Booster is one of the popular shareware tools by the IObit software, that allows to play games on your Windows PC with the maximum possible speed by making a more efficient and optimized use of the resources. Basically software tweaks the use of the system resources such as CPU utilization and system memory. This is done by disabling many of the Windows services and processes that are not important when playing games which helps to reduce the CPU cycle usage by the background services, and ...

We have seen all kinds of Kinect hacks ranging from playing Street Fighter IV on the PC to the controlling navigation of 3D CT Scan images by Surgeons. But all of these were after all Kinect hacks strictly speaking as Microsoft neither officially supported these novel uses of their technology nor released any official software take advantage of Kinect hardware using Windows computers. But now it seems the tables has turned and Microsoft has just announced they will release an official Windows’s ...

Chrometa is a time tracking software that might be useful to you if you are interested to track the time spent in specific applications at your office, or as freelancer to charge money later on from the clients based on hourly rate for example. Or may be you are just curious to know the time that you spent(waste) on the computer browsing Internet, or perhaps on Skype or Facebook, gaming etc. This is a perfect tool for any of these tasks or many other tasks with the similar objectives. Real strength ...

Normally download (Opening) dialog in Firefox doesn’t show the file size. This is true even in the latest Firefox 4.0. I think it can be really convenient to know that file size that you are going to download before hand in many circumstances particularly if you are on a slow Internet connection then you might want to know the size before downloading. There is tiny extension only 1KB in size available in the Firefox extensions repository that solves this problem called DiB. You can get it here.