With Windows Vista and 7 Microsoft has introduced and shiny new version of the Movie Maker (ships with Windows Live Tools) that has an improved GUI, simpler design. In other words it is easier to use for the new people. However, in the process Microsoft has stripped some critical features from the software in favor of simplicity. This is a move which many old users of Windows Movie Maker didn’t like. Some of the features that were removed include timeline and audio edits along with the ability ...

You know we love Android particularly the level of customizability it provides right from the word go even without doing any rooting stuff. Although, the hardware limitations or flaws that stem from the device manufacturers is another story. However, lately these Android phones are getting crazy powerful as there seems to be a real battle going-on currently to bring the most powerful Android phone on the market. But the question one may ask is that when you DO own such a powerful small little device ...

iPhone Explorer is very nice free application for Windows that supports a number of very useful features for the users that own an iOS device. With the iPhone Explorer can you look into the file system of your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and download and upload files by USB connection. You iOS device can be used as a USB stick if you like as the software provide a simple interface to upload and download files to the device. The program also supports direct access to the photos, emails, SMS and videos ...

We have already covered cool Handbrake application here at Inspired Geek. It is a video conversion software that supports most of the popular video formats in use today. One of the strength’s of the program is a straight-forward and clean GUI that is intuitive to use particularly for the new users. However, you can enhance it even further by using a free software called DropFolders that adds the automated video file conversions based on a set of watched folders.Actually, DropFolders is 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 ...