Posts Tagged ‘ Windows ’

Howto Make Dell XPS M1530 Multimedia Keys Work With iTunes!!!

I have being using itunes for a long time on my Dell XPS M1530… The only thing that bugs me while using itunes is that the multimedia keys only work when the itunes main window is in focus, which is very irritating… After a little bit of googling I found out this post and his solution works… [ READ MORE ]

‘Googlle’ opens technology certification ’school’ in India!!!

Read the title again….. ‘GOOGLLE‘ The website for the new school, found here, is as bogus as it gets. Not only does it rip off Google’s logo, but it even uses the same favicon, all whilst having dead links to various web pages. According to TechCrunch, Googlle offers two different certifications: the “GCPA – Googlle Certified [ READ MORE ]

Lunascape – The Hybrid engine browser!!!

Lunascape is a web browser that handles all three major web rendering engines — Firefox’s Gecko, Internet Explorer’s Trident and WebKit (which is used by Safari and Chrome). Lunascape Corp., a Tokyo-based web software company, offers the browser as a free download. The team recently released the first beta of Lunascape 6 ORION. As a browser, [ READ MORE ]

Ubuntu 9.10 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7!!!

Close Ubuntu - Apple - Windows Apple let Snow Leopard out of [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code!!!

Publication: ZDNet This is the first time Microsoft has made Microsoft-developed code available directly to the Linux community. The Redmondians have released various pieces of code under different open-source licenses over the past few years, but this is the first time Microsoft has released Linux code. Microsoft made the Linux driver announcement on July 20, the opening [ READ MORE ]

Difference between Microsoft and Apple!!!

With both Microsoft and Apple have announced that their latest operating systems Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Over the years I have noted a difference between them. Microsoft is a behemoth, with its fingers in so many pies that there is not much in this world of microprocessors that doesn’t have a fingerprint of Microsoft on [ READ MORE ]

Reasons to put Linux/Ubuntu on your netbook!!!

Microsoft pounded itself on the chest in April saying over 96% of netbooks now use Windows. This made me somewhat sad, because I was hoping these little computers could be the break Linux had been waiting for. The first couple of netbooks all had Linux pre-installed. Unfortunately, Asus chose to go with a custom Linux distribution [ READ MORE ]

Virtualbox – A bridge between Windows and Linux!!!

This post is not for someone who has a fair amount of experience. It’s for someone who is either looking to convert to Linux and is stuck with Windows or someone new to Linux but not quite familiar with it yet. VirtualBox is a virtualization software. In layman’s language if you’re running an operating system, [ READ MORE ]

Windows 7!!!

The first question that strikes me is What is Windows 7? Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is slated as the next release of Microsoft Windows. Unlike its predecessor, Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware. Presentations given by [ READ MORE ]

Set Twitter Tweet as status message in Pidgin!!!

While browsing the net you would have heard about Twitter. Twitter is basically another name for micro blogging. In twitter you just have to sign up, then update a single line(“what you are currently doing?”) whenever you can. Its just so simple, no fuss about making a profile or writing down about the movies you [ READ MORE ]