According to a Microsoft filing, the company is seeking patents on a method of controlling computers using Electromyography, a system that translates electrical activity from muscles into computer instructions. Check out the video! Read More: I’m Just Being Manan What is an “etc post?”

New Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 screenshots have leaked over at Livesino. They show that the ghosting window has been fixed in Windows 7, as well as other new features. Read More: Livesino , Our previous coverage What is an “etc post?”

Microsoft has reportedly started using Windows Update to prepare Windows 7 for SP1, as shown with the appearance of a new registry key. We have not yet seen it on our machines, however.

We predicted it would happen, and it finally has: Internet Explorer 8 has surpassed IE6, easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser among the tech-savvy, after passing IE7 the month before that. At the time, we also predicted that Firefox’s steady gain would result in the browser passing the 25 percent mark in 2009, but alas, that will have to wait until sometime in 2010. Instead, Chrome was the big winner this past month, stealing third place away from Safari, while Opera remains in fifth place.

A former work colleague of mine ran into a problem at every year’s end. He was the owner of a website that consisted of many static html files. There was no dynamic content and he faced the problem that he needed to replace the copyright notice on all html files at the end of the year so that the new year would replace the former year

Microsoft has decided to expand its “50 percent off Up-To-Date discount” to include two prior versions on both Office Professional and Windows worldwide. The offer, which is available until June 30, 2010, allows businesses running Windows XP, Vista, Office XP, and Office 2003 to take advantage of the Up-To-Date discount available through the Open Value Subscription Program (OVS) to get 50 percent off their Year 1 payment

The guys over at Donation Coder are celebrating the new year in their own way by holding a coding challenge each year that invites regulars and first timers to pledge to the cause and create an application or game before the new year begins. The results of this year’s New Apps for a New Year are with 23 coders having created 26 different applications

Bing and MSN got first and second place for the “worst identity of 2009,” according to Under Consideration’s Brand New division. Bad typography is the culprit in both cases. What is an “etc post?”

Windows Aero is the standard graphical user interface that most Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems ship with. Microsoft made the decision during the Windows Vista release to block some or even all Aero effects in some editions of the operating system and has continued that strategy during the release of Windows 7. To be precise: Windows Aero is not available in Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows 7 Starter and only partially enabled in Windows 7 Home Basic

Users who have switched from Windows XP to Windows 7 might have encountered several situations where they could not edit the files and folders the way they were used to. This usually was the case for files that had been created in the old operating system. It is not a big problem most of the times as most files are rarely edited but it was one in cases where files needed editing