The National Geographic Wallpaper Downloader has been initially released in December of last year. The application back then allowed a user to download hundreds of National Geographic wallpapers in an automated process. All that had to be done in version 1.0 of the wallpaper downloader was to select the years and the desired resolution and the program would take care of the rest.

After protracted legal wrangling with the EU, the Microsoft browser ballot is at last heading towards roll-out . The EU’s complaint was that Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer made the browser market less competitive to the detriment of consumers

The browser ballot screen debacle began as a complaint by the makers of the hugely un popular Opera browser to the EU about the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows.  This followed on from similar complaints about the bundling of Windows Media Player and it’s sure to rumble on in a variety of ways in the coming years. The move was widely derided at the time by tech journalists as being unnecessary, confusing and a waste of EU legislature time.  Now that the rollout is starting I’m beginning to think that perhaps the biggest winners in this will be consumers in the EU and the biggest losers will be the countries where the browser ballot won’t be seen. Here’s the logic.  If we look back to the time when Internet Explorer 6 ruled the world, having seen off Netscape once and for all, there was stagnation.  This allowed all sorts of security exploits and attacks to appear that we’re still suffering from today.  Only with the introduction of the Firefox browser from the Mozilla foundation did we have any competition, and thus improved security

If you are a Windows system administrator you sometimes have to manage a computer’s user accounts. You might want to check all the user accounts, list their status, enable or disable them or reset a password for a specific account. This can be all done from the command line without lots of effort if the commands to do that are known

Microsoft has finally revealed the finished EU Browser Ballot Screen, and it’s set to begin rolling out next week. Microsoft came under fire last year from the EU about shipping Windows 7 with Internet Explorer pre installed

One of the many unanswered questions about Windows Phone 7 Series is what the application development situation will be like. A few details have started to emerge; through both official and unofficial channels (via WM PowerUser ).

You know the old adage, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Well, that’s kind of how I feel about Windows 7. Sure, there are things I want added and features that Microsoft could and should have added into Windows 7, but it seems like they finally got it right. The security is very good, the look is streamlined and sleek, the UI is easy to use and the performance is the icing on the cake

One of Microsoft’s biggest security fears is that their products are copied, pirated, or reverse engineered. This is especially true as several foreign countries have been identified as the biggest software pirates. As reported here : The Biggest Windows 7 Pirate include several Asian countries where China,  India, and Russia are among the biggest culprits

We are pleased to release Right-Click Extender for Windows 7. Right-Click Extender is a freeware utility which allows you to add some important items to the right click context menu.

Every user in the Windows operating system has a user folder associated with the account name that stores computer settings and data. It can happen that the link between the user account and the user folder gets lost. Some reasons for this are hardware failures, migrating to a new computer system, username changes, joining the computer to a domain or file system permission issues.