Archive for February 20th, 2010

OrangeNote: A Sticky Notes & Clipboard Manager Program

OrangeNote is a Sticky Note and clipboard Manager program, wrapped up in one. It is a free WPF-based text clipping manager for Windows that allows you to store an unlimited number of fully-indexed… For more visit The Windows Club

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50 100k Or Less Windows Software Programs

Back in the good old days it was essential to write optimized code so that a program could fit on a disk for easy distribution. Today size does not matter that much anymore and some developer’s seem to take the easy road to provide their users with less optimized programs

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Google Gets Approval to Buy & Sell Electricity

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted its approval to Google, to become an electricity marketer, permitting it to buy and resell electricity. While the decision of Google to..

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Week in Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 Series arrives

This week at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft showed off its new phone platform for the first time.

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How to wake up your PC from Stand-by mode or Hibernation

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to wake up your system from a Stand-by mode or Hibernation programmatically? The answer is yes, it’s possible.

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Microsoft Announces The Browser Choice Screen for Europe

Over the next few weeks, Microsoft will begin offering a “Web browser choice screen” to Internet Explorer users in Europe, as required by the European Commission. Internal testing of the choice… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Office 2010 Ballot screen, can you spot what’s missing?

The news about the Windows browser ballot screen yesterday wasn’t the only ballot news appearing from Redmond.  Neowin have obtained an image of the forthcoming file-format ballot coming with Office 2010. This screen will pop-up for the new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to give users a choice of whether they want to save files in the Microsoft Open XML format, the new secure format they introduced with Office 2007, and the popular Open Document Format, ODF.  Can you spot what’s missing though? One of the biggest barriers to people upgrading to Office 2007 was the new ribbon.  This was like yeast extract, you either loved it or you hated it.  Either way there was still a learning curve and that was enough to make a great many people say they wanted to stick with their previous version, usually Office 2003

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Searching in Different Locations

Windows Search provides you with several different ways to find files and folders . The method you can use varies according to the situation.

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Customize Windows Live Messenger with Messenger Live Toolbox

Messenger Live Toolbox lets you customize Windows Live Messenger further, easily. If you use the Messenger regularly, you might want to check it out! Messenger Live Toolbox adds many customization… For more visit The Windows Club.

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