Archive for February 23rd, 2010

Windows 7 Early Adoption Figures Beat Vista 2 To 1

We know that Windows 7 is popular and as we can tell from it’s month on month increase in market share it’s not showing any signs of letting up. Well I bet you wouldn’t be surprised if I told you that for the first 5 months of its release, it now holds double the market share that Windows Vista held after the same period. According to Web Metrics company, NetApplications.com, Windows 7 has managed to grab over twice the market share Windows Vista managed to attain over the same period.

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etc: Pay your last respects to Internet Explorer 6 at funeral service on March 4. Hit the link for the full obit.

Pay your last respects to Internet Explorer 6 at funeral service on March 4. Hit the link for the full obit.

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SMPlayer 0.6.9. Out

Windows users have two choices when selecting a media player: Select a player that makes use of system wide codecs or a player that comes equipped with all codecs. The later players offer the advantage that it is usually not necessary to go codec hunting to play a video on the computer system

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Browser Choice website from Microsoft

BrowserChoice.eu is a new website from Microsoft designed in accordance with a competition law decision issued by the European Commission. The browsers on offer are : Internet Explorer 8, Firefox,..

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YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13

Over six months ago , Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date for old browser support on the video website via a page on Google.com titled Solve a Problem: Upgrading your browser : Support stops on March 13th

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Open Hardware Monitor Displays Realtime Information About The Computer

Some computer hardware parameters change regularly while the computer is running. This includes the hardware temperature, clock speeds and voltages which should be monitored regularly to ensure that they are running in their allowed limits. It becomes even more important after building a pc and running it for the first time or when errors are encountered during operation

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How to Backup, Restore & Reset to Defaults, Windows 7 Firewall settings.

OK, if you are here, you were probably trying to configure your Windows firewall, and maybe something went wrong somewhere and you messed up ! In such a case, you may want to restore Windows Firewall… For more visit The Windows Club

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59 New Language Interface Packs for Windows 7 released.

The Microsoft Local Language Program or LLP, is part of a worldwide initiative dedicated to providing individuals with access to desktop computer software in their native language. Beyond providing..

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Humor: Windows 7 was My Idea – View Parody

What if everyone’s ideas were actually put together?

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How to change Windows 7 Drive Icons easily

You can change the Icons of your Windows Drives easily using freeware Drive Icon Changer. Simply select the Drive whose Icon you want to change, click on Install button which opens a Icon select… For more visit The Windows Club

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