Archive for August 24th, 2010

Yahoo now officially powered by Bing in US, Canada

The first step of Yahoo’s transition from an in-house search infrastructure to Microsoft’s Bing platform is complete. Yahoo announced the completed conversion today: its Web, image, and video search experiences on both desktop and mobile devices are now being served up by Bing.

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Download Visual Studio themepack for Windows 7 from MSN Japan

MSN Japan has released a Visual Studio themepack for Windows 7. There are 3 different themepacks  available for download, Garden themepack, Bridge themepack & a Highway themepack. You will see…

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Windows DLL-loading security flaw puts Microsoft in a bind

Last week, HD Moore, creator of the Metasploit penetration testing suite, tweeted about a newly patched iTunes flaw. The tweet said that many other (unspecified) Windows applications were susceptible to the same issue—40 at the time, but probably hundreds.

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Explore the Universe with WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) from Microsoft Research, is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, which brings together imagery… For more visit The Windows Club

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Windows Phone Marketplace “Grand Opening” Set for “Early October”

Just yesterday, we heard that the Windows Phone Developer Tools will be going gold on September 16. This led many to speculate that we should be seeing Windows Phones by late September to Early October

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WinVistaClub Tips and Tricks – 3

Here are some more tips & articles from my other site WinVistaClub, posted much earlier. As mentioned earlier too, most or all of them apply to Windows 7 too! Make your Windows 7 send you e-mails…

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How To Configure The Default Library Save Location

Libraries have been one of the new features in the Windows 7 operating system that have seen lots of praise from the community. Libraries basically are virtual folders that display data from one or multiple folders.

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Watch Twitter Movie Parody Trailer

If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about the early years of Facebook or Google, why won’t someone make an overly dramatic movie about Twitter? Or at least the trailer to that movie!…

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Windows 7 Home Basic Personalization Panel

Windows 7 Home Basic Personalization Panel. You can get it from winreview.ru

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Microsoft releases Update to block DLL load hijacking attacks

Some time back there were reports about a security issue that affected  about 40 different Windows apps. Microsoft has quickly responded to such reports of potential zero-day attacks against such..

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