TopDesk - Vista Program Switching in XP
JK points out that the venerable application switcher TopDesk has added a mode that allows you to flip through open windows in much the same way that Windows Vista's new Windows-Tab key combination offers. It's definitely very cool to look at, and Otaku Software has done a good job of making the application very fast, considering XP is not geared in a native way to provide a 3D view of open windows. The classic TopDesk views are also worth a look, providing Expose-style overviews of all open windows.
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26.2.2006 Offline Files in Vista
One of the key things that we focused on for Windows Vista was improving the experience for mobile (laptop) users. If you are like me, you spend quite a bit of time running around with a laptop. However, when I am in my office, I tend to use my desktop. The primary way that I share files between my desktop and my laptop is by storing them on a Windows Server (it's also the primary way that I make sure that my files get backed up).
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1.2.2007 Moving the Offline Files Cache in Windows Vista
Several customers have asked us how to move the Offline Files cache location from the default location (c:windowscsc) to another volume. Here is a procedure for doing this.
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31.12.2006 Offline Vista timestop v2a crack 32 + 64bit
One of our user report this Vista timestop crack. This is Automated batch install by pembros,User interface by SpOtTy DoGg.
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10.2.2007 NEW Offline Vista timestop v2.3 crack 32 + 64bit
One of our user report this Vista timestop crack. SpoTtY DoGg have been working on a new vista crack and seems to be working a treat.
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26.2.2007 Attackers switching to applications, media players
Online criminals shifted their attacks in 2005 from operating systems such as Windows to media players and software programs, according to a study released Tuesday.
Among the software programs under attack are antivirus software, according to the SANS Institute, a nonprofit research group based in Bethesda, Md.
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22.11.2005 Switching from Windows to Mac: The ROI case
Auto Warehousing Co. CIO Dale Frantz says his decision to go from a Windows shop to one powered by Apple is based on time and labor spent maintaining Windows.
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23.7.2007 Microsoft simplifies switching between Windows Live IDs
To simplify switching between multiple Windows Live IDs you can now link them together, with the Linked Windows Live ID service.
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22.10.2007 How to: Windows 7 Offline Domain Join
Since Windows NT4, clients who wanted to join a domain always needed a direct connection to the domain, either via VPN, dial-in or direct connection. New in Windows 2008 R2 is the option for an offline domain join.. how does this work.. ? read on!
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27.1.2009 The New York Times to Enhance Online and Offline Reading Experience
SEATTLE - April 28, 2006 - Today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, The New York Times and Microsoft Corp. unveiled a prototype of a new PC-based software application for news distribution called Times Reader. Available for download in the coming months, Times Reader is a New York Times application that takes advantage of Microsoft Windows Vista, the next generation of the Windows client operating system, to enhance the online and offline reading experience of The New York Times.
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29.4.2006 How to Backup and Restore to Preserve OEM Offline Pre-Activation When Reinstall Windows XP
Most users of new computers with Windows XP pre-installed will notice that no activation is required after they unwrap and start up the new laptop or notebook PC, even though they need to go through the initial set up process, and a product key is found on the Certificate of Authenticity attached to the PC (COA Key). Large PC manufacturers known as Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) have the ability to pre-activate Windows XP operating system installed on new PCs via SLP (System Locked Preinstallation).
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3.9.2009 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008Gmail Goes Offline with Google Gears
Today Gmail Labs released a new feature that bridges the gap between desktop and web-based applications like never before: Offline Gmail. You can now
access your Gmail from your browser any time, whether or not you're online.
Offline Gmail uses Google Gears to download all of
your email to your desktop (every last gigabyte). Using Gmail in offline mode is exactly the same as using it normallyexcept that when offline mode is
enabled in your browser, Gmail is that much faster.
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28.01.2009Gmail rolls out its offline options
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28.01.2009YouTube May Look Offline for Growth
The Wall Street Journal
is reporting that YouTube is
considering moving into the
offline world by offering
videos on television...
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09.01.2007Zoho Writer Gets Offline Editing
Zoho Writer made its tools available offline through
Google Gears a few months back, but the offline capabilities were
limited to read-only functions. Now both view and edit options are available for Zoho Offline, through Google Gears. So youll need to first download
Google Gears if you dont already have it. From there, youll be able to access your documents offline.
Theres a new option in your
Zoho Writer toolbar that lets you choose śofflineť mode. Once clicked, Zoho will download the 15 documents based on your left-hand document order for
you to work with offline. If you need more, you can select to have up to 25 documents downloaded for offline use. This may be suitable for most users,
but for those that use Zoho Writer in a more extensive manner, this may not be enough access for offline use. I frequently search through previous
documents for fact-checking and other reasons, and would need access to more than 25 documents. But with some creative finagling, most users should be
able to work around these limitations.
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26.11.2007Whitehouse email offline
Late yesterday it was reported that the email system for the White House was offline and there was no estimated time until it would be back up.
"Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced the technical snafu at his 1:30 p.m. briefing, apologizing to the media for the e-mail silence this
afternoon." It appears that it was a server overload as the new administration was migrating their transition email over to the official White House
email servers. The outage affects both incoming and outgoing emails. The server being knocked offline is probably not a coincidence after the Obama
staff complained that the technology was archaic.
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27.01.2009Google Meets Resistance Over Offline Ad Efforts
Google's efforts to bring its
advertising successes offline
are not panning out as the
company expected, even as it
attempts to move into
television advertising, the
New York Times reports...
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29.03.2007Verizon asks if an iPhone would keep you from switching
If Verizon had an iPhone would it keep you from switching? That's the question Verizon wants to know. BGR spotted a cancellation survey from
Verizon that may shed some new light onto the future plans. Three questions from the survey all had the response option of an iPhone; "What is the
primary reason you left?", "What is the primary reason you chose your new carrier?", "What could Verizon Wireless have offered you to keep you as
a customer?" It's the last question that Verizon asks about what they could have done to keep you as a customer. Verizon may be checking to
see how many customers they are loosing because of the iPhone.
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05.03.2009IE runonce website offline
Bink is reporting that the Microsoft website you are
redirected to after installing IE7 (or Windows Vista) that lets you set your
preferences like default search engine and start page, is offline. Users are presented with the following unfriendly message:
An HTTP error
occurred while getting:
http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspxDetails: "connect timed out".
Someone had better tell them, this is almost like the time Microsoft forgot to update their
domain name!
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25.01.2008Google Gears Takes Ruby on Rails Offline
The Gears on Rails project by Google Gears enables Ruby on Rails developers to take their applications offline, as some sharp developers put Gears to
new and different uses.
Developers are putting Google Gears to some interesting uses, including offline support for Ruby on Rails
and building client-side search engines.
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16.07.2008Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0 helps organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft System Center
Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system updates. The tool provides a way to keep offline
virtual machines up-to-date so that bringing a virtual machine online does not introduce vulnerabilities into the organizations IT infrastructure.
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool combines the Windows Workflow programming model with the Windows PowerShell™ interface
to bring groups of virtual machines online just long enough for them to receive updates from either System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or
Windows Server Update Services. As soon as the virtual machines are up-to-date, the tool returns them to the offline state in the Virtual Machine
Manager library.
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25.11.2008AIM 6 Gets Offline Messages, Logging
AOL on Friday released the
second beta of AIM 6, adding a
number of major features that
users have been requesting for
years. On the list is the
ability to send messages to
buddies that are offline, and
automatic message logging...
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20.10.2006Microsoft simplifies switching between Windows Live IDs
To simplify switching between multiple Windows Live IDs you can now link them together, with the Linked Windows Live ID service. Instead of logging
out and logging back in, once the accounts are linked, a simple click from the menu on the top right of most Windows Live pages will now do the trick.
To link your accounts up, head over to the Linked Windows Live IDs section of the Windows Live Account page. Once they’re all added, you must
sign out and then sign back in.
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21.10.2007Update Vista and Office offline
For the first time,
version 4.0 of the heise Security
Offline
Update script archive supports updates for Windows
Vista and Office.
Offline Update provides a simple mechanism for users to install security updates from a CD, DVD or USB stick.
Once the generator
script is launched, all the user needs to do is
select the Microsoft product and the language version of the Microsoft
script they would
like to download. As soon as all the patches are
downloaded onto the disk, the script packs them into burn-ready ISO
images for CDs or
DVDs. The user can then launch an installation script
from the media that quickly installs the updates on the target PC.
Offline Update is supported by a lively
discussion forum.
It is currently the only solution available that provides owners of Windows PCs on a slow internet connection with the latest updates. Until recently,
many users were able to download "update packs" that bundled the Microsoft updates in installation packets from a website operating under the name
of Autopatcher, but the download site was taken down after Microsoft
issued a warning to
the project developers. The zip archive provided by Offline Update, however, does not contain any Microsoft code.
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15.10.2007Google Gears Lets Developers Take Apps Offline
Tomorrow, at the Google
Developer Day conference,
Google will be outlining their
their developer strategy. But
the big announcement will be
http://gears.google.com/>Googl
e Gears, an open source
browser plugin that will
enable developers to create
offline web applications using
JavaScript APIs. As a
developer, youll be able to
make an application with the
assurance that it will work
offline across browsers.
The plugin is a 700K
download for Firefox 1.5+ and
Internet Explorer 6.0+ that
installs three developer APIs.
One API will handle the
creation of data objects to
store application information
locally, another will be a SQL
lite style database for
searching the data, and the
final part will enable
asynchronous JavaScript so
that applications can sync
data without overburdening the
browser. More info on the APIs
are available at the
http://gears.google.com/>Gears
website.
The first
demo of Gears will be for
Google Reader, which will add
a green download button to the
user interface. When you click
the button, Reader will
download the last 2,000
messages to your computer,
preparing your computer to
work offline or under a spotty
internet connection. While
offline you can read these
articles and carry out your
usual sharing and tagging.
When you get back online, just
click the button and Reader
will sync your offline
activity with their server...
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31.05.2007Xbox Live Goes Offline for
Upgrades
Microsoft's Xbox Live service
went offline Monday,
promising: "we'll be back
soon with a whole new look and
amazing new features."
During a 24-hour period, the
service will be upgraded with
features aimed at Xbox 360
users, which will become
available after the launch of
the console on November 22...
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25.10.2005Gmail goes offline
Google has introduced a new feature for Gmail users to allow them to access their email offline. Announced on the Google blog you will be able to
cache your messages on your computer using Google Gears. A user will be able to open a browser and point it to gmail.com and have acess to their
emails and be able to edit, read, and even write emails but they will not send until the user connects back to the Internet. "Once you turn on
this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with
Gmail's servers.
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28.01.2009Google Carries Offline Access Ball Forward
Google continued its rapid cycle of innovation for its Docs trio of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications April 25.
Weeks after allowing
Google
Apps users to view and edit word processing documents offline, the company has applied the capability to view its spreadsheets and presentations
offline.
"You won't need to worry about an unreliable internet connection as you walk up to the front of the room to give your
next presentation," Google Marketing Manager Andre Chang wrote in a blog post. "Just click on your Google Docs desktop icon and know that your
presentations and spreadsheets will be stored on your computer, at your fingertips."
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28.04.2008Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support
It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline. After
Google Reader and
Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears.
Andrew Fogg saw a preview of the integration at Google's offices and found that
Gmail and Google Calendar will add offline support in approximately 6 weeks.
In the past
months, Google accidentally enabled the option in Google Calendar and some users saw the dialog illustrated below: "To view and edit the next 3
months of your Google Calendar when you're not connected to the Internet, click OK."
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17.07.2008New tab switching added for Firefox 3.1
As
announced before, tab switching is getting a
dramatic update for Firefox 3.1 in both visual and behavior.
Press
Ctrl +
Tab (or
Shift +
Ctrl +
Tab) and you are presented with tab thumbnails and titles with the most recently visited ones first so you can more easily
determine which tab you want to go, have the one you most probably want to go closer, and as a result get to it faster. Hold
Ctrl pressed and
keep pressing
Tab to see the thumbnails smoothly scroll to the left while the status bar displays the tab web address.
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16.07.2008Microsoft to take Silverlight offline eventually, says exec
There are a number of software projects to let Web applications run offline, including Adobe's AIR, Google Gears, and the Mozilla Foundation's
Prism. What about Microsoft and its Silverlight browser plug-in?
Microsoft does not currently have specific plans to bring
offline capabilities to Silverlight, but it's something it will eventually do, said John Case, general manager in Microsoft's developer division.
"It's something that we will want to do," Case said in an interview on Monday. "Eventually, customers will expect us to do it."
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