The latest version of Skype (4.0), the gold version has just been released for Windows. This version has been in development since 2006 and it does deliver many new features.
This is basically one of the biggest releases in the history of the company and now you can expect an even better experience when using Skype.
The new version has had a very strong focus on: improved video calling, great call quality and ease of use. Check it out and see for yourself.
Get the latest version at skype.com
With more bad economic news, it has been reported that Intel will be closing some plants. The closure of these plants could affect hundreds of jobs.
The plants are test facilities in Phillipines and Malaysia where 200mm production took place. A local plant in Santa Clara may also be shut down.
This is more bad news for the computing industry, but is to be expected until we break out of the recession.
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SD cards have long been the standard for digital cameras. However, with the increasing megapixels and image size in these cameras, the limits of SD cards are being felt.
So the next generation of SD cards are on the way. These are called SDXC – the XC stands for extended capacity. These cards will be able to store up to a massive 2TB, which is pretty impressive. That is storage enough for something like 100 HD movies or 60 hours of HD recording. So you won’t need to constantly change cards anymore when doing alot of photo/video work.
You can expect to see the SDXC cards very soon.
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According to retail statistics, the sales of Apple Macs has slightly dropped from 1 year earlier. However, the sale of Windows PCs has risen by about 7 %.
So based on these stats, are people finally realizing that Macs suck? (just kidding). What it probably relates to is the price point of each product. Windows PCs are quite a bit cheaper that Macs. Based on the current economic problems, most people are probably looking for the more cost effective solution.
Whatever the case may be, the release of Windows 7 next year, could help further increase the percentage of sales for Windows PCs.
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Are you using Thunderbird, but not happy with the current date format. You might be located somewhere that uses the dd/mm/yyyy format, or alternatively you might want to switch to the mm/dd/yyyy format.
Well this setting is not actually set in Thunderbird, it is part of the operating system itself. So Thunderbird is just displaying the date values, based on whatever you currently have setup in your OS. So to change the date format display in Thunderbird, you need to change your OS settings.
Example: To do this in Windows XP
Open Control Panel -> Language and Regional Settings
Click the “Customize” button
Change the Short date format to your preferred format
Done!
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As you all know, the Windows Vista SP2 has been under development and Microsoft are working hard to get this out asap. The first dev version has even shipped out to some testers and can be downloaded too.
SP2 for Vista should have a release candidate out sometime in February 2009. This is just about a year after the release of service pack 1. The finalised release should be sometime in April 2009 (if everything goes to plan)
Many of the changes in SP2 will be under the hood stuff, so users wont notice a great deal of changes.
With Windows 7 coming out soon, will anyone really care about the Vista SP2?
If you need to recover lost photos, images or videos then you need not worry any longer.
There is a great new product that does exactly that. It recovers lost, corrupt and even missing photos from virtually any type of digital camera. It also has the capability to recover photos from hard drives, flash drives and pretty much any other type of media device.
The formats you can recover are not just limited to the typical image files (eg: gif, jpg, tiff, bmp). This product also recovers video files and sound files. So no matter what you have captured through your digital camera, it can be recovered (if necessary). Even if the SD card or flash drive has corrupted the files, there is still hope.
This product is called Stellar Photo Recovery and has become very popular for recovering data. Most of us have lost some important photos at one time or another, and with digital cameras it is all too easy to just press one button and lose data. It is also very common for image files to become corrupt due to the storage media they are on, so this is yet another reason for having this product on hand.
Try the free download below. It will allow you to recover files from any media device and you can specify which type of files to locate. It’s very easy to use.
Have you ever visited a website and wanted just a bit of content from the page, but ended up printing the whole web page?
Well most users are not aware that they can actually print off just a selection of text. So instead they end up wasting tons of paper printing a whole web site when they could have just printed off the part they needed.
OK, so here is how you can print off a selection of text from a web page.
That will just print off your selected text. Now you can save paper and save time!
The New Windows Live is launching pretty soon and looks to be a cool service. The new and updated Windows Live services will help you stay in touch easier, faster and better than before.
Along with this new service, there are also a bunch of cool new icons. And who doesn’t love a nice icon?
Below are some samples of the new icons that will be launching with the new Windows Live services.
Autorun occurs when a CD or DVD is inserted into a Windows computer. When this happens, Windows looks for a file called autorun.inf. If the file exists on the CD/DVD, the instructions in the file will be followed – generally to run a .exe or other installer type file.
There is malicious software out there that relies on the autorun feature in order to execute and infect computers, so many users these days are turning the autorun feature off. You will have slightly better security with it turned off, but you will then have to manually run the contents on the CD/DVD.
To disable the autorun, you will need to edit the Windows registry. Always be careful when editing the registry and you do so at your own risk.
Click start -> run, type “regedit” to fire up the registry editor:
Browse to the location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
If “NoDriveTypeAutoRun” does not exist, Right click on the “Explorer” folder, select New -> DWORD value. Call the key “NoDriveTypeAutoRun”.
Set the value of this key to B1. To turn it back on, set the value to 91.
Vista and Autorun
In Windows Vista you will be prompted with a dialog asking you what you want to do. You can either choose to run the file or you can set the defaults. When you choose to set the defaults you will see the following options. (these options can also be accessed via the control panel)
So for each type of media, you can choose whether it autoplays or whether you should be prompted. For things like software it is a good idea to be prompted everytime. You never know what might be lurking on a CD/DVD.
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