Looks like PowerQuest are not going to give a "free" Windows XP NTFS 5.1 update to those who have Partition Magic 6, instead they will "charge" $50 for the privilege of upgrading to v7.0 so that they can use the program within XP! Considering that the "full" version is going to cost $70, would it not be better to charge like $35 for an upgrade instead of $50 or even give users who have bought the software recently a free upgrade! PowerQuest--the inventor of on-the-fly hard-disk partitioning...
Microsoft Corp. will give its 20 million email users in Europe access to messages via their mobile phones, the company said on Thursday in unveiling a new alliance with European mobile operators. This is the first time Microsoft has made Hotmail accessible via mobile phones, the company said. "Maybe, with Microsoft coming to the table, it will make more user friendly,'' Lonergan said. "I think delivering e-mail via the SMS channel is a clever way forward, but I think GPRS will take most of t...
Microsoft has released a new security tool that makes it simple to secure an IIS 4.0 or 5.0 web server. The tool, known as the IIS Lockdown Tool, allows web servers to quickly and easily be put into the right configuration – in which the server provides all of the services the administrator wants to provide, and no others. Customers can use this tool to instantly protect their systems against security threats that target web servers. The tool offers two operating modes. The default is ...
Nearly every major PC manufacturer will release new models sporting Pentium 4 chips running at 2GHz and 1.9GHz, according to several sources. The chips will appear in high-end consumer PCs as well as in corporate desktops and workstations. While the new PCs will increase the performance standards for desktop computers, they also will be fairly cheap, the result of a slow market for computers. Compaq Computer, for instance, will slide under the limbo pole with a Presario 7000T desktop for...
SkinMem is a freeform skinnable system resource monitor. The program displays the percentage of the current RAM being used by your PC as well as the available RAM left in Mbs. One difference between this system monitor and other similar programs is the realtime updating of the information. The skins can be any size or shape and the placement of the text details is totally up to the skinner as well. The skin can have a transparent colour and requires only one bmp image with the ini fil...
So what does Frogboy do during the day? He was the lead designer, lead developer of a business strategy game called The Corporate Machine. It's at a store near you but check out this great Avault review. The home page for The Corporate Machine is: http://www.corporatemachine.com
After years of almost being a major player, OS vendor BeOS has hung it up. They've been sold for $11 million (in stock) to Palm. Ironically, Be turned down a $125 million offer from Apple some years ago (doh!). It is believed that Palm will possibly use Be as a potential PDA OS. The desktop OS future looks grim though.
PocketBlinds is the first program for the PocketPC that fully skins Windows CE. It is essentially WindowBlinds for the PocketPC. With it, you can skin the title bar, menus, push buttons, and more. And it's free!
The new version of Talisman Desktop 2.0 is available now. The download URL is: http://www.lighttek.com/files/talisman.zip (file size is 2277 Kbytes.) The homepage: http://www.lighttek.com The themes page: http://www.lighttek.com/themes2 "Talisman Desktop" (Talisman) is a desktop alternative and shell-replacement for Windows 9x Alexandrie and NT/2000 With the help of "Talisman" create your own "virtual" world on the computer. This world can contain sets of screens, forms,...
Corey Bates was chatting on his MSN Messenger recently when his high school buddy Trey sent him a winking-face icon. Then Trey sent him another icon. Then another. Bates, an 18-year-old who will start his freshman year at Oklahoma University this month, knew it was uncharacteristic of Trey to flood him with winking faces--a popular "emoticon" used to color text-based IM conversations. His suspicions grew when the alias "
[email protected]" suddenly flashed on his screen along with an i...
Interim build 2542 of Windows XP has been released to testers. This means RTM hasn`t been released yet, but we are still expecting it soon. Now 30 days are allowed before activation is required and a rumor is that new product keys are required for use by Beta Testers, however there is no way to confirm this. This build is also on the bug reporting menu at windowsbeta.microsoft.com.
A new theme especially made for little kids. check this out! If you want it, go here and choose Kids theme http://scripts.wincustomize.com/editaccount.asp
For those of you who are interested in the latest greatest video cards, ATI is about to release the Radeon 8500 that is effectively as fast or slightly faster than the GeForce 3. But Nvidia hasn't been standing still either. Oooh it's exciting!
Lots of people ask where they can find news on various alternative shells for Windows. One of the places we all go to is called Shellcity. Check it out.
It has been said on occasion that a true skin portal needs to be created. One has been created by Jumbles! Go check it out!