Archive for the December, 2009


Dec 2

Gmail enable ‘Default text styling’ feature

Google now allows you to turn on default text styling in Gmail – Just go to Gmail Labs, enable "Default Text Styling" and change the style from the settings page. You can select a different font face (including Comic Sans), change the color, size and style. The new text styling is only used when
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Dec 10

Windows Embedded Standard 2011: Offline-building Images

One of the biggest changes between Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (XP Embedded) and Windows Embedded Standard 2011 tools is the concept of image building. In Embedded Standard 2009, components were selected in Target Designer and images assembled on developer machine, after which it had to be transferred to target device. In Embedded Standard 2011, images are
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Dec 3

What makes Google Chrome browser fast?

If you’ve used, Google Chrome, surely you're enjoying Chrome's speed; To dive in to what makes Chrome so fast -- from its snappy start-up time, fast page-loading, and ability to run complex web apps quickly. Google put together video interviews to walk you through some of engineering involved. In particular, a look at inner
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Dec 19

EtherPad Tool Open Sourced

Following the acquisition of etherpad.com by Google, the company announced that the EtherPad tool has now been open sourced. “Our goal with this release’s to let the world run their own etherpad servers so that the functionality can live on even after we shut down etherpad.com. If you’re just interested in running an etherpad server,
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Dec 4

Windows Azure gets ERP app from Acumatica

Acumatica has a solid solution for ERP and CRM that is both a client's on-premises site and in the cloud – with their cloud part being Windows Azure based. Acumatica software is same in cloud as it is on-premise and experimenting with in on site is supposed to make accounts more comfortable with idea
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Dec 2

Google’s image universal results format

Google is rolling out a new format for “image universal search results”. “When we're confident that we have great image results, we'll now show a larger image and additional smaller images alongside. With this new layout we're able to show you more pictures than before, so you have more to choose from. As always,
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Dec 18

Google’s Privacy Approach – Presentation

Online privacy has been on a lot of people's minds lately; As Google has grown, it's only natural that people have questions about how we handle information. We've talked a lot in past about providing users with transparency and choice in some of our products, like the "off the record" feature in Google Talk or requesting
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Dec 18

Avatar Theme for Windows 7 from Microsoft and Fox Studios

The Avatar theme is available for download from the Personalization Gallery for Windows 7, and is the official theme released by Fox Studios. James Cameron's Sci-Fi thriller "Avatar" (Fox Studios) has built out a futuristic desktop theme and screensaver to reach their fans, in anticipation of the movie's upcoming release in December.
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Dec 1

Ruby on Rails running on Windows Azure

Simon Davies posted of running open source Ruby on Rails framework on Windows Azure, by using a combination of new features in November Windows Azure SDK. “One of these features enables Worker Roles to receive network traffic from both external and internal endpoints using HTTP, HTTPS and TCP. This new feature enables
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Dec 29

50 Windows 7 : tips & Tricks ebook

“Windows 7 : Tips & Tricks,” as the name suggests is a compilation of one of the finest Tips n Tricks about Windows 7. You can use them to enrich the Windows 7 Desktop experience of yours. It contains more than 50 Tips and tricks and an added bonus section for Windows 7 Applications. The book
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Dec 7

HP UK offers

HP in UK on Christmas eve is offering £90 plus an extra 10% off the HP MediaSmart Server EX490, and giving away FREE M&S hamper worth £50. The deal is valid until Dec 24th, and is available to HP employees, and also available to those with
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Dec 16

Windows 7 certification & examination

Now that Windows 7 has been released you may be interested in understanding what Microsoft Certifications are available, and how you can update your certification. Note: Until Dec 31st enjoy 15 to 25% off select Microsoft Certification exams. Click here for details. Jim Clark, answer some common questions: Q: Are there
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Dec 25

Holiday 2009 Google doodles

Google homepage has been adorned with a fun series of holiday postcards this week. From snowmen to festive palm trees, each doodle depicts a postcard with a fun seasonal scene. Incase, if you miss any of them; Here’re all five days from holiday logos 2009 gallery:  
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Dec 6

Playfire ‘Social Network Service for Gamers’

Playfire, is a social network service for gamers, that lets you track your scores and rankings on services like Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP, and others while also engaging in discussions with fellow gamers, viewing game-related content like photos and videos, building your own virtual game collection, and more. Once logged in, users can track over
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Dec 1

Stream all your email, and social network (Twitter, Facebook) data into one inbox using InBox2

InBox2 is a web and a Facebook application that integrate your email messages and Twitter stream into one social network. The web app can configure to multiple email accounts (Gmail, Yahoo mail, Live Hotmail and AOL) and presents various ways to see your streams broken down by service, contact, thread or within one powerful stream. You
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