Operating Systems

Opera Software unveiled its Opera Mobile 9.5, the latest version of Opera’s award winning web browser product for mobile devices. Opera Mobile 9.5 is available for commercial use and target sophisticated feature phones and smartphones.

Firefox users can now download the latest update of Firefox 2.0.0.12 from Mozilla. This latest release Firefox 2.0.0.12 includes patches that fix a number of security and stability issues discovered in Firefox 2.0.0.11 such as web forgery flaw, browsing history and forward navigation stealing and the directory traversal via chrome.

Sourcing for a great tool to create your own personalized 3D computer graphics or 3D models instead of looking for ready-made templates in a 3D photo gallery? Well, there is an easy way for 3D graphic artists, designers or amateurs to make their 3-dimensional imagery or artwork if they are using Photoshop Creative Suite 3 (CS3) or Photoshop 7.0 and above. Try out the 3D […]

A new microkernel, .Net-based operating system is available now. This new and independent operating system, Cosmos, is the effort from the former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member Chad Khudzu Hower. Cosmos (Its only upper case C, ie not COSMOS or CosmOS) is an acronym for C# Open Source Managed Operating System. Even though the name C# is part of the name of Cosmos, […]

There are much confusion when Microsoft releases Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh 2 (RCR2) was released, due to the fact that the supposedly ‘release candidate’ does not bear the “Evaluation Copy” watermark as with previous beta release, no more expiry date, and comes with a RTM fingerprint 6001.18000.x86fre.longhorn_rtm.080118-1840 and 6001.18000.080118-1840 which similar to final build number of Windows Server 2008 as its build […]

The U.S. podcasting audience reached 18.5 million in 2007, according to eMarketer and was projected to top 65 million by 2012 with 25 million listeners downloading one or more podcasts a week. Ad spending on podcasts in the U.S. is also expected to creep up, from $165 million in 2007 to $435 million in 2012.

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK or WAIK) is a tool designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, administrators can perform unattended Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, and create Windows PE images.

Many users place important shortcuts and files on desktop, and thus require frequent access to Windows desktop to access and run these shortcuts or files and folders. There is “Show Desktop” shell command in the Quick Launch Bar, which users can click to show the desktop instantly. For those who don’t use Quick Launch bar or prefer a keyboard shortcut, there is a faster way […]

Quick Launch Bar is a column right beside Start Menu on the taskbar that provides easy access to commonly used shortcuts or commands. Some default items or shortcuts that located in the Quick Launch Bar including Show desktop, Launch Internet Explorer, and in Windows Vista, Switch between windows.

Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Windows Product Management, Mike Nash announced that official final version of Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) RTM has been released. But ‘officially released’ is probably applicable to selected users only, and majority of users will have to wait one more month.

WinGuggle is a small application that can retrienve and get Windows Vista Product Key (also known as CD-Key) easily from the registry. Normally you won’t need WinGuggle, unless you have dislocate or misplace your original Windows Vista DVD disc or its licensed product key, and need to recover and view the product key from the installed Vista for backup.