Windows XP has built-in ZIP support to unzip or uncompressing ZIP archives or files, and also to allow users to compress or zip files and folders as a zip package or Compressed Folder. Beside, in Windows Explorer folder tree, the Compressed Folder which is actually a zip file is treated as directory and displayed as a folder too, thus the folder tree contains both sub-folder […]
Windows Mobile device is a good companion to bring along due to its lightweight and portability as compared to laptop. However, it has a huge trade off of not having huge screen and even worst is the built in soft or even hard keyboard is not ideal for fast typing. Now there is a solution for it. Named as My Mobiler v1.2, this is a […]
Windows XP displays thumbnail style of preview for images, pictures and photos in Windows Explorer’s Details section on left pane when users select a pic. The preview will also automatically created and displayed when users browse and view a folder in Thumbnail view. Beside, when open or double click on a format associated with popular graphic formats, the photos or pictures will open in Windows […]
Windows XP automatically generate thumbnail preview for images, pictures, photos, videos, HTML pages and other media clips with format supported by the operating system. The image or media preview is shown in the Details pane on the left of Windows Explorer, or when the files are viewed in Thumbnails view.
Video fans could upload a wide range of high resolution and high quality video file formats such as WMV, AVI, MOV and MPG to YouTube. However, YouTube would resize these high resolution video files to 320 x 240 pixels, encode them to Flash 7 at a data rate of approximately 250kbps and compress the audio to mp3 (22.050KHz monophonic). Thus, users would sometimes find the […]
Will Microsoft pulls another trick like Windows Vista SP1 on Windows XP SP3, where the RTM version is released without announcement initially (in the case of Vista SP1, the RC2 was made RTM or RTL or RTW). There is a leaked version of Windows XP SP3, the latest service pack for aging Windows XP, which some users have speculated as the build which will be […]
Computer screen locking is important as it helps to secure your confidential files from exposed to others. The step is fairly simple with a combination of CRTL+ALT+DEL keys but how frequent you remember to lock the computer while you are away from desk? Here is a quite simple yet innovative solution to lock your computer automatically by detection using Bluetooth technology. Known as Bluelock, it […]
TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. In essence, it’s a free alternative encryption software which only available for free to Vista Ultimate and Enterprise editions users, as part of Ultimate Extras package. Although TrueCrypt is free, but it’s as powerful is not more powerful that other disk encryption utility available, and comes with […]
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 (XP SP3 RC2) has been released for free download on Microsoft Download Center for public testing. The Windows XP SP3 RC 2 has a build version that is different slightly from the previously leaked XP SP3 RC2 update package, which has the version number of 3300. The official XP SP3 RC2 build version number is 5.1.2500.3311 with […]
MSDN and Technet Subscribers Downloads also has 64-bit or x64 edition of Windows Vista integrated and ready slipstreamed with Service Pack 1 (SP1) available for free download for paid subscribers. The DVD ISO image file for the Windows Vista with SP1 x64 version cannot be downloaded directly by non-subscribers, but the full version whole file of the ISO image has been leaked on the Web, […]
Yahoo! Messenger 9, which currently in beta stage, has been updated to version 9.0.0.922 since last December. As usual, users who download the Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta setup file from the beta page will get Yahoo! Suite installer instead, which has many other functions such as entice users to also install Yahoo! Toolbar, set Yahoo! as homepage and etc.
Yahoo! Messenger version 8.1 is the current official final version of Yahoo! Messenger that not in beta stage, while Yahoo! still simultaneously develop another 2 new versions of instant messaging (IM) clients – Yahoo! Messenger 9 (latest version 9.0.0.922) and Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista (download Y!M for Vista beta version 2008.01.11.428) – both of which still in beta testing phase. If you’re not one […]
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