Gates vs. Jobs The Game (Fun Friday)
Current.com came up with the above game. Choose your player and fight your opponent with new state of the art light sabers using your mouse and arrow keys.
Disable Windows Vista Startup Sound (Tutorial Thursday)
If there is one thing I really don’t like to hear is any sound when I am starting up the computer. Windows Vista doesn’t allow you to customize the startup sound and you are stuck with the same version. Well, I chose to disable it.
Disable annoying Vista UAC popups (Windows Wednesday)
Long back, I covered a quick method of disabling User Access Control in Windows Vista via editing the registry. Registry editing is something for advanced users only. TweakUAC is a simple tool dedicated for this purpose.
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Now share Videos on Google Apps
If you are using a Premier Edition of Google Apps for your organization, then you have good news. You can now share videos via Google Video for Google Apps. The main features of Google Video: Share rich video information – Video sharing makes important communications like internal trainings and corporate announcements more personal, engaging and effective.
Forumwarz (Fun Friday)
While, I’d love to write an entire article for this, it would simply spoil the fun. From the site: Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the Internet. In fact, Forumwarz is the Internet…
Movable Type Pro with Comments (Fun Friday)
I mentioned two days back that Movable Type Pro is available for Bloggers. The August 13 release post on the Movable Type Blog announced the new features available in Movable Type Pro 4.2.
Movable Type Pro for Bloggers (Weblog Wednesday)
In an amazing attempt to fight the competition, which I believe is primarily WordPress, Movable Type is now allowing bloggers and K-12 Educational Institutions to download Movable Type Pro. The Movable Type Pro Blogger License comes with Unlimited blogs, authors and community profiles. However, support comes at a fee or $99.
WordPress 2.6 to 2.6.1 Upgrade File
WordPress 2.6.1 was released two days back.
Privnote (Service Saturday)
“This message will self destruct in five seconds” runs the famous line in Mission Impossible. We definitely wouldn’t want our computers to blow up, but Privnote provides you with a service that is just like that! Privnote is a web tool that you can use to send private notes over the Internet.
It’s a Wonderful Internet (Fun Friday)
I remember nearly ten years ago me venturing into a tiny cyber cafe in an attempt to understand what the Internet was all about, what email is and what did people mean when they said chat online. Those days, to use the internet cost a bomb with horrible dialup speeds. Well, the internet today still costs a bomb but the speeds have gotten significantly better!
Making Windows Vista SP1 permanent (Windows Wednesday)
Having installed Windows Vista SP1, the probablity of you removing it is rather bleak. However, when you install SP1, Vista gives you the provision of removing it, in case you choose to do so in the past. This is done, by keeping the old files that were replaced by the SP1 update.
Gmail now offers you more than 7GB
It’s crossed the limit finally. You have now more than 7GB storage space with Gmail. Storage space crossed the storage limit a few days before.