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Monday 21 May 2007

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From:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=252

BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) is a nifty little file transfer service built in to Windows which enables file transfers to take place in the background without having any impact on the network bandwidth available to other processes. This is the service used by Windows Update to silently bring down patches without diminishing the users overall experience. BITS has some interesting features:...

Sunday 20 May 2007

Saturday 19 May 2007

The New Blizzard Game is Starcraft 2

From:http://www.hardcoreware.net/the-new-blizzard-game-is-starcraft-2/



It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for those of us anticipating the new Blizzard game but minutes ago, Mike Morhaime took the stage in South Korea and announced that the new Blizzard game will indeed be Starcraft 2...

Microsoft's Popfly: Mashup creation for the masses

From:http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9720583-2.html?tag=blog




Microsoft on Friday morning launched Popfly, a service for creating mashup applications specifically designed for people who don't know how, or want to, write developer code.
The free service, which is now in private alpha, provides a visual way for constructing mashup applications and widgets which can be embedded in blogs or personal pages. Once a project is written, people can share and modify other people's mashups.
People can...

Monday 14 May 2007

LED Tetris: Better Than Plain Tetris

From:http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/spark-fun-electronics/led-tetris-better-than-plain-tetris-260033.php




Sparkfun's LED Tetris is the first creative incarnation of the game that we've seen in a long time. It's completely hands-on, with each of the 240 spots on the grid acting as both a light and a button. If you want the piece to move, you click to the left or right of it on the grid. And somehow Tetris becomes even more intuitive...

Microsoft takes on the free world

From:http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?section=money_latest

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports...

Thursday 10 May 2007

Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2

From:http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/replace-windows-explorer-with-xplorer2-258730.php



Let's face it: for advanced file manipulation, Windows File Explorer stinks. But like Firefox is a must-have replacement for Internet Explorer, a file manager called Xplorer2 blows Windows Explorer out of the water for anyone who browses multiple folders, copies, pastes, moves and searches the PC filesystem frequently.
Using Xplorer2's tabbed, dual pane interface, keyboard shortcuts and killer advanced features, you're in total control of your PC's files. Let's take a look...