Archive for October, 2009

windows-7-32-bit-download Windows 7 was launched officially last week amidst launch parties and fanfare. As always, Microsoft gave its customers an option to get the Windows 7 DVD from retail stores or download the Windows 7 ISO directly from its servers online. But the catch is, Microsoft never makes available, the official download links that allow retail customers to download setup installer or ISO image of Windows 7, despite digital downloads have been the sole distribution channel for many who purchase from online store or via MSDN or TechNet subscriptions. Though the Windows 7 installation DVD or ISO image is freely available on Bit Torrent sites, it carries the risk of getting fake, incorrect, malicious or infected images instead. Now the direct download links to the Windows 7 operating system purchased online have been leaked. The installation files of Windows 7 is hosted on the server on domain msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net owned by Digital River, one of the delivery partners for Windows 7. The Windows 7 installation files are meant as a way of ESD (Electronic Software Distribution). Each editions of Windows 7 has its own download link. The Windows 7 setup installer package comes in 3 parts, which is an executable...
As you might know by now, most of the Windows Vista drivers would work on Windows 7. And if you are looking to migrate those drivers from Windows Vista or XP to Windows 7, then check out Double Driver, which can make the whole process quick and easy. Double Driver makes the backup of all drivers and then pack them all in a compressed zip file. By default it will detect and select all the recommended drivers, all other listed drivers will be third party drivers installed by various applications or system drivers which you probably won’t need in Windows 7.

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Once compressed backup of all drivers is ready, you just need to extract this zip file in Windows 7 and run Driver Backup to restore them instantly. It will restore the drivers one by one and would take some minutes to complete.

Related Read: Mega List of Windows 7 Drivers Download

Features of Double Driver: • Provides full details of the drivers like name, version, date, provider etc. • Backup or restore many drivers in one go. • Freeware. • View, backup, restore,...

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Google Friend Connect plugin for Wordpress has been officially released. All these days, Google Friend Connect was available as a widget, but now there’s a more simpler way to use Friend Connect for WordPress , thanks to Mauro Gonzalez who developed this FriendConnect plugin plugin to extend GFC to WordPress blogs. This plugin allows your visitors to authenticate using any OpenID account such as Google, Yahoo, or AIM and then comment on your posts with no need to complete a registration form.
When a visitor authenticates as described above, a WordPress account is automatically created for them. You can later add or remove permissions for the visitor from the WordPress site administration pages. If desired, WordPress comments can be replaced by Google Friend Connect comments gadgets.
The idea behind Friend Connect is to have a unified presence across any number of blogs and sites hosted by various services. This eliminates the need to register and manage multiple, separated accounts on different sites. It can be seen as a Facebook Connect competitor of sorts, though the two tools have different target audiences and goals. The main draw of Friend Connect is the ability...

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Windows 7 has just been released all over the world and I am sure many of you are gearing up to upgrade the OS of your PC to Windows 7. One thing which comes to my mind immediately when I think of upgrading my OS, is about the compatible drivers. drivers-windows-7 A lot of older hardware and software were not designed for Windows 7 (or even Vista for that matter), so they may require an update or new driver in order to operate correctly on Windows 7. The decision to provide a Windows 7 driver or update will lie with the developer/manufacturer of the product. The good thing is manufacturers are now releasing Windows 7 drivers for their products. Updating to the latest Windows 7 drivers may help keep your PC running at its best. The below section lists popular driver and software updates to download for Windows 7. Please feel free to suggest any Windows 7 driver download that I have missed. The list is inspired from about.com and enhanced further.

Acer Drivers (Desktops and Notebooks)

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How many times have you found that the CD/DVD drive's button of your PC has stopped working suddenly? What do you do then? Oh yeah, you must be thinking about using a pin to manually open the tray but it may not be convenient and user friendly, isn't it? To help those users having broken cd/dvd tray button, here is OCTray 1.0. OCTray is a small application which is designed for your broken CD/DVD Drive Button issues. In order to open tray you just need to press Keyboard O and to close press Keyboard C.

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No more fiddling with pins and worrying about your favorite movie disc getting stuck inside the CD drive. Download OCTray to open/close CD/DVD drive [
With Apple iTunes as the sole Apps distribution and review center, iPhone and iPod Touch users don’t have to worry about virus or malware attacks. Even if there happened to be one, it can be disabled remotely via a central system in Apple’s HQ. With apps out of the picture, the only way for virus writer to infect an iPhone is via the internet – web surfing. Trend Smart Surfing for iPhone and iPod Touch devices provides a smarter, safer experience when surfing the Web. It is the first secure browser to protect you from Web pages with malicious intent. If you attempt to access a bad or malicious URL, Smart Surfing is designed to block access to the URL and a notification will appear in the browser.

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Features * Secured by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network * Blocks access to Web pages with malicious content * Helps protect against phishing attacks * Provides color-coded search results to easily identify harmful Web pages * Easy-to-modify protection strength level and notifications * Supports browsing multiple Web pages at the same time When you use Trend Smart Surfing to browse the Internet, before the URL is accessed it is quickly and invisibly checked...
waver-logo We have previously seen the list of Google wave gadgets and tools and I am sure all those who were lucky enough to get an invite for Google wave agree with me that Google wave is surely exciting or at-least the possibilities are enormous. waver-desktop-wave It's obvious that Google is trying to get the work done on Google wave for free (just like what twitter did) with hardly any gadgets developed by Google devs. There are still some issues with the web version of Wave and in case you prefer to have a desktop version, then check out WAVER. It is an Adobe AIR application that hooks into your Google Wave account. From there, you can create new waves, or update existing ones. Just like Tweetdeck is for Twitter, Waver is for Google Wave. The desktop version is equally quick as the web version. You will still see some minor chunks in it like the shortcuts don't work fine as yet and some UI are missing as well. Officially it is still in beta, so expect a better version in coming days. Download...

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A number of new augmented reality applications for the Apple iPhone have launched in the Apple App Store over the past few days, thanks to the new firmware release (v3.1) which supports the augmented reality technology on iPhone 3GS phones. 3.1 firmware gives developers the ability to lay data over the camera viewer, and these apps can take full advantage of this new capability. Below is a list of super cool Augmented reality apps for iPhone. Some of them are already available in the App store and some will be available in coming days.

10 Stuuning Augmented Reality iPhone Apps

1. Layar 2.0

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Layar is a tool to browse the world. It enables exploration, more informed decisions, serendipity and fun. While looking through the phone's camera lens, a user can see houses for sale popular bars and shops, touristic information of the area, play a live game, etc. Layar is crafted to act as a browser that allows for these different apps to be used, rather than being single purpose. 2. Bionic Eye

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Bionic Eye makes use of the iPhone's camera to bring...
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