The complete list of Windows Live Services

Microsoft Watch has put together a complete list of Microsoft’ Windows Live services, some of which are hardly known and some of which will be released shortly:
Windows Live Academic Search
Windows Live Account
Windows Live Agora
Windows Live Book Search
Windows Live Call
Windows Live Call for Free
Windows Live Custom Domains
Windows Live Dev
Windows Live Expo
Windows Live Favorites
Windows Live Feeds
Windows Live [...]

Using Google SafeSearch

The Internet is one scary place. For one, you are unsure of the identities of everyone else–anyone can pretend to be a thirteen year old girl or boy just to attract the attention of other kids. Also, if you have kids yourself, you don’t want them stumbling upon adult or mature websites. And if you’re [...]

Free Web 2.0 Logo creator/generator

Web 2.0 logo generator/ creator is a free service that create simple logos with an option to add reflection and a beta tag to the logo.
Free Web 2.0 Logo creator/generator
Originally from Tech[dot]Blog by Abdul Aziz

Easily edit GRUB with GrubEd

Thanks to Tomosaur over at the Ubuntu forums, there’s a new script in town and it’s called GrubEd.  This powerful little script allows you to graphically edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to do neat things like add splash screens or change the number of kernels displayed.
You can download the script here.  You can read more about [...]

How to rip the audio from your video files

I was paging through ffmpeg’s info when I came across this handy little tidbit. Say you have an awesome video (avi or mpg) that you really want to listen to on your mp3 player. Since you can’t play mpg files, you’d like to convert it to mp3. Well, with one simple line [...]

DriverMax 1.2 - good WinXP driver reinstall utility which saves a lot of time

This program can save all your drivers to a folder (it creates separate folders for each driver). After this, when you reinstall Windows, you can install all your drivers in 5 minutes or so. A real time saver for those who reinstall often, or for guys managing several computers.
Technorati Tags: windows xp, windows drivers, [...]

Patch Your Computers Now : Bot Spreads Using Latest Windows Flaw

If you still haven’t applied the Windows security updates that were released last Tuesday, you better hurry up and install them now! There’s a worm going around the Web targetting computers that were not patched for the MS06-040 flaw.

Security firms reiterated advice to companies and home users to patch their Windows systems this weekend, after [...]

Free plugins for Windows Live Writer Beta

Here’s a list of plugins for the just released Windows Live Writer beta, thanks to Liveside:
Photos
Flickr Plugin - info -download
Smug Mug - Coming soon
Tagging
Multiple Services - info - download -
Text Formatting
C# Code display - info
Media Player Currently Listening
Windows Media Player/iTunes - info - download
Via LiveSide

Free plugins for Windows Live Writer Beta
Originally from [...]

Microsoft India shipping free Windows Vista DVDs

By answering a simple quiz, Microsoft will courier a free Windows Vista DVD anywhere in India. The link to the quiz is - http://www.microsoft.com/india/offers/vista/quiz.aspx and the answers are:
1- Vista
2- Clarity
3- November 2006
4- True
5- Aero
6- All
7- All
8- 512 MB

Microsoft India shipping free Windows Vista DVDs
Originally from Tech[dot]Blog by Abdul Aziz

Quick Web 2.0 Logo Generator

I usually frown upon use of the term Web 2.0 but I have to use it here. MSIG has a quick logo/image generator that quickly takes your entry and produces a Web 2.0-type image. The site was created to be a parody of Web 2.0 but you may get some use out of [...]

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