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TeamViewer is one of the best tools for desktop sharing and remote control. They claim that this tool is being used by more than 7,000,000 Users.If you are looking out for a very easy tool to transfer files or control your home pc right from your office, then Team Viewer is the best app ever ! Installs in seconds, no need of complex configurations or setup. You will be really amazed by the size of the software.Its just 1.28 MB,mind blowing isn't it !  Free for non-commercial use

Download the software from their site. Install it, usual double click install.

Each installation gives an user unique id and pass.You can change the password if you want to. Lets know how to connect to your home pc remotely.

- Connect to your home pc using the unique id and pass. Enter it on the right side.

- Choose file tranfer or remote support. File tranfer gives a window which shows two columns with remote side and your pc , you can select the folders or files which you want to transfer and say receive or send.

- In settings, there is option of restricting the user, i.e whether to allow editing the files remotely.

- Stop using memory stick to transfer files from your friend's pc to your pc within your LAN.Check allow LAN connections in the settings so that you can transfer at amazing speed within your LAN.

The steps are so easy to follow. Any non-techie can use this tool very easily. Its very handy when you want some files from your home pc or troubleshoot somebody's pc. Below are some screenshots of the live desktop sharing and remote control to my friend's pc.   

- Use TeamViewer Manager to handle multiple clients and extended logging. 

( Login window )          ( Screenshot of me transferring images from my friend's pc to my laptop) 

PS: TeamViewer(full version) is FREE for non-commercial,personal use ! 

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Gspace is a lovely firefox addon and supported on 3 platforms(Windows,Mac,Linux). It makes life easier to store all your stuff on Gmail very easily. What do you do with a 6Gb online space, use it as a storage space..just dump all your stuff.

- Install the firefox addon : | Windows | Mac | Linux |

- Goto Tools -> Gspace . The panel will open up in a different tab (chrome://gspace/content/gspaceWindow.xul )

You are shown a 2-column panel , left side is your pc and right side is your gmail storage space. Nice thing about this addon is, it shows the total space and the free space and shows details of files with timestamp etc… Below is the capture of how the email message looks like in the inbox.

How to use: Login to your account using your gmail account and password. You can create folders and put your stuff into your account. When you upload your stuff, it shows up as shown in the screenshots. To avoid showing all the upload messages in your inbox, archive the mails sent by Gspace.

PS: Using this addon maybe(not sure) against Gmail's TOS. So be careful !

[Gspace] [Gmail] [Firefox addon]

Microsoft found a compatibility problem between Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System and an electronic checkout system for small- and mid-sized retailers, for both Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1.

What is Dynamics RMS?

It's software that enables specialty retailers to handle cash register functions, process payments, and automate purchasing, inventory and other back-end processes, said Michael Griffiths, the group product manager for the retail part of the Dynamics business.

There has been series of delays, this update was to be released in 2006 and it got delayed upto 2007 and now its again being delayed ! surprising !

According to a post on Microsoft's Windows XP SP3 forum by Chris Keroack, release manager for Windows serviceability, the delay is in place to "make sure customers have the best possible experience".

Chris says "We are also testing a fix, and will make it available once that process is complete". They are testing this since the first release delay in 2006.

I don't understand the essence of the given comment. What do they mean by "make sure customers have the best possible experience" , is it by delaying the updates and making people wait desperately for the XP and Vista updates !

image courtesy:  Tech Herald

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Freewaregenius recommends BitRipper,it converts DVD's to AVIor Mpegin a single click. Thats cool right..Sometimes it gets so muh boring to find different codecs before converting, but this tool does it all. Before using this, I had used to rip using Xilisoft ripper and imtoo dvd ripper. But this one rocks ! So all you guys who want to do a dvd rip could use it.

Some of the coolest features are it converts on the fly, converts any dvd, simple, installer contains codecs.

njoy the software for Free !

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Ever felt irritated by using different players for different video players.. then try Miro, this will play every video format you've ever heard of, and many you've never heard of as well.

Special features :

You can subscribe to video RSS feeds, podcasts, and video blogs, download and save videos from YouTube, find TV shows, and play high definition, full screen videos. You can even download BitTorrent files directly from Miro.

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Its been just a few months of the Vista release and there have been hell lot of problems. Even though some tried to increase the usage of Vista by giving out Free Windows Vista, still people don't use it. You should look at the minimum requirements for running Vista..its really crazy to run a system with such high requirements..instead run a gnu/linux system which takes only 1/100 of the resources of what Windows take.It has hell lot of security vulnerabilities which were seen right from the day it got released. 

Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.

"It's a little scary," said John Wozniak, a distinguished technologist in Hewlett-Packard's notebook engineering department, referring to the work HP needed to do on making Windows Vista more suitable for notebooks.

When Aero is turned off, battery life is equal to or better than Windows XP systems. But with it turned on, battery life suffers compared with Windows XP.

Microsoft, for its part, will likely have to improve Vista's battery life performance over time through the release of service packs and other tweaks, Shim said. "The (PC companies) are getting pressure from consumers–who are the notebook adopters–who are saying their number one priority on a notebook is battery life."

Scammers all over are taking advantage of the knowledge of common people using Windows. They have adopted nice engineering tricks to trick ppl …

According to the Symantec Security Response Weblog:

Recently we came across an interesting Trojan sample, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Kardphisher. The Trojan is not very technical - it's really just another classic social-engineering attack. What makes it interesting is that the author has obviously taken great pains to make it appear legitimate.

Here’s the scam. The Trojan installs itself onto a PC and presents the user with the following message:

“Your copy of Windows has been activated by another user.
To help reduce software piracy, please re-activate your copy of Windows now.
WE will ask for your billing details, but your credit card will NOT be charged.
You must activate Windows before you can continue to use it.
Microsoft is committed to your Privacy. For more information, www.microsoft.com/piracy.
Do you want to activate Windows now?”

Look at the screenshot:

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DivX is really a great software , as i always compress videos using their DivX codec  and its fantastic..DivX just rocks ! 

I have done the above steps too..waiting for my DivX Pro.This is a nice kinda of viral marketing ..spreading about their software without any cost. This is pretty great idea !!

Google has now released the complete version of a ‘Google for your computer’, the Google Desktop that lets users search their computers at the same speed they can search the Internet and easily find all their files. ( Beta version was released earlier this month)

The features section on what’s inside the new Google Desktop 5 says the following about security: “We care about your security, and have added a feature to make your search experience safer and easier by helping to combat both phishing and malicious software websites. Whether you’re clicking on links from documents, IMs and e-mails on your desktop or browsing the web itself, you may receive a warning when you’re about to visit a site that might be trying to steal your personal information or install malicious software on your computer, so you can decide if you want to use the site.”

Some New features to look at in Google Desktop 5 :

The application involves a sidebar for the user's desktop environment, variety of "gadgets", designed to display a range of functions, including the time, photos and stock prices. Vista, the latest version of Windows, offers similar functionality to the desktop sidebar(is it a copy ??)..

- It also incorporates previews of desktop search results

- warnings for Web sites that may contain malware.

- It is visually more enhanced than its predecessors and Windows Vista's version.

- Some popular gadgets have also been redesigned.

PN : Google Desktop now has for the first time, supports Hindi along with 28 other languages.

Awesome cool , Google claims , you can now search your pc's at the same speed that they can search the internet. 

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