If you find the popup notification balloons in the Windows Vista system tray to be too annoying, you might be interested to know that you can completely disable them. This would be an extreme option, of course… typically you can just turn them off in any offending applications, but if you want to disable them across the board, this is the solution. Read the rest of this entry »

As an avid user of the Sleep function on my laptop, I’ve been more than irritated with Vista’s habit of changing the Sleep button into an “Install Updates and Shut Down” button whenever there are updates from Windows Update.

After the last time I accidentally clicked this stupid button when I just wanted to enter sleep mode, I decided to look for a solution. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have started to love Google Chrome and have made it the default browser on your computer, here’s a useful tip regarding your privacy. The tip is more relevant for people who have computers in the living room and that same machine is shared among all other family members.

The address bar in Google Chrome is almost as dangerous as the awesome bar in Firefox.

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Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could increase the use of open-source video software.

Firefox 3.1, the next major release due by early next year, will likely include support for a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages. Firefox 3.1 will also support royalty-free video codec Ogg Theora.

Firefox developers at a summit this week in Whistler, British Columbia, said they’ve started working on native Theora support, and test builds of the browser incorporating the new feature are available.

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Microsoft released a document briefly covering all of the new features ( about 60mb) that includes a long table of differences between the different editions. The differences are covered in a table here that is much more detailed than the comparison featured at the official Vista site.

However, the list is quite long, and while the list does a good job of letting you see what features there are, I think it much easer to focus on what you do not get. So here I have created a simple list of feature differences between the Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista. Think of “Ultimate” as “Everything”. With that as the best you can do, take a look at the features you would miss out on with each edition and you can make a better decision as to what you really need for home, for work or for both…

All editions support a maximum of 4GB of RAM on 32-bit systems. On 64-bit systems, basic offers support for 8GB, Home Premium lets you work with 16GB and the remaining Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions boast support for 128GB or more.

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Please note: offline update package used only for special circumstances. To protect your virus database update the timeliness and convenience, try to connect to the Internet to update your virus database. The following guide will guide you how to use ESET NOD32 offline update package.

1. Go to (http://www.nod32cn.com/download/offline.rar) download the update package off-line. Read the rest of this entry »

Power users like keyboard shortcuts and commands to quickly access many things in Windows. They save lot of mouse clicks and time. In this post let us see how to quickly launch Control Panel Applets using Run Command window.

Just like any executable program, Control Panel applets  can be launched from Run Command window. Each Control Panel applet is a .cpl file located in the folder %systemroot%\system32.

To launch Add/Remove Programs( Programs and Features in Vista ) type appwiz.cpl  in Run Window and hit enter.

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