Archive for March, 2007

How To Customize Windows Vista - Part 1

Ever wonder how to customize Windows Vista. Fear not: PC Magazine team helps you navigate the control panel to make your computer fit you. Windows Vista provides myriad means of customization. By tweaking some of these settings, you can make the system easier or faster to use; you can make it more fun to use; [...]

Ferrari on its 60th Year

 

Ferrari’s supercar, the Enzo, is well known among Ferrari-istas, but it entered the popular culture after a spectacular crash in Southern California last year. Only 400 Enzos were built.

YouTube 2006 Video Awards

2006 was a pioneering year for online video, user-created content and the YouTube community. You let us into your bedrooms, created new forms of entertainment, and radicalized popular culture. Now it’s time to reflect on what a tremendous year it was and recognize the best of the best during the first YouTube Video Awards. [...]

Yahoo Mail Storage Goes Unlimited

As Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, I’m the lucky one who gets to announce that we will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. To mark the occasion, I checked in with David Nakayama, our group vice president of engineering, for some perspective on this milestone. In case that name doesn’t [...]

Free Antivirus Software From Google

Anti-virus software is a necessary evil for anyone who owns a computer. But, sometimes the software doesn’t come cheap and even more than that you have to upgrade every year and purchase the software again! Norton Anti-virus is the most trusted anti-virus software out there, and it is also one of the pricier ones. But, [...]

Get Vista Taskbar Thumbnail Preview in Windows XP

It was only a matter of time before people started cloning Windows Vista features and adding them into Windows XP. One of my favorite Vista features is the thumbnails that popup when you mouse over the taskbar. And now I can use them in XP as well.

The utility we’ll use is called Visual Tooltip, which [...]

Apple TV Hard Drive Upgraded To 120GB

YouTube Clone

Ah, poor Google. First Viacom files suit against YouTube, alleging a billion dollars worth of copyright infringement. Now two more massive media conglomerates are joining up to open a second battle front, this time in the market instead of the courts. NBC and News Corp. issued a joint press release this morning, saying [...]

Austronaut’s Aerial Stroll Launches Grand Canyon Skywalk

GRAND CANYON WEST, Arizona—Native American elders and a former astronaut took the ceremonial first steps on Tuesday on a glass-bottomed walkway perched 4,000 feet over the Grand Canyon that promises dizzying views for those who dare.

Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, 77, strode out onto the $30 million Skywalk, built by a private developer with the permission of [...]

Microsoft’s Plans For Life After Vista

Information about Microsoft’s post-Vista plans for Windows has been released on the Web after a presentation was placed on the company’s Web site by a Danish employee.

According to a PowerPoint presentation, which has now been removed from the Web, the software vendor plans to invest in four major areas in the next client version of [...]