SyncToy painlessly syncronises files and folders on a PC over a network and also partitions on the same hard drive, usefull for duel booting. This allows you to sync music, photos, documents too and SyncToy will copy the new files to a USB or SD card. (more…)
SyncToy Syncronizes Files Over Network, Computer and Partions
Jazz My PowerPoint For Free
If you have Microsoft Silverlight, Watch the video below.
If you find your powerpoint presentations as being booring, no wow factor, that can change as Microsoft has released a collection of PowerPoint slide sets that show how you can push the envelope in slide design and get away from boring slides.
There directory deos not just have cool colors, amazing anamations and shemes but also tell you how each of them were created.
If you see a set in the collection that you’d like to not only use but learn how to make, download it and check out the attached notes—they’ll detail the creation process slide by slide like an elaborate tutorial.
Have a favorite tool or trick for spicing up your presentations? Let’s hear about it in the comments
Microsoft ‘Bing’ on the search world
In a very crowded market Google has taken over every day life. Everywhere you go you hear the phrase ‘just Google it’ . It may not have all the answers but it is pretty dam good.
Microsoft has played second fiddle to Google for too long in the search engine arena and, they also tried to use their bullish tactics to buy Yahoo! and failed miserably. Therefore, Microsoft has more or less abandoned its previous ‘Live search’ efforts in order to concentrate development on its new search engine, Bing. Microsoft, you can’t buy your way to the top anymore.
As far as the actual search engine goes, we have been using it since its UK launch in early June and so far it looks quite promising. Microsoft hasn’t reinvented the wheel, it’s fast and it’s easy on the eye, the related search section is clear and simple. The image search has cut out the need to cycle through pages and the video search gives you a mini previews from within the search window when you hover over it with the mouse.
Hitwise early results indicate Bing is doing well, and after just 73 hours of going live in the UK, Bing climbed to 11 per cent of UK internet visits. This 11 percent is 3 times more than Ask and Yahoo’s combined internet visits. Microsoft will find it challenging to maintain the 11 per cent..
So who’s going to win the search engine wars? ‘just Google it’ or ‘just Bing it ’
Other recent launch: ‘Wolfram Alpha ’, computational knowledge engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user queries directly.
October 22, Public release of Windows 7
Three years ago, Microsoft, the producers of the world’s most popular operating systems had a disastrous launch of Vista. Now, Microsoft will be hoping it can avoid the negative press on launching Windows 7, on October 22nd.
Unlike Vista, where many users expressed frustration that the operating system required new hardware, peripherals and software. Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista and Vista compatibility hardware and programmes. Customers buying a new PC or Laptop with Microsoft Vista will be offered upgrades to Windows 7.
The system requirements to run Windows 7 will be comparable to the system requirements of Vista, which in theory means that if your PC or Laptop is capable of running Vista it will also run Windows 7, so no upgrade required.
Beta testers of Windows 7 have reported that it is faster than Vista. and a major improvement on usability. Lets hope its not as complicated as Vista when it comes down to security measures.