Nvidia has announced the ‘Nvidia Windows Vista Competition‘ to design Gadgets for Microsoft Windows Vista. Entries to the competition will be accepted till May 24th.
To enter the competition, go to http://www.nvidia.in/object/vista_contest_in.html, take a short quiz, and upload your Windows Vista Gadget. You could well be the winner of Nvidia GeForce graphics cards and other goodies.
For information about building your Windows Vista Gadget, go to http://microsoftgadgets.com.
Windows Vista Gadgets are mini-applications that are written in html and JavaScript, and can be designed to do just about anything.
To view existing Windows Vista gadgets uploaded by people across the globe, visit http://gallery.live.com/.
The ‘Nvidia Windows Vista Competition’ will be judged by representatives from Nvidia and Microsoft. The deciding parameters will be usability, links, design, and use of Nvidia and Microsoft elements. Winners will be declared on May 31st.
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I have complied a list of some of the best freeware utilities you will need. Hope you like them. Please add more if you have in comments.
1. Best Free Web Browser ~ Mozilla Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
2. Best Free Anti-Virus Software ~ AVG Antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
3. Best Free Adware/Spyware Remover ~ Spyware Terminator
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
4. Best Free Desktop Search Utility ~ Google Desktop Search
http://desktop.google.com/
5. Best Free File Cleaner ~ CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
6. Best Free Screen Capture Utility ~ PrintScreen
http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/?prnscr
7. Best Free Download Manager ~ Star Downloader
http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
8. Best Free Download/Upload Meter ~ NetMeter
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
9. Best Free Resource Meter ~ TinyResMeter
http://perso.accelance.net/~pesoft/trm/us_trm.html
Here’s a very cool little plugin called Lyrics Plugin for Winamp or Windows Media Player that displays song lyrics when you start playing a song ! You no longer have to go searching the internet for the song lyrics ! Simply play your MP3 file and a few magical seconds later all of the lyrics for that song show up automatically !!! Once installed, for example in Windows Media Player on my computer, choose a song from the libray and begin playing it. Then click on the Now Playing button across the top and the lyrics screen will show up. Of course, this program will not find all of the lyrics for every song, but if you feel up to you can add the lyrics yourself! But from my testing, any popular song or half-decent band’s songs were all found and they were correct.
Download It : http://www.lyricsplugin.com/
React OS is slowly creeping into the open source world, which dawns a Windows look & infact it is based on Windows XP design with a little compatibility issues. Its in alpha stage & can be downloadedfrom their site (its around 16MB - so small) but MS gotta watch its back, who knows it may take over (although it takes a very long time). Also they are working with various applications with compatibility issues and their briefing goes like this.
ReactOS is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.
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Microsoft is simplifying the processes via which its PC-maker partners will be able to provide “downgrade” rights from Windows Vista to Windows XP for their customers.
Microsoft will implement the first of the policy changes for its Gold Certified (top-tier) OEM partners within the next couple of weeks. The company will streamline downgrade-rights policies and procedures for the broader channel somewhat later, said John Ball, general manager of Microsoft’s U.S. Systems Group.
Under current licensing terms, Microsoft allows customers buying PCs preloaded with Windows Vista Ultimate and Vista Business to roll back to Windows XP until they are ready to make the move to Vista. For OEMs, the process via which these rights can be activated has been quite cumbersome, Ball acknowledged.
Under the current rules, OEMs must call about and file for each and every machine the license keys required to downgrade from Vista to XP. But Microsoft is planning to move to a new policy which will allow its top 170 OEM partners to submit these keys online for groups of machines, which will save them time and reduce complexity, Ball said.
[via ZDNet]
Today, Microsoft announced extending it’s global Xbox 360 warranty coverage to three years, effective immediately.
The company said that any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by ‘three flashing red lights‘ will now be covered by a three-year warranty from the date of purchase.
A press release issued by Microsoft said that it has conducted extensive investigations into the problem. That the company stands behind its products, and takes responsibility to repair or replace any Xbox 360 console experiencing the ‘three flashing red lights’ error message within three years from the time of purchase free-of-charge, which includes shipping costs.
The change in warranty applies both to existing and new customers of Xbox 360. And, Microsoft will retroactively pay-back the out-of-warranty repair costs paid by customers who’ve experienced such problems with their consoles.
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Hi guys, now time for some registry playing 
Note: Registry is an important section of your windows. So please make a backup of the registry before playing with it. Here’s a method to do so :
Backup the Registry
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate and then click the root subkey that contains all the child subkeys and values that you want to back up.
4. On the File menu, click Export.
5. In the Save in box, select a location where you want to save the Registration Entries (.reg) file, type a file name in the File name box, and then click Save.
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Today I just came across a virtual robot on yahoo messenger. It was fun talking to it. And if you want to know what all it does just type help and it will tell you all the commands it understands. It also has an community and profile on Orkut.Just add him to your yahoo list and chat with him as freely as you can. It is online 24*7 and is really cool.
ID :- mama_pendse
Note : Please use proper English and not short forms as it is a computer generated program.
While surfing the net, I found this amazing program. You people should also give it a try.
There is a man in it sitting on a computer doing his work (god knows what work). Type something in the box which you want him to perform. Example :- type laugh and press the button and see it will do exactly what you type.
Link :- http://www.subservientprogrammer.com/main.aspx
Note : Internet Explorer is recommended to open this page correctly.
Have you guys ever wondered what will happen if we combine Yahoo and Google search?
If yes, then check this out:
GahooYoogle : http://www.gahooyoogle.com/
