Sites that I found interesting for June 26th 2009 through June 30th 2009: Tweetnews.me – Search application that links tweets to the freshest Yahoo! News articles. The more related tweets an article has, the higher its rank. Pedometer Blackberry Storm App – Use your Balckberry Storm to keep track of your steps. Xiant Filer – [...]
If you are running Windows 7 on a release older than the Release Candidate (build 7100), upgrade it to the RC now. Starting July 1st, the Beta will start to reboot every 2 hrs and expire Aug 1st. You have been warned. via The Windows Blog.
Sites that I found interesting for June 24th 2009 through June 25th 2009: DIM: Digital Image Mover – DIM only does one thing, but it does it well: it copies files from your camera’s memory card to a destination directory determined by your storage scheme. If any directories need to be created in the process, [...]
Microsoft unveiled the pricing structure for Windows 7 this morning: The estimated retail prices for upgrade packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are: Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99 Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99 Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99 And the estimated retail prices for full packaged retail product of Windows 7 [...]
MaximumPC has posted a nice review of all the new features in the Windows 7 version of Media Center. I have been using Windows 7 Media Center (or 7MC) as my sole means of providing media to my TV since the release candidate and it has many improvements over the Vista version. In Windows 7, [...]
Sites that I found interesting for June 21st 2009 through June 22nd 2009: Microsoft makes a post-RC change for RDP7: no more client-rendered DirectX – Interesting stuff. Wondering how this might change how extenders work with Windows 7 Media Center? via @maryjofoley on Twitter. Giant Cowboys Stadium LED wall caught playing Xbox 360 during downtime [...]
Sites that I found interesting for June 18th 2009 through June 20th 2009: Windows 7 Hits a New Low – Working installation on no less than a Pentium II system. Machine consists of a 266 MHz CPU, a whopping 96 MB of memory, and a next-generation 4 MB graphics card. Media Browser Beta 2.1.0.0 – [...]
Sites that I found interesting for June 17th 2009 through June 18th 2009: Intel Rebrands Chips, Announces Core i3 and i5 Conventions – Going forward, the Core family will fall into one of three tiers: Core i3 (entry-level), Core i5 (mid-level), and Core i7 (high-level). ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 3 public beta – Looks like some [...]
Sites that I found interesting for June 14th 2009 through June 15th 2009: A New Type of Cloud? – undulus asperatus, Latin for "turbulent undulation." No Experts Exchange for Greasemonkey – @kevinthompson on Twitter wrote this handy script for Greasemonkey on Firefox to block Google search results that point to Experts-Exchange. You would know if [...]
Sites that I found interesting for June 14th 2009 Guide to Building a HD HTPC – Good place to start for choosing Home Theater PC Parts – Page 85 – AVS Forum Dell: Twitter Helped Boost Sales for $3 Million – Enable Concurrent User Sessions in Windows 7 – If you have Media Center powering [...]