Monthly Archives: January 2007

Phishing filter update for IE7

Microsoft has released an update for Internet Explorer 7 Phishing filter. If your computer responds slowly as the phishing filter evaluates contents in IE7, then go here and install the update. The update will be available soon through Windows Automatic … Continue reading

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BasKet Note Pads – KDE notes

BasKet Note Pads is a multi purpose note taking application. Some of the features of BasKet Note Pads are: Easily take all sort of notes Collect research results and share them Centralize your project data and re-use them Quickly organize … Continue reading

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Gizmo call – free call from the browser

SIP phone launched a new service called Gizmocall. Using this service, you can call any number in the world from anywhere in the world. Calls are limited to 10 minutes per day to most landlines and some mobile numbers. You … Continue reading

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Human Theme for Thunderbird and Firefox

If you are an Ubuntu user and you love Ubuntu’s human theme, then you might love this theme also. Human theme for Thunderbird works only with Linux. It won’t work with Windows. It integrates well with Ubuntu’s Human theme. Ubuntu Human … Continue reading

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Free Linux Driver Development

Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. All they need is is some kind of specification that describes how a specific device works or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once … Continue reading

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GIMP 2.3.14 released

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has released GIMP 2.3.14 developmental release. Changes in this version includes the following: added actions to control brush spacing polished appearance of image window scale the brush’s spacing when scaling the brush save tool presets … Continue reading

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Upgrading to Vista with clean install? forget it.

If you own a legal copy of Windows XP, you wasted hundreds of dollars to buy Windows Vista upgrade version and if you wanted to perform a clean install of Vista, then you are out of luck. According to Microsoft, you … Continue reading

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Oracle to launch unbreakable MySQL?

Computer Business Review blog reports that Marten Mickos, MySQL’s chief executive officer, said that Oracle has suggested it will offer support for the MySQL code, undercutting the company, and Oracle is already distributing the open source database management system. This is … Continue reading

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Good people in Microsoft

There are good people in every religion, every country, every company etc. Dan Fernandez proved that. You might have read my earlier post titled True face of Microsoft where I wrote how Microsoft stabbed Bluej product team on their back. Dan … Continue reading

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TomTom shipped viruses on its navigation devices

CNet news reports that Satellite navigation company TomTom shipped two viruses on a number of its devices. According to the company, a “small number” of TomTom GO 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with malicious software preinstalled. GO … Continue reading

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