Microsoft Announces Surface Tablets

Microsoft today unveiled Tablet PCs – Surface for Windows RT and Surface for Windows 8 Pro built to be the ultimate stage for Windows OS.

Surface tablet for Windows 8 RT running on NVidia’s ARM processor, and surface for Windows 8 Pro, running on Intel’s Ivy Bridge (using the i5 core) weighs 676 grams and is 9.3 mm thick..

Using a 10.6-inch ClearType HD display, Microsoft tablets includes USB 2.0, Micro HD, and microSD options for connectivity. It comes with 2×2 MIMO antennas which gives the strongest WiFi capability.Both Tablets has a multitouch keyboard and a trackpad and will come with either 64 gigabytes or 128 GB of storage.

Microsoft Surface is designed to seamlessly transition between consumption and creation, without compromise. It delivers the power of amazing software with Windows and the feel of premium hardware in one exciting experience. Surface Tablet has edges angled at 22 degrees, a natural position for the PC at rest or in active use, letting the hardware fade into the background and the software stand out.

The 3 mm Touch Cover of Surface Tablets represents a step forward in human-computer interface. Using a unique pressure-sensitive technology, Touch Cover senses keystrokes as gestures, enabling you to touch type significantly faster than with an on-screen keyboard. It will be available in a selection of vibrant colors.

Surface for Windows RT :

•OS: Windows RT

•Light(1): 676 g

•Thin(2): 9.3 mm

•Clear: 10.6” ClearType HD Display

•Energized: 31.5 W-h

•Connected: microSD, USB 2.0, Micro HD Video, 2×2 MIMO antennae

•Productive: Office ‘15’ Apps, Touch Cover, Type Cover

•Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand

•Configurable: 32 GB, 64 GB

Surface for Windows 8 Pro :

•OS: Windows 8 Pro

•Light(1): 903 g

•Thin(2): 13.5 mm

•Clear: 10.6” ClearType Full HD Display

•Energized: 42 W-h

•Connected: microSDXC, USB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort Video, 2×2 MIMO antennae

•Productive: Touch Cover, Type Cover, Pen with Palm Block

•Practical: VaporMg Case & Stand

•Configurable: 64 GB, 128 GB

The retail pricing of bothe Tablets will be announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. OEMs will have cost and feature parity on Windows 8 and Windows RT.

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Reliance to roll out 4G network in India

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) plans to roll out 4G network in India in partnership with Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd (HFCL) according to Economic Times. Reliance Industries bought 95% stake in Infotel Broadband in June 2010 which is is the only firm to win Broadband spectrum in all 22 circles in India.

Reliance-owned Infotel Broadband will focus on key aspects and monitor the roll-out and HFCL would concentrate on execution and management. Reliance is also looking to set up 1,00,000 towers for its 4G venture.

Bharti Airtel is the only operator in the country to launch 4G services. They launched 4G services in Kolkata in April, Bengaluru earlier this month and plans to launch 4G services in Pune in Maharashtra and Chandigarh in Punjab soon.

Other companies who owns 4G licenses are Aircel, Tikona, Qualcomm , MTNL and Augere.

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10 Awesome Themes for Chrome

Ever since the release of Google Chrome, its popularity has been on the rise. Google Chrome is one of the best and fastest web browsers available for Windows today. Similar to Firefox, it also features lots of extensions and themes to customize it. There are hundreds of themes available in the Chrome web store and we have picked 10 awesome themes worth trying on your Chrome Browser.

1. Raindrops:

Raindrops theme as the name indicates, bring the beauty of rain drops to Chrome. The theme has an aero and non aero (lite) version as well.

 

2. Kate Spade:

Kate spade is known the world over for their bold and stylish designer clothing, designer shoes, women fashion accessories and more. This theme is created Kate Spade bringing a graceful, exuberant approach to style and living.

 

3. Angry Birds:

Angry Birds is one of the most talked-about games in recent history and needs no mention. This theme brings Angry birds to Chrome and it is set for a screen resolutions of 1680×1050.

 

4. Caroline Gardener:

Caroline Gardner is one of the most respected independent greeting card and stationery designers in the United Kingdom. This chrome theme is based on their work.

 

5. Mac OSX Theme:

If you love the looks of Apple’s Mac OSX, then probably you should try this chrome theme, it is a minimalistic theme based on the OS.

 

6. Google Theme:

This is a dark Google Chrome theme with classic Google colors. It mimics the look and feel of Google+.

 

7. Ice Cream Sandwich theme:

A theme created using an Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) official wallpaper which was featured on Galaxy Nexus.

 

8. Ocean Pacific:

Founded in 1972, Op was the first brand to successfully translate the surfing lifestyle into a comprehensive fashion brand and this theme is inspired from their work.

 

9. Spring Theme:

This theme will give your browser a wonderful makeover to compliment the Spring season. This theme works on resolutions up to and including 1600×900.

 

10. Diablo 3:

This theme, as the name indicates, is based on the latest version of Diablo.

There are thousands of themes available for Google Chrome and you can check out the themes gallery to select other themes. In case you want to create your own theme, you can try out My Chrome Theme.

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Retrieve History of All Web Browsers in One Place

                 We might be using multiple web browsers on Windows and all the browsers have the browsing history unless you are using private mode. Each browser has its own way to fetch the browsing history and it can be tedious to search or export them.

BrowserHistorySpy is a portable freeware app which can retrieve the browsing history in one place. It automatically detects the right history database file based on the browser and current user configuration. You can also manually specify the different history file for Firefox and Chrome browsers. This is useful when you have to recover the history from another system.

The app supports Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. BrowserHistorySpy is the clean and simple tool to help you recover and view web browsing history from your local browsers.

You can export the recovered history list to HTML or XML file for future use.

It works on most of the Windows platforms starting from Windows XP to Windows 7.

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Clean Browsing and Data History in Chrome with Click&Clean

            Privacy is one important aspect when it comes to online life and browsers are one of the important thing when it comes to using the internet. Browser track all your actions performed in the form of history and cookies, some times even when you are using in private mode. So it is necessary to clean up your data tracks once a while. Click&Clean is an innovative and totally free extension for Google Chrome which let you protect privacy and financial activities while browsing or shopping online. It can clean up all the instances of your web browsing.

Your browser and system keep tracks of your Computer and Internet activity. Web sites may gather cookies or otherwise collect personal information about you. This could pose as a threat to you in case someone gets hold of this data. Once you install, this extension, you can pretty much clean every tracks. You can configure the extension based on your usage. The extension deletes your browsing history, typed URLs,Flash cookies,all traces of your online activity to protect your privacy.

The extension provides access to many preferences and options right inside the main window. There are multiple tabs to manage almost every feature of the browser. The preferences menu lets you to customize how the extension behaves when you use and browser and also close it.

Features of Click&Clean

• Delete your browsing history completely
• Remove records from your download history
• Delete all Cookies and Empty the cache
• Remove Flash Local Shared Objects LSO
• Remove Silverlight Cookies
• Clear Java Cache
• Delete Web Storage
• Protect your privacy by cleaning up all traces of your PC activity
• Clean up your hard drives and Free up more disk space including secure file deletion
• Scans your computer for active malware (QuickScanfrom BitDefender Labs)
• Working with multiple profiles simultaneously
• Automatic and instant notifications of updates
• Quick Access to chrome About: pages
• Easy Access to System Tools
• Media Cache (View YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe… videos and MP3 files Offline)
• Screen Capture and Image Editing Tool

This powerful solution enables you to do all that mentioned above instantly, with one click on the icon in the Chrome toolbar.

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5 Best Applications to Partition Hard Disk in Windows PC

        Windows has almost all administration tools built in, but many of them are basic in nature and Hard disk partition tool is one of them. Although the partition tool in Windows offer basic features, they don’t have advanced features like move, resize partitions. In such cases you need to rely on third party tools to partition or manage your hard disk. There are many free partition tools available for both Windows 7 and Windows 8. Here is a list of top partitions tool for Windows.

1. EaseUS Partition Master Home:

EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is an all-in-one freeware partition and disk management tool for Windows. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under both 32 bit and 64 bit versions. It is one of the most popular free tools available for partitioning hard disk.

2. Paragon Partition Manager:

This is yet another free tool to partition hard disk on Windows. It allows you to create and format partitions along with options to move / resize / delete partitions. It also features Paragon Hot Resize technology to enlarge partitions without rebooting Windows.

 

3. Wondershare Disk Manager:

Wondershare Disk Manager Free is a handy free partition manager for all-level users to copy hard disk and manage partitions. With the complete wizards, you can copy disk/partition, create partitions, resize partitions, delete partitions and recover partitions easily.

 

4. MiniTool Partition Wizard:

MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software which supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform functions which includes: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery.

5. Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager:

Aomei Dynamic Disk Manager Home Edition is brand new software and we had even covered their beta version. A suite of operations allow you to create, delete, format, resize, shrink, move, extend dynamic volume without data loss to maximize disk space usage. It brings together a collection of tools including: Dynamic Volumes Management, Disk Converter and Create Volume Wizard.

Comment which one is best for you ....!

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Top 7 Free Download Managers for Windows

             Download Managers are now very popular and they help you in downloading files easily and faster from the Internet. Almost all of them have the ability to pause and resume downloads. Download Managers also essentially accelerates downloads by downloading using parallel servers for one download and this can be useful for people where the Internet speed is not very high. There are many free download manager offering users many feature to get the best when downloading large files.In this article we will cover the best free and paid tools to download files from the internet.

1. Free Download Manager:

This is one of the most popular free download manager. It is powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license making it one of the most commonly used one. Free Download Manager allows you to: adjust traffic usage; to organize and schedule downloads; download video from video sites; download whole web sites with HTML Spider; operate the program remotely, via the internet.

2. Download Accelerator Plus:

Popularly known as DAP, again one of the popular free download managers available for Windows. DAP provides powerful acceleration and the most complete set of download tools available and the free version is ad-supported. DAP is powered by patented multi-channel technology and automated mirror search, and has been recognized for delivering significantly faster download speeds.

3. Orbit Downloader for Windows:

Orbit Downloader helps in downloading files from internet such as video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare, support RTMP. It also makes general downloading easier and faster. Orbit Downloader also accelerates downloads by acting as a peer-to-peer client, utilizing bandwidth of other users.

4. FlashGet for Windows:

FlashGet is yet another freeware download manager for Windows which uses MHT (Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has excellent document management features.

5. JDownloader:

Jdownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwidth limitations, auto-extract archives and much more.

6. Fresh Downloader:

Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite freeware and shareware, mp3 files, movie files, picture collections, etc. Using this tool, you can turbo charges downloading files in FTP, HTTP and HTTP Protocols using your current internet connection.

7. Microsoft Download Manager:

The Microsoft Download Manager is probably the simplest of download managers which enables you to download files simply and easily. It also makes downloading large files such as application and multimedia files quick and reliable. It was specifically designed to help users manage file downloads from supporting Microsoft Web sites.

There are many paid download managers offers variety of features including unlimited simultaneous downloads.

8. Internet Download Manager:

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speed by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages.

9. GetRight Download Manager:

Yet another paid download manager which you can try before buying it. This is great for any Internet connection, and is especially important if you use a wireless or dial-up connection. When using GetRight, you will be able to resume your download right where it left off.

10. Mass Downloader:

MetaProducts Mass Downloader is a Windows download manager application that makes it easy to download video/audio streams and files from Internet sites at the maximum available speed. Download resume is supported. Multiple channels technology significantly reduces download time.

So, which is your favorite download manager? Did we miss any useful download managers, please share it in comments!

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Freemake Video Downloader 3, Download Streaming Video from Over 10,000 Sites

                     Freemake released freeware Video Downloader 3.0 which lets you download an online video from over 10,000 sites (includes support for download of videos from porn sites also), this downloadable video can be embedded on a site or hosted on video sharing sites like YouTube , Facebook,Vimeo,TubePlus, Dalilymotion, Veoh, Megavideo, and 10,00 0 other sites. Hulu, Netflix, YouTube RTMP and on-demand video sites are not supported.

Using Freemake Video Downloader

Freemake added Facemoods toolbar to this program which aids to continue the development of this freeware which you can avoid installing by selecting “Parameters Settings” and uncheck for “install Facemoods toolbar” during install.

This programs supports Firefox and Chrome browsers, adds plug-ins for these browsers after installation, program icon appears on toolbar in Firefox and Chrome to initiate download from sites.

Whenever you want to download streaming video from YouTube or other supported sites, click on icon as Freemake Video Downloader prompts to choose the Download format in a pop-up window MP4 selected by default, after selection choose the action from only download, extract original audio and Convert to, click download button to save downloaded video to My Videos folder in your Computer.

This program offers the options to hide saved porn videos and thumbnails of these video on the program from being seen by children. Parents can set restrictions for video content by enabling parental controls and they need to enter passwords to lock adult sites.

Download Freemake video Downloader 3.0 (it’s an online installer).

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Turn PC Into Virtual WiFi Hotspot

             WiFi HotSpot Creator is a handy tool to create a WiFi hotspot and share your internet connection, so WiFi enabled devices like laptops, smart phones, and tablets, can connect to internet via PC. It auto-enables the ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) option of your current connection to seamlessly turn your PC into a WiFi hotspot; you don’t have to go through the tiresome process of opening Network & Sharing Center.

Just launch the tool, enter the connection name and passphrase to create your WiFi hotspot. Moreover, it creates WPA/WPA2 PSK based secured connection, allowing you to connect those WiFi enabled devices which cannot connect with wireless ad-hoc network.

To share your internet connection, first enter the name of WiFi hotspot and then enter a minimum 8-digit password in the Passphrase field. Now from NIC drop down menu, select the internet connection which you want to share.

Once done, click Start to create your WiFi hotspot.

              During testing, we did not find any issues. However, it attempts to install a toolbar in your browser without asking for permission. It must be noted that if the application is not working on your PC, you might have to upgrade your network adapter, as older adapters do not support creating virtual WiFi hotspot.

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CCleaner New Version realised - Free Download

           CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.

Features

CCleaner is our system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!

 

Cleans the following:

Internet Explorer
Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat files.

Firefox
Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, download history, form history.

Google Chrome
Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, download history, form history.

Opera
Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, download history.

Safari
Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, form history.

Other Supported Browsers
K-Meleon, Rockmelt, Flock, Google Chrome Canary, Chromium, SeaMonkey, Chrome Plus, SRWare Iron, Pale Moon, Phoenix, Netscape Navigator, Avant and Maxthon.

Windows
Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files, Log files, Clipboard, DNS Cache, Error Reporting, Memory Dumps, Jump Lists.

Registry Cleaner
Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more...

Third-party applications
Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Windows Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Microsoft Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...

100% Spyware FREE
This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

Whats New ? v3.11.1550

- (Build 1550) Fixed Recycle Bin issues.
- Added initial support for Windows 8.
- Added expanded Recycle Bin contents in detailed view.
- Improved Thunderbird cache cleaning support.
- Improved Safari history cleaning.
- Improved "Unused File Extensions" registry rule improvements.
- Improved Secure file deletion on FAT32 file system.
- Improved Drive Wiper tool to prevent UI freezing.
- Improved cleaning for Windows Log Files, Memory Dumps, Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010.
- Improved Speedbit Download Accelerator Plus cleaning.
- Added cleaning for AkelPad.
- Added Latvian translation.
- Minor bug fixes.

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Create Password Protected PDF Files with Doro PDF

                     There are many printer based apps which allows you to create PDF files documents and webpages. Doro PDF is a nice freeware tool for Windows which lets you create PDF files from documents and webpages using the print option. It acts as a virtual printer and creates password protected PDF files. With Doro PDF writer you can make PDF files from any file that can be printed; images and text documents are the type of data the app has been designed for.

The configuration panel is very easy to use and consists of two tabs, one for general options and one reserved for imposing security measures. Under the encryption settings, you can use a password to limit the access to PDF by specifying a password. You can also allow “copy and paste” as well as printing for the PDFs created. Doro PDF Writer uses 128-bit encryption to protect the document.

To create any PDF file, use the default print option and select Doro PDF from the printer list.

In the general settings, you can specify the title, author, subject etc for the PDF file.

Doro PDF is a nice and simple way to create password protected PDF files.

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