Apr 11

Slower Browser and Crashes, Blame it on Toolbars.

How many tool-bars your favorite browser is carrying? Very simple question. And you will have a simple answer too. Must of us would say three, others would say four or five. But how much of tool-bars one should optimally carry. We tend to install many tool-bars but hardly use them for any purpose. We install and forget about them. But once installed on your default browser, these toolbars eat in to your bandwidth and considerably slow down the browsing. Continue reading

Apr 07

Register for Web Camps and Experience New Microsoft Products.

ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 coupled with new innovations in Microsoft Web Platform are going to bring in lots of enhanced productivity in the life and working of web developers. The new version ASP.NET 4 is much more improved and refined version than the ones which are being used presently by web developers all around. Continue reading

Feb 27

Windows Live Writer 2010 to be Unplugged Soon.

Do you blog regularly? Do you use Live Writer for blogging on your WordPress platform? Then this piece of news is for you. Microsoft team has been working on Windows Live Writer and its new 2010 edition is being readied for launch this year. There will be great changes in the new version of Live Writer and it is expected to make blogging all that simple. Continue reading

Feb 17

After Picasa and Flickr Accounts, Now Try Skydrive with 25GB Space.

Picasa has 1GB limit, which means you can store and upload images which have the storage limit of up to 1 GB. Flickr’s free account lets you save about 200 images on each of its free account. But as you grow, you are adding lots of images and pictures of your friends, families and acquaintances which makes you look out for more and more space.  Continue reading

Feb 12

Yahoo’s Search Slide unabated.

Bing has been gaining at the expense of Yahoo for about a year now. While Microsoft’s Bing has now attained market share of 11.3 percent up from 10.7 percent level of December 2009, Yahoo’s search market share continues to nosedive. Google still remains the undisputed king with 65.4 percent market share. [Courtesy comScore data] Continue reading

Feb 05

Online Versus Offline Word Processing Tools.

There are views both in favor and against of these offline and online tools. This debate may be relevant today but in coming years offline word processing tool will surely not exist. There will be only online word processing tools. We are in fact moving towards an era of cloud and online world where the  documents will live online only. Today we are debating this issue because internet has not yet reached everywhere. Continue reading

Feb 03

Windows 7 Attains 10 % Market Share.

Windows 7 has been able to achieve 10% market share in roughly three months of its launch. The growth in market share points to that fact that Microsoft has hit the bulls eye at least this time around after failing with Vista in its first attempt. Vista is having market share of 20% and the stable XP is still the market leader from Windows stable with 60-70% market share. Continue reading