Back in August of 2007, NeoSmart Technologies released iReboot 1.0 - a tiny application that sits quietly and unobtrusively in the taskbar and is used to select which OS you’d like to reboot into.
iReboot isn’t by any means a major application, but it’s gathered a pretty strong following over the months, mostly by people [...]
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Want UAC-Free iReboot? You got it: iReboot 1.1 released!
Published by April 27th, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Security, Software, Windows 70 CommentsIntroducing NeoSmart Coverage of Windows 7
Published by March 16th, 2008 in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows 2 CommentsPress Notice: NeoSmart Technologies will by providing blow-by-blow reports regarding the next version of Windows, as the facts come in.
As always, NeoSmart Technologies remains committed to providing accurate and verifiable information from trustworthy sources. We’re also dedicated to providing reports/articles regarding content that our readers deem important and newsworthy; so you’ll always be able to [...]
As promised in our last post, we have some screenshots of Windows Internet Explorer 8 for those of you anxious to see where the latest iteration of Microsoft’s browser. While there are a couple of changes that stand out, most of the visual improvements are subtle and take some keen observation to notice.
The screenshots: [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Download Links
Published by March 5th, 2008 in Microsoft, Software 2 CommentsMicrosoft has just made Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 available to the public. The official site is currently not fully completed, so here are the links for those of you interested (each is approximately 11 MiB in size):
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Vista SP1 Doesn’t Kill Software, Bad Coders Do
Published by February 22nd, 2008 in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Programming, Software, Windows 2 CommentsYou can always trust The Register to do what it can to twist the facts into a nice, juicy headline. This time, it’s about Windows Vista SP1, and the very short list of software that’s adversely affected by its installation.
Don’t get this wrong: we’ve got our own reservations about SP1 (between performance and usability - [...]
Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Website
Published by January 3rd, 2008 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 93 CommentsSeveral months ago, Microsoft inserted themselves into the RIA framework business - years too late and against pretty scary odds - with the initial release of the Silverlight framework. Microsoft Silverlight is the online counterpart to the Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework and a direct Adobe Flash/Flex competitor.
Microsoft isn’t new to the whole “virtual” monopoly [...]
Scribd Isn’t Flickr…
Published by December 12th, 2007 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Reviews, Software 4 CommentsScribd isn’t Flickr. Sure, they’re both similar: both are social “web 2.0″ websites established on the principle that people love to share stuff, both let you tag and group objects, both give you unlimited space, and both are great examples of the internet being put to good use. And, let’s not forget, both seem to [...]
Microsoft’s .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer
Published by December 11th, 2007 in Microsoft, Programming, Software, Windows 20 CommentsBelieve it or not, Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is important in more ways than one. To most PC users, Windows Live Writer is simply the best tool that gets the “job” done. More importantly is how “job” is defined though, because WLW does things quite well and quite thorough.
Windows Live Writer has a huge range [...]
Are you Still Manually Approving Online Sales? Don’t!
Published by December 9th, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Programming, Software 1 CommentThe whole point of the online sales revolution, and as a direct result, the growth of companies like Amazon, eBay, and dozens of smaller sites like Newegg and ZipZoomFly, is to take advantage of the benefits brought by technology to the retail industry. These advantages include less overhead costs, fewer employees, constant availability, and instantaneous [...]
Why Skype for Windows Mobile Sucks… On Purpose!
Published by November 22nd, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Software, Windows 15 CommentsSkype is a great and most-useful program, and undoubtedly one of the revolutionizing services in the world of online communication. Windows Mobile (both versions 5 and 6) is an awesome examples of mobile productivity and portable office that fits in your pocket. But unfortunately, the two just don’t mix… not at all. Skype for Windows [...]
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