With Windows 7 released and currently making its way to shelves in time for the holiday season, we’ve taken this opportunity to upgrade our copy of the official Windows System Recovery Discs for compatibility with Windows 7.
If you’re like most PC users, you probably got Windows 7 with a new PC or laptop. And if [...]
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Published by October 12th, 2009 in Guides, Microsoft, NeoSmart Technologies, Software, Windows 58 CommentsDoes it GTK/QT/Win32 Really Matter for Chrome?
Published by February 15th, 2009 in Design, Google, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 8 CommentsA recent article on OSNews highlights the changes expected to come in Google’s Chrome 2.0 for Windows and the progress being made on the Linux and OS X fronts for Google’s new browser.
In the article, Ben Goodger, lead Chrome UI developer, states
[Google avoids] cross platform UI toolkits because while they may offer what superficially appears [...]
Windows 7 Wallpapers Now Available for Download
Published by October 31st, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Reviews, Windows 26 CommentsNeoSmart Technologies’ gallery of Windows Vista wallpapers has been a huge hit over the past several years – despite what anyone might say about Vista itself, its collection of wallpapers and fonts is top-notch. And now it seems that Windows 7 isn’t going to be any different – from what we’ve seen, the wallpapers shipping [...]
ToolTipFixer 2.0 Released!
Published by October 14th, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software, Windows 8 CommentsNeoSmart Technologies first released ToolTipFixer to great acclaim last June, over a year ago now. Since then, the downloads have kept on pouring in – along with a number of suggestions that we’ve taken to heart and hopefully implemented in a way that will please our users.
You can now download ToolTipFixer 2.0 which has a [...]
Windows Isn’t For Gamers Anymore
Published by September 11th, 2008 in Hardware, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 16 CommentsFor the past decade-and-a-half, “Windows” has been synonymous with “PC Gaming” – after all, no other PC platform has managed to satiate the undying hunger gamers are quite famous for. But now it seems that Windows is on the verge of losing its distinction as the gaming platform of choice – with nothing but [...]
Request_URI For IIS Updated with ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Support
Published by August 19th, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software, Windows 0 CommentsRequest_URI for IIS, NeoSmart Technologies’ compatibility toolkit for IIS on Windows, has been updated to version 1.1, with support for Helicon’s ISAPI_Rewrite 3.x
With this update the installation process has been simplified somewhat, in particular the need modify HTTPD.INI to set the server variables has been eliminated – you just need to install ISAPI_Rewrite 3, configure [...]
Don’t Forget About the Dual-Booters!
Published by August 18th, 2008 in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 5 Comments InfoWorld has an article out today wherein Randall Kenney of the “Windows Sentinel” team (a program used to monitor system settings and performance to provide aggregate data for analysis) trashes end-user uptake of Windows Vista by revealing that 35% of surveyed PCs that ship with Vista have downgraded to Windows XP.
While that’s a stunning [...]
Richard Stallman Attacks the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Published by July 4th, 2008 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Microsoft, Software, Windows 103 CommentsRichard Stallman: legendary founder of the Free Software Foundation, purveyor of the GPL, defender of open source. And – as of today – expert FUD manipulator.
Obviously someone was seriously pissed off at the abundance of (largely positive) press coverage Bill Gates has been receiving as he stepped down from his final roles at Microsoft.. [...]
Shipping Seven is a Fraud.
Published by June 1st, 2008 in Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Programming, Windows 36 CommentsA blog titled Shipping Seven has gotten a lot of traffic recently for their article about Windows 7 and the MinWin kernel – namely, how they’re actually one and the same. The argument offered by “Soma” is that Windows Vista’s kernel (which is what Windows 7 will be built on) is MinWin ad that it’s [...]
ATi has just released the Catalyst 8.5 drivers for Windows XP and Vista, you can download a copy here (hotlinking to the actual driver page is disabled).
The entire 8.x line has been of sub-par quality to date (8.3 and 8.4 in particular, which seem to crash randomly on a large percentage of Vista machines), hopefully [...]
