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Stardock Tiles Goes Into Public Beta

Stardock has released the public beta for Tiles today.  Tiles is an application that lets users organize their desktop applications into pages of tiles.  You can quickly view and manage your running applications with Tiles as a customizable sidebar.  The look of Tiles can also be customized further with additional… Continue reading

WindowBlinds 7.3 Brings Metro to Your Desktop

WindowBlinds is a program that allows users of Windows 7, Vista, and XP to totally change the look and feel of the Windows GUI to anything they’d like by applying any of the thousands of free skins available.  WindowBlinds 7.3 adds a Windows 8 skin along with a Metro skin… Continue reading

How to Install Windows 8 Preview in VMware

Many of you are wanting to try out the Windows 8 Preview that was released at the recent BUILD conference.  However, many also don’t want to install on their main PC’s and don’t have extra hardware to install on either.  That’s where VMware Workstation comes in!  VMware is always a… Continue reading

BUILD Windows Keynote Today

The keynote for the BUILD Windows conference is today, and the tech world will be watching closely for more news and info about Windows 8. You can view the live stream on the BUILD website at 12pm EST.

There will also be tons of people live tweeting the event, and… Continue reading

Microsoft Camera Codec Pack for Viewing RAW Files in Windows 7

Microsoft has released a new camera codec pack with support for many device formats, including the ability to view .NEF (RAW) files in Windows Explorer.

  • Canon: EOS 1000D (EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in North America), EOS 10D, EOS 1D Mk2, EOS 1D… Continue reading

Flickr for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 Announced

This is a great week for WP7 as some high profile apps have been released, and today is no exception with Flickr announcing their official app.  The app will be available on January 31st and they are also holding a contest giving away several Dell Inspiron tablets.  This app will… Continue reading

Next Version of Windows to Run on ARM-based Hardware

At CES today Microsoft held a press event to announce that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip architectures.

Microsoft Corp. today announced at 2011 International CES that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip (SoC) architectures, including ARM-based systems from partners… Continue reading

Windows 7 Family Pack is Back!

One of the things I have been most critical with in regards to Windows 7 is the lack of a family pack option for users.  We are in a time where multiple PC’s in a household are common, and buying multiple licenses and upgrades for each PC can get very… Continue reading

Comparison Video of Windows 7 Tablet and iPad

This is a video showing a comparison between the iPad and a tablet PC running Windows 7.  It’s an interesting video and while I would like to see a modified UI for Windows 7 on a tablet, it does seem to work well.

What are your thoughts?

What’s Your Favorite Windows Twitter Client?

With Twitter being as popular as it is, I am somewhat surprised at the lack of really good Twitter clients.  Yes, there are some major players like TweetDeck and Seesmic, but each of those have some significant flaws.  I know I am not alone in my thinking as discussing this… Continue reading