Tech Support News: February 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Apple launches Safari Beta 4

Apple on 24 February 2009 launched the safari beta 4 publically for Microsoft operating systems and OS X. They have declared that this version of safari has 150 features and many of them are new, which I think is good hear. I have not explored it yet…but yes, I be sharing my experience with it soon. I cannot mention all the 150 features but still I can cover some of it.. hope it will be helpful to you.

Build for speed

According to the news, they have introduced Nitro engine, this is a super fast JavaScript engine, which is 30 times faster than Internet explorer 7 and three times faster than Firefox 3. Safari 4 also adds some bleeding-edge web technologies such as HTML 5’s media support (making it easier to add audio and video to Web sites) and offline support.

Top sites

This feature is a new addition in this version. It has the new top sites page, which by default loads when you launch Safari browser. It’s the same on as in Google chrome browser. You can disable this feature. By default, Safari watches which pages you visit most often, and dynamically updates the Top Sites page based on the usage statistics, and doing things such as removing login screens and multiple pages within a domain. But you can also add your own sites to Top Sites.

Search party

There is one more feature on the top sites page, which is a search box, which lets you search the browsing history. Click in the search box, and you’ll see a Cover Flow-like view of web pages you’ve visited. As you type your search terms, the number of displayed sites decreases as sites are eliminated.

User interface changes

If you use tabs, another very-visible change is that tabs have now moved to the very top of the browser window—in older versions of Safari, they appeared below the bookmarks bar. By putting the tabs in the position where most windows have a title bar, Safari’s developers have provided more room for Web page content—an important consideration for laptop users.

Windows World

Safari 4 Beta solves that problem by adopting a true Windows-native appearance, including native Windows font rendering. (Mac-style font rendering is available as an option in Safari 4 Beta’s preferences.) No longer does Safari look completely out of place when running on Windows; it now looks like it belongs on the operating system, which is a good thing if you’re a Windows Safari user.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Facebook has released commenting widget

Facebook is very much in news these because of its policies and terms of use. But I have got something else. These days we are getting much news only about… Microsoft windows 7 and Facebook. Ah …we have more news for you…Google chrome has launched its new version.

Facebook on Thursday has launched a new commenting widget which enables Facebook comments to be added to any Web page. It’s like when users comment on a site using this feature, those comment can show users profile pages, which works as a form of free site marketing to the Facebook users.

Facebook Connect is not quite as easy to implement as the "just one line of code" pitch, but it does not look like it will take much effort for a developer: It looks like a simple addition to a site template, registration on Facebook's developer site, and a short file transfer will do the trick.

Not discussed in the materials for the new feature are the privacy implications, but it stands to reason that if you use Facebook Connect to gather comments on your site, then Facebook's terms of service dictate what can later be done with those comments and the social network data about your site's visitors generated by them.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Microsoft will be releasing Windows 7 soon

According to the sources, Microsoft is planning to launch windows 7 by this year, they have plans accordingly, but the company is still denying this.

PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S. has told CNET News that they have heard things are on track to launch by this year's holiday shopping season, which has been Microsoft's internal target for some time.

Microsoft is working on special program of windows 7 which will offer Microsoft windows vista buyers may be a free or a very low cost update. Microsoft may release it may be nearby July, as the sources said.

In an interview with Bill Veghte (Senior VP in Microsoft),” I'm telling them that it could go either way, “We will ship it when the quality is right, and earlier is always better, but not at the cost of ecosystem support and not at the cost of quality.”

Microsoft has already declared that it will be launching six different versions of windows 7.The response to windows 7 was not bad as they have added things like an improved taskbar and snappier performance, the operating system shares most of the same underpinnings as Windows Vista.

Let’s wait and watch, when Microsoft will launch its windows 7 operating system, the most discussed one….

Monday, February 9, 2009

Panasonic launched its Digital Cameras

Finally Panasonic has announced the release of its Digital Camera on Sunday, 8 February 2009 at Singapore, and they have made their intentions of grabbing the digital camera market very clear. They have mentioned that they are intended to grab 10% of Australian Digital Camera market by launching Lumix brand. Key to the range is a new generation of SD XC Flash memory cards that have allowed Panasonic to eliminate moving parts while increasing the recording capacity of their range they have also introduced new automatic functions such as face recognition for Kids.

Mr. Mamora Yoshhida the Vice President of Panasonic's AVC Network said “Panasonic was late coming into the digital camera market however we are making up for this by marrying state of the art information technology with traditional camera technology from Leica a Company that has had more than 100 years of experience in the traditional camera market". He also commented that, “Consumer today want HD content, they want it to work seamlessly with their TV display and what we have over the likes of Canon and Nikon is display system knowledge and the ability to deliver content from an SDX card to a screen and shortly via wireless direct from the camcorder or digital still camera. We have the Viera Link that makes connectivity a lot easier with Panasonic cameras"

Best of Luck to Panasonic, as the competition is really tuff in the market. And if you already have a Digital camera and it is not working properly, than call 1 800 602 586, Microsoft certified techs will provide you digital camera support. Contact us anytime. We are 24x7. More than Happy to serve you.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Windows 7: Six new versions

Microsoft has finally confirmed that there are six different Windows 7 versions. Following are the versions of Windows 7 –

Windows 7 starter

It’s only installed on OEM specific machines and are limited to certain kind of hardware. And it lacks the ability to run more than three simultaneous programs at once.

Windows 7 Home basic

This version also lacks the ability to three programs simultaneous, live thumbnails and Internet connection sharing.

Windows 7 Home Premium

It has multi – touch capability, media functionality for playing movies and burning DVD’s, aero enchantments and the ability to create a home network groups.

Windows 7 Professional

It has enhanced networking features like domain join, location aware printing and offline folders, advanced back up as well as Mobility center and Presentation Mode.

Windows 7 Enterprise

It allows you have a direct access, Bitlocker, Applocker, boot from VHD support, and Branch cache.

Windows 7 Ultimate

This version has everything in it, the whole enchilada. Just not any Ultimate extras--Microsoft has scrapped the notion of these extended add-ons for its future operating systems.

Microsoft has not yet announced the price for any of the version of Microsoft Windows 7.Opting from a standard Vista Home Basic or Home Premium install to Windows 7 won't require a reformat of any kind and while switching from Microsoft windows xp to windows 7 will need a clean installation.

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