Glasnost - Check whether your ISP is Manipulating P2P Traffic

May 11th, 2008

Here is another good untility to Check whether your ISP traffic shaping, boosting or blocking your bit torrent traffic. This is a good solution for those to find out if the slow bit-torrent speed is due to the client misconfiguration or due to traffic shaping techniques by their ISPs.

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Translate.Net Free Client to Network Translation Services

May 10th, 2008

Many programs are now built using the .Net framework and its very happy to see another New program coming into highlights. My favorite quick image editor Paint.Net is also from this same developers.

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Translate.Net is free and open source client to many translating services available online (translators, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries).
Already supported 17 services, 35 languages, 1352 translations directions.
GUI localized to French, Chinese, Ukrainian and Russian.

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Aurora Live Messenger 1.11

May 9th, 2008

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After Windows Vista came out, a lot of people started loving it’s Aurora effects. If you are one of those Aurora lovers, why don’t you take a look at this skin? Now with 68 background options, you will have even more to discover!
Also…there’s a new feature hidden somewhere in the options panel… look for the option that was supposed to have any effects to discover what it is!

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Windows XP SP3 (KB936929) Standalone Update Package and ISO Images Official Microsoft Download Links

May 8th, 2008

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to the public through Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center, after a slight delay due to incompatibility issue.

Now the official release is out.

Microsoft names the standalone installation package for SP3 as Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers and intends for who are downloading and installing on multiple computers on a network. But it’s essentially the same thing - a executable in .exe format that when ran, will install and upgrade the Windows XP PC on base of SP1 or SP3 to SP3 version xpsp3_5512.080413-2113, or 5.1.2600.5512.

The direct download links to the standalone setup install packages for the Windows XP SP3 hosted on Microsoft Download Center are listed here.

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STOP 0×0000000A Error on Vista Installation KB929777

May 8th, 2008

Recently a lot of people had problems installing Vista due to the 0×0000000A error vista installation was throwing. This is caused in PCs running with 4GB or more system ram. A workaround was posted in Microsoft support. To make life easy I thought of posting the steps to install vista and to stop getting this annoying error.

Here they are

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Windows XP SP3 RTM Available on Windows Update, Automatic Update and Download Center

May 7th, 2008

Microsoft has released the much awaited XP SP3 RTM on Automatic Update and Download Center today. The SP3 RTM was delayed due to a bug in Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS).

Although its available on Automatic Updates, ppl who want to download the standalone package can use following official links to download SP3:

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New Yahoo Messenger for Vista Beta With More Awesome Features

May 6th, 2008


NEW FEATURES

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Pirates Messenger 1.0

May 6th, 2008

Skin based on the movie Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead man’s chest.


Chat Using Windows Live Messenger on Facebook

May 6th, 2008

Recently I got addicted to the ever growing social networking utility known as FaceBook. It has all the functions and privacy level a social network should have. NOW! it has Windows Live Messenger which allows you to chat with your online contacts from within your FaceBook profile.

I have found the three best FaceBook WLM apps, and here they are…

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Workaround for USB devices not getting detected in Vista after Windows update

May 4th, 2008

Recently there was an update released by Microsoft that caused a disaster for USB devices. Microsoft is yet to release a fix for it and we hope there will be one soon. The main cause seems to be KB938371, a prerequisite hotfix that gets installed from windows update. Also there’s some people saying this similar incident is also caused by a recent windows defender update.(not officially proved)

The main problem the users face is that their USB devices such as flash drives,cameras,scanners,mice,keyboards …etc.. doesn’t get recognized after the update and that specific hotfix cannot be uninstalled from windows.

Alright so if you are having similar issues use the following workaround until Microsoft can get this sorted out.(keep in mind that it may work for some and not for some…that’s windows.. hehe)

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