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Windows XP Mode (XPM) is a feature of Windows 7 Release Candidate. XPM allows users to continue to run their older xp-compatible applications on Windows 7. This feature will make XP users to upgrade to Windows 7.  XPM was designed by Microsoft for small-business users but the beta will encourage many users which can be downloaded for free from Microsoft Virtual PC.

XPM gives a new, improved version of Microsoft Virtual PC to run a complete freely downloadable virtual copy of Windows XP that runs in a window with Windows XP desktop. Or using seemless mode, XPM allows you to install applications to the Virtual Windows XP as how you install on normal Windows XP machine. And you can run those applications from Windows 7 desktop just as if they were standard windows 7 applications. In the seemless mode you wont be seeing Windows XP desktop. Instead you just sees a window with XP based application. The Virtual Windows XP system runs invisibly in the background.

Files can be saved from applictions running seemless mode under XPM to the default documents folder under Windows7. In both XPM seemless mode and seperate XP desktop, you can use the Windows Clipboard to transfer text and images between Windows 7 and XP applications.

This post was originally reviewed by Edward Mendelson at PC Magazine Reviews.

Favicon is the short name for favorite icon and also known as website icon, shortcut icon, url icon or bookmark icon which will be mostly 16×16 pixel square icon related to a particular website. I came to know that Favicons are started to appear in Gmail mails next to the mail messages after the subject and before the datetime.

So far, these favicons next to mails in Gmail are displayed for NetFlix only at present. This message was originally published by MG Siegler at Tech Crunch. These favicons will sure bring our attention to the mails and allow us to sort mails visually. You can check the favicon displayed to the mail from NetFilx in the gmail to the favicon displayed in the addressbar for the NetFlix website.

But I couldn’t see it in my Gmail even I tried to get password retrieval mail from NetFlix.

Adobe announced details on Flash 10.1 to a range of mobile phones and handled devices. Adobe’s Flash technology enables videos and interactive pages on the web. Only smartphone users are able to use the Flash Lite which can show subset of Flash Pages. Other phones are not able to show Flash content at all just like empty boxes in the web pages.

The following requirements are said by Anup Muraka, director for technology strategy and partner development at Adobe. Flash can be installed on Windows Mobile with OS version 6.5 and on Android with OS version 2.0. In general Flash requires at least a 500 MHz ARM11 processor. The Palm Pre, HTC Touch Pro2 and BlackBerry Bold all meet the requirement. Lower-tier devices also can avail Flash but with a subset of Flash capabilites only which is not full Flash 10 plugin.

You can read full details at pcmag news.

You can now refine your search results in the http://google.com with the search options. These search options was launched in May and now some additional options were added to the existing search options.

You can get search options panel by clicking on the “Search Options” with plus sign which will add an extra panel to the left side with Search Options which will refine the search results.

These Search Options allow you to refine search results on Specific date range, Past Hour, Visited Pages, Not yet Visited pages, More Shopping Sites, Fewer shopping sites, Books, Blogs, News etc. You can find more at Official Google Blog.

The security of our mail accounts, our data and our softwares exist on the passwords we choose. The more complex our password is the more security we can have. I want to introduce RandomPasswordGenerator software to generate secure and strong passwords.

RandomPasswordGenerator allows you to generate secure passwords with combinations of Alphabets of both cases, Special Symbols of RPG or special symbols of our own and with Numbers. If needed, you could easily create a list of 10000 or more random passwords within a matter of seconds. You can download RandomPasswordGenerator from snapfiles.com.

The strength of our passwords defines the security of data we have.

We can learn easily by watching a video than reading a book. At the same way when we know something and when we have to teach to others, they also expect the same way in the form of video teaching. We can make an AudioVisual Presentation of what we know using CamStudio software. CamStudio is an opensource software and is free to use.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

Features:

• Create demonstration vidoes for any software program
• Create video tutorials
• record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them
• can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself “picture-in-picture” over your desktop

You can download it from CamStudio.

Sneaking in a few days before its promised September release, the tune-up for Mac OS X Leopard costs $29 for current Leopard users, and packs just enough punch to be worth your money. Apple is careful to point out that Snow Leopard isn’t a complete system overhaul, but rather a collection of hundreds of smaller refinements to make Leopard run more gracefully. Read More at CNET Review…

Microsoft has released Microsoft Security Essentials recently which is available for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 which can help Windows Customers to fight the threats. Test results by AV-Test.org evaluated, this Security Essentials successfully detected all of viruses, worms, trojans and other high-risk malware upto 98.44 percent and 90.95 percent in a test for adware and spyware samples.

Microsoft Security Essentials is available to download for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista/7 32-bit, Windows Vista 7/64-bit.

The new vivox voice chat system for Facebook

Vivox is the leading provider of voice chat services for online games and virtual worlds, is now providing a new technology to Facebook and Twitter members to have voice conversations with their friends or followers on their friends list. Vivox is planning to offer free dial-in numbers which will allow to call non-members into an existing conversation.