VirtualBox 2.0, listed in Top 11 Fun Downloads May 2008, runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows machines and lets you run guest operating systems inside your computer's native environment.

For example, if you're a Linux user but you occasionally want to run a Windows application that doesn't perform well under WINE, you can load up VirtualBox and run Windows... [via downloadsquad]

Download VirtualBox

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Microsoft Phone Data Manager is available for free download, you can check the list of compatible phones for this application here.

the software syncs contacts, music, pictures, and videos between your phone and you desktop and the web.

Microsoft Phone Data Manager Download
Windows Live Messenger

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Windows Search 4.0 has a number of new features and enhancements that can help IT professionals deploy and maintain desktop- and enterprise environment search.

Online E-Mail Indexing
Run Your Outlook Client in Exchange Cached Mode
if your mailbox is copied locally on the end user’s computer, Windows Search performs its indexing activities locally as well. This means the Exchange server isn’t burdened during either the initial or the incremental indexing.

Remote Queries
Windows Search 4.0 extends the ability to search across remote desktops.
eg. Querying from Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Support for Indexing Encrypted Files
WS4 supports indexing encrypted files on local file systems, allowing users to index and search the properties and contents of encrypted files

read full article on Windows Search Administration Guide.
Get Windows Search 4.0 and read how to Extending the Windows Search Index

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All you need is a PC running Google Media Server and a UPnP-enabled device (e.g. a PlayStation 3). At the touch of a button, you can then: Access videos, music, and photos stored on your PC, View Picasa Web Albums, Play your favorite YouTube videos...

Why Windows?
...the only way to connect the XBox 360 to a UPnP server, was to have a service that is only found on Microsoft services ... and for the server itself to be claimed to be made by Microsoft. Legal would not allow us to pretend to be Microsoft (although there are other servers out there that do).

sources:
Google Media Server
YouTube in your Living Room
From the desktop to your TV
related:
Create a Wii media server

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Labels: google, microsoft, networking, photo, social_software, software, web_2.0

Free text-browsing utility Depeche View is a boon for anyone who prefers to work with simple, easy-to-transport text files....
Depeche View is a free program for Windows systems only.

[via LifeHacker]

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01. 3DMark Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10.
url: http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmarkvantage/

02. AVG 8.0
AVG 8.0 offers a winning combination:
AVG ensures your safety while you search or surf the net, download music, documents and pictures, send emails or instant message by scanning documents, files, Web pages and Web links before you open them.
url: http://www.grisoft.com/

03. Zak McKracken
Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space” is an unofficial sequel of the adventure-classic “Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders” which was released in 1988.
url: http://www.zak2.org

04. TrackMania Nations Forever
TrackMania United Forever combines the best of all previous Trackmania games and especially one thing: fun race without end.
url: http://www.trackmania-the-game.de

05. Pictomio
Pictomio is Freeware and sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection.
Pictomio requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.
url: http://www.pictomio.com



06. Kart n' Crazy
nintendo games mario kart behaviour for online players.
url: http://www.goa.com/#/kartncrazyintroduction/

07. DreamRender - Animated Desktop Wallpaper
url: http://www.dreamrender.com/

08. X-Plane
X-Plane is the most thorough, flexible, and realistic flight simulator
url: http://www.x-plane.com/

09. Weblin
Meet your friends and new people on every website!
url: http://www.weblin.com

10. VirtualBox
An x86 virtualization software package developed by Sun Microsystems. Distributed under either the GNU GPL or a proprietary license with additional ...
url: http://www.virtualbox.org

11. Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.
url: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org

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A Conversation About Google, Microsoft and Yahoo

Steve Ballmer's update

After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal...

Microsoft and Yahoo Love

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Microsoft wants to go 2.0 at a time of great turbulence and potential change in the web industry.

Live Mesh is more than two years in the making by Microsoft and is a combination that enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling individuals and organizations to manage, access, and share their files and applications seamlessly on the Web and across their world of devices, if their are using windows.

Live Mesh is open to developers (not just .Net/Silverligth). It’s going to be cross-platform and cross-browser...

It will bebased on standard protocols and feeds — HTTP, RSS, REST, ATOM, JSON and FeedSync.... [read more from Mary Jo Foley]

Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
Live Mesh Wait List Page

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Yep, there are many free recovery tools actually, but i want to have a look at Recuva.
Recuva is another tool from Piriform and is able to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.

its very fast to run and can be run from a USB thumb drive, for example. it restores all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything. supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems

Download today Recuva from FileHippo.com

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KML (XML file format .kml for managing the display of three-dimensional geospatial data) is now an international standard, according to Google's announcement yesterday.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international standards body, has announced the completion of KML's standardization process. KML has become an OGC Standard, and the OGC will take responsibility for maintaining and extending it. This transfer of ownership is a strong reflection of Google's commitment to open standards.

Keyhole Markup Language in short KML was already in use for map overlays by Microsoft Live and Yahoo! Maps.


search for kml

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I can imagine this will be a great year for Adobe Labs....

Share is their service for document sharing and management (Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 formats, Rich Text Format (RTF), Open Office formats, text, and PDF. HTML Adobe supported image formats: GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, Creative Suite file formats, SWF and Captivate formats and ZIP Folder.

Handout is a desktop application, made by Steven Gemmen aka InitApp from San Francisco, that allows you to drag and drop upload your documents to Adobe Share Web Service.

Then you can share the files and post the links immediately to Pownce or perhaps Twitter, which is not a chat ;)

Handout is a cool mashup and it adds a real-time, social networking aspect that currently does not exist in the official Share web application from Adobe.


http://initapp.com/handout/
Collaborative Methods Document-Based or Real-Time;

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According to InspectMyGadget, mRemote is a free 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) open source software licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL), which allows you to manage multiple remote connections of different remote protocols like RDP, VNC, SSH2, Telnet, RAW, Rlogin, ICA and HTTP/S.



sourceforge project mRemote

Also have a look at Terminals v1.6 and my preferred command prompt Console.

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Applications don’t create the benefits your company needs, people do.

These services can help you to work quickly and successfully online

1. Image Processing Tools
FotoFlexer - advanced online photo editor
Picnik - another online photo editor
Pixenate and ...
Picasion - create quick gif animations





2. Office: Email, Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Wiki, Wordprocessing, PDF & Spreadsheet calculation
Gmail - Google Mail Service
Meebo IM - Online IM Service
Xobni - Email organization for your Outlook
Google Docs - Word, Excel, OpenOffice, PDF...
EditGrid - online spreadsheet
Zoho Sheet - alternative to editgrid and google docs
Google Calendar collaboration and exchange alternative
PDF Hammer - free Web Based PDF Editor
Deyey - Business Cards Designer
Zoho Meeting - web conferencing application powered by zoho.com
Peanut Butter Wiki - Free wiki for Business, Education and Personal
Wikia - Wiki Hubs


3. Plain Text Tools
EditPad - to edit plain text
Remember The Milk - manage your tasks


4. Easy Storage and Sharing Files
Drop.io - Simple Private Exchange
file.io - Share files with your friends
PipeBytes - could start downloading file as you upload it
SendUIt.com
YouSendIt.com
TinyLoad
Wikisend

YouConvertIt - Media Converter


5. Filtering RSS / XML Feed Aggregation & Mashup Builder
Microsoft Popfly Mashup Creator
Dapper - The Data Mapper
Yahoo Pipes - aggregate, manipulate content





6. Application Builder & Database Technologies
Coghead - Online Application Building
SiteKreator - online building web sites
Elastra - Database technology on-demand computing cloud
Zoho Creator - Create Database Applications




Most of these services are able to aggregate, share, public and integrate in other services/ webpages via their apis etc...

Feel free to complement the spring collection :)!
icons via http://www.iconaholic.com and http://www.iconfinder.net/

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...can download it here

Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb wrote:
Microsoft's next-generation web browser, Internet Explorer 8, has arrived.  In a surprising move, after the demo of IE8 and its new features at today's session of the MIX08 conference, the startling announcement was made: “It's available for download now”.

IE8 New Features / Integration in breve

- Standards Compliance
- Facebook Integration
- eBay Integration
- Live Maps Integration
- Integration with Me.dium
- Working with AJAX Pages

beta is now publicly available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm

older posts:
Rumor: Internet Explorer 8 beta coming end this year?
So, yes, the version after IE7 is IE8, not IE.Next

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Microsoft Office Live Workspace is an online extension of Microsoft Office so called Office Live Workspace is available for everyone, who uses Microsoft Office Application.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace, an online file storage for Documents, PDFs, Spreadsheets and Presentations, is now available for everyone without an invite....

See how Microsoft Office Live Workspace lets you store, organize, and share 1000+ Microsoft Office documents online so that you and those you invite can access them from almost anywhere. Best of all, the service is free.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace Screenshots

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