Friday 9 March 2012

About Microsoft In Computing Industry

Microsoft has played a vital role in Computing industry and most of the people who use computers daily on their office desks, home or anywhere else use Microsoft’s Windows, an operating system that has made Microsoft and Bill Gates more famous and rich than any body else. Here is a look at the facts and figures from Windows history. All interesting things about Windows XP, Windows, Vista, Windows 7 and then that Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95 and 98 era.

                                                                                                            

1. In 1983 Microsoft announced the development of Windows, a graphical user interface (GUI) for its own operating system (MS-DOS)
2. Windows has been around for 25 years now, Windows 1.0 hit the shelves in November. 1985 and Windows 2.0 was released in October 1987.
3. Windows 95 first introduced plug and play (The ability to automatically detect and configure the newly installed hardware)
4. Windows 98 was first released in 1998 and then second edition was released in 1999.
5. In 2000, Microsoft introduced Windows ME (Millennium) that came with ‘System Restore’ ability.
6. In 2001, Microsoft introduced Windows XP that came in two editions (‘Home‘ and ‘Professional‘)
7. On January 30, 2007 Microsoft released Windows Vista. This widely criticised Windows edition was built on the basis of security.
8. In 1997 the U.S. Justice Dept. accused Microsoft of violating a 1995 antitrust agreement, because the Windows 95 operating system required consumers to load Microsoft’s Internet browser—thus giving Microsoft a monopolistic advantage over other browser manufacturers.
9. The Windows operating system has 50 million line of codes that grow 20% with every new release
10. Windows supports 34 languages.
11. As of October 2009, Microsoft’s Windows has 91% of the market share of the client operating systems for usage on the Internet.
12. Windows 7 had huge beta test, around 8 million users helped the company to find and remove the bugs (This is because Vista had loads of bugs and was not much appreciated by users)
13. Windows 7 is fastest selling Windows in history of Microsoft (Microsoft has sold 100 million licenses of Windows 7 within 6 months of its release: Source)
14. 10%+ computer users around the world are running Windows 7 already (its only been 6 months since it is released)
15. “Windows 8? is scheduled to be released sometime around 2012.



        

Lock Drive Without Any Software



Step 1 : Goto "RUN" and type "gpedit.msc"

Step 2 : A window will be opened (Group Policy).You will find two options in left side of the page.

Step 3 : Drop down the "user configuration" and again drop down sub menu "Administrative Templetes" and again drop down another sub menu "Windows Components" and click on "Windows Explorer".

Step 4 : Right click on "Prevent Access To Drives From My Computers" and then click on properties.

Step 5 : Click on the radio button "Enabled" and you can select any option in the menu.

Step 6 : Follow the same procedure for disabling it.

fTalk : Free Facebook Messenger

All your Facebook friends with fTalk. The list of all the online Facebook friends clearly displays as soon as you sign in. Tray notifications at right-side bottom of your screen are also given whenever a friend comes online .


fTalk is a good way to stay connected while losing the distraction of status updates. It also keeps its interface the same, so if you don't like Facebook's recent change in its browser chat, this will solve the problem. The simple interface and lack of unessential features means the memory stamp is pretty low and it's easy to setup. While the features are bare, you can set notification options, including sound and system tray alerts depending on how or if you'd like to be notified , simply


                                                              what makes ftalk different ??





Fast and Accessible
No need to open any broswer
Get notified when friends come online
Update your status right from the app
Free and easy to use
Cool emoticons
         


Freeware
Home Page
Size : 7.5 MB







Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders & Converters



So many video file formats, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that's on your DVR, iPod, PSP or desktop—you need the right utility to convert 'em into the format that works for you. Commercial video converter software's aplenty, but there are several solid free utilities that can convert your video files on every operating system, or if you've just got a web browser and a quick clip. Put DVDs on your iPod, YouTube videos on DVD, or convert any video file with today's top 10 free video rippers, encoders and converters.
VLC Media Player(Open source/All platforms)
Ok, so VLC is a media player, not converter, but if you're watching digital video, it's a must-have—plus VLC can indeed rip DVD's, as well as play ripped discs in ISO format (no actual optical media required.) VLC can also play FLV files downloaded from YouTube et al, no conversion to AVI required. Since there's a portable version, VLC's a nice choice for getting your DVD rips/saved YouTube video watching on wherever you go. 
MediaCoder (Open source/Windows)

Batch convert audio and video compression formats with the open source Media Coder for Windows, which works with a long laundry lists of formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+V2, MusePack, WMA, RealAudio, AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia, ASF/WMV, Quicktime, and OGM, to name a few.
Avi2Dvd (Freeware/Windows)

Make your video files burnable to a DVD with Avi2Dvd, a utility that converts Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd files to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd format. Avi2Dvd can also produce DVD menus with chapter, audio, and subtitle buttons. 
Videora Converter (Freeware/Windows only)
Videora Converter is a set of programs, each designed to convert regular PC video files into a format tailored to your favorite video-playing handheld device. The Videora program list includes iPod Video Converter (for 5th gen iPods), iPod classic Video Converter (for 6th gen classic iPods), iPod nano Video Converter (for 3rd gen iPod nanos), iPod touch Video Converter, iPhone Video Converter, Videora Apple TV Converter, PSP Video 9, Videora Xbox360 Converter, Videora TiVo Converter, and Videora PMP Converter. Lifehacker alum Rick Broida used Videora in conjunction with DVD Decrypter to copy DVDs to his iPod. 


Honorable Mention: Ares Tube for Windows converts YouTube and other online videos to iPod format.


Any Video Converter (Freeware/Windows only)
Convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone with Any Video Converter, which also supports user-defined video file formats as the output. Batch process multiple files that AVC saves to a pre-selected directory folder, leaving the original files untouched. 


Hey!Watch (webapp)
Web application Hey!Watch converts video located on your computer desktop as well as clips hosted on video sites. Upload your video to Hey!Watch to encode it into a wide variety of file formats, like H264, MP4, WMV, DivX, HD Video, Mobile 3GP/MP4, iPod, Archos and PSP. Hey!Watch only allows for 10MB of video uploads per month for free, and from there you pay for what you use, but it's got lots of neat features for video publishers like podcast feed generation and automatic batch processing with options you set once. 


VidDownloader (webapp)
When you don't want to mess with installing software to grab that priceless YouTube clip before it gets yanked, head over to web site VidDownloader which sucks in videos from all the big streaming sites (YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, Blip.TV, DailyMotion, etc.), converts 'em for you to a playable format and offers them for download. Other downloaders for online video sites buy you a Flash FLV file, but VidDownloader spits back an AVI file. 


iSquint (Freeware/Mac OS X only)
Convert any video file to iPod-sized versions and automatically add the results to your iTunes library. iSquint is free, but Lifehacker readers have praised the pay-for iSquint upgrade, VisualHub, which offers more advanced options for a $23 license fee. Check out the feature comparison chart between iSquint and VisualHub. 


DVD Shrink (Freeware/Windows only)
Copy a DVD to your hard drive and leave off all the extras like bonus footage, trailers and other extras to save space with DVD Shrink. Download Adam's one-click AutoHotkey/DVD Shrink utility to rip your DVDs to your hard drive for skip-free video play from scratchy optical media. 


Honorable mention: DVD Decrypter (beware of advertisement interstitial page), which Windows peeps can use to copy DVDs to their iPods.


Handbrake (Open source/Windows, Mac)
Back up your DVD's to digital file with this open source DVD to MPEG-4 converter app. See also how to rip DVDs to your iPod with Handbrake.