Web Talk

A few days ago in a post I spoke about the possibility to see Windows Vista 7 by 2009. The post came from many rumors on the web, also due to the fact that a road map had been released, showing a possible release for that year. Well, winvistaclub.com managed to “steal” an interview from the Windows guys saying that : “Windows 7 still in planning stage and will take approximately 3 years to develop”. Read the full intervew here. To tell you the truth I am more than happy about this news. I think that Windows Vista still needs a lot of support. It is far from being bug-free and perfect ( well, with Microsoft you don’t have the chance to use this word a lot of times). Having another buggy software out could only mean sharing Windows resources to fix bugs between two operative systems delaying, in this way, the day to see a Vista really stable and secure. Speaking about Windows Vista, when Microsoft started commercialising it, it had to think about stability more than money. Looking from this standpoint, releasing Windows Vista looked more like a money gathering than a real WOW…

This add-on for Firefox is a nice companion for your Google Docs. In fact with it you can drag and drop your documents inside its sidebar to upload them. You can also search and filter them with it. There is not a lot to add. gDocs bar is a very interesting add-on. It is a pity the website doesn’t provide a lot of infos about its features. They could add a nice video or some pics instead of a sad bare bone homepage with a couple of writings. Anyway apart from this it is worth being tried.

vozMe is an interesting application for your blog that lets you create audio files of your posts for those readers that don’t want to spend a lot of time in front of their pc, but want to listen to what you have to say directly from their MP3 players. The plug-in for Wordpress is available here. But vozMe doesn’t look at bloggers only, but to surfers as well. In fact on its front page (that comes in English, Spanish and Italian) you can see a large form where you can write or paste whatever you want. A quick click on the “create MP3″ botton and that’s it! You can start downloading the file for your Ipod. To try with no hesitation if you are a lazy brat!;)

It looks like Microsoft is working hard on Vista (and XP) and its Service Pack Release Candidates. A few days ago I posted an article speaking about Windows Vista SP1 RC (6001.17128) v.744 update. Well, incredibly enough, another Windows Vista SP RC has just released to beta testers. Of course, the hack to download it is already available on the Internet. So let’s see where to download this new release and how to install it. Let me remind that, if in your computer you have another SP Release Candidate, you have to uninstall it in order to avoid any issue due to having 2 SP on the same machine. To uninstall it follow this link here.

1. Download the hack here.
2. Uninstall any previous SP RC version
3. Run the hack
4. Check for updates
5. Install the updates named KB938371 and KB935509. This is a must if you want to run the SP1 into your machine
6. Reboot the computer
7. Check for updates again
8. Install (KB937287_6001.1800). It will let you install the SP1
9. Be patient
10. After a few minutes check for updates again
11. You should see the SP RC named (KB936330)
12. Download it!

If this rumor is confirmed, it will mean that hundreds of employees will be without a job in a shot time ( I hope not!). As a matter of fact it looks like Dell is about to close its kiosks all over the States. It makes sense to me since the competition is becoming really tough. With Wall-Mart, Best Buy and Radio Shack looking at big profits and eating other companies alive, well, I think the guys at Dell are right to use their axe on some company extensions. They can not afford to become sombody else launch!

If you need to edit some pictures but you don’t want to spend bucks on expensive software, then this online application is for you. In fact, Splashup lets you edit every kind of picture directly from your browser. No need to use any software. There are no limits to the source your pictures come from. They can be imported from your hard disk, Flickr, Facebook, Picasa or from a web address. As far as Splashup features are concerned I can tell you that they are quite amazing, without speaking about their level that can be considered professional! You can work with different pics at the same time and on different levels. You can apply different layers and filters such as: sharpen, blur, add noise, invert, desaturate, colorize etc. You can zoom in or zoom out, select, write etc. The things you can do are really, really a lot and best of all they are for free. To start using Splashup you don’t need to sign-up, just jump in, click here and start working on it! If you want to know more watch this video.

Playoo is a website where people and developers loving their phones can go and download or share their games. Once you sign-in you have the possibility to download, upload, create, rank, preview, comment etc the best phone games ever made. Playoo has a growing community full of people who like you can’t wait to try the next game or break through the next level.

Just a quick note. A new guide has just been released. If you wonder how to protect your computer from viruses, if you want to learn how to be smarter while surfing, if you want to know what threats are on Internet I advice you to read this new guide!

Well, it seems that some guy working at Microsoft couldn’t help it and decided to put a video of Windows 7. Dear Bill…ehm…no, he is retired. Dear Microsoft, I guess you have to check your security tighter! Anyway, I dont know if this video is real or fake but it is worth being watched. What do you think?

Toshiba is about to launch a new series of 1.8″ ultraslim external hard disks with 60, 80 and 120 GB capacity. The news is that these hard disks are the same used by the iPod Classic which should be a relaxing certainty of good quality. They also have a backup and an encryption software included. The launch will be in the spring. No word about the price.