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A Web Talk’s reader, Teri Greene speaks about a nice portable e-mail client called JBMail. Let’s read what she has got to say to us.

“I just want to make a suggestion for the next article you write on security and viruses. Something that will work for many people is to not use a standard email client.  Use an email reader instead.  I use JBMail. There are others but it’s the fastest I’ve tried among spam filters, etc.  It converts the message to plain text, so there’s no way for an embedded virus to get in your computer…”. Continue reading »

Despite Windows Vista is one of the best Microsoft operating system ever, it still lacks of some important features which have been available in other operating system such as Mac X for a lot of years. For example, wouldn’t you like to have on your desktop a “smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher” in perfect Mac X style? Let’s see what freeware program lets us achieve this amazing result. Continue reading »

The official Windows 7 isn’t out yet (apart from the official beta version) but, incredible to say, the first hotfix is already out, fixing a very important issue which could cause MP3 data corruption. If you have Windows 7 I highly advise you to download and install this patch otherwise you might have big issues while using Windows Media Player 12. What do I mean? I mean that all of  your Mp3 files may become corrupted! Continue reading »

So, again this is the news of the moment which is concussing the Internet and above all Microsoft’s servers. As a matter of fact, as promised by Steve Ballmer at CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft has made available for public, free download the official version of  Windows 7 beta 1 . Let’s see together where we can download it! Continue reading »

I know pretty well that the world doesn’t need another digital frame at all. In fact, Web Talk has reviewed so many of them that I could write a real encyclopedia! Just in case you are clueless at what I am talking about,   the latest digital frames I reviewed are: Skyla Memoir digital frame, iGala Wireless Digital Picture Frame, eStarling WPF-388B digital frame, Ceiva CEIVAlife digital frame and VAIO CP1 Wi-Fi photo frame. Anyway this new  frame is quite different  in comparison to the ones already available in Web Talk. In fact, ImpactV stands out for its great services and features which are quite unique and “unknown” to other digital frames of the same level. Continue reading »

Despite the fact that today at CES in Las Vegas Microsoft will make available Windows 7 beta 1 for free download, I want to post the links to download the leaked versions of  32 and 64 bit Windows 7 beta 1. The links will let you download the DVD ISO image of Windows 7. Here are the details of the versions and the packages. Continue reading »

If you are one of the happy and lucky Windows 7 users you know pretty well how bothering all those watermarks appearing on the desktop are. As a matter of fact, if you have a beta or a RC (release candidate) you will see “For testing purposes only”, if your Windows 7 is not activated yet you will see “Evaluation copy”,  if you are on testing mode you will see ‘Test Mode” and if you boot in safe mode you will see “Safe Mode”. If you want to get rid, delete and disable all of these annoying watermarks to get a nice, tidy and clean desktop, here is  a simple script which will hack the system for you in a couple of clicks!  Continue reading »

Despite the world is still made by people who use Internet Explorer (alas!) and people using Mozilla Firefox, there are some thousand people who love and use the more than excellent Opera browser which, with this latest release has reached version 9.63. Let’s see together what’s up and hot in this new, stable release. Continue reading »