If you still running Windows 7, Vista or Windows XP, Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel is the tool you need to mount disk image files. Virtual CD-ROM is a tool just released by Microsoft and is very useful to get inside of disk image files (.udf, .cdfs, .jo, .iso, or .rock) to recover a file and [...]
Remember BitTorrent? The controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application. Well, things have dramatically changed since those days, and the company is developing new interesting products today. BitTorrent Labs, just released “BitTorrent Sync”, a free application that continues using P2P technology and it can well be your next favorite “remote backup”/”private cloud” solution, you’ve been waiting for. BitTorrent Sync [...]
Synergy is one of the most commonly used software to share between computers one set of mouse and keyboard over the network, and it works on PC, Mac, and Linux. The problem is that it seems not fully compatible with Windows 8 just yet. As such, I want to lay out a few settings in Synergy and [...]
Microsoft previously announced that it will be retiring Windows Live Mesh, the file syncing service, in favor of SkyDrive on February 13, 2013. Now that date is fast approaching and once again the company is advising the remaining 25,000 users that it is time to leave behind Mesh and migrate to SkyDrive. What’s next If you are still [...]
If you use Skype for Windows desktop application, the next time you update, you will find that Microsoft has added new integration for Outlook 2013 or 2010. The new features includes instant messaging, call support and video messaging. The three new features are well-blend into the email application, there isn’t anything that shouts “Skype”, but [...]
The Microsoft’s cloud storage service, SkyDrive, desktop and mobile apps just received some nifty updates. The most noticeable changed is the addition to allow users to select which files to sync to the service and to remote devices. SkyDrive selective sync makes much easier for users not to overload low capacity devices with large files and it will prevent the [...]
With Microsoft retiring Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype, starting version 6.0 of the messaging service for Windows and Mac OS X, the company is already prompting users to merge their Skype accounts with Microsoft accounts. What people may not know is that linking the two accounts is permanent and they cannot undo this [...]
As we talked on Monday, Microsoft has now confirmed that Windows Live Messenger (WLM) is retiring and Skype will take over as the primary Microsoft’s messaging service. The move to the new service started a few weeks back with the release of Skype version 6 for Windows and Mac OS X. According to a new Skype blog article, WLM [...]
This should not come as a surprise, but it’s just been reported by The Verge that Microsoft will soon announce that they will be discontinuing Windows Live Messenger and replacing it with the most popular VoIP software in the market, Skype. The software giant has been getting ready for this transition for quite sometime and has slowly [...]
Microsoft continues working hard updating to Metro style its line of software and online services to have them ready at launch of Windows 8 on October 26th. This time the software maker has unveiled a totally new and more productive preview version of its popular web mail service Hotmail — now re-branded to Outlook.com. Even though [...]