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Review: VMWare Unity

burace17 — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:43:18 +0000

Yes, this product has been out a while but I just downloaded VMWare last week and noticed this feature.

VMWare Unity allows you to combine your virutal OS and your host OS together. Here is a screenshot:

As you can see, I have Windows Movie Maker 2.1 and Windows Movie Maker 6 side-by-side. To activate this feature, click View, Unity in VMWare and the active application in the guest OS will be on your host machine. You will also see a button when you hover over the start menu in the host OS which will allow you to change applications.

Rating: 5 out of 5 starts

I highly recommend that you use this feature if you have VMWare

Review: Windows Live Essentials

burace17 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:29:44 +0000

I reviewed this application a year ago and it’s changed a lot since. The interface has been changed to blend more into Windows 7 which you will see in the screen shots below.

Part 1 – Installation

The installer is very user-friendly and doesn’t force you to install all the applications.

– It’s nice that you can select what you want and don’t want to install

– The installation took a little longer then I expected, but I have slow internet

– After about 30 minutes it’s done.

– And you can sign up for a Live ID if you haven’t already

– Looks like it worked

– Windows Live Mail is my second favorite email app next to Outlook

– Photo Gallery isn’t really need in Vista but it’s nice to have in XP

– Windows Live Writer is my favorite blogging application. Highly recommended

– Even though I’m not a fan of toolbars, this one is actually quite nice.

Overall rating: 4 out of 5

Installer: 4.5 out of 5

Mail: 5 out of 5

Photo Gallery: 4 out of 5

Writer: 5 out of 5

Toolbar: 3.5 out of 5

If you want to download Windows Live Essentials, just go here: http://download.live.com/

Wow..

burace17 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:47:26 +0000

It’s been so long since a blog post here, I’ve been really busy with school and other stuff and forgot about this blog. Well now I’m going to start blogging again. Here’s what to expect:

Review on Windows Live Essentials
Review on Internet Explorer 8
NFS Most Wanted/Undercover hints and cheats
Review on Windows 7 RC
and much more.

I hope you will enjoy what I will be posting here in the future

- burace17

My Browser’s Web site

burace17 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:05:02 +0000

Man, it’s been over a month since my last post. Sorry, I’ve been busy lately and haven’t had time to update this blog. Anyway, I finally got my browser’s website up and here it is http://browsernet.sourceforge.net. I will update everything about my browser there but this blog will be for talking about anything other then my browser.

My browser is hosted on SourceForge.net!

burace17 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:16:56 +0000

I submitted my application earlier today and got accepted tonight! For those of you who don’t know, I am writing a browser written completely in Microsoft Visual Basic. It has over 1100 lines of code and took 4 months to write. I used Visual Studio 2005 Standard and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It will take a few days before everything is working but when everything is working, the website will be http://browsernet.sourceforge.net (not up yet) and the project page will be http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/browsernet

Camspace

burace17 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:28:51 +0000

I just got invited to be in the Camspace beta. For those who don’t know, Camspace is a program that lets you use your computer like a Wii. All you have to do is take an object and tell the program to follow it. You can then use the object as a certain part of the game you’re using. If you were doing a flight simulator, then you could use the object as the joystick. I have not had a lot of time to mess around with it but from what I can tell it’s a really good product. Just remember that this is a beta product and is not completed. I have found some bugs but that is expected with beta products. You can apply for the beta program here. I will post more things about it will I have had more time to play around with it.

Windows “Mojave”

burace17 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:49:05 +0000

LOL. This is so funny. Microsoft’s new campaign to change people’s thoughts on Windows Vista seems to be helping some. What they did was rename Windows Vista to Windows “Mojave” and make people think they were using a whole new operating system but they were really using Windows Vista. I think this is a great idea since most of the people that don’t like Windows Vista have never used it, have used it but on a slow computer, or have used it on a computer with a lot of junk software on it. You can view the videos of what they did here or watch this video:

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3

burace17 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:51:51 +0000

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3 has been released and I have not had a lot of time to test it but you can download it from: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing and click on alpha 3. The biggest change is tabs in the file manager. Remember that all the changes in this alpha release may contain bugs that could harm your computer or your data, I recommend installing this in Virtual PC which can be downloaded here for FREE!

Windows “Fiji” has RTM’d

burace17 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:16:59 +0000

Finally! Windows “Fiji” has RTM’d as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008! More Info here . But remember that Fiji may not be released until September but that has not been confirmed by Microsoft.

Forget about saving XP, lets save Windows for Workgroups!

burace17 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:49:22 +0000

Microsoft has announced that OEM’s cannot license Windows for Workgroups in the enbedded channel after November 1. You can find out more about this from here .

Get ready for another InfoWorld petition .