Microsoft Live Labs Pivot

Microsoft Live Labs Pivot is designed to make it easier for the users to handle, organize, sort and categorize data in a dynamic graphical user interface. It combines and presents large amounts data in a summarized form. It works perfectly fine in Windows Vista(aero) and Windows 7.

Open Office.Org

Open Office source is an open source application suite.
This software consists mainly of
1. Spreadsheet
2. Word processing
3. Presentation
4. Graphics
5. Databases
6. Drawing

It is a free software and supports a number of operating system such as :-
1. Linux
2. Solaris
3. Mac OS X
4. Windows


A file made in this Software is saved in the .ODF format

Recover your deleted files

Have you been ever messed up after deleting your important documents using shift + delete (shortcut for deleting files without saving in the recycle bin).

Well there is a solution to it . You can recover your permanently deleted files using the Pandora recovery. This software enables you to recover your deleted files for free..

Download this software from

http://www.pandorarecovery.com/

Long URL Please!

Long URL Please is a Firefox add-on that reveals the destination behind every shortened URL. It replaces the shortened URL with the original one, so that we don't hesitate on clicking that link. With the original links we can see where the links actually link to, but in the case of shortened links we don't even get a clue! This add-on supports more than 60 URL shortening services like bit.ly, goo.gl, TinyURL, digg, etc.

Without

With Long URL Please

CLICK HERE to install Long URL Please add-on to your Firefox.

Flock--The Social Media Browser

The Flock web browser is powered by Mozilla, so it has many extensions and features familiar to Firefox. With this browser, it becomes easier for us to stay updated with our social networking sites, email accounts, blogs, etc. We can control all our accounts with a single sidebar, called People, with this toolbar we can send email to our friends, comment on their posts and much more! Another great feature in this browser is that, if you want to email a photo or a link to a friend, just drag and drop that photo into your friend's profile, and let go of it. But one thing that disappointed us is that it does not have enough themes available. This browser has got it all to make social networking easier and more interesting, but absence of much themes downgrades our ratings. This Social browser gets 8/10 from our side.

Chromium OS

Chromium is a cloud based computing operating system . Nowadays people use the computers basically for the purpose of internet. The difference between Chromium OS and other Operating systems is that it breaks your desktop functions into their bare minimum. Unlike other operating systems when you boot up your computer the chrome browser automatically boots up. Major applications that usually run on your desktop, work via your web browser. But the one thing that its lacks is it does not have a Shut Down option, it might be fixed later in its later versions. We tested the Chromium OS on a virtual machine so enjoy watching the video of the test run of chromium OS.

The 3D photo viewing experience--Photosynth

Photosynth is a panorama product from Microsoft Live Labs. With Photosynth you can convert regular digital photos into a 3-dimensional experience! You can zoom in and out, as this is a 3D world, it encourages you to flip and rotate, and EXPLORE your images. As you rotate your image the image keeps updating. Its the speed of it that Really got us. Photosynth has got some impressive stuff.
Moreover its Free of cost!

Hands On With Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 6

The New Firefox 4 Beta 6 version is the latest browser from firefox. It Gives a look of many different browsers such as the Opera , Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9 beta verison. The menu bar of the new firefox is hidden in the top left corner of the browser under the firefox button. It is similar to the menu button in Opera.

The New Progress Icon... As the page loads the progress icon beside the webpage name appears..

Now each tab in Firefox has its own thumbnail, the same which happens with Internet Explorer 9 in Windows 7!

The new Firefox 4 has got better security and improved HTML5 functionality.   

Tabs are on the top just as google chrome.

The new tab managing feature called Panaroma enables firefox users to manage opened tabs and put them in groups.

Speech Recognition In Windows 7

The Windows 7 has an inbuilt feature of speech recognition. We can control our PC as per our voice commands. We can even dictate sentences with it. Copying, Pasting, Deleting, Opening a program, etc all can be done with our voice. This feature has become popular due to its capability to enable the inbuilt microphones to capture sounds in laptops and PCs. So if you have Windows 7 definitely try speech recognition.

                                           

Nokia PC Suite

If You own a nokia, the Nokia PC Suite is a must! It has got support for MIDI and bitmap files. It is a free PC Connectivity software through which we can transfer audios, videos, graphics etc. We can also manage contacts or even caller groups. It helps us to create a backup of all the data! It a free software which is easily available and our Nokia Phone can be connected to the PC through a data cable or a bluetooth/infrared connection. But the mac version of this software is not available yet, we hope that it will be available soon!

Internet Explorer 9 Beta

The new IE9 has some interesting features and upgrades from the earlier versions of IE . You can pin your favorite websites to the Windows taskbar for shortcut access. When users need to use more than one website to accomplish a task, the tear off tabs feature helps with side-by side comparison.
Another feature of the IE9, the add-on performance advisor notifies users when add-ons are slowing down their browsing session which is highly required in Mozilla Firefox. The SmartScreen Filter integrates scans into the new Download Manager, using Download Reputation to remove unnecessary warnings for well-known files. The IE9 makes web navigation easier with features that are integrated with
Windows 7 navigation, such as Jump Lists, tear-off tabs, and thumbnail controls. This allows users to get to their favorite sites quickly. Microsoft began developing the IE9 in March 2010, and released the Beta version in September 15, 2010. It is compatible with Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit and windows vista 32 bit and 64 bit . However the one thing that differentiates IE9 from all other browsers is its tie with to HTML5.

Tear off tab function

Internet Explorer 9 beta Screen shot

TeraCopy

TeraCopy was developed by Code Sector and was released in 2007. It is a free file-copying utility that offers more speed and security than Windows. It's a software that can quickly copy or move a single file or multiple files to any directory you select. Copying processes can be paused at any time and then be continued with a single click. In case of copy errors, TeraCopy tries several times to copy the files but in some rare cases it would just skip the file, not terminating the entire transfer.

Epic--the Browser

The bangalore guys have a launched a new browser, THE EPIC. It works on the Firefox platform. Features...
1. News from IBN live, NDTV, Yahoo, Rediff, Digg and Indiatimes
2. It has a simple language converter through which we can convert English to-Hindi, Arabic, Greek, Gujrati, Kannada, Malyalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi etc. we just need to write the pronunciation of the words and the word automatically gets converted to the language fonts.
3. It has A lot of skins to Choose from and we can even create our own custom skins!
4. It has an Inbuilt FREE Online Anti-Virus Protection which provides security to the users.
5. It has a write pad which Lets us Make short notes while browsing and we can even save them as .txt files
6. We can even watch YouTube videos on the sidebar while surfing the net.
7. The 'My Computer' option shows all the files on your hard disk and you can open files from your browser only. NO NEED TO MINIMIZE YOUR BROWSER!
8. To Do list ,Timer, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut , Gmail, Yahoo, Maps , all can be done while surfing the net.
9. Add-ons can be added to the browser to improve the browsing experience . The add-ons are same as that of mozilla firefox.

  

Can be downloaded from http://www.epicbrowser.com/