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Get more out of Windows Live Essentials : Photo Gallery

Saurav Srivastava — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:46:00 +0000

I have been using ACDSee for all my lite image editing tasks & management of over 4000 pictures since 2006, when I got my first camera Phone. But, the need for ACDSee reduced once I moved to Windows 7 with …

Vectir : The only remote control you will need

Saurav Srivastava — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:12:00 +0000

When I had my old Sony Ericsson K750i it had a feature using which I could control Windows Media Player or any other compatible media player using my phone over Bluetooth. It was quite a useful feature as I didn’t …

Microsoft’s debugging tools for Internet Explorer

Saurav Srivastava — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:19:00 +0000

Most of the web designer & developers are using some sort of tool like IE tester or a separate machine running IE 6 or IE 7 to check for compatibility errors with these browsers. Also, historically it’s been hard to …

Concept UI: Windows Password Center

Saurav Srivastava — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:40:50 +0000

Windows Vista lacks a good password management application by default which all other Operating Systems provide in one form or other. Since I already have a good idea for an UI, I am presenting here a concept UI for Windows …

Concept UI: Yahoo Messenger for Mobile Phones

Saurav Srivastava — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:39:30 +0000

I was looking at the state of Mobile IM clients out there today, & it’s not that good. None of the official companies such as Yahoo or Google or Microsoft are releasing mobile version of their IM Client based on …

Concept UI for Windows Viewer

Saurav Srivastava — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:36:58 +0000

Windows Vista has a new technology inbuilt called Windows Preview. Using this you can preview any file right there in the Explorer preview pane as long as you have a compatible plug-in installed. However if you are like me, then …