Archive for May, 2007

Contacting Google
May 30, 2007

Colin C. in the forum says, “One of the things that bugs us all about Google is how to contact them about new features, bugs, help, downtime, etc.”, and wrote a nice overview of how to contact Google. I put the HTML’ified version below. Also see the previous post on how to contact Google.

Google Help [...]

Suggestions for Google Services
May 30, 2007

Most Google services have feedback forms where you can suggest new features or improvements, but some of them even list frequent suggestions and let you vote your favorites. The lists also give you hints about the future updates.

Gmail
Picasa
Picasa Web Albums
Google Talk
Google Calendar
Google Apps
Google Groups
Google Pack
Google Desktop

The writer:  Google System

Particls goes Public Beta
May 30, 2007

This Announcement Has been sent to my email because I’m a beta tester for a months. I like this program but the last time I test it didn’t support Arabic I don’t know about it now, I think I’m gonna download the  new beta and see.
 
 
After many months of anticipation, we are happy [...]

The perfect PC
May 26, 2007

Here in KSA stealing software is nothing… and even I don’t like that, I can’t stop it. And because of that I start a year ago the search for good alternatives, to be honest I always knew about the free and open source programs but I didn’t try it. I didn’t know how good those [...]

How Google translates without understanding
May 24, 2007

Column After just a couple years of practice, Google can claim to produce the best computer-generated language translations in the world – in languages their boffin creators don’t even understand.
Last summer, Google took top honors at a bake-off competition sponsored by the American agency NIST between machine-translation engines, besting IBM in English-Arabic and English-Chinese. The [...]

No end in sight for Vista’s Long Goodbye
May 24, 2007

Looking for yet another reason to hold off buying Vista? Read on
Seven weeks ago, when we first reported Vista was causing many machines to stall indefinitely while deleting, copying and moving files, we were sure the problem was caused by a bug that would be fixed relatively quickly. After all, Vista is Microsoft’s flagship product. [...]

80GB PlayStation 3 Bound for South Korea
May 21, 2007

According to official information posted on the PlayStation Korea website, the territory will be getting an 80GB hard drive inside the PS3 when it launches June 16. Neither the 20 GB nor the 60 GB PS3 consoles will be available in South Korea. Aside from the 80 GB hard drive, the hardware of the Korea-bound [...]

REAPER v1.85
May 21, 2007

I use it for more than 2 months ”Audacity”and Connect presented it last night. I don’t have any thing against Audacity, I like it but it’s very simple I mean it’s for light use.
Anyway this post is a small review about REAPER , this program is better and for advance use, it’s easy and the most important thing and I [...]

Halo 3 Beta Gaffe Angers Gamers
May 21, 2007

Microsoft has fixed some early issues in its Halo 3 beta offering for those who purchase the game Crackdown, as well as agreeing to extend the beta period by one week to June 10..
The beta of the next Halo game has been much hyped by Microsoft since November of last year when plans were first [...]

Google launches universal search
May 18, 2007

Google announced yesterday that users searching the web with its site will be treated to a veritable bounty of results from now on. No longer just the useful links you were after, but an array of video, pictures, and news will all be returned by a single search query.
Google has dubbed the idea “universal search”, [...]

Microsoft to beat Symantec to corporate release punch
May 17, 2007

With Forefront due out soon, Symantec’s latest release suffers further delay.
Microsoft has announced the release to manufacture of Forefront Client, the corporate implementation of its anti-virus technology, with full sales release expected within weeks. Current market leader in the corporate AV market Symantec, meanwhile, has announced further delays to the release [...]

Review about is my Phone
May 17, 2007

Sony Ericsson k810i
 

Sony Ericsson’s latest Cyber-shot handset is a photo-fanatic’s best friend, cramming in a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus and a top-notch Xenon flash, as well as super-smart editing features.
 

Packing Sony Ericsson’s Photofix software, the K810i lets you tweak pictures to your heart’s content, without ever offloading them onto a [...]

Apple preps anti-theft measures
May 17, 2007

Apple has successfully patented an anti-theft measure for mobile devices such as the iPod, iPhone and MacBook, according to Mac rumour site AppleInsider.
The technology works by detecting and reacting to unusual movements in the devices – such as the sort of continuous jerking motion you might associate with a mugger running away. This would then [...]

Sony: 15 Exclusive Games for PS3 This Year
May 17, 2007

Still lagging in sales behind competitors Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony is looking to an increasing number of exclusive titles for the PlayStation 3 this year in order to make up lost ground.
The company is admitting that a lack of titles produced solely for the PlayStation 3, as well as its high price, are two issues [...]

AMD new Phenom
May 14, 2007

AMD Finally Answers the Challenge with Phenom: Four Cores on One Die
May 14, 2007

After about ten months of watching somebody else marching ahead as the all-around leader in both price and performance, AMD this morning stopped making purely defensive plays, and at last launched its counter-offensive. It will be introducing a new CPU architecture for [...]

Yahoo widgets 4 vs Google Desktop
May 13, 2007

After I saw today Connect “Tariq” talked about Google Desktop so i decided to write the deferences between it and Yahoo widgets. But lucky me I read a post two months ago about this subject and I a greee with the writer 100% , and this is the post (I updated some parts of the [...]

The online scanner
May 13, 2007

Do you have a virus or a spyware in your PC, or you want to be sure that your PC is clean? then you don’t have to install another antivirus or do format “like some friends I know the only answer for all the problems they have is the format ” any way [...]

Use IM with out installation
May 13, 2007

What is Web messengers, how it’s useful?
It’s an instant messaging service without the need to download and install a separate application.
The change allows people working for companies and some Universities which stop staff downloading and installing applications to use the service. It will also make the service usable for people in internet cafes that don’t [...]

Windows Live Folders, Online Storage Service
May 13, 2007

LiveSide found a new service from Microsoft called Windows Live Folders, Redmond’s version of the long-awaited GDrive.
Windows Live Folders, which was briefly available at http://folders.live.com, will offer 500 MB of storage and 50 MB as the maximum file size. There are three built-in folders for documents, music and pictures. The permissions are at the folder [...]

Do you like Mac OS X? try Yahoo! Widget Engine 4
May 13, 2007

The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock [...]

Short too short
May 12, 2007

Your program is good but not perfect, this is what you it need:
1- The parts is so short make the program time long.
2- stop putting the commercial between the parts, make between two parts and make the commercial longer I don’t mind.
3- Read more messages not just one by part Tariq.