Tag Archives: windows

06 April 2006

Apple releases Boot Camp to run XP on Mac

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More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today. As elegant as it gets.

Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows. Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them. (more…)

10 March 2006

No EFI support for Vista

Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista on its launch. The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI.

Speaking at Intel Developer Forum San Francisco, Microsoft development manager, Andrew Ritz, also revealed that there will never be any support for booting Windows via EFI on systems with 32-bit processors.

That’s terrible news for Intel Mac users who have been hoping that they could dual-boot Windows and Mac OS X on their new Macs: not only are their processors not 64-bit (and thus will never be supported by Windows EFI booting) but Windows Vista won’t boot on EFI anyway. #.

10 March 2006

Microsoft unfolds “Origami”, reveals on-the-go PC

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday unveiled its ‘Origami’ project, a paperback-book sized portable computer, which is a hybrid between a laptop PC and a host of mobile devices that the world’s biggest software maker hopes will create an entirely new market.

The Ultra-Mobile PC is a new kind of computer. It combines the power of Windows XP with mobile-ready technologies that make it easy to access and use your software on the go. With small, lightweight, carry-everywhere hardware designs, you can connect and communicate, accomplish any task anywhere and at any time, and be entertained and informed wherever life takes you.

Lighter than two pounds (0.972 kilograms) with a seven-inch (17.78-centimetre) touch-screen, the new “ultra-mobile” PCs (UMPCs) use microprocessors from Intel Corp. and run a modified version of Microsoft’s Windows XP Tablet PC edition.

12 January 2006

Windows on New Intel Mac’s

What’s an Intel Chip doing in a Mac? A whole lot more than it’s ever done in a PC
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its first computers using Intel chips, which power most PCs using Windows.This could allow a person to load Windows onto a Mac computer, although the user would require some technical expertise to pull it off. That would allow a person to run both Microsoft and apple’s operating systems on the same Apple machine.

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09 September 2005

AutoXDCC – IrcSpy’s cool tool

AutoXDCC is a program that does the downloading of files from IRC automatically. This application has been in the works for the last few months by the staff here at IRCSpy. There is no need to copy/paste annoying connection lines to your mIRC client. AutoXDCC allows for multiple downloads on various networks at the same time. The program associates to a special .xdcc file extension which will be made available for download on our search engine.There is no need to download future updated versions of AutoXDCC due to the auto-update feature.

Once installed, all you will need to do is head over to our search engine and click on the little black icon for the xdcc download you want. You will be prompted for file download. Simply click open and AutoXDCC will load up and do the rest.

This is the AutoXDCC icon that will be used to activate the download.

So start downloading this cool program and njoy

01 September 2005

NT/XP commands

An A-Z Index of the Windows NT/XP command line

ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASSOC Change file extension associations
ASSOCIAT One step file association
AT Schedule a command to run at a later time
ATTRIB Change file attributes

BROWSTAT Get domain, browser and PDC info
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24 August 2005

How To: Searching for Warez using Google China

This post is not about encouraging you to download unlicensed software or warez. Use at your own risk.

Finding pirated software is surprisingly easy with Google. Yes, we have astalavista to find the serial numbers and key generators, but it might take you a little more time to find the original setup files, and software that do not use serial numbers to validate the license.

Enter Google. Google China, to be specific.

It?s okay if you don?t read chinese. You just have to know some keywords to download any files successfully, with the success rate of as high as 100% according to this blog. This blog got all the instructions on how to do it. I dont think Google will allow to do this for long.

24 August 2005

Google Talk


Google already offers everything from e-mail to social networking. Now the popular search engine is jumping in on another popular form of communication, Google Talk, Google’s new IM/VoIP app. The Google Talk web site has gone live and you can now download Google Talk for Windows. Download Squad has screenshots and a quick review of Google Talk. It’s still in BETA stage but it is cool. so all of u try it and enjoy.

19 August 2005

Hidden Windows Applications

To run any of these apps go to Start > Run and type the executable name (ie charmap).

WINDOWS XP HIDDEN APPS:

1. Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)
2. Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe
3. Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)
4. Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)
5. DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)
6. Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)
7. IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)
8. Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented).
9. Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).
10. ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe (something to do with databases) (more…)