A selection of articles published between February 5 and February 11 of previous years.

1 Year Ago

• Guide to Automated Software Installation: Install your software unattended, silently and in bulk. The complete guide.

Here are the winners of the Auslogics File Recovery 3 giveaway we organized a few days ago. Auslogics File Recovery is an easy to use file recovery software for Windows that can recover any type of files irrespective of the file extension/type from any kind of storage media. The 5 lucky winners are:

Stuff Organizer is an open source, catalog application for Windows for organizing ebooks, movies, music, software - whatever you have that needs organizing. Using a simple folder/sub-folder structure you can organize any files on your computer. You cannot use it to catalog physical objects  – it’s not a home inventory software, only files. Aside from maintaining a fully searchable database of your files, Stuff Organizer will unpack archives and move your files around to organize them into clearly labeled folders. Stuff Organizer is not just a file tagging software, it’s a true file organizer and cataloguer.

Last month, The Pirate Bay announced that it will stop hosting torrents in the near future. Instead, it will list only magnet links, which are simply hashes of the .torrent files. Switching to magnet links makes The Pirate Bay much more portable and difficult to shutdown since the nature of magnet links is such that it allows users to download torrent files directly from a seeder or leecher without any need for the tracker. Another big advantage is bandwidth saving. A .torrent file can be from tens to several hundred kilobytes in size, whereas a hash of the same file is only about 20 bytes. This allows The Pirate Bay to pack millions of torrents, or rather magnet links, on their server at only a fraction of the space previously required.

Apparently, Microsoft is not yet done changing the interface on Windows 8. Screenshots purported to be from Windows 8 Beta (build 8220), dubbed the “Consumer Preview”, posted on the Chinese website PCBeta, showed the taskbar without the Start button orb. In the Developer Preview, Microsoft had flattened the start button in an awkward attempt to match it to the Metro style interface. In the Beta build, the start button did the vanishing act.

This collection consist mainly of themes released/updated during the last two months since the last collection.

Previous collections: September, August, July, June and May and Windows 7 themes – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

A selection of articles published between January 29 and February 4 of previous years

1 Year Ago

• Sync Evernote Notebooks With Gmail: If you use both Evernote and Gmail this free tool will synchronize Evernote notebooks with a GMail account. The notes in Evernote are uploaded to your GMail account as emails, and stored in a folder of your choice.

Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gave viewers a glimpse into Adobe Photoshop CS6’s Camera Raw tools. The most dramatic change that you will notice from this video is the darker color of the new interface which Hughes explains was chosen to make Photoshop consistent in appearance with some of Adobe’s other products like Lightroom. Users will however be able to change back to the lighter classic color if they want to.

Veteran developer of 3D application software, DAZ 3D is well known among 3D circles. DAZ provides large number of add-on products and models of human figures, anatomy, clothing, animals, vehicles and such for use in popular 3D software applications such as Poser, Blender, Maya and Photoshop Extended. DAZ also has several of their own 3D creation programs, the most notable among them are DAZ Studio and Bryce. Bryce is one of the first realistic landscape generating computer program while DAZ Studio is a 3D posing and rendering applications.

Firefox 11 Beta, which is now available for download and testing, comes with some big changes, the biggest of which is add-on sync. Firefox Sync, introduced in Firefox 4, allows users to synchronize bookmarks, browsing history, preferences, passwords, and even opened tabs across multiple computers. Users who desired add-on synchronization had to use third party services like Siphon. With Firefox 11, this will be no longer necessary.