SoonR is a tiny piece of software that sits in your PC and lets you search your files and folders from a mobile phone. You can view or share any of the results that you discover right from your phone. It,s made up of three main components: SoonR Desktop to search and access documents and images, SoonR Organizer for email, scheduling and contacts and SoonR Talk for mobile VoIP.
To use SoonR you don’t need to install any software on your mobile phone, all you need is a decent GPRS connection to get started. However, on your PC you would need to install a PC software client, and tell the client what part of your PC you need access to. For instance, say you select Outlook. SoonR will send a web link to your phone just click on it and you can view all outlook email, as well as contacts and calender, from any phone (you need to run your PC when you’re out and accessing the outlook through SoonR). Viewing photos or files from the phone is a snap too. You could just Google any image you have on your PC or navigate to the file and select it. SoonR will take the image and compress it to a small thumbnail of around 73 KB to fit your phone’s small screen. With store folder at any time you can even access your files with your PC turned off. This is accomplished by caching an encrypted copy of information in our secure web servers of SoonR. The result is decent. however patience is the key, especially with the kind of GPRS network speed you get in India the image can take a long time to load but with EDGE phones the experience is slightly better. You can even change file format as well.
With SoonR Talk component you can connect with Skype service (VoIP) on your PC and make free calls from your cell phone. Other features include ability to access more than one PC with one SoonR account and intergeration of desktop search (like Google Desktop search).
After launching Gmail application for Mobiles, which become hugely popular with the mobile users to access there mails on the go, Google launched Mobile friendly version of Google Calender for Mobiles. After all Google realized that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere and Google’s Calendar team main goal is to make planning your events and maintaining your schedule as easy as possible.
Earlier Gmail opened its gate for everyone by removing the invitation required to sign-up for Gmail. Now Gmail has increased its file attachment capacity from 10 MB to 20 MB. However, the precise amount allowable will depend on the attachment. Now you can send big attachments with mails without compressing or breaking it in to smaller parts to make it under 10 MB. (Read more)
Once you have completed the prerequisties, creating your own information card is quite simple. Click on the start button and select the control panel. Now double-click on the Windows Cardspace icon. Then click on the ‘add card’ option and fill in the required information and your card is ready to use. This card can now be sent to any websites for registration and logging in. Cardspace reduces the risk of being ‘phished’(tricked into providing sensitive information over the internet to unverified sources) or key-logger (where a program runs in the background and picks up any usernames and passwords that you enter). Since the information card is stored in an encrypted formaton your computer, no other user, including yourself, from any other location can login under your alias.To use your digital identity from another PC, you will have to create a password-protected backup from the original computer. You can carry the backup on a USB stick.
Limitation: Now Cardspace technology in its initial stage and support for cardspace is currently low, you can expect it to pick up as more users migrate to Vista, Once that’s done though, you won’t have to pull out your credit card and manually key in the details ever again.
Install Customizegoogle free tool (Size: 50 KB) Home Page: CustomizeGoogle
Today more and more people are adopting Firefox as their default browser than Internet Explorer due its tons of features like Pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, page info, security, faster response, cleaner interface and thousands of Firefox add-ons provide the additional functionality to Firefox.
But if you are using limited data download plan or low bandwidth internet connection then it becomes necessary to hide the images on the web page in order to save the data download limit and load the web page faster. It’s easy to hide images in Internet Explorer, in case you’re still using Internet Explorer. Here are the steps to hide images in Internet Explorer:
->Open Internet Explorer (obviously)
->Under Tool tab, click Internet options, on the menu bar
->Select Advanced tab
->Scroll down to Multimedia section and uncheck the show Pictures option
->and click OK
->Done
If you want to hide images in Firefox, you have to install Image-show_Hide add-ons (size: 13 KB) available at add ons Mozilla site. Once you installed the Firefox add-on it will be added to toolbar (bookmark toolbar see image below) automatically and turn off and on images on all web pages either by clicking the icon or using keyboard shortcut “Shift key + Z” as said by author Dmitriy Altuhov. But this is not true according to me (as voiced by some other commenter s), you have customize toolbar (right click on the toolbar and choose customize to open customize toolbar) and drag the the image-show-hide icon on the bookmark toolbar (see image below).
Download Image-show-hide add-on for Firefox (size: 13 KB)
Opera v 9.20 build 8713 beta latest has been released to public. The most full-featured Internet power tool in the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera’s groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS, News feeds and IRC chat. You can also customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Changes in Opera 9.20 Build 8713:
- Unneeded scrollbar now gone on adobe.com
- Some fraud protection improvements
- Made proxy authentication work better
- Added Developer console
- Usage report only asks 1 in 1000
- Fixes to entering host name: port in address bar
- JavaScript scroll events now fired on mouse wheel
- Server Expiry header is now respected even if the time exceeds user preference
Download Opera 9.20 build 8713 beta (International Version) Size: 6.6 MB
Download Opera 9.20 build 8713 beta (English Version) Size: 3.9 MB
It has been a long time coming, but users can now have their first real taste of the Windows Vista operating system as well as Microsoft Office 2007. “Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 will transform the way people work and play,” said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Microsoft’s first new operating system in over 5 years. Microsoft’s biggest cash cows are being launched in over 70 countries, in 19 languages (99 before year’s end) and will be available in nearly 40,000 retail locations globally.
There are four editions of Windows Vista available for consumers:
Windows Vista Home Basic, $199/$99.95 (full/upgrade)
Provides a basic platform for home users who want to keep tabs on email and Internet activity. Comes standard with Vista’s new Search Explorer, Sidebar and Parental Controls.
Windows Vista Home Premium, $239/$159
Builds on Home Basic by adding the Windows Aero interface, Windows Media Center functionality, Windows Tablet PC technology and integrated DVD burning.
Windows Vista Business, $299/$199
Supports the Aero user interface, offers improved document managing and Windows Tablet PC functionality.
Windows Vista Ultimate, $399/$259
Vista Ultimate combines the functionality of Vista Home Premium and Vista Business.
Likewise, there are five editions of Microsoft Office 2007 available to general consumers:
Microsoft Office Home and Student, $149/NA (full/upgrade)
Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Word 2007, OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office Standard 2007, $399/$239
Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Word 2007, Outlook 2007
Microsoft Office Small Business 2007, $449/$279
Excel 2007, Accounting Express 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, Word 2007, Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
Microsoft Office Professional 2007, $499/$329
Excel 2007, Access 2007, Accounting Express 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, Word 2007, Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, $679/$539
Excel 2007, Access 2007, Accounting Express 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, Word 2007, Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, InfoPath 2007, Groove 2007, OneNote 2007
Grab an OEM copy of Windows Vista online here.
