Kirtan Parmar

Windows Phone Apollo 8

Microsoft recently announced the follow up operating system to Windows phone 7.5 Mango – Windows Phone 8. This was unveiled at the Windows Phone summit developers’ conference, in San Francisco. ITProPortal live blogged all of the happenings of the event, where a day before, we covered all the rumours and speculation of WP8. We are now publishing the top features of Windows Phone 8, which will be arriving in the Autumn this year.

1. Support for multi core processors
Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 8 will be able to run on dual-core CPU based handsets, with support for multi-core hardware too. In the past, the Windows Phone OS was only able to use single-core processors. This held back hardware manufactures from employing cutting edge CPU options, which every other mobile OS supported in 2011. And now, quad-core chipsets are being used in flagship handsets.
When WP7 first came out in 2010, 1GHz was the minimum system requirement. An update to Windows Phone was recently made available, allowing WP7 to run on chipsets lower than 1GHz. This opened up Microsoft’s mobile OS to a new arena, by producing more affordable devices. The first of these lower-end phones to arrive and take advantage of the Windows Phone 7.5 refresh was the 800Mhz CPU based Nokia Lumia 610.
The inclusion of multi-core processors to the Microsoft mobile phone operating system will make the platform more scalable, both up and down. We are expecting to see handsets featuring dual and quad-core chips later this year, from the newly announced set of Windows Phone 8 manufacturers: Samsung, Huawei, HTC and Nokia. We expect that Nokia will be the first to support the new hardware, and to use dual-core Qualcomm processors.

2. Higher resolution screens
Windows Phone will support the 720p screen resolution and for the first time thanks to WP8. Windows Phone 7 could only be run on 800 x 480 resolution displays. Microsoft’s upcoming platform will now support the following display formats: 15:9 WVGA 800 x 480, 15:9 WXGA 1,280 x 769 and 16:9 720p 1,280 x 720. The addition of the last two screen resolutions will make the OS more accessible, to more people. Handsets running Windows Phone 8 can now be targeted at the low-end, mid-range, and the higher end of the market.
When Windows Phone 7 was first announced in 2010, the minimum display support level was fine for top-tier devices. Since then, higher 720p resolution displays have arrived. These can be found in devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S III. Microsoft will now be able to compete with Google’s Android in terms of a higher resolution capabilities. Besides providing higher screen resolution to the OS itself, pictures and video will also see a welcome improvement in quality. For example, the Nokia Lumia 900 could capture video at an HD resolution, but couldn’t display it pixel for pixel on its screen. This was partly down to the hardware, but really down to the limitations of Windows Phone 7.
This new ability will also extends to HD video’s that are either purchased or rented from Zune, so you’ll be able to watch your favourite movies in their HD glory. WP 7.5 apps will also run on Windows Phone 8, with guaranteed support for the new resolutions.

3. Windows Phone 8 is based on Windows 8
Windows Phone 7 was based on Windows CE, which dates back as far as 1996. This code was fine for the low cost and low powered handsets that came before WP7. Microsoft was aiming to change this with Windows Phone 7 but didn’t manage it, but it had started to change the core technology of Windows Phone.
Windows Phone 8 will now see that very change, as its core, underlying codebase is the same as the Windows 8 desktop operating system, shipping later this year. Microsoft has stated that the shared code relates to the Kernel, networking, file system, multimedia and graphics support.
The current Windows desktop Kernel is used by over 1.3 billion people today, so it is well tested and it’s coming to the Windows Phone mobile OS. This will mean a much greater choice in hardware for consumers, along with the possibility of applications developed for the desktop platform being available for WP8, or easily redeveloped. This could work in reverse, too.
The shared codebase is also ideal for hardware manufacturers, who will be able to offer just one set of drivers, for a slate, phone, laptop or PC. Overall, the experience of the Windows 8 desktop OS shouldn't be too dissimilar to that of the mobile phone platform.

4. Removable storage
Windows Phone 7’s minimum specification for internal storage is set at 8GB. This was announced at the launch event for Windows Phone 7, in October 2010. At the same time, it came to light that there would be no support for removable microSD cards, in any mobiles running the OS. This limit has now been lifted in Windows Phone 8 and there will be support for removable storage, in the form of microSD cards.
This initial restriction was reportedly down to two factors, where flash memory in a Windows Phone 7 device must meet certain performance requirements. And, the WP7 single file system spans the internal storage and the SD card. Therefore, the card couldn’t be removed and if it was, it wouldn’t function on another Windows Phone 7 handset.
In Windows Phone 8, the removable microSD cards can be for storing music, photos and video, along with the installation of apps. WP8 might have the internal storage requirements dropped, as a result of this new feature. 1GB or less might be the new standard, with a reliance on microSD cards to bolster the storage capacity of the phone. This would benefit the consumer, as more affordable handsets could be developed that do not carry the high cost of 8GB of flash memory attached.

5. Internet Explorer 10
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango saw the inclusion of Internet Explorer 9, which shared the same codebase as its desktop counterpart. This could almost be seen as the prequel to Windows Phone 8 sharing the same code base, as the desktop Windows 8 operating system.
Microsoft has extended this web browsing relationship to WP8, as Internet Explorer 10 will be bundled into the mobile OS and it has the same code base as the desktop version. Web coders will now be able to test mobile apps on a computer based browser, knowing that WP8 handsets will offer the same user experience.
IE10 will offer up twice the HTML5 rendering speed currently experienced on Windows Phone 7.5 handsets, along with four times the JavaScript performance. Also built-in, is the SmartScreen anti-phishing filter that uses data from millions of Windows PCs to block malicious websites, in a real-time fashion.
Ultimately, the support for multi-core processors, new higher screen resolutions and the shared code base will allow Microsoft to equip handset makers with better tools, to be able to compete with Android on the hardware front.

New Office on Windows Phone 8

All your Office documents, where and when you want them

Whether you’re using SkyDrive or Office 365, getting access to your Office content is just part of the phone’s easy set up. Windows Phone 8 auto-discovery gets you connected to your accounts, so you can get things done from any place, at any time.
The Office Hub – your go-to spot for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel – is redesigned with a simple and fluid navigation. Finding and accessing your personal and work documents on SkyDrive, Office 365 and SharePoint is also easy and intuitive.
In Office 365 your documents “travel with you,” even on different devices. No matter which device you used to last view or update a file, it will show up in your list of recently used documents on the phone. Email attachments you’ve opened in Outlook Mobile will also show up automatically in the Office hub. And you can access documents on SkyDrive or Office 365, and share them with others.
And of course we’ve made sure that the Office Hub takes advantage of the new ‘Tap + Send’ feature in Windows Phone 8 to let you share documents by tapping your phone on another NFC-capable device.

The best Office document rendering on any phone

Viewing Office content is a natural and delightful experience, optimally adjusted for the unique attributes of Windows Phone 8. Simple edits can be made with ease. In Word, Excel and PowerPoint, we’ve made the best even better by introducing a number of noticeable user experience and content fidelity improvements. All apps put content first and have a greatly enhanced ability to render gorgeous charts.
PowerPoint seamlessly renders all shapes and SmartArt Graphics, and honors your transition effects and timing. We added portrait mode with speaker notes, and slide thumbnails make navigation between slides a lot easier.

Excel also offers noteworthy new enhancements. Workbooks open at the last saved sheet and zoom level, and navigating through a large Excel worksheet is fast and fluid. New touch-friendly handles make range selection and resizing of columns and rows a snap.

It is now easy to read cells with lots of text on the small screen. As you navigate and tap through more cells in the sheet, the new reading panel refreshes its content.

The new full-screen reading mode in Word is a true delighter: Your controls automatically move out of the way as we put the content at center stage. Controls reappear by simply tapping on the document canvas. From there you can switch to outline view for quick navigation around the document, look for comments, or edit, save and share your document. Your cloud-connected document automatically resumes where you left
off reading, no matter where you last viewed your document – on your PC, tablet or phone!

All your notes and ideas – in one place and with you, anywhere

OneNote Mobile is now a separate app, always ready to capture your notes and ideas. Just tap the new OneNote Tile and take quick text, photo, and voice notes. You also have instant access to the notes you have made on other devices, search for specific notes, and get around your notebooks easily.
Notes look the same across OneNote 2013, OneNote for Windows Store and OneNote Mobile, so you always get a great, consistent experience wherever you are. Even ink content and annotations made with pen on your tablet PC will render perfectly on your phone.
OneNote Mobile accommodates both casual and advanced users. Users who just want to take simple notes on their phone, can use the Quick Notes starter experience. Advanced users who already organize their notes in notebooks and sections will enjoy the new navigation fine-tuned for the small screen.

How To Install And Run Android 4.0 On Mac, Windows PC Or Linux [Step By Step Tutorial]

The mobile smartphone and tablet industry seems to have a very prominent divide, with a lot of consumers having their favorite operating system and choosing to stick to hardware which is powered by their chosen OS. Obviously fans of Apple’s iOS use the iPhone and iPad devices, whereas Android lovers have a wide range of hardware to choose from due to the fact that the OS is available to multiple manufacturers.

But what happens if you are a die hard fan of iOS, or Windows Phone but you still want to sample the delights that Android Ice Cream Sandwich has to offer? I personally am an iPhone user for the last five years and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. But after recently getting my first taste of Android, I am severely tempted to shell out for a second device so I can have the benefits that both provide. For those that can’t, or won’t, purchase a second device then why not run Android 4.0 in virtualization on your desktop or laptop in order to see the Ice Cream Sandwich experience first hand?

Android 4.0 is an operating system in its own right, but instead of running on a dual boot setup, we install and run ICS within a free of charge virtualization application known as VirtualBox. VirtualBox runs like any other application or program on your machine, but offers the benefits of being able to install a secondary OS within it which can be invoked quickly by the user. For all those die hard iOS and Windows Phone fans out there, this is a perfect way to experience the delights of Android.

Are you ready for a whirlwind journey down Ice Cream Sandwich lane? Buckle in and follow the simple steps below.

Step 1: Head over to the official Oracle VM VirtualBox site and download the relevant VirtualBox binary for your computers operating system (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux/Solaris).

Step 2: Find the saved location of the downloaded VirtualBox binary and install as you would with any other native application making sure to follow all on screen prompts and instructions.

Step 3: Head on over to the VMLite website and download a copy of the Ice Cream Sandwich which has been preconfigured for virtualization and features seamless mouse support for navigation. The download weighs in at 88MB in size so may take a while to download depending on your connection.

Step 4: Locate the downloaded ‘Android-v4.7z‘ file and extract the contents from within.

Step 5: Once the Android-v4.7z file has been opened, locate a file from within the archive called ‘Android-v4.vbox‘ which as you can tell by the file extension is a pre configured VirtualBox file.

Step 6: Double click on the Android-v4.vbox file which will load the VirtualBox application and boot up the ICS file.

Step 7: When the boot menu is presented in VirtualBox, press ‘start‘ on the top toolbar and then if required select the ‘Android Startup from /dev/sda‘ option.

Step 8: All steps are complete. Android 4.0 ICS should now be booting up allowing you to enjoy that Android goodness.

Windows and Linux users may find that an alternative, specific version Android 4.0 may be required, which can be found by visting the Android-x86 page. The performance of the Android ICS virtual installation will obviously not be as smooth as intended on an actual device built for purpose, but it does give a feel of the OS with apps being able to launch as well as widget customization

TeamViewer - Free Software to Share your Desktop with another person via the Internet

TeamViewer is a simple and fast solution for remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer that works behind any firewall and NAT proxy. To connect to another computer just run TeamViewer on both machines without the need of an installation procedure. With the first start automatic partner IDs are generated on both computers.

Enter your partner's ID into TeamViewer and the connection is established immediately. With over 15 million users TeamViewer is a standard tool to give support and assistance to people in remote locations. The software can also be used for presentations, where you can show your own desktop to a partner. TeamViewer is completely free for private use.

License: Free
Operating Systems: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

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Hide Hard Drive in Windows XP and Windows Vista

Windows Tips

For example there are Drive C: and Drive D: in your computer, and for some reason you don’t want other people to see Drive D : when open the windows Explorer because its contain your personal data.

It is possible to hide a hard drive letter in windows operating system. However, this will not prevent you from access files from it manually for example directly to typing "D:" . but I thinks this tips still useful because other people doesn’t know you have drive D in your computer :)
Follow the instruction below to hide Hard Drive letter in windows operating system:

Hide Drive letter in Microsoft Window XP

1. Go to Start->Run and type “regedit”
2. Browse to the following registry :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Then, right click on the white space in the right hand side and select New -> DWORD Value Type “NoDrives”

4. Double click on "NoDrives" to enter a Decimal value. This value depends on the drives you wish to hide. Click OK once you have entered this number.

For example,
- To hide drive D enter a decimal value 8.
- To hide drive E enter a decimal value 16
- To hide both drives enter decimal value 24 ( decimal value 24 come from 8 +16)

Below is Value to hide the drive:
A = 1
B = 2
C = 4
D = 8
E = 16
F = 32
G = 64
H = 128
I = 256
J = 512
K = 1024
L = 2048
M = 4096
N = 8192
O = 16384
P = 32768
Q = 65536
R = 131072
S = 262144
T = 524288
U = 1048576
V = 2097152
W = 4194304
X = 8388608
Y =16777216
Z = 33554432
All drives = 67108863

Once you restart your computer, the selected drives should be hidden. If you wish to remove the hidden drives, browse to the NoDrives registry value and enter the value 0 or if you want to make a simple just delete it.

Hide Drive letter in Microsoft Window Vista

1. Press WINDOWS KEY + R and type “regedit”
2. Browse to the following registry :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Then, right click on the white space in the right hand side and select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value Type “NoDrives”

4. Double click on "NoDrives" to enter a Decimal value. This value depends on the drives you wish to hide. Click OK once you have entered this number. (please see the value when I write hide drive in windows XP above)

Once you restart your computer, the selected drives should be hidden. If you wish to remove the hidden drives, browse to the NoDrives registry value and enter the value 0 or if you want to make a simple just delete it.

Note : Before modify the registry, its recommended to backup your registry first

One-year license for USB Safely Remove 4.0

Remove USB Safely

Do you often experience problems when you want to remove the media such as USB Flash Disk, external hard drives, memory cards, your digital camera when its plug into USB Port..etc?
Even we try to remove it there is still an error message “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.”

If we force immediately revoke the USB Flash drive, it will be the potential damage to the USB or the data. To avoid the problem we can use alternative tool. For now I try to use USB Safety Remove software.

USB Safely Remove is a convenient and safe replacement for the standard "Safely Remove Hardware" tool. The program has many features designed for effortless working with hotplug devices (USB, SATA and FireWire).

What makes USB Safely Remove better than the Windows 'Safely Remove Hardware' tool?
-The ability to hide any device from the 'stop' menu.
-Uses real device names and allows renaming.
-Keyboard shortcuts for easy device stopping.
-Unique menu for one-click stop.
-Programs autorun on device plugging/unplugging.
-It tells you why a device cannot be stopped immediately.

In order to promote upcoming version 4.0 the vendor give us one-year license for the program for free. We can use all the features of the program and get upgrades for one year for free.

The giveaway has started on November 27th and will have continued until December 5th, 2008
you can register and download the software in here

So what you waiting for?? Lets use and test the program..its FREE!! :) :)

IE PassView v1.16 –Internet Explorer Password Recover

When you enter a Web page that contains a form with user/password fields and a login button, Internet Explorer may ask you if you want to save the password, after pressing the login button. Saving your password in the browser can help you to access the website without input your account again, but for some case your password potential to be stealing by other users.

IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer Web browser. It supports all versions of Internet Explorer, from version 4.0 and up to 8.0.

How to use IE PassView
IE PassView doesn't require any installation (portable), After download and extract the file, you can run the program by clicking the executable file (iepv.exe)
In the main windows you can see if there is store password in Internet Explorer. If you want to delete the password store in the Internet Explorer browser, simply just click the delete button.
Be aware that when you have a Web site that has multiple stored passwords, deleting the one of the passwords also remove all the other passwords for the same Web site. The reason for that is that all the passwords of a Web site are stored in the same entry.

• License: Free
• Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Publisher: nirsoft.net/
• Size: 49.36K
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How to Restore Accidentally Closed Tab on Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer

Accidently closed tab browser is common user problem, Closed Tab is quite annoying problem.
But now most of browser already have simple way to recover and reopen Accidentally closed tab.
Below are easy steps to recover the problem on Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer

1. Firefox
You can re-open the recently closed tabs by navigating through the menu History->Recently Closed Tabs. You can also use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T, to open the accidentally closed tab

2. Google Chrome
To open recently closed tab in chrome simply open new tab and in lower-right side, you will find details of your recently closed tab ,new tab page in Google Chrome displays a list of the three tabs that you have most recently closed, to get more information of your recently closed tab visit chrome history ( Tools - History ). You can also use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T, to open the accidentally closed tab.

3. Internet Explorer
To open recently closed tab in Internet Explorer 7 you need to install an add-on for Internet Explorer7 called “IE7 Open Last Closed Tab”. You can download the add on from here . After you have this add-on you can use shortcut Alt+X to restore the last close tab and using Alt+Q to choose the most recent closed tab visually

Thanks to Microsoft on Internet Explorer 8 comes with much advance feature to restore last closed tab. On IE8 simply if you close tabs accidentally, just open a new blank tab and

HOW TO REMOVE START BUTTON IN WINDOWS 7

Hey friends, hi to all of you. We are going to share that if you ever need to remove that start button from Windows, how you can do it? It is pretty much easy. Just follow the use of this utility called Tordex- Start Killer and it is a game of kids
for all. How? Follow the steps given below:

Download Tordex-Start Killer here and install

In above image, there is no start button and there is extra space for you. Enjoy!!!

However, you can still access Start menu by pressing Windows Key. When you want it back again, Just close the program by right clicking on icon in task bar and click Exit.

EXCLUSIVE : HOW TO GET AVAST (FREE) ANTIVIRUS FOR LIFETIME

Hey friends, hi to all of you. This trick is exclusively for the readers of Way2Hacking. Today, we are going to give you a long-validity avast! antivirus serial key. Now you may ask how long? Well, it`s almost 26 years (WOW!). So, what are you waiting for?
Continue to the steps given below:

What you will need?

Avast! Antivirus free edition setup, get it here.
You will need this post further, in the main console after installation of avast! Antivirus.

When it asks for the key, just copy this key and hit OK

W3083976R9962A0912-ZZT6LA5J

Here` the proof:

See, how long this goes? Upto 2038. And another good news is that Avast! doesn`t ban these keys for free edition. So, every future update will also support this key....
Enjoy!!
HAVE A TRICKY DAY!!!

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