I was looking around for an alternative for Outlook as my email and information client, and happened upon a version of Evolution compiled for windows. Google doesn’t specifically show how to configure Evolution, so I decided to look for examples myself. When I was looking around for information on how to configure it for pop […]

Face recognition software, like may things in the technology realm, continues to get better. It is to the point that now, according to the results of a recent contest, that machines can outperform most humans at recognizing faces. The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006 showed that the […]

Mozilla Lightning is a calendar add-on for the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application. Mozilla Lightning, more accurately, is an integration of Mozilla Sunbird, a stand-alone calendar, and the Thunderbird e-mail application. The integration of the calendar makes Thunderbird into more of a PIM(Personal Information Manager) than a standard e-mail application.
Lightning offers the usual assortment of features […]

Mozilla is funding Democracy Player to the tune of $100,000. This is a nice boost for the open source streaming media player.
Democracy Player, soon to be “Miro”, is a media player with many uses. It plays many file types, allows you to subscribe to an play video blog and podcasts, supports downloading and storing videos […]

Irfanview has been updated to version 3.99. Irfanview is certainly one of the most popular image viewer on the web, with nearly 21 million downloads from download.com alone. Some of its features include being a light weight image viewer, built in thumbnail browser, image conversion, batch processing of images, plugin support for more formats including […]

There is a new version of Google Desktop, version 4.5. It offers a few visual enhancements such as transparency, and includes updates for compatibility with Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Firefox 2.0. The 2.07MB download is available at the Google Desktop site.
Source: Google Desktop Blog
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Network administrators, power users, and command line junkies can rejoice. Windows PowerShell has been released. PowerShell offers users of Windows an advanced shell interface for maintaining Windows computers, including servers. It offers a host of improvements over the old style command shell, and it is nice to see that many common Unix shell commands work […]

If you have a large number of miscellaneous audio files and would like a good piece of freeware for tag editing and cataloging, have a look at TagScanner. There is a new beta version of the 5.0 release.

TagScanner is the work of Sergey Serkov, and offers a great deal of tools for maintaining your collection […]

Microsoft is getting ready to release a beta version of a new cross platform graphical subsystem, WPF/E. WPF/E stands for Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, and is a scaled down version of WPF.

WPF is the graphical subsystem of .Net 3.0, and is a part of the Vista operating system. It is what allows such fluid transitions […]

Google Earth is allowing its user to travel back in time, sort of. As of today, when you load Google earth you can choose to overlay a collection of historic maps. There are several to choose from including Lewis and Clark 1814(see picture above), world globe 1790, Tokyo 1680, and many more.
This marks another round […]