I read this PressPass article this morning from Microsoft. Apparently Microsoft plans to reduce the prices on several versions of retail editions of Vista with the launch of SP1.
“Since its release, Windows Vista has seen solid sales through the first year of availability, primarily through the sale of new PCs. Stand-alone retail sales, while not […]
This past Sunday I discovered a trojan on my main desktop PC. Later on that day I discovered it had also made its way to my laptop. It had disabled some Windows applications, and just to be on the safe side I decided to just back up my data, and restore a disk image with […]
After being in beta for quite a while, Microsoft officially released Windows Live SkyDrive. During the beta testing users had up to 1GB of online storage, but today it was upped to a whopping 5GB! In addition to the increased storage, SkyDrive also rolled out in 35 countries as well.
I have been using […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about the release of CursorFX, which is the replacement for CursorXP. CursorFX allows you to easily and safely change your Windows cursor to one of the thousands already available for download.
The original release was a little bumpy, so today an update was released that fixed a host of […]
Stardock has released Tweakvista 1.1. TweakVista has become one of the most popular tweaking tools for Windows Vista. It lets users safely “tweak” various Vista system settings to let users get Vista running to their desired preference.
TweakVista 1.1 is merely the first step on the journey to let users start tweaking Vista themselves. […]
If you are a fan of the Xbox 360 like myself, I often find myself at stores like GameStop picking up some original Xbox games for a value price. The big downside is not all original games are compatible, and the list on Xbox.com isn’t the easiest to navigate to.
If you have an iPhone, I […]
The launch day for the highly anticipated 4x strategy space game, Sins of a Solar Empire, is finally here. Sins is available in both retail stores and through the digital distribution system, Stardock Central.
A gameplay example was written that gives an awesome overview of what some of the gameplay entails. You can check […]
I recently wrote about the Election Countdown gadgets I made for Windows users, so today I wanted to share the dashboard widget that Mac OS X users can use. Just as it’s Windows counterparts, this widget will count down the days until the 2008 Presidential Election.
Download: Election Countdown 2008
The latest iPhone and iPod Touch updates brought us a new feature called WebClips. Basically, you can save a web page, or a part of a webpage to the iPhone/Touch home screen. It’s a very convenient way to save websites you visit often. If a website does not have a specific WebClip […]
For almost the past year, animated wallpapers on Vista have been exclusive for Vista Ultimate owners. Stardock DeskScapes was released soon after which brought some amazing enhancements including dynamic and triggered wallpapers, the new .dream format, and more.
The first beta of DeskScapes 2.0 has arrived for Object Desktop users. DeskScapes 2.0 will run on any […]
