If you are one of the lucky ones who own a touch monitor and is currently running Windows 7 beta or Windows 7 RC, you can test out some cool applications in Microsoft Touch Pack released by the Windows 7 team.
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JDownloader: Updated Automatic File Hosting Downloader
My favorite downloader tool for downloading files from file hosters such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, etc, JDownloader, has just been updated with a much needed GUI revamp. This is how it looks like after installing the newest update.
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How To Schedule Rapidshare File Downloads With JDownloader
I just found out that there’s an addon for JDownloader that helps you to schedule files to be downloaded at a specific time. Scheduling downloads has allowed me to download my favorite shows and sports programs from different file hosting providers such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire etc any time I wanted.
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Microsoft Office 2010 Minimum System Requirements
The minimum system requirements for the next version of the Microsoft Office, Office 2010, has been announced.
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How To Download Youtube Videos Using Firefox Extensions
Downloading videos from youtube or any other video sharing sites such as Metacafe, Veoh, Revver, Myspace etc is very easy with these firefox extensions. If Firefox is already your default browser, then having one of these extensions installed will help you save your favorite videos for later viewing.
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Installing SQL Server 2005 Service Pack Silently
Switch
Description
/?
Displays unattended installation command prompt help.
/allinstances
Applies SQL Server 2005 SP3 to all instances of SQL Server 2005 and to all SQL Server 2005 shared, instance-unaware components.
/instancename=InstanceName
Applies SQL Server 2005 SP3 to an instance of SQL Server 2005 named InstanceName, and to all SQL Server 2005 shared, instance-unaware components.
/password=Password
User account password for connecting to a remote failover cluster node.
/quiet
Runs SQL Server 2005 SP3 Setup in unattended mode.
/reportonly
Only the discovery and enumeration section of Setup is run, and a report enumerating the local instances and components of SQL Server 2005 is displayed.
Note:
When using this switch, SQL Server 2005 SP3 is not applied.
/rsupgradedatabaseaccount=rsAccountName
Specifies an account that has permissions to modify the schema on a report server database when you use SQL Server Authentication. This parameter is used when you upgrade an instance of Reporting Services that includes a report server database that requires a SQL Server login.
/rsupgradepassword=rsPassword
Specifies the password for an account that has permissions to modify the schema on a remote report server database. This parameter is used when you upgrade an instance of Reporting Services that includes a remote report server database.
/rsupgradedatabase
Use the switch /rsupgradedatabase=0 to prevent the Reporting Services database from being upgraded
/sapwd=SaLoginPassword
Passes the SQL Server Authentication password for the sa login to run scripts.
Note:
Do not escape characters for /sapwd. Escaping characters will cause Setup to fail.
/user=Domain\UserName
User account for connecting to a remote failover cluster node.
Windows 7 Minimum Systems Requirements
Your PC will need to meet the following minimum requirements to run Windows 7.
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Importance of Antivirus Protection
You need an antivirus application on your computer for your own protection no matter what. Shortly after I downloaded an application using Frostwire and tried to install it, my antivirus pops up and tells me that something fishy was happening. Setup.exe was a fake and I can tell from the task manager that it was taking up a lot of CPU resources (apparently trying to create fake files and planting trojans to my computer).
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P2P Downloader FrostWire VS Limewire
For those who are still using LimeWire, you should really switch to Frostwire. FrostWire is a Peer to Peer (P2P) information sharing client for the Gnutella network just like LimeWire, supports torrents, magnet links plus built in community chat. FrostWire is actually a fork of the LimeWire source code. There’s no difference in terms of search results as Frostwire returns the same results as LimeWire.
Download Firefox 3.5 Beta 4
Firefox 3.5b4 has been released and is now available for download.
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