This feature will help orkut users to easily organize their photographs. Earlier, finding a picture from a bunch of pics was really a tough job, now, it'll become easier.
Photo Sharing site flickr now allows editing your photos. Flickr has joined hands with popular online photo editing website picknik to enable editing. Just login to flickr and click on edit photo button on top of your image.
Once you accept to enable the picknik editor to use flickr account you can edit your pictures. Two tabs are available for editing your pictures. One is the Edit tab that lets you crop, resize, rotate or change exposure of the image. The other tab is create tab, it can be used to apply some cool effects, add text, different shapes, frames to your image. Once you complete editing, the new image can be saved in your flickr account. The old image is also preserved.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in a release on yesterday said that Windows Vista sales have crossed the 40 million mark in first 100 days of its launch in the market. He said that increasing drift of people's lifestyle towards digital entertainment has helped a lot to boost the sales of Vista.
Windows Vista was released by Microsoft on January 30 this year, the major upgrade for Operating System after five years from Microsoft.
He also said that Windows Server 2008 is planned to be released in second half of 2007. It will have better security features similar to Windows Vista.
AMD is all set to roll out 'Phenom' processor family in second half of 2007. The new Phenom family will have the architecture similar to quad-core Opteron processors which is set to be launched in mid 2007. AMD has not yet shared features or specification of Phenom and as a result some industry experts are not giving comments before any benchmark test. But Industry experts do feel that the time has arrived that multi core processing should be available to masses as more and more multitasking, video etc. is being used in everyday applications.
AMD Phenom will be answer to Intel's Dual core processor family and it'll be optimised for multitasking, digital entertainment, complex media creation etc. AMD's Product Manager Ian McNaughton said that AMD is now working on processors that enhance user experience by optimizing for multimedia entertainment.
A new IPTV service for British Sign Language(BSL ) has been launched in UK. The channel is VeeSee TV which broadcasts news and other programmes in BSL round the clock.The channel can be viewed on a PC or using a set-top box.
BSL Interpreter Susie Grant said that she has launched VeeSee to cater deaf people. VeeSee is the first dedicated channel for BSL users. She said that she was motivated by seeing some talented deaf people and VeeSee will act as an output device for deaf people to show their talent.
Researchers at Microsoft Research in Bangalore, India have developed software that enables Two Users to work simultaneously on the same machine and using same display device with two sets of keyboard and mice. The screen is split into two and a new cursor comes in for second user.
The both user sessions share processor and memory resources but the sessions are totally independent of each other. This can be of great help for professionals working on a project and for people who cannot afford to buy PC.
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British Library is working on a project to archive the present day email communication for future generations with the partnership of Microsoft. The archive might present a skewed look as only those emails will be archived that'll be forwarded to British Library. A British Library official said email in many respects has replaced snail mail letters and has become prevalent in present time as it has become the means for filing complaints, blunders, humours etc. He said that they are very excited for this project as archiving of emails has never been done before on such a large scale.
You can send your emails to be archived by mailing them to British Library here.
England's Top Soccer organization English Premier League is going to sue YouTube for alleged infringement of copyright saying that YouTube is knowingly engaged in copyright infringement to bring traffic to site.
Google-owned YouTube is already facing a $1bn lawsuit from media giant Viacom, accusing it of illegally showing clips from its TV shows.
The English Premier League and US music publisher Bourne launched the legal action in New York and asked for unspecified damages and YouTube's profits from the material in question. Due to increase in commercial value of English Premier League, protection of rights has become priority for the soccer organization.
The Development Team for PHP - the widely used web developemnt Language, has announced latest versions PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7. These releases come with a bunch of sability and security enhancements eg. bugs in functions like unserialize() etc. that allow attackers to take control of your application, mail header injections through mail() function has also been fixed, memory buffer overflows for some functions have also been fixed.
All users of older versions of PHP are strongly encouraged to update to newer versions.
At the Mix 07 conference, Microsoft has revealed that they are planning for Internet Explorer 8. Security and ease of use will be top priorities for the new explorer and will have better support for the latest web standards.
Microsoft Plans to release IE8 within 18 months from now. They said that IE7 has some problems with some websites not displaying properly which will be fixed in the new version.
On other hand, Mozilla Firefox 3 is under development, and popularity of Firefox is increasing day by day. To keep the lead, Microsoft will need to work on better support for latest CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) Standards.
