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Download The Windows 8 Consumer Preview

March 2nd, 2012

Microsoft has released their long-awaited Metro UI based Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

Apart from having the easy-to-use interface, the Metro UI based Windows 8 operating system is known for its touch-friendly UI. A whole new genre of desktop apps are coming, new gestures, and a completely redesigned browser.

Windows 7 users would only find the Start screen / Home screen to be different, rest all should be exactly the same as Windows 7. You can switch to your desktop view as you have for Windows 7 when you want in Windows 8. » Read more: Download The Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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VLC Gets a Major Update

February 22nd, 2012

One of the most popular media player, VideoLAN Player has updated with an experimental support for Blu-Ray discs and a very appealing new interface for Windows and Mac users.
Though for Mac users the user interface has completely changed and is much more appealing, for Windows users they have just polished the essential play/pause/seek bar buttons.

The mighty 2.0 update for VLC brings a ton of codec support and has drastically improved the support for multi-cores processors and faster GPUs. The new Blu-Ray support allows users to watch the Blu-Ray media even without actually ripping it before. It has a few minor issues, but its experimental so no complains there.

If you are a VLC user, this is a must upgrade for you and for those who aren’t using VLC yet, should get it right away.

Hit the link below to read more and grab a copy of VLC 2.0 right away!

» Read more: VLC Gets a Major Update

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Easiest Way to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

February 16th, 2012

WordPress, being one of the best CMS on the web now, it is being used extensively by many users. Many of us use WordPress on more than one website and monitoring them sometimes might get tricky.

With WP Remote you can easily monitor and manage all your WordPress powered websites under on Control Panel. The web App is completely free and setting it up is extremely easy, just install the asked plugin, configure the plugin and you are done.
There is no limit of the number of sites you can add and you can organise the sites easily in groups if you want. » Read more: Easiest Way to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

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Porting Apps From Windows Phone 7.5 to Windows 8 is Possible

February 16th, 2012

A Windows Phone OS App developer has successfully ported a Windows Phone game that he wrote on Windows 8. He claims he has reused 90% of the original code. This leaks that later editions of Windows Phone ( post Apollo update) will officially support porting of news app to old or vice versa.