Windows 7 News

The Context menu is often overlooked by many users. This is a pity as it provides lots of quick ways to get on with the job. I am writing three articles about Context Menus.  In this, the first, I’ll explain what is a Context menu and tell you a little of the  History of the Context Menu and then show where you can access them. All it needs is a right-click and “ Hey presto !” and a context menu appears!  Tip! However if you have problems right-clicking with the Mouse select the object and press the Window Context key.

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Windows XP was released back in 2001 and now it’s beginning to start showing its age. Apart from the rather outdated user interface,compared to Windows 7 at least, Windows XP is now beginning to suffer from advances in hardware. While you may think that newer hardware makes Windows XP run faster, well it may be the case sometimes, but not now. In this case, new hard drives are coming out starting January 2011 which will see a decrease in performance for machines running Windows XP

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Contemplating a big life change? Maybe you’re deciding whether to look for a new job, or you’re weighing something simpler like where to go for dinner. A list of pros and cons can help you make the decision based on the evidence that’s in front of you and not on impulse alone. ProConLists.com is a Web service that can help you quickly and easily get in front of you the pros and cons of any decision, big or small, and then share your list with the world to get everyone’s opinion on the decision. ProConLists.com seems to be used largely for popularity-contest questions, like whether or not the Bloom Box fuel cell is worthwhile, whether you should play Guild Wars or World of Warcraft, and whether you should consider buying an Apple iPad

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Who says the game selection for the Apple Macintosh platform sucks? Lots of people, actually: the OS has a pretty grim track record when it comes to games. But things have certainly been changing on that front over the past few years. The Apple OS is about to make another bold step into the world of measured gaming respectability

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Is the day of the PC finally coming to and end?  Are the wars over what operating system or browser we use finally over?  If so then we should all hail a wonderful future… right!? In the last few years we’ve seen a monumental shift in the way we interact with the internet, and in what we define as the devices we need to do so. 90+% of the activity we use PCs for, at least in the home, is internet-based, be it email, shopping or social networking.  Indeed as a power user the extra software I have on my PC that I use, Microsoft Visio and Publisher and Nero are the only ones that get used with any regularity, and in some cases that’s less than once a month.  The rest of the time I’m living in my browser, or, as in the case of Live Writer and Live Mail, I could be. In the last month however there has been a monumental shift in computing technology with two products announced that could revolutionise computing in the home.  These are Apple’s iPad and Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series

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As Apple quickly claims there are well over 100,000 apps available for the iPhone (and cousins) platform. It’s really a meaningless number because apps are judged one-by-one, not in the aggregate. That being said 100,000 makes having any specific app stand out tough.

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Vlingo has unveiled a new iPhone app that lets users send voice-powered e-mail and text messages, among other things. The company aims to distinguish its app from countless others by boasting how it can handle numerous different tasks, instead of just one. The list: e-mail, “SMS paste,” social site updates, maps, search, and voice dialing. Anyone can grab the new version for free in Apple’s App Store , although you’ll need to pony up $6.99 to activate e-mail or SMS paste (or $9.99 for activating both at once).

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Worried that your text messages might be read by the wrong people? Enter Tiger Text . The new iPhone app lets users remotely delete their text messages from other peoples’ phones. You can program your text to be deleted immediately after reading, or at a set time

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Wednesday night, Google added gesture search for Android phones, which allows a user to “write” a gesture (such as a letter) instead of type in a character. It’s an alternative form of input, and one that may be of use to some. Google Gesture Search should be available in the Android Market as of Wednesday evening, although if you don’t have an Android 2.0 phone (or higher) you’re out of luck. Basically, here’s the way it works: tap the gesture search app, and then “draw” a letter, such as a “G”. Google will open all of your contacts that include “G” as the first letter in either the first or last name

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Apple seemingly made a point not to mention Google in the lawsuit recently filed against HTC. Still, the search giant has been a bit of an 800-billion-pound gorilla in the room. Apple’s filings appear firmly aimed at HTC handsets running Android–arguably the one smarthphone OS on the market right now that has any chance of taking a serious chunk out of out of Apple’s iPhone market share. So what does Google think about the lawsuit from its one-time bosom buddy?

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