Vista Versions

Vista Starter -- Streamlined version meant for low-powered PCs in developing nations.

Vista Home Basic -- For those content to browse the web, use email, and create and edit basic documents from their PC. Includes destop search and security tools.

Vista Home Premium -- Includes everything in Basic but also includes the Aero graphical interface, Media Center functionality, and ability to connect to Xbox 360. The version most of us will own at home.

Vista Business -- The basic version for companies of all sizes with tools to help organizations manage their PCs.

Vista Enterprise -- Includes everything in the basic business version with improved encryption and BitLocker system to keep data from being read on a stolen computer.

Vista Ultimate -- All the features of Home and Business in one.




info taken from www.engadget.com
Posted Feb 27th 2006 8:26AM by Thomas Ricker
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Free video blogging

Is it called vlogging ? or vblogging? anyway I don't care.

if you want to start video blogging,
check out freevlog.org

PHP - Resize images or add text

1. You're a web designer (beginner-medium) in PHP.
2. You know your server has the GD2 image library.
3. You want to be able to
(a.) Resize images and/or create thumbnails or
(b.) Add text to image files (use custom
truetype fonts if you wish) or
(c.) Add lines to your images
4. You want to be able to do all this with basic PHP and not have to learn how to use the GD2 library.

If you answered yes to all of the above, then check out the imageeditor class, available here

They also have a directory listing script with different icons for different file types. that is available here

It's a web design company called 'Evoluted New Media' and you can see all the stuff they're giving back to the community on this page

Free Video Training (3DBuzz)

There's free video training on 3dbuzz.com for the following:

Half Life 2 Level Design
PHP + MySQL
Unreal Technology
Concept Art Design

There's quite a lot of training you can pay for on the site such as :
C++
Maya
3DS Max
XSI
Houdini
Photoshop
Lightwave
Quake III editing
Far Cry editing
and more....

There's also a very good forum for all of the systems mentioned above, and more.

Portable Windows CE emulator

Ever wanted to emulate Windows CE from a USB memory stick portably (no install, no registry entries) ?

Well now you can. This guide from furrygoat.com does exactly what it says on the tin.
You can find it here

Portable Windows on USB

Using BartPe to build a portable Windows installation to put on a CD with anti-spyware and a secure browser etc. is relatively easy. I have done this myself quite a few times and I always get decent results. Because it's a CD it's invulnerable to virus attack etc. (assuming some sort of virus doesn't get transferred from the PC which it's made from, but that's highly unlikely).

Now I just learned today that you can actually install a minimal version of Windows (as small as only 256MB) onto a USB drive and boot from that in the case of hardware failure or if you just want a secure browser for online shopping, or for whatever reason.

There's a good guide here.

Free file synchronisation (Synctoy)

Microsoft released Synctoy a while back - it's free software for synchronising files on two folders (works on XP and Vista), maybe for keeping your USB drive backed up somewhere on your PC or vice-versa. Whatever reason you need to keep files synchronised in two places, it's definitely worth a look because it's free.

you can download it
here