Windows Live Messenger 2008 Calendar

This is the brand new 2008 calendar Windows live messenger, with numerous screenshots on the different seasons. The download is free, but you can see a small preview below:

 

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is coming in March 18

According to the site Tech ARP, Microsoft chose the date of March 18 to launch the first wave of installation of Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista in the cottages. At least, the cottages countries using five languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese. At that time, however, the facility will not be automatically offered in Windows Update.

About three weeks later, on April 9, a second wave of installations will be launched, and it will target systems using Chinese (simplified, traditional Hong Kong), Korean and Portuguese (Brazilian). It was not until April 18 for Windows Update proposes to automatically install the service pack, with a number of languages based on the first two waves.

There would thus be a great difference between March 18 and April 18. In the first case, the updated manual and will be voluntary. It will go to the Microsoft site to go look Service Pack 1 which will be available in its full form and who takes particular all patches released since the advent of Vista on Jan. 30, 2007. On April 18, the automatic version is available, but Windows Update will not propose that what is needed is calculated by deducting the total all updates already installed. Microsoft talking about 65 to 70 MB downloads for a system always up to date.
As a reminder, here is the list of improvements and changes made by Service Pack 1 of Vista:

Source softwaretipspalace.com: Windows Vista News

Firefox 3 Beta 3

Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download. A huge number of bugs have been fixed since the beta 2, but here are the points that the developers of the Mozilla put in advance specifically for this new version:
Security:

• Best presentation of the identity of websites, with support for SSL certificates Extended
• Validation
• Protection against malware
• What mistakes stricter SSL
• Integration of antivirus installed in the download manager

Ease of use:

• Best presentation and discovery extensions
• Manager downloads improved
• Research and progress indicator on the status bar
• Improving the resumption of downloads paused
• Focus on the whole page
• Best visual integration with Vista, Mac OS X and Linux

Customization:

• Adding to the bookmarks with a single click
• Smart Folders for bookmarks
• The address bar using an algorithm in the first presenting the most significant results when you wrote an address.
• The search is performed in the background and marks-pages and is based frequency of use and the young or not the visit
• Possibility to save web applications as managers default protocols
• Better customization of the shares of downloads depending on the types of files

Features:

• New architectural rendering graphics and fonts
• JavaScript 1.8
• Major changes in the HTML rendering engine for improved support of certain elements such as CSS or tables
• The checks online forms are now native; their appearance depends directly on operating system
• Manager color profiles
• Support applications offline

Performances:

• Improved reliability of data users
• Improvements in architecture for faster rendering Web pages
• Over 350 memory leaks corrected
• New collector XPCOM to further reduce losses briefs
• Reduced consumption into RAM
• Source softwaretipspalace.com Firefox 3 News

 

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