1. Get quicker access to all of your stuff – use Pin and Jump Lists to keep the programs and files you use the most right at your fingertips.

2. Manage open windows easier— resize and arrange windows simply by dragging their borders to the edge of your screen.

3. Quickly find what you’re looking for – use Windows Search to find a specific file, program, or e-mail in a few seconds.

4. Share files and printers among multiple PCs—from one Windows 7-based PC to another, you can share files, music, photos, and even printers across your home network.

5. Stay entertained effortlessly – with Windows Media Center o you get one place to enjoy your photos and music, watch and record live TV, and watch free Internet TV.

6. Easily create and share movies—create great looking movies and slideshows and share them on YouTube in minutes.

7. Connect to networks easily—view and connect to any available wireless networkin as few as three clicks.

8. Do more and wait less—improvements that can accelerate sleep and resumeand make your PC more responsive help you get more done.
9. Don’t leave programs behind—run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode.

10. Offers your PC better protection—help keep your PC your information and your family save.

How to Install Snow leopard on PC With Rebel EFI

23 October 2009 by Vinay 3 Comments

Psystar released Rebel EFI a new and easy way to install Snow Leopard on Custom built PC/ Notebooks. If you don’t know it’s not a new method, David Elliot released BOOT-132 sometime around June 2008 which allows you to boot retail DVDs, Use Mac OS X Retail DVD on hackintoshes. The principle behind Rebel EFI is as same as Boot 132 “ Rebel EFI preloads an environment on the system from which OS X can boot and operate. The boot loader stores the necessary files (kext files) in a .img collection or simply a folder. The luxury of this new installation method includes the ability to boot and install from a retail Leopard DVD and update straight from Apple.”

This is how it’s done, you burn a Rebel EFI ISO (which has the bootloader on it) to a CD. As computer boots up select, Boot Options or Boot Menu Key. When prompted, Eject the CD and it will ask for the Snow Leopard DVD, swap the BOOT CD with the Snow LEO Retail DVD and Snow Leo starts to load. The procedure isn’t simple as it looks you need to take care of some basic rules which are described below.

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< Prepare your System for Rebel EFI >

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1). Which Configuration is Supported :

■ AMD system aren’t supported >> To use Mac OS X Vanilla DVD it needs a Intel “Mac” closer system, like a Intel Core processor and Intel Chipset. This is only combination supported by “Vanilla Installation”, other processors and chipsets aren’t supported by “Mac OS X Vanilla system”

■ Intel system are supported >> Rebel EFI allows machines with Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem CPUs to install any modern operating system. Please note Core Solo, Pentium processors aren’t supported by Snow Leopard.

2). Essential BIOS Settings :

If when booting OS X your computer hangs at a screen with the Apple logo and a “no smoking” sign, you may have an issue with a BIOS Setting. To rectify this, follow these procedures

■Advanced BIOS Features :

■HDD S.M.A.R.T. Capability [Enabled]

■CPU Enhanced Halt [Disabled]

■CPU Thermal Monitor [Disabled]

■CPU EIST Function [Disabled]

■Integrated Pereprhals :

■USB Keyboard Function [Enabled]

■USB Mouse Function [Enabled]

■SATA RAID/AHCI Mode [AHCI]

■Onboard SATA/IDE Device [AHCI]

■Power Management Setup :

■HPET Mode [64-bit Mode]

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< If you satisfies above said conditions then you can proceed further >
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Step 1. Download the Rebel EFI(Download Here) file and Burn the file to a CD. Insert the Rebel EFI disc into your CD drive and start or restart your computer.

Step 2. Once Rebel EFI CD loads press enter to run the CD, When prompted, Eject the CD and it will ask for the Snow Leopard DVD. Now replace the Rebel EFI CD with Snow Leopard Retail DVD.

Step 3. If every thing goes fine after 5-10 minutes the installation screen will appear. Hold your breath we are not quit yet here.

Step 4. Select Main Language, Click Continue, if you want to continue with the installation of Snow Leopard. Select the disk that you want to install Snow Leopard on. If no disk shows, Click on Utilities on the tool bar, then select Disk Utilities and follow the following steps.

■On the left you should see your hard drive.

■If not, a disk is not connected or cannot be read by your computer.

■After selecting your hard drive click on Partition.

■Under Volume Scheme, click current and select 1 partition.

■Under Volume Information, name your hard drive.

■Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

■At the bottom of the window Click on the Options Button.

■Select the GUID Partition Table

■Click OK

■Click Apply

■Click Partition

■Quit Disk Utilities

Step 5. Now you should be able to select the destination drive where you want to install Mac OSX.

Step 6. Now your disk will be checked for consistency than installation begins. It will take 30-45 minute’s as your hardware.

Step 7. When Installation completes restart the computer. As the computer starts up, insert and boot from the Rebel EFI CD. Once CD loads you will see both the Hard Disk and the Rebel EFI CD. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Hard Drive. Press Enter to boot Hard drive.

Step 8. Launch the Rebel EFI application from the CD and Follow the on-screen authentication procedure. That’s it.

New Google Music Service Launch Imminent.

Google will soon launch a music service, we’ve heard from multiple sources, and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content for the launch of the service from the major music labels. One source has referred to the new service as Google Audio.

We’re still gathering details, but our understanding is the service will be very different to the Google China music download service that they launched in 2008. That service, which is only available in China, allows users to search for music and download it for free.

It may be even cooler than I currently think it is if the Google Engineering Team continues as they have been been. You may not be familiar with Google Voice and/or the virtually endless array of other apps all with the Google name and specific purpose of being the Best of Class for whatever reason it was created.

Google Voice is a strange animal. Here’s just some of the things this software easily accompl;ishes:

One number rings many phones or vice-versa. For instance, you could register your Home Phone, your Mobile Phone, your Fax Line, and whatever else to all be rung at once whenever anyone calls the Google Number you would be given at beginning of the setup for Google Voice. As you would imagine, all phones do indeed ring at once. So if you are awaiting a rather important phone call, taping TIVO or just being lazy, you still have multiple possibilities waging for you.

All this technogoly is tightly interwoven, though discreet in some cases. Google Voice is meshed with a web interface which also communicates with your iGoogle, GMail, Google Talk, even so far as translating voice messages to sons and vice versa… you can even tie this into your Web Cam. 

Caller ID, smart blocking and screening, reverse lookups -all of this is free. Amazing. Well, if you have any doubts or questions about this one stop shopware, just call me with the link provided.

That’s right – testing out the Beta of Google Voice. Try it with me!

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Google Wave, which was announced by the Google in I/O 2009 few months back, will be going beta tomorrow i.e 30th September.

Already 6000 developers are testing and developing apps on Google Wave using Google Wave sandbox. Google Wave Sandbox Ids where distributed at launch of Google Wave to few requested developers.

If you where not the lucky one, this time you might get a chance to have a hand on Google Wave. Google will grant access to first 100,000 user request received, this time it would be developers as well as normal users. They can test beta version of Google Wave.

According to a letter from Google, which i found on internet, Google is now more focusing on the stability and speed of Google Wave and not on new features. Though lots of developers from the open source community is contributing in developing apps for wave.

I am very much sure Company’s like Colayer who are working on virtual contextualized products will be exited from this news and waiting for healthy competition.

Colayer is a Pune – Swiz based company who is using wave like concept for a decade now and about to release their new product soon, Read more about Colayer product here.

Waiting for tomorrow, Techgearz will update you on all the happenings with Google Wave

It seems that in the last month we have been experiencing a plethora of issues mainly through Outlook 2003 standalone or tied to Exchange Server. Now why these issues have become so present are caused by multiple factors. Clients not accustomed to archiving overload their .pst file. Clients maintain multiple services (Exchange internal/external, POP3, Gmail through IMAP pushed to PDAs, etc.) When trying to hone down the load on an Exchange Server, the first issue that becomes apparent is the imposed 2GB limit for .pst files within Outlook 2003. This can sometimes be managed by changing the original .pst to Unicode which is native for Outlook 2007 and either expanding or eliminating quotas on Exchange. All that being small potatoes to the overall performance of Exchange/Outlook, it is a constant that requires too much administrative overhead and is not cost effective. Convincing clients that their best line of attack to eradicate the persistent anomalies in 03 software is to upgrade to 07/08 is a chore. Where do we go from here? Suggestions and comments are requisite from you, the readers, to help both Admins and Clients understand the path to harmonious email…

Deploying Windows 7 – Part 1: Windows AIK 2.0 Enhancements

Mitch Tulloch is a writer, trainer and consultant specializing in Windows server operating systems, IIS administration, network troubleshooting, and security. He is the author of 15 books including the Microsoft Encyclopedia of Networking (Microsoft Press), the Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security (Microsoft Press), Windows Server Hacks (O’Reilly), Windows Server 2003 in a Nutshell (O’Reilly), Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell (O’Reilly), and IIS 6 Administration (Osborne/McGraw-Hill). Mitch is based in Winnipeg, Canada, and you can find more information about his books at his website www.mtit.com

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Does it actually help to inundate the web with all these cross-linked Social Networking sites? Since the advent of Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, WordPress and a slew of others, interlocking and interchangeable websites now mesh into a cohesive whole, where each web API can either push or pull from another or vice versa.

Immediately it becomes obvious that all these sites hashing data and back and forth can only bolster your web presence, ultimately culminating in a more ubiquitous ranking and visibility on sites like Google.

It also quickly comes to bear that there is an awful lot of redundancy in this practice. Is this good or bad? Some say it is negative because there is only a small percentage of original material being posted into the new Internet environments. A lot of activity is simply automated to pull from already existing RSS feeds and duplicate recent activity across the board.. Thus, updates posted to other sites simply mimic once original content and do not present anything fresh and new.

But the upside to these avenues I’d the fact that now people have a choice of what software application and/or API they prefer to use to get their word out and to subscribe to others. Because these apps all seam and mesh it makes it more likely that a person trying to make contact with the outside world is able to do so with a vast array of separate apps, or simply choose a favorite site and still get what they are looking for.

Case in point – IA Blogs are somewhat standardized in content and do indeed echo each other. But this allows presence to be much more vast and far-reaching if not for the merit of programming all the sites to integrate, instead more possible outlets are given for the ultimate goal… To be seen and draw the right audience one wishes to communicate and interact with.

The future of the Internet present person or business is looking fully attainable through the always dreamed of ‘free’ apps and OpenSource collaborations that serve all functional purposes and manage to make life easier for the general public to find, meet and interact in ways till now thought impossible and technically too complex.

The Internet is once again evolving due to the nature of human beings constantly wanting bigger and better tools to reach others through technology. The fact that data traffic on the Internet is absolutely exploding with no settling down in site is a good indicator that these apps and ideas are working and will continue to do so.

We are aided in reaching our goals by some of the smartest engineering and application capabilities ever seen. History will show whether all this ‘linked’ hype is worthwhile and beneficial.

Need help integrating apps to talk to each other? We are here to help. Contact us through any of the various avenues we created – we’ll be more than happy to assist.

Well, here is the first of hopefully many blogs that will serve mainly you, the reader… my goal is to present as much freely available information as possible regarding Microsoft networks, servers and Administration.

This in turn allows open discussion and awareness of often overlooked or simply not so well known solutions to the plethora of issues that arise in any small business network.

Stay tuned!