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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Accessibility improvements. </strong>Microsoft has revamped the accessibility features in Windows 7 with improved speech recognition and a new Magnifier utility with full-screen and lens-mode views.</p>
<p><strong>Action Center. </strong>While previous versions of Windows included a feature called Windows Security Center that monitored the various security features of the system, Windows 7 takes this functionality to the next level with Action Center. In addition to monitoring security, Action Center also monitors the OS&#8217;s maintenance features and consolidates alerts from numerous Windows features into a single interface.</p>
<p><strong>Backup and Restore. </strong>Windows Vista&#8217;s stellar backup and restore features have been streamlined and simplified in Windows 7. Like its predecessor, Windows 7 supports both data backup and image-based system backup, but now the UIs are more segregated.</p>
<p><strong>Bitlocker To Go. </strong>The full-drive encryption feature that first debuted in Windows Vista has been updated in Windows 7 to support removable USB storage devices like flash memory drives and portable hard drives.</p>
<p><strong>Blu-Ray support. </strong>Windows 7 natively supports Blu-Ray optical discs and enables you to write to Blu-Ray recordable media.</p>
<p><strong>Calculator. </strong>The Windows Calculator utility inexplicably receives a major upgrade in Windows 7 with calculation history, unit conversion, calculation templates, data calculations, and other new features.</p>
<p><strong>Credential Manager. </strong>The new and improved Windows 7 Credential Manager lets you save credentials, like user names and passwords, so that you can more easily logon on to Web sites, networked computers, and other resources automatically. Credentials are saved in the Windows Vault and can be backed up and restored to encrypted Managed Information Card (MIC) files. (Credential Manager uses Windows CardSpace technology.)</p>
<p><strong>Device Stage. </strong>This Longhorn-style user experience will be made available for multi-function devices such as smart phones, multifunction printers, portable media players, and the like. Through this UI, you&#8217;ll be able to access the features that are unique to each device. Each Device Stage page can be extensively customized by the device maker.</p>
<p><strong>Devices and Printers. </strong>This activity center provides a central location for interacting with any hardware devices&#8211;digital cameras, mice, displays, keyboards, and the like&#8211;that may be attached to your PC.</p>
<p><strong>DirectAccess. </strong>This feature is aimed at business users who need to securely access corporate network resources while away from the office. Essentially a simple replacement for VPN connections, DirectAccess requires Windows Server 2008 R2 on the server-side.</p>
<p><strong>DirectX 11. </strong>Windows 7 includes the latest version of the DirectX multimedia libraries.</p>
<p><strong>Display improvements. </strong>Windows 7 includes numerous improvements related to computer displays, including integrated display color calibration, improved high DPI support, ClearType, and improved support for external displays. A new Windows Key + P keyboard shortcut helps you easily switch between connected displays.</p>
<p><strong>Getting Started. </strong>This replacement for Windows Vista&#8217;s Welcome Center no longer appears the first time you boot into the Windows desktop, but it still provides a central location for discovering new features, personalizing the system, transferring data from your previous Windows PC, and discovering and launching other common tasks.</p>
<p><strong>HomeGroup. </strong>Microsoft has consolidated the most common network-based sharing tasks into a single simple interface called HomeGroup. Computers in a HomeGroup can easily share documents, digital media files, and printers over a home network.</p>
<p><strong>Internet Explorer. </strong>Windows 7 ships with the latest version of Microsoft&#8217;s Web browser, Internet Explorer 8.</p>
<p><strong>Libraries. </strong>In Windows 7, Microsoft has realized a long-term goal to replace the static special shell folders from previous Windows versions and replace them with virtualized shell locations that aggregate content from a variety of physical locations. Libraries are implemented as virtual folders and the views they present are the results of search queries. Libraries are also the basis for HomeGroup file and digital media content sharing.</p>
<p><strong>Location-Aware Printing. </strong>Windows 7 utilizes different default printers for each of the network locations you&#8217;ve configured on the system so you won&#8217;t mistakenly print a child&#8217;s school project to the work printer. When you&#8217;re at work, you&#8217;ll print to the work printer, and when you&#8217;re at home, you&#8217;ll print to the home printer.</p>
<p><strong>MinWin. </strong>The componentized core of Windows 7, which includes both the traditional operating system kernel as well as the minimum necessary surrounding support technologies to create a bootable (and, for Microsoft, testable) system. Note that, in Windows 7, MinWin isn&#8217;t a feature per se but is rather the foundation upon which the rest of the OS is built.</p>
<p><strong>Paint. </strong>The Paint utility that&#8217;s been in Windows from the very first version receives its first significant upgrade in decades, and now sports the new Scenic Ribbon toolbar.</p>
<p><strong>Parental Controls. </strong>The parental control functionality that debuted in Windows Vista is updated in Windows 7 to support multiple games rating systems and parental control providers.</p>
<p><strong>Power Config. </strong>Windows 7 includes a new Power Config utility that provides reports identifying problems, settings, applications, and other things that may be reducing the power efficiency of your PC.</p>
<p><strong>Problem Steps Recorder. </strong>Windows 7 includes a new utility called the Problem Steps Recorder that captures screen shots of the steps a user is taking so that help desk personnel can provide a fix without physically having to visit the desktop.</p>
<p><strong>ReadyBoost. </strong>ReadyBoost first appeared in Windows Vista, providing users with a way to cheaply and easily improve the performance of their PCs by utilizing a USB memory key as a memory cache. In Windows 7, ReadyBoost is improved in numerous way: It supports multiple memory devices, can work with USB memory keys, Secure Digital (SD) memory cards, and other internal flash devices, and supports over 4 GB of storage.</p>
<p><strong>Scenic Ribbon. </strong>Microsoft has evolved the Ribbon toolbar from Office 2007 and made it part of the operating system in Windows 7. This new version of the Ribbon, called the scenic Ribbon, is used by two Windows 7 applications, Paint and WordPad, and can be used by third party applications going forward as well.</p>
<p><strong>Sensor support. </strong>Windows 7 includes support for hardware-based sensors, including GPS-based location sensors.</p>
<p><strong>Start Menu (Enhanced). </strong>The Windows 7 Start Menu is an enhanced version of the Start Menu that debuted in Windows Vista.</p>
<p><strong>Startup Repair. </strong>While this useful tool did debut with Windows Vista, it wasn&#8217;t installed on PCs by default. In Windows 7, it is installed into the OS partition automatically and appears automatically when the system can&#8217;t boot properly, fixing any problems and returning the system to its normal booting state.</p>
<p><strong>Sticky Notes. </strong>The Sticky Notes utility loses the bizarre Windows XP-style interface from previous Windows versions and supports ink and text input.</p>
<p><strong>Styles. </strong>In Windows 7, Microsoft combines various system preferences&#8211;including the desktop background, the Aero glass window color, the system sounds, and the screen saver&#8211;into styles you can customize, save, and share with others.</p>
<p><strong>System Restore. </strong>The Windows 7 version of System Restore works as before, providing a way to non-destructively return a PC to a previous point in time, but is more reliable, predictable, and effective than its predecessors.</p>
<p><strong>Tablet PC</strong>. After making Tablet PC functionality available more broadly in Windows Vista, Microsoft is improving this technology in Windows 7 with better handwriting recognition that has improved accuracy, speed, and support for math expressions, personalized custom dictionaries, and 13 new languages.</p>
<p><strong>User Account Control. </strong>While much reviled by certain users, the User Account Control (UAC) feature that debuted in Windows Vista played a huge role in making that system the most secure Windows version yet. In Windows 7, UAC is extensively updated to be less annoying, and the overall system has been fine-tuned to minimize the number of UAC prompts that interrupt users.</p>
<p><strong>View Available Networks. </strong>Windows 7 includes a new Jump List-based utility for finding and connecting to Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, and VPN connections. Unlike the similar UI in Windows Vista, this utility, called View Available Networks, does not require you to navigate through a series of dialogs and windows.</p>
<p><strong>Virtual Hard Disk support. </strong>Windows 7 allows you to mount a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) as a drive in Explorer so that you can navigate its contents like a physical hard disk. It also supports the ability to boot from VHD images.</p>
<p><strong>VPN Reconnect. </strong>Windows 7 users who still need to make traditional VPN connections will benefit from a new VPN Reconnect feature that automatically reestablishes a VPN connection when you temporarily lose Internet connectivity.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Anytime Upgrade. </strong>This utility debuted in Windows Vista but was found to be too confusing for most users, so the electronic upgrade capability was removed. In Windows 7, Windows Anytime Upgrade returns to electronic upgrading and Microsoft promises you&#8217;ll be able to upgrade from one version of Windows 7 to another in about 10 minutes now.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Defender. </strong>The malware and spyware protection utility from Windows Vista continues in Windows 7 with a few changes: It&#8217;s been integrated into the new Action Center and its centralized notification system. But Defender also drops the useful Software Explorer feature, so users will have to look elsewhere for a way to prevent unwanted applications from running a startup.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Easy Transfer. </strong>The Windows Easy Transfer utility that debuted in Windows Vista has been substantially updated with a new user interface and new capabilities. As before, Easy Transfer helps you transfer files, folders, and program and system settings from your previous Windows install to your new one. This time around, however, the process is simpler and more streamlined.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Explorer. </strong>Microsoft has significantly updated Windows Explorer yet again in Windows 7, this time with a new toolbar, a resizable search box, and a new navigational pane.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Gadgets. </strong>The Windows Sidebar disappears in Windows 7, but the Gadgets continue on and are integrated with the desktop.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Live. </strong>Windows 7 integrates with a growing collection of Windows Live services, including Windows Live Photos, Windows Live Profile, Windows Live People, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Home, Windows Live SkyDrive, Windows Live Groups, Windows Live Calendar, Windows Live Events, Windows Live Hotmail, and more.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Live Essentials. </strong>Available as an optional download, Windows Live Essentials is an application suite that includes a number of new versions of classic Windows applications, including Windows Live Mail (email and calendar), Windows Live Photo Gallery (photos), Windows Live Messenger (instant messaging), Windows Live Movie Maker (video editing), Windows Live Family Safety (enhanced parental controls), and more.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Media Center. </strong>Microsoft&#8217;s ten-foot UI for digital media content is improved with a slightly enhanced user interface, multi-touch support, HomeGroup integration, and various global broadcast TV standards.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Media Player. </strong>Microsoft&#8217;s media player received a major makeover in Windows 7 with several new features, including enhanced DVD playback, a new lightweight playback mode, dramatically improved format compatibility (including AAC and H.264), Windows Taskbar Jump List customization, PC-to-PC and media streaming, and a new Play To feature.</p>
<p><strong>Windows PowerShell. </strong>Windows 7 ships with the Windows PowerShell 2.0 scripting environment and the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).</p>
<p><strong>Windows Search. </strong>Windows 7 comes with the latest version of Windows Search, and unlike the version that first shipped with Windows Vista, you can now obtain instant search results from network-based file shares as well as local hard drives. Microsoft has also improved the performance of local searches, sorting, and grouping.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Taskbar (Enhanced). </strong>The Windows Taskbar has been dramatically enhanced in Windows 7 to minimize clutter. New Taskbar features like Jump Lists, fly-over and full-screen icon previews, and more.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Touch. </strong>Windows 7 builds on the Tablet PC and touch capabilities from previous Windows versions and adds pervasive support for multi-touch. All of the major UI components, including the Start Menu, Windows Taskbar, and Explorer, are touch-friendly in Windows 7.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Troubleshooting. </strong>This new Windows 7 feature diagnoses and resolves common operating system and hardware issues. It works automatically, or you can visit the Troubleshooting control panel to find problems to troubleshoot. Windows Troubleshooting integrates with Action Center so you&#8217;ll be notified when relevant new troubleshooters from Microsoft and third parties are made available.</p>
<p><strong>Windows Update. </strong>Microsoft&#8217;s utility for downloading and installing system updates has been enhanced in Windows 7 to take advantage of changes in the security model and to better expose optional and featured updates.</p>
<p><strong>Wireless Device Network. </strong>Finally, Windows gains a way to use your wireless-equipped laptop as a wireless access point for other PCs when you&#8217;re connected to a wired network.</p>
<p><strong>WordPad. </strong>The simple word processor continues into Windows 7 with the new Scenic Ribbon UI and several editing improvements.</p>
<p><strong>XPS Viewer. </strong>While Windows Vista users are forced to use Internet Explorer to view XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents&#8211;essentially Microsoft&#8217;s PDF knock-off&#8211;Windows 7 gains a dedicated XPS Viewer application.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Google Desktop gadgets team, we&#8217;ve seen countless requests for a Gmail gadget over the years. That gadget is finally here, so if you&#8217;ve got Google Desktop for Windows, give it a try. You&#8217;ll see that it covers the basics such as reading, searching, and sending messages. You can star messages, use the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=53&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the Google Desktop gadgets team, we&#8217;ve seen countless requests for a Gmail gadget over the years. That gadget is finally here, so if you&#8217;ve got Google Desktop for Windows, give it a try.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll see that it covers the basics such as reading, searching, and sending messages. You can star messages, use the same keyboard shortcuts, and we didn&#8217;t forget about contact auto-complete. It doesn&#8217;t take up much space in your sidebar or desktop, and you can also resize it to show as few or as many messages as you&#8217;d like.</p>
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When I&#8217;m at work, I keep two instances of the gadget open: one logged into my personal Gmail account and the other set to my Google Apps account for work related stuff. Instead of getting lost in a sea of tabs or browser windows, I can bring up the gadgets in an instant (hint: pressing the shift key twice brings up all your hidden Desktop gadgets).</p>
<p>The Gmail gadget currently works with the latest release of Google Desktop for Windows. Try it out and please let us know what you think.</p>
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		<title>ShareTabs Opens Multiple Links in Tabs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web site ShareTabs is sort of like TinyURL when you want to share several links, allowing you to send one link that will open a number of links in separate tabs with one click. Here&#8217;s an example: If I wanted to share all the paid to click sites with someone, I could simply send the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=51&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Web site ShareTabs is sort of like TinyURL when you want to share several links, allowing you to send one link that will open a number of links in separate tabs with one click.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example:</p>
<p>If I wanted to share all the paid to click sites with someone, I could simply send the following ShareTabs link:  </p>
<p>http://www.sharetabs.com/?makemoney</p>
<p>or:</p>
<p>http://www.sharetabs.com/xp9</p>
<p>When you follow that link, you&#8217;ll see the page below.<br />
The thumbnails display each site, and clicking a thumbnail will open that site in one of the faux tabs you see at the top of the screenshot (they may look like Firefox tabs, but they&#8217;re actually just a graphical element inside the ShareTabs site). You can either navigate the sites by clicking around the faux tabs, or you can click the Open all links link at the top of the page to actually open each link in a separate tab. If you&#8217;re looking to share a lot of links without taking a lot of space to do it, ShareTabs is a great tool.<br />
ShareTabs</p>
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		<title>Windows 7 All set for Download&#8230;Try It Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 Ultimate BUILD 6956 x86-iND Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware. Presentations given by Microsoft in 2008 have focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=36&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Windows 7 Ultimate BUILD 6956 x86-iND</span></div>
<p><span style="font-family:arial;">Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware. Presentations given by Microsoft in 2008 have focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements..</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:arial;">Download </span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Windows 7 Ultimate BUILD 6956 x86-iND Torrent</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">h**p://dl.btjunkie.org/torrent/Windows-7-Ultimate-Beta-Build-6956-32Bit-Watermark-Removed/395227c7aba803716b7e1c8f97bed15351e4d2152838/download.torrent</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">This is an illegal version of the software and set for download just for a tryout.<br />
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		<title>Opera 10 vs The TraceMonkey&#8230;.. Upcoming&#8230;!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opera has released the alpha version of Opera 10 browser.It is believed to give an edge to edge competition to the upcoming firefox trace monkey called as the 3.1 release of the firefox.The Opera 10 showcases their new Presto 2.2 rendering engine which they claim to offer a 30% more speed over their previous release.But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=32&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Opera has released the alpha version of Opera 10 browser.It is believed to give an edge to edge competition to the upcoming firefox trace monkey called as the 3.1 release of the firefox.The Opera 10 showcases their new Presto 2.2 rendering engine which they claim to offer a 30% more speed over their previous release.But thats no all&#8230;.It features many new features too&#8230;</p>
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<p>It has scored a perfect score in the acid test 3 and adds a fully featured HTML supported email client.For more well defined features Check out the opera 10 home page <a href="http://www.opera.com/browser/next/">http://www.opera.com/browser/next/</a></p>
<p>While the Firefox features a Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for               web content.It has added on a new feature called the private browsing mode similar to the incognito mode in the new Google Chrome which does not keep any trace on the browsed pages in that window.It features a support for new web technologies such as the &lt;video&gt; and &lt;audio&gt; elements, the W3C               Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline                applications.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o100a1_1139m.exe">Download Opera 10&#8230;[Click Here]</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.1b2&amp;os=win&amp;lang=en-US">Download TraceMonkey-Firefox 3.1 Beta 2</a></strong></p>
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		<title>All about F# in the New Visual Studio 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the head of the Microsoft’s Developer Division, S. Somasegar, announced that Microsoft had begun investing in F# as one of Microsoft’s supported languages on the .NET platform. I am now thrilled to announce one result of this investment: F# will ship as part of Visual Studio 2010! Since the September 2008 CTP of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=29&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Last year, the head of the Microsoft’s Developer Division, S. Somasegar, announced that <span>Microsoft had begun investing in F#</span> as one of Microsoft’s supported languages on the .NET platform. I am now thrilled to announce one result of this investment: <strong>F# will ship as part of Visual Studio 2010!</strong> Since the <span>September 2008 CTP</span> of F#, the F# team has been working hard on integrating F# into the main development branch of Visual Studio 2010. Below I show a screen shot of using the F# development tools in the 2010 shell, with the new editor and the new look-back-in-time &#8220;Debug History&#8221; window.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US">Over the last year we’ve seen amazing growth in the F# developer community, and great excitement at conferences and user groups. Two of the recent highlights have been the </span><span lang="EN-US"><strong>PDC presentation on F# by Luca Bolognese</strong><span style="color:#1f497d;">, and the live demo of F# and other new language technologies at JAOO by </span><strong>Anders Hejlsberg, Where are Programming Languages Going</strong><span style="color:#1f497d;">. If you’d like to learn why Microsoft is adding a functional programming language to its Visual Studio and .NET development tools, and the kind of scenarios where this language gives particular productivity benefits, then I can’t think of any better place to start than these two presentations by two of Microsoft’s most experienced development and language experts.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">In this first supported release, our aim has to be to focus on the core strengths of F# for <strong>exploratory programming with F# Interactive</strong>, <strong>programming with data</strong> and <strong>implementing parallel and asynchronous components</strong>. As we’ve talked to people privately about adding F# to Visual Studio 2010, some questions naturally arise, and I’ve attempted to answer those below. If you have more questions, please ask on the comments below!<a href="http://weblogzz.blogspot.com"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-28" title="f" src="http://kp4m.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/f.png?w=480&#038;h=321" alt="f" width="480" height="321" /></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Q. When will the next release of F# be? Will I be able to continue to use F# with VS2008?</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Courier New';" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size:small;">o</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Our next major release of F# will be as part of the first beta of Visual Studio 2010, and at around the same time we will make available a matching update release of the Visual Studio 2008/.NET2.0 F# compiler and tools. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span> </span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Q. What about shared source?</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US">Our plan is to make both the F# compiler and the core F# library available as shared source on CodePlex in the Visual Studio 2010 timeframe, most likely at the time Visual Studio 2010 ships. We also plan an active CodePlex project called the &#8220;F# Power Pack&#8221; which will contain tools such as the F# parser and lexer generators. We outlined these plans in a </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.fsharp.general/1000">post to the F# mailing list in October</a><span style="color:#1f497d;">.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 18pt;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;">Q.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Is F# in .NET 4.0?</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Courier New';" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size:small;">o</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The current plan of record is that the F# core libraries and compiler will ship as an additional component, not in the .NET Framework itself.  We expect this to be available as an F# redistributable package. Referencing this package from a Visual Studio setup project will be sufficient to deploy the core library DLL(s) it to a client machine.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 18pt;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;">Q.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">What level of tool support should I expect? </span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Courier New';" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size:small;">o</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US">As outlined above, our focus in this release of F# is in areas I like to characterize as <strong>data-rich</strong> and <strong>control-flow-rich</strong> programming, tackled using a functional programming approach (think algorithms, data manipulations, data transformations, parallel programming, and reactive programming components).</span><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color:#1f497d;">The tool support we plan is thus based around editing, scripting, interactive evaluation, the project system, debugging, profiling and great integration with C# and Visual Basic.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 18pt;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;">Q.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US">Will this release include designer tools?</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Courier New';" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size:small;">o</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Our focus on delivering high-quality F# core tools is designed to <span>augment</span> Visual Studio’s amazing strengths as a <strong>presentation-rich</strong> object-oriented programming environment. As a result, we have made an explicit decision to leverage the strengths of C# and Visual Basic as <strong>presentational</strong> and <strong>designer-rich</strong> programming languages in this release. This means that F# users should use the Visual Studio designer tools to generate C# or Visual Basic code and incorporate those components into their F# applications. In Visual Studio 2010, we expect F# applications which include components built with designers (e.g. WinForms, ASP.NET, Silverlight and WPF applications with a designer front-end) will normally be authored as mixed language applications. We&#8217;ll be providing templates that guide F# developers through this process.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 18pt;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;">Q.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">What about Mono?</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Courier New';" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size:small;">o</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">The F# compiler and tools will continue to provide a means for Mono users to develop F# applications, initiall through the Visual Studio 2008/.NET2.0 tool chain (see above). </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Q. F# began as an “OCaml-like language for .NET”? Will it stay that way?</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Courier New';" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size:small;">o</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">F# shares core language constructs with the excellent OCaml  language, from INRIA. This was an early design decision that acknowledged the importance of the Caml language family as a pragmatic realization of functional programming and as a basis for language innovation. <span> </span>F# itself has now matured to include constructs such as <strong>F# object oriented programming</strong>, <strong>units of measure in F#</strong>, <strong>F# reflective programming</strong> and <strong>F# computation expressions</strong>.  Looking ahead, our plan of record is to continue to allow the use of F# in a mode that supports cross-compilation of a common subset of F# and OCaml, much as is done today. This will normally require the use of the F# Power Pack components, which will be available separately from the Visual Studio 2010 integration. </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 18pt;"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:small;">Q.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Will Microsoft Research stay involved?</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 72pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;font-family:'Courier New';" lang="EN-US"><span><span style="font-size:small;">o</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Yes indeed! F# is a joint advanced development project between Microsoft Research, Cambridge and the Microsoft Developer Division. I am very glad to be staying involved as the language architect and will remain at Microsoft Research. Our awesome team includes people in Cambridge, Redmond, Vancouver and China, and some team members operate from Germany and New York. I am continually amazed at the people I get to work with on this project and the skills they bring, and we hope to make it a prime example of innovative development at Microsoft.</span></span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hacking is the science to process an intrusion into nodes and retrieving sensitive or encrypt data. In the truest sense hacker is the one who is capable of getting himself into a security system and breaks the authentication codes for either a noble cause or in a cause to destroy or misuse the data available. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=25&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hacking is the science to process an intrusion into nodes and retrieving sensitive or encrypt data. In the truest sense hacker is the one who is capable of getting himself into a security system and breaks the authentication codes for either a noble cause or in a cause to destroy or misuse the data available. In the beginning, the term hacker represented the one who has the skill and knowledge to do such stuffs for a legitimate cause and the term cracker pointed the one who uses it for unlawful activities. Now both are represented by the term hacker and the word hacker has classifications now- White hat and black hat hackers. White hat hackers are the ones who defend the secure data with their skills and unlike white hat hackers, the black hat hackers use their skills to break in and attack on networks and sensitive data. In the current trend, leaving ones data insecure might lead to a catastrophic effect due to the increase in the number of black hat hackers and malicious intruders around us. So companies have started recruiting white hat ethical hackers to defend their data from these attackers. Especially, the firms dealing with financial information, military secrets etc&#8230;There are a number of reasons why a hacker would want to break into ones computer. It can be for the misuse of the ISP for illegal activities or to steal credit card information. The reasons can range from A-Z. So it’s the user’s responsibility to prevent intrusions.<br />
To prevent such attacks one should:-<br />
1.	Only download or accept files from reliable sources.<br />
2.	Use a firewall to block unauthorized access.<br />
3.	Install a good virus scanner and update information as needful.<br />
4.	Do not keep passwords, bank or financial account numbers, social security numbers or other personal and confidential information on your computer&#8217;s hard drive.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re tired of hearing about Windows 7&#8242;s upcoming features while you sit and stare at your aging XP or Vista desktop, take solace in a few free apps and themes that can give you a taste right now. While it&#8217;s true that Windows 7 isn&#8217;t much different from Windows Vista (inside and out), a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=21&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re tired of hearing about Windows 7&#8242;s upcoming features while you sit and stare at your aging XP or Vista desktop, take solace in a few free apps and themes that can give you a taste right now. While it&#8217;s true that Windows 7 isn&#8217;t <em>much</em> different from Windows Vista (inside and out), a few neat features are worth trying out, and you can do it without installing the Windows 7 Preview. Here are a few free apps and alternatives that simulate Windows 7&#8242;s built-in features.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Pin Items to Your Taskbar</h3>
<p><img style="display:block;" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/quicklaunch.png" alt="" width="416" height="56" />Windows 7 lets you pin programs and documents to your taskbar (instead of or in addition to creating shortcuts on your desktop). However, it&#8217;s easy to do something very similar right now: using the built-in (but disabled by default) Quick Launch toolbar. To enable it, right-click on your tasbar, and from the Toolbars menu check off &#8220;Quick Launch.&#8221; There you can drop shortcuts to folders, documents, and programs for easy access. (I like to use the large icons instead of the default small ones, as pictured; to turn those on, right-click on the toolbar and from the View menu choose &#8220;Large icons.&#8221;)</p>
<p><em>Update:</em> Helpful reader DieselLives points out that you can make a toolbar out of any folder of shortcuts or documents and dock it to any edge of your screen by just dragging and dropping it there.</p>
<p>For a fuller, dock-like experience, try the free RocketDock application. To turn open windows to just icons on the Vista taskbar, you can use Enhance My Vista.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Snap Your Windows to Size</h3>
<p>One of the most useful Windows 7 features (especially for widescreen monitor owners) is its ability to half-size and dock a window to the left or right of the screen, as shown:</p>
<p><span class="link popout" title="Click to open in a new window">Popout</span></p>
<p>To get this same functionality (and much much more), give the free Winsplit Revolution a try—and you&#8217;ll get much more customizable window arrangement options with keyboard combinations, too.</p>
<p>For the drag-and-drop action of Windows 7, try out the free AeroSnap application which mimics Windows 7&#8242;s behavior almost perfectly (though without the glass overlay before you drop).</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Try Out Aero Shake</h3>
<p>The Aero Shake feature in Windows 7 clears away all the background windows when you &#8220;shake&#8221; the active window you&#8217;re working with. Check out a demonstration of how that works here.</p>
<p><span class="link popout" title="Click to open in a new window">Popout</span></p>
<p>The free Aero Shake app clears your pre-Windows 7 desktop the same way.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Tame User Account Control</h3>
<p>Instead of nagging you with &#8220;Are you sure?&#8221; dialogs at every turn like Vista does, in Windows 7 you can fine-tune what alerts and confirmation prompts you get for what. While the gorgeous slider Win7 offers to do that isn&#8217;t available for Vista, you can always just turn off User Account Control to silence the nags entirely. <em>Update:</em> Adam reminds me that Norton&#8217;s User Account Control for Vista users adds more control to UAC prompts without disabling them.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Customize Your System Tray</h3>
<p><img class="default-content-margin" src="http://cache.lifehacker.com/images/2006/06/unused%20items%20help%20balloon.png" alt="" align="right" />Windows 7 can tame those annoying yellow balloon notifications that show up in your system tray; in it you can configure which apps you want to get notifications from and which you don&#8217;t. While that tuning isn&#8217;t available for XP or Vista, you can disable balloon notifications in Vista entirely with a change to your registry. XP users can use TweakUI to disable the balloons.</p>
<p><img class="content-block-fix" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/systemtraycustomizations.png" alt="" width="354" height="302" />In XP, you can customize your system tray behavior to a point, and tell Windows which icons you want to see and which to hide. Right-click on the Start button, choose Properties, then click the &#8220;Customize&#8221; button (next to &#8220;Hide inactive icons&#8221;) to set which icons show up when.</p>
<p>Helpful reader Charax suggests the free, previously mentioned Emerge Windows shell replacement, which will also give you more control over what shows up in your system tray.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Speed Up Your Startup</h3>
<p>One of the Windows 7 perks everyone is looking forward to is a faster startup time so you can get to work right away after hitting that Power button. Windows 7 beats out both Vista and Windows XP in the startup time department. The best way to speed up your pre-Windows 7 startup is to upgrade your rig to faster hardware, but failing that, there are several things you can do to Windows XP and Vista to make them reach a working desktop faster. See our complete guide to speeding up your PC&#8217;s startup for more.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Upgrade Calculator and Paint; Get PowerShell</h3>
<p>Windows 7 brings with it a few key upgrades to the ancillary programs it bundles, like Calculator, Paint, and WordPad. While you can&#8217;t get the new Office 2007 ribbon in your WordPad right now, if you&#8217;re a Paint user do consider upgrading to the free Paint.NET, which supports layers, multiple open images, and much more than regular Paint ever dreamed. To get you some powered-up Calculator action, XP users can install Power Calculator, and Vista users can don their eye patch and try getting this version of the Win7 Calculator to run on their system. Finally, Windows 7 comes with PowerShell pre-installed, but you can download and install PowerShell yourself right here.</p>
<p>For more souped-up Windows tools, see our power replacements for built-in Windows utilities.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Get the Windows 7 Theme</h3>
<p><img style="display:block;" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/win7theme.png" alt="" width="600" height="374" /> If you want your computer just to <em>look</em> like it&#8217;s running Windows 7, you&#8217;re in the right place. The Life Rocks blog runs down how to get the Windows 7 look and feel with the bootup screen, wallpapers, and login screen, too. Here&#8217;s a direct link to the Windows 7 theme; and if you&#8217;re new to theming your XP desktop, check out our step-by-step for using custom Windows visual styles.</p>
<h3 style="font-size:120%;margin-top:20px;">Have More Control over Wi-Fi Networks</h3>
<p><img style="display:block;" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/win7wifichooser.png" alt="" /> One of the most useful Windows 7 features for roaming laptop users is its one-click Wi-Fi network choice. While there isn&#8217;t an exact match for that for XP and Vista, NetSetMan offers a more powerful way to manager multiple network profiles.</p>
<p>The big Windows 7 taskbar improvement that no one has replicated with a third-party app is the excellent Aero Peek feature, which adds multiple window previews to the taskbar, with the ability to close windows right from the preview. It doesn&#8217;t seem like much, but my bet is that it&#8217;s the one Win7 perk we&#8217;ll all wind up using the most once 7 hits desktops.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a nice hack out there which you can use on your GMail account to store files [such as mp3, power point, PDFs, ZIP etc]. The only limitation is that you can not upload a file larger than 10Megs in size and also that you will not see a classic windows explorer kind of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kp4m.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3808541&amp;post=16&amp;subd=kp4m&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a nice hack out there which <strong>you can use on your GMail account to store files [such as mp3, power point, PDFs, ZIP etc]</strong>. The only limitation is that <strong>you can not upload a file larger than 10Megs in size</strong> and also that you will not see a classic windows explorer kind of interface for the uploaded files inside GMail since all the files that you upload are stored as <a><span class="kLink" style="text-decoration:underline!important;position:static;"><span style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;"><span class="kLink" style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;">email </span><span class="kLink" style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;">attachments</span></span></span></a>. However, after installing a shell extension in your system, you can access all the uploaded files in the same way you access file and folders in other system drives [such as a <span class="kLink" style="text-decoration:underline!important;position:static;"><span style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;"><span class="kLink" style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;">USB</span></span></span> drive].</p>
<p>Sounds interesting? Let’s first begin with the installation.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Step# 1</strong></span> &#8211; <span class="kLink" style="text-decoration:underline!important;position:static;"><span style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;"><span class="kLink" style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;">Download</span></span></span> and install the <strong>GMail Drive Shell Extension</strong> from <a title="Download GMail Drive Shell Extension from Softpedia" href="http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/GMail-Drive-shell-extension-Download-15944.html" target="_blank">[Softpedia]</a> . You may have to restart your system for the changes to take effect.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Step# 2</strong></span> &#8211; After reboot, double click “<strong>My Computer</strong>“, and check to see if ‘<strong>GMail Drive</strong>‘ shows up. If you see the drive, it means that your installation was successful. If not, please re-install the shell extension and reboot the system.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><img style="border:4px solid #9bbb38;" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/gmail_in_my_computer.JPG" alt="GMail Drive in My Computer" /></div>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Step# 3</strong></span> &#8211; To login and start uploading files to your GMail account, <strong>double click on ‘GMail Drive’ in ‘My Computer’ and login to your GMail account.</strong> [On a shared computer do not set auto-login]. You can <strong>right click and select ‘Login As’</strong> to login as a <strong>different User</strong>.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><img style="border:4px solid #9bbb38;" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/gmaildrive_login.JPG" alt="GMail Login Screen" /></div>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Step# 4</strong></span> &#8211; Post login, you will see an empty drive. <strong>To create a new folder, right click and select New-&gt;Folder</strong>. Double click on the folder and then either create a subfolder or just <strong>‘Copy-Paste’ or ‘Drag &amp; Drop’ a file into it</strong>. That’s it! You have discovered a new way of using GMail, to store your files. <img class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" /> That’s why I love GMail. <img class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=")" /></p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><img style="border:4px solid #9bbb38;" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/gmail_in_explorer.JPG" alt="GMail in Windows Explorer" /></div>
<p><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_idea.gif" alt="" /> Please note that, an uploaded file/folder has a prefix of <strong>GMAILFS</strong> when you see them in GMail. I recommend that you <strong>create a label called ‘MyFiles’</strong> and label all such emails [uploaded files in fact] so that you do not confuse them with other emails.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><img style="border:4px solid #9bbb38;" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/gmailfiles_in_gmail.JPG" alt="uploaded files with GMAILFS prefix" /></div>
<p><img class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_idea.gif" alt="" /> To check the <strong>current usage of your GMail drive</strong>, right click on the <span style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;"><span class="kLink" style="color:#3b73b9!important;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;position:static;">driver</span></span> letter and <strong>select properties</strong>.</p>
<p>Now that you know how to use your 2GB of storage in GMail to store your important files, go ahead and upload all those important certificates, mp3s, spredsheets, documents, PDFs etc.</p>
<p>Happy Uploading! <img class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.bloghash.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=")" /></p>
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