A lot of people thought that Windows 8 would have a black screen of death, but after making it available for release yesterday it turns out to not be the case. In reality they have a very nice blue screen of death.
Good work Microsoft, its the little things!
Microsoft has just launched the developer preview for Windows 8.
This of course makes the news extremely important for developers and startups looking at this space, including those working with Windows Phone and Nokia.
Even though Microsoft have built a very nice way to control and download more Windows 7 themes it seems like that just wasnt enough. Theme Manager for Windows 7 is an awesome freeware tool which gets you access to 100s of high quality Windows 7 themes.
The theme manager provides you with these benefits:
There are a lot of different ways to control your MySQL databases. Here is another great free MySQL database management program, MyDB Studio.
MyDB Studio allows users to connect to unlimited databases and even supports SSH tunneling.
Currently MyDB Studio is only available to Windows, however they are currently developing an Adobe Air version that will work across all platforms.
Thanks to a new virus which makes users believe all of their data has been deleted, computer users everywhere are in mass panic and repair shops are busier than ever. This new virus is pure genius and is, as old-school hackers would put it, a “truly righteous” hack. It exploits a loophole in Java which gives the virus god-rights on the computer and installs without the user ever knowing. Unlike most viruses today which trick the user into thinking they have a virus and clicking ‘OK’ to clean it up (which actually installs it), it is embedded in webpages which use Java and installs silently. And since nearly everyone has Java turned on to surf the internet, it installs quietly and effortlessly. Suddenly, all the computer’s files, icons and folders are “gone.” Panic ensues as users frantically try to figure out how to recover their “lost” data. But what has really happened is that the virus has simply hidden every file on the computer! Genius, right? I can only imagine the developers are sitting back having a good laugh about it all.
So what do you do if you get hit by this lovely virus? A non-techy person could take it to a computer repair shop and spend anywhere from $85-$150 to get it fixed. Or for you geeks, you could fix it yourself using the following steps:
(Please note the following steps are for experienced users only – if you are not comfortable performing any of the below steps, take the computer to a professional!)
1) Immediately boot into Safe Mode (with networking) and do not leave this until you are done! (Mashing F8 at the boot screen will do this on most computers – read the boot screen if F8 doesn’t do the trick)
2) Download and run RKill: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/rkill. This will terminate the virus from running and allow you to clean up the computer. Any of the download links should work – they just have various names to confuse viruses.
3) You need to be able to see the folders/files which are hidden. To do this, do the following:
4) Make sure you have the following programs installed and updated:
5) Run a FULL scan on both Security Essentials and Super AntiSpyware.
6) Clean up your registry! (If not comfortable with this, pay for a professional cleanup!)
7) Lastly, do a quick file cleanup
So by now you have:
1) Made your files viewable and usable again
2) Removed the virus and any associated viruses or malware through using the recommended software
3) Removed registry entries to prevent anything bad from loading on startup and thus re-infecting your machine
4) Removed any negative system entries which may also be contributing to the problem.
You might have even discovered you had other spyware, malware or viruses you didn’t know about throughout all this. But if you did everything correctly, you should be clean. If not, now is definitely a good time to take the computer in for a professional cleanup as your machine likely has bigger problems than you were aware of. Good luck!
**Please note that running these commands will make EVERY file on the system viewable and editable, including previously hidden system files you shouldn’t mess with. Use extreme caution when working with files after doing this. If you aren’t comfortable with this, consider paying for a professional cleanup.
Microsoft seems to be the latest company to get App Store fever! There have already been a few Windows 8 leaked images and here is the latest. The above image is leaked from Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 and its of the new Windows App Store.
It seems like Microsoft is trying to bring together the designs of IE9, Windows and Windows Phone 7. The Windows App Store seems very similar to the design of Internet Explorer 9.
The Windows Phone 7 platform seems to be on a roll of late and it seems like their latest version has been floating around the place. Recently NoDo was released by Windows Phone 7, which featured copy and paste and multitasking. However, it seems like a Windows Phone Italy commenter has been using a handset that has even more recent software! This release is supposed to be called Mango and is the next major release for Windows Phone 7.
The commenter claimed that he installed the version when updating his Zune. Im not really sure whether that is true! Anyways, there is a new search button, but the rest of the changes seem to be under the hood.
Will update you when more details are received.
There has just been another leak of a Windows 8 image. This image comes courtesy of Winreview.ru. There is a subtle difference including new min, max and close buttons, a flatter styling (to better align with Metro) and a few other nuances.
So far from an aesthetical point of view there isnt much difference between Windows 8 and Windows 7. However, it is still very early days and im sure there are a lot more releases to come.
Windows 8 is expected to RTM in 2012 with the latest rumor suggesting an early January 2013 retail availability.
The other day we wrote about Greenpoison RC5 and how to untether jailbreak on Mac OS X. Today the Chronic Dev Team have released a Windows version of Greenpois0n jailbreak tool, latest utility supports iPhone 3G , iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 2G, 3G, 4G and the iPad running on iOS 4.2.1.
Windows version of greenpois0n RC5 V2, the infamous “Greenpois0n initialized” problem is already fixed in this version but if you still have any problems during the jailbreak process check our previous guides first.
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