Monthly Archives: January 2009
Windows 7 – A short review
I tried Windows 7 Ultimate pre-Beta version. Its still under testing. And it of course have some flaws which are getting better with every update.
I must say that this is not that bad. Windows after releasing Windows Vista might have realised that it was an extreme releasing making it unable to work on most of the PCs. Vista’s requirements were quite high and non-economical. But people who were able to run on their machines said, its cool! And it was. Graphics, Speed, features were terribly good! Features like Ready boost were added.
To counter act the incompatibility of Vista, Microsoft came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is compatible even with some 5 year old computer. It runs with no graphics card. 
Requirements are optimal.
Looks of Vista with features of XP – This is how I can best describe this OS.
The traditional taskbar is given modification. No differentiation between the quick icons and the regular minimised windows. All look same. This new one actually sucks! Thank god we can change it to the traditional taskbar.
The glossy look of Windows Vista are restored.
Paint and calculators are given some modification too. (I thought Microsoft had forgotten those applications)
Best thing that I happened to see is the Action center. If something goes wrong, the OS can self diagnose the machine for troubleshooting. Its really cool!
The animations are simple and don’t eat away your RAM as much as Vista did.
I heard that the Microsoft is going to give some good Bluetooth Support in its Beta version.
I still use my Windows XP as second OS.
Google Chat Bots – Language not a barrier anymore!
Here is something, not so new, but so useful. Google Chat bots! Chatting with people who don’t know english was always difficult and almost impossible. But Google got a solution to this. Name of the solution is “Google Bots”.
Google Bots translate languages. There are more than 50 bots that google has released. Add them as your friend on Google chat and while chatting with an alien who doesn’t speak your language, add these bots and make it a conference chat. Thats it! Whenever you enter something, the bot will translate it to what it is supposed to. There are different bots for different languages.
The email addresses of the bots that you should add follows the following pattern.
[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com
For example, if you want to translate English to Hindi, you add the bot en2hi@bot.talk.google.com as your friend.
Other bots are -
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ar2en (Arabic to English)
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de2en (German to English)
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de2fr (German to French)
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el2en (Greek to English)
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en2ar (English to Arabic)
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en2de (English to German)
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en2el (English to Greek)
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en2es (English to Spanish)
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en2fr (English to French)
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en2it (English to Italian)
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en2ja (English to Japanese)
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en2ko (English to Korean)
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en2nl (English to Dutch)
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en2ru (English to Russian)
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en2zh (English to Chinese)
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es2en (Spanish to English)
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fr2de (French to German)
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fr2en (French to English)
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it2en (Italian to English)
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ja2en (Japanese to English)
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ko2en (Korean to English)
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nl2en (Dutch to English)
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ru2en (Russian to English)
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zh2en (Chinese to English)
Wow! I can speak Spanish now!
Las personas se divierten!
Multiple Logins in Gtalk
Ok! Here’s something cool now. Suppose you have 2 gmail ids and you want to log into both the accounts using GTalk, how will you do??? You can’t open multiple Gtalks in your computer. Clicking once on the icon will open Gtalk once. You login. And clicking again on GTalk icon brings you back to the logged Gtalk!
But not anymore! Here is a cool trick that allows you to login different Gtalks simultaneously.
Right click on the Gtalk Shorcut icon on your desktop (If you don’t have shortcut icon, create one). Then in the Target function of the shorcut Tab, you’ll find something like this in quotes.
"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"
Now append ‘/nomutex’ to this without quotes. That is, make it
"C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
And save it by clicking OK. Now you’re done!
Now open Gtalk login window as many times as you want just by clicking this shortcut icon and login with as many accounts as you want.
