FREE ZoneAlarm for 24 hours!!!

ZoneAlarm is a personal firewall. It helps protect access to a computer by placing a barrier between your computer and the network (local or Internet). It is oriented use for novices and automatically alerts you if external intrusion on your machine, or to launch applications connected to the Internet. A button “STOP” lets you instantly block all ports of the machine literally preventing all access to the latter. This feature is customizable and can start automatically when the user is absent from his post.

Google SketchUp in version 7 - WHATS NEW?

Google launches a new version 7 of its stamped 3D modeling software oriented architecture with dynamic components.

Google SketchUp is the solution proposed by the Mountain View company for creating, editing and sharing 3D models that are sometimes found in Google Earth via the link made by the storage 3D: 3D warehouse or bank of 3D images.

Yesterday, Google announced a new version 7 of Google SketchUp, also for Windows (XP, Vista) and Mac OS X (10.4 +), and currently only available in English.

Shake your windows in Windows 7, cool new feature!

Shake Aero is a feature that should quickly make its way among the future users of Windows 7. When several windows are present on the screen, it triggers the event by clicking on the bar of the active application that interests us and shake the window.

It is both simple and useful, especially as the manipulation works both ways. We also wondered if Microsoft does take this concept of “mouse gestures” throughout the system. Old Opera or the appropriate extension for Firefox will be fully conquered ground.

Windows 7 taskbar with changes

Steven Sinofsky, the man held for years behind Office and who now heads the advanced Windows 7, said during the Microsoft PDC that the new taskbar of the next system would be mandatory. Mess into perspective.

Sinofsky is the one to whom we owe the appearance of ribbons in Office 2007. At the exit subsequently, the reactions were very mixed, particularly because he had to relearn how to use software or at least the organization of their features. In Windows 7, the taskbar adopt a new behavior, and this is the first time since Windows 95 that the publisher carries out such a change.

Microsoft is working to make OpenID compatible with its Live ID

Remember last February, the board of the OpenID Foundation announced that several big names in computing joined the initiative. Meanwhile, companies like Yahoo! or AOL have updated their authentication system to provide compatibility with OpenID. It is now the turn of Microsoft to take a step forward.

OpenID is an authentication scheme which aims to prevent the creation of multiple identifiers on the web sites. Here’s how it works:

• The user creates an identifier with Yahoo or AOL

Top 5 working stations - futuristic offices

Forget your laser mouse, smartphone, and Aeron chair; these conceptual technologies, and some of very good designed and functional futuristic chairs. Imagine this scenario, you’re lounging in your ergonomic office chair with one-touch controls for the stock ticker, e-mail, and sports scores built right into the arm rest.

User Account Control will exist in Windows 7

UAC what is shortcut for User Account Control was introduced in Windows Vista, and a very remarkable appearance sometimes seen as an aggression by many users who abhor this feature that wishes to does that well. When UAC is enabled, the user is granted privileges restricted, as opposed to administrative law and unable to change the security settings of the system. Every action considered at risk, it is alerted by reports of potentially hazardous nature of the latter to the integrity of its system.

Mono: Free implementation of Microsoft.NET version 2.

“Mono 2.0 gives .NET developers the freedom to run their applications on a wide range of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS and UNIX. Mono 2.0 enjoys a wide range of developers, independent software vendors and final users by allowing them to write their applications and run on any platform they wish, increasing portability and extending the target market“said Miguel de Icaza who occupies the office of Vice President Development Platforms at Novell and in charge of the Mono project.

Stainless, the first multi-browser for Mac OS X

Stainless is a browser for Mac OS X Leopard that incorporates technology that uses Chrome to manage through a separate tabs saved.

The same developers warn that the browser is only the basic functions, and so far the browser is more a pre-visualization of what could become a time to have all preserencias to which we are accustomed. What I have seen in my tests is that it is very fast, and the interface is very simple and shows us how it could be Chrome for Mac.

Windows 7: beta 1 will be scheduled for mid-December

Big news for those who are expecting new edition of Microsoft Windows operating system; Windows 7, code name of the next version of Windows for client computers is scheduled for the end of next year, or no later than January 2010. Microsoft has repeated several times that three years between Vista’s successor, to return to a more traditional pace after the crowd problems caused by Vista, due in particular to the five long years in which Windows XP has melted into habits.