7-Zip file archiver – a polished, quickly, and efficient file archiver. Supports the following formats, 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
Infra Recorder – User-friendly and lean recorder suite for CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray. Supports also creation of music CDs from MP3 files directly.
VLC Player – The best and most user-friendly film and video player. Simply a must have.
Launchy – A so called key-stroke launcher. Makes it smart and easy to start programs in Windows just like Quicksilver does it for Mac and Gnome Do for Gnome under Linux.
Paint.NET – Good, polished, and fast photo processing and editing program. Smarter and more user friendly than Adobe Photoshop
PDFCreator – Easy and quick program to create PDF files. PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Wor
d, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
Notepad++ – Wonderful and quick editor for text and various programming languages.
uTorrent – BitTorrent client used to download movies, software and music albums from the peer to peer net. The stuff for download can often be found on thepiratebay.org or torrentz.com.
Firefox – Quick and easy to use browser. A Must have on Windows 7.
Picasa – Easy and simple program for managing and storing photos and photo albums.
iTunes – super duper program managing music collections, it can handle tons of mp3 files
VirtualBox – easy and fast virtual machine that can be used to test Linux distributions, and to install windows inside another windows – Fancy, fancy and quite usable.
OpenOffice – complete office suite containing; Word processing, Spreadsheets, Presentation editor, Drawing, Database programs and etc. A must have, and it works better than Microsoft Office.
Inkscape – Drawing program for drawing vector drawings (logos and such things).
Scribus – Polished, user-friendly DTP program, used to create brochures, catalogs, reports, articles, etc.
This post reviews the five most popular free for download themes for Windows 7 available on the internet.
Themes for Windows often requires different types of heavy and resource demanding 3rd party software, e.g. like ThemeXP and others. In this post I have collected the most popular themes that do not require additional 3rd party software, but just works out of the box. Don’t bother on trying them with Vista or XP because they just wont work.
This guide explains how to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS with Redsn0w on Windows. The guide assumes that your iPhone 3GS is updated to firmware version 3.0.
It is required that you have iTunes 8.2 not higher, not lower, in order to let the iPhone 3GS jailbreak properly the first time.
Get Redsn0w
Redsn0w is only available as bittorrent download. You can download using this torrent (usually really fast).
Download the firmware 3.0 for iPhone 3GS
The 3.0.0 (3GS) version of the iPhone firmware is available at the apple website: iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw (recommended to be downloaded using the FireFox browser as it does not try to extract the file automatically in the download process).
Create a folder on your desktop and call it “mksnow”. Extract the downloaded firmware software in the folder and move Redsn0w into the folder too.
Launch Redsn0w
Double click on the Redsn0w program.
Click the “Browse” button.
Navigate to the firmware restore file we downloaded and put in the “mksnow” folder and click “Open”.
Click the “Next” button.
Select “Cydia” and “Icy” and click “Next”.
Switch off your phone and disconnect the USB connector on the bottom. When it is completely off, hold home button and plug in again while holding the home button.
Redsn0w will now jailbreak your iPhone and it will finally report that it is finished. Wait a while for a lot of text the iPhone screen and all the progress bars to complete. When the phone boots and starts up with the apple and lock screen, then the process is donw and your iPhone 3GS is jailbroken.
Continue if necessary to unlock it using ultrasn0w.”
I bought the new iPhone 3GS and in order to use the phone I needed to actually activate the phone using Apple iTunes. Nomally iTunes and Ubuntu is a no-go, however using the latest wine from the Ubuntu it is possible out of the box – I’ really impressed of the wine project.
What you need
Check that you got the at least the following wine version:
What is Safari? It is a browser. It is a platform. It is an open invitation to innovation. Safari expands the boundaries of the Internet and gives you also a world-class user experience.
It is now possible to download and install Apple’s Safari Web browser on your Windows platform. Note that the client is in beta and therefore probably, but it works flawless on most machines.
“Users who purchased digital media such as songs, musics, videos and etc from online stores or contents providers such as AOL MusicNow, Directsong, FYE, Musicmatch Jukebox, Napster, PassAlong, MTV URGE, Wal-Mart Music Downloads, Ruckus Network, Yahoo Music and Real Rhapsody, or iTunes shop, may have to deal with license or media usage rights acquisition for the media and live with the restriction to the free and fair usage of the contents, as most digital media sold by these networks are copy-protected and tightly controlled its access by Microsoft PlayForSure or other DRM (Digital Rights Management).”
This article describes howto actually get the music free from the bad and harmful Microsoft DRM mechanism.
However there is still no DRM-freeing mechanisms available for Mac and Linux users ;( Please leave a comment if you know some way around.
User Experience
The phone is very slow to boot and become ready to use. It has boot times, which could be compared to normal Windows-based computers, which means around 20-50 seconds.
The user interface and the user interaction feels sluggish, very sluggish in fact. I upgraded to the newest firmware version available, but it didn’t reduce the slowness.
Compared to the Apple iPhone user interface and user interaction the iPhone is ages ahead.
