There may come a day that optical drives are as hard to find as 5.25 floppy drives are today. WinToFlash starts a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also do this with your LiveCD. You don't have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud. Read about all supported features on the Overview page.
Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creatorthat allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install. Upon completion, you should have a ready to run bootable USB Flash Drive with your select operating system installed. Other features include; Persistence (if available) – note that casper persistence will only work with fat16 or fat32 formatted drives.
Microsoft's new Surface tablet is generating enough interest to grow lines and pack stores.
Love it or hate it, there was a ton of consumer interest in Microsoft's Surface tablet at a store in Los Angeles on Friday.(Credit: Brooke Crothers)CENTURY CITY, Calif.--As of this weekend, Microsoft has a hot product on its hands.Reviews notwithstanding (some have been pretty negative), on Friday my local Microsoft store in Century City (in Los Angeles) was buzzing with curious customers keen on trying the Surface RT tablet, as lines snaked outside. Other stores drew crowds too.(And all three Surface models are back-ordered three weeks on Microsoft's online store.)I was surprised to see any line at all. After reading some reviews, you would have thought that the thing was DOA.Fortunately, I had plenty of time to try out the tablet for myself. Ill-conceived, unusable keyboard? Nope. Yeah, it takes getting used to, but the 3mm-thick keyboard is far from unusable and beats a virtual keyboard any day.And besides, for a few bucks more you can get the other Surface keyboard that Microsoft is selling, which is a real keyboard -- responsive and easy to use.And as I've been saying for a while now, as an interface, I like Windows 8 and its split personality.For Microsoft, one of the more encouraging signs (I saw) was the intensity of interest. Customers had lots of questions about Surface and some sat there for 30 minutes or even an hour kicking the tires (or, in this case, pounding on the 3mm keyboard).If Microsoft can maintain that kind of enthusiasm, it has a chance to make a run at the iPad and MacBook.The other unmistakable change at the Microsoft store (which I visit often) was a crop of new Windows 8 laptops with touch screens.There were new Asus, Acer, and Sony clamshell laptops -- all touch capable. For me, this is a watershed feature and big leg up on Apple.Some reviewers believe that touch screens and clamshells go together like oil and water. Not me. I want the option to use the touch screen. I mean, why not have a touch display? It's there if you need it. And I know I need it.And new touch-capable Windows 8 laptops, like the razor-thin $1,299 Acer Aspire S7 (it boasts a 13.3-inch 1,920x1,080 display), are very capable rivals to the MacBook Air.And there are less expensive touch-screen laptops too, like the $699 Acer Aspire V5 and the $549 Asus VivoBook X202E.And note that these all run the full Windows 8 on Intel. So you're not getting shortchanged on applications -- a common complaint cited by Windows RT reviews.Which brings us to the next Surface tablet -- the Intel version with Windows 8 Pro. Though under 2 pounds and only 0.53 inches thick, it will pack a 10.6-inch 1,920x1,080 display, Mini DisplayPort, 4GB of memory, up to 128GB of solid-state drive storage, and a Core i5 chip.It will obviously be more expensive, but it may be a more viable version of Surface for consumers worried that RT won't cut it. (Or for those who take it home only to find that RT doesn't run all of their favorite Windows applications.)Will the Pro version prove to be more popular than Surface RT? We should know by early next year when it debuts at the Microsoft store.
Acer Aspire S7. A very thin, slick, touch-capable Windows 8 laptop.(Credit: Brooke Crothers)
When the Century City (Los Angeles) Microsoft store opened at 10 a.m. there were long lines and the store was packed.(Credit: Brooke Crothers)
In this Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon advises a reader looking to use a SIM card from a tablet to get data-only wireless service on his smartphone.
برنامج فوتو فلتر هو برنامج من برامج مونتاج فوتو اي برامج التعديل على الصور وتركيبها وايضا التأثير على الصور وذلك باضافة فلاتر ممتازة تعطي الصورة جمال اكثر وتجعلها اكثر ابداعا مثل فلتر الافلام السنمائية الذي لما تضيفه الى صورتك ستصبح مثل نجوم هوليود وايضا اضاءة الصورة اذا كانت مظلمة و العكس , برنامج برنامج فوتو فلتر هو برنامج شبيه ببرنامج فوتوشوب ولكنه بسيط عليه اي فوتو فلتر يمكن استعماله بسهولة للمبتدئين في ميدان مونتاج الصور , جرب البرنامج ان كنت مبتدأ وان كنت محترف فننصحك بتجريبه لزيادة خبرتك ببرامج المونتاج والتعديل الصورة .
Commercial PHP vendor Zend today took the wraps off a trio of new initiatives designed to enable developers for the new world of mobile and cloud developmenThe new Zend Studio 10 IDE provides new visual development options for mobile developers while the update Zend Server 6 and Zend Gateway products provide enhanced cloud capabilities."We see cloud really as a must-have for mobile deployment because of the agility that cloud provides," said Andi Gutmans, CEO of Zend.The Zend philosophy is that the developers will build applications with Zend Studio and then deploy it on Zend Server running in the cloud. Gutmans explained that Zend Server 6 provides new runtime capabilities for cloud scale. Zend Server is a packed PHP server technology that Zend has been building since 2009."Zend Server 6 is not just another version of Zend Server, we have completely re-architected the product," Gutmans said.The user interface has been overhauled and the focus has now moved to an application centric view. Monitoring, caching and performance rules can now be set on a per-application basis. Gutmans noted that previous versions of Zend Server were server focused."If you're running in the cloud, what we're saying with Zend Server 6 is that you shouldn't care if your application is running on one server or on a hundred servers," Gutmans said." All you should care about is if the application is performing and are there any issues."
" API" هو جهد من شأنه أن يغرس النشاط الاجتماعي في موقع الشبكات والتعاون مباشرة في فايرفوكس. لسنوات، كانت هناك أنواع متعددة من الوظائف الإضافية للمستعرض التي تحاول تمكين الشبكات الاجتماعية. الجديد أنه يهدف إلى أن يذهب خطوةأبعد مع تجربة متكاملة فريدة أن ينسج النسيج الاجتماعي الربط الشبكي الحق في صلب تجربة التصفح اليومية.
"We want to build something generic into the foundation of the browser, so whoever your social provider is, you can plug them in and have a persistent, integrated experience" Johnathan Nightingale, Senior Director of Firefox Engineering at Mozilla told Datamation
