Windows 7 RC Now Available for Download

The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for all user. The RC will be available at least through July 2009, so you have plenty of time.

Microsoft says t RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you’ll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010.

To install and use the RC, you need a PC with these system requirements:

• 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)

• DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

The 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 RC are available in five languages: English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. So take your pick. And do let us know your experience.

Google offers search right in Gmail

Google has introduced new Google Search experiment in Gmail Labs to let you search the web right within from your Gmail. When you turn this feature on from the Labs tab under Settings, you'll see a new search box on the left side of your inbox, like this:


Type your search in, and a window (like a chat window, but a bit bigger) appears at the bottom of your screen with the first few search results.


You can click on a search result and it'll open up in another window (or another tab) so you can make sure it's what you're looking for. Once you're sure it's a result you need, moving your mouse over the result back in Gmail reveals a pull-down menu that lets you do stuff with the search result.

What's in the menu depends on what you're doing in Gmail:

• If you're reading a message, you can start a reply to the message with the search result as the first thing in your reply.
• If you're writing a message, you can paste the result, or just the URL into your message.
• If you're chatting with someone, you can send the result via chat.
• You can also always compose a new message to send the search result.

If you have keyboard shortcuts turned on, typing g and then / will take you to the search box when you're not composing, and Ctrl + g will do it when you're composing (that's ⌘ + g for Mac users).

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Google Search right in Gmail

Gmail offers extra emoticons in Labs

Feeling that entirety of human expression can not be captured in 19 just faces, Google has introduced a new Labs feature: extra emoji, the colorfully animated brainchild of their team in Japan.

Simply go to the Labs tab under Settings, enable "Extra Emoji," and have that glass of you've been dreaming about. Ask your in-laws about the fluffiness factor of their pet . Become a meteorologist and start predicting . Dance like you mean it

There are another couple hundred emoticons to choose from!

Read more at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Extra emoticons

Gmail Adds Suggested Recipients

Gmail Labs has introduced a new feature called "Suggest more recipients."

Once you've enabled it from the Labs tab under Settings, you'll see suggested recipients while composing messages. Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. So if you always email your mom, dad, and sister together, and you start composing a message to your mom and dad, Gmail will suggest adding your sister. Enter at least two recipients and any suggestions will show up like this:


Click on a suggested name, and they'll get added to your email.

Another feature of Gmail to help us being lazy!!!

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Suggest more recipients

Inserting inline images in Gmail

If I wanted to insert an inline image in Gmail earlier, there were no straight options for me. There were a few workarounds, but I didn't liked them. Gmail finally listened to us . You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this:



Make sure you're in rich formatting mode, or it won't show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs.

If you're sending mail to other Gmail users, they'll still have to click "Display images below" or "Always display images from ..." to see images you embed.

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Inserting images.

Waiting for your feedback on this new feature.

New in Gmail Labs: Sender time zone

Gmail has introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs called Sender Time Zone. You can turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable (if it's between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in the sender's local time zone) and red ones next to those who could be sleeping or out of the office:

Click "show details" and you can see when a message was sent in the sender's time zone as well as what time it is for them now:

Message headers always include the time sent and often include time zone info too.

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Sender time zone

Gmail search made easier (and lazier)

Gmail has introduced a new experimental feature in Gmail Labs: Search Autocomplete, it helps in making search in Gmail easier.

You just need to turn on Search Autocomplete from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and you'll get suggestions as you type in the search box. One of the most popular searches in Gmail is for names or email addresses, so the first kind of suggestions you'll see are contacts. Some names are not easy to remember (my last name is an excellent example!) — with this new Labs feature you can just type a couple letters and select the desired contact from the drop down list. Easy and quick as that.



Gmail also offers a bunch of advanced search operators, which provide a powerful way to find that one message you have in mind. You can search in specific places (e.g. in chats or sent items), or search for messages with attachments of a certain type (e.g. docs or photos). With Search Autocomplete, I can just type "photos" or "pictures," select "has photos" from the drop down list (as in the screenshot below), and the search query (filename:(jpg OR png)) gets inserted for me. Similarly, you can type in the word "attachment" and Search Autocomplete will list the most common attachment types for you.



Read more at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Gmail search made easier (and lazier)

Send email in Hindi, Other Indian Languages

Gmail now lets you send email to friends and family in Hindi and other Indian languages. Gmail has announced a new feature for Gmail that lets you type email in Indian languages.

If you're in India, this feature is enabled by default. If not, you'll need to turn it on in the "Language" section under Settings. Once enabled, just click the Indian languages icon and type words in the way they sound in English -- Gmail will automatically convert them to their Indian language equivalent. For example, if you have Hindi selected, "namaste" will transliterate to "नमस्ते."




Gmail currently supports five Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.

Official Gmail Blog: Typing in Indian Languages

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Avira AntiVir Free Now Offers Anti-Spyware Detection, Removal

Avira AntiVir has released an updated version of the company's free AntiVirus application. It has now added Anti-spyware detection and removal for the free version of AntiVir as well as the paid upgrades. It also has a new one-click threat removal option.

Avira AntiVir Premium, along with all the features of free edition, further offers e-mail scanning, WebGuard protection against malicious websites and RescueSystem to create a bootable rescue CD.

Visit CNet for more details.