The following are the feature new in Windows Mobile 6.5.3....

Ease of Use features

• Capacitive touch screen support
• Platform to enable multi touch
• Touch controls throughout system (no need for stylus)
• Consistent Navigation
• Horizontal scroll bar replaces tabs (think settings>system>about screen)
• Magnifier brings touch support to legacy applications
• Simplified out-of-box experience with fewer steps
• Drag and drop icons on Start Screen

IE Browser Performance

• Page load time decreased
• Memory management improved
• Pan & flick gestures smoothed
• Zoom & rotation speed increased

Quality and Customer Satisfaction features

• Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)
• Arabic read/write document support
• Watson (error reporting) improvements and bug fixes

Source: Winsupersite

All Windows starting from XP has feature of burning files to optical Media. Now Windows 7 supports burning ISO images to physical media.
But stilll it lags creating an ISO image from physical media.

ISO Recorder is a small power tool for Windows which helps to create ISO image from a physical media.
It's very simple, right click the CD/DVD drive in my computer having a physical CD/DVD inserted and voila you have a context menu item "Copy Image From CD/DVD" "Copy CD to CD" etc.

for more information look at http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

I was developing an application for client based on Silverlight 2.0 and during the development phase Microsoft updated the Silverlight version to 3.0 and all the links were pointing to v3.0 and v2.0 was found no where at Microsoft’s links.

So thought of having a backup in case somebody wants to use Silverlight Runtime v2.0.40115.0

Download Silverlight.2.0.40115.0.zip

Last week I installed the final Internet Explorer version 8. I was impressed with it’s loading speed and some features which I have listed below.

The feature which I love most is the the “Search Suggestion”. Just type a word and a following appropriate words will be listed. See the screenshot below and you will know what I mean

Next is the coloured tabs, previously I would find it difficult to identify which tab resulted from which page when I do the “Open In New Tab”. Now this coloured tabs has solved that too.

The other feature is that sometimes I spell URL’s wrongly and end up in different website. Now with selective URL deletion, that problem too is solved !!

Next one is the re-open closed tabs. This is a self explanatory feature.

I would say IE is getting perfect with every major release.

For the past 2 months I have been searching for a better Internet Security Software and tried Kaspersky Internet Security, Windows Live One Care and currently trying Norton Internet Security 2009.

Since this post entry is related to NIS 2009 I am not going to talk about Kaspersky or One Care.

I have been hearing that Norton is working on NIS 2009 which is going to light on system resources and still perform better. So I download the NIS 2009 Beta which comes with 14 days trial activation.

So lets see how it actually performs...

Installation

The installation was straight forward and took just 7 minutes, I am not joking !!

Activation

Once the product is installed the activation screen comes up where the product key needs to be given and activation is done.

Norton Account Creation

Post activation a Norton account is created with which the product's subscription can be managed and support can be obtained.

The Application

The new interface is very clean and simple. Almost all the information are shown in a single window. More configuration options are available in the settings screen.

Some of the features which I like is that, NIS doesn't annoy you with its popup regularly. Still it popup's for important information to be displayed.

Live Update

Live update functions similar to previous versions. But there is now a small addition called live update streaming. Norton now sends critical updates when there is a virus break out which is checked at a higher frequency than a normal update.

Some screens for your viewing....

Things I like in this new edition of Norton Internet Security are

• Light on system (Finally Norton listened to its customers)
• Un-Cluttered Main UI
• Less annoying popup's
• Full screen mode (this I haven't tested) at which the popup's will be disabled and less system resources will be used. e.g during gaming.
• Norton Insight, a feature where certain already green listed files and application will be scanned less frequently, saving resources.
• Updates streaming. Now I don't need to worry about virus break outs.

Norton is doing a good work and I am pretty sure this new less system resource usage will attract more customers, lets hope. Let's wait till the final product is launched and see.