Archive for March, 2009

Screenshot on iPhone

Here is how you can take screenshots from a iphone:
1- Turn on your iPhone
2- Open the page you’d like to make a screen capture
3- Hold Home button and press and release Sleep/Wake button
4- Wait for a flash screen (screencap has been saved to your camera roll)
5- Connect you iphone to your desktop
6- Launch iphoto
7- Transfer your screenshot from your Camera Roll to iPhoto

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Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 today for Windows Vista or Windows XP (but not Windows 7)
Download it here >>>
Read about it on Wired blog >>>

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Browser and OS statistics February 2009

OS Platform Statistics:
Windows XP => 69%
Windows Vista => 17.4%
Windows 2000 => 1.4%
Windows 2003 => 1.6%
Linux => 4%
Mac => 6%

Browsers Statistics:
IE8 (Beta 2)=> 0.8%
IE7 => 25.4%
E6 => 17.4%
Firefox => 46.4%
Chrome => 4%
Safari =>3%
Opera => 2%

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/

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Global Market Share OS/Browser February 2009

User stats by Browser version
Global Market Share February 2009 According to Net Application MS Internet Explorer was 72.65% of the global market in February 2009 and Firefox (2 and 3) was 21.3%. Safari comes in 3rd position with 6.39% of the browser market.
IE 7.0 > 47.32%
IE 6.0 > 18.85%
Firefox 3.0 > 19.11%
Firefox 2.0 > 2.27%
Safari 3.1 > 2.47%
Safari 3.2 > 4.29%
Other > 5.55%

User stats by Operating System
- 88.41% – Windows
-> 63.53% – Win XP
-> 22.91% – Win Vista
- 9.61% – Mac
-> 5.64% – Mac OS X 10.5
-> 2.75% – Mac OS X 10.4
- 0.88% – Linux
- 0.48% – iPhone
- 0.07% – Java ME
- 0.05% – Windows Mobile
- 0.21% – Other

Source: http://marketshare.hitslink.com

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Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Release candidate for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers to test prior to final release.
Microsoft is planning to release to release to the public SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in the second quarter of 2009.
Read Windows team blog >>>

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