http://www.easytutorials.net Easy step by step tutorials, cool software, unattended setup, news, tips and tricks Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:49:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is an interesting list of free software from Microsoft on their Technet blog: http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/pages/microsoft-free-software.aspx http://www.easytutorials.net/free-software/free-microsoft-software/ Internet Explorer 8 it's now closer to it's final release, and you can download Beta 2 here. It's also available in several languages. There is a nice overview of this release in IE8's official MSDN Blog. Happy download :-) http://www.easytutorials.net/cool-software/internet-explorer-8-beta-2-available-for-download/ The long-awaited tutorial is here - integrating drivers into your unattended Vista setup! :-) It's a simple task, but first you need to read part 1 of this tutorial. Since I have a nVidia system (motherboard and video card, sound... etc.) I will use those drivers as an example. You ... http://www.easytutorials.net/unattended-setup/build-your-own-custom-vista-installation-dvd-integrating-drivers-part-2/ In this tutorial you will learn how to build your own Windows Vista Live CD/DVD (known as Windows PE 2.0). This is the basic tutorial, I will write an advanced version later. All you will need is the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), which is available here. Download and install ... http://www.easytutorials.net/windows-pe/windows-preinstallation-environment-vista-live-cd-part-1/ I found these days this open-source project which looks very promising, not just because it's free, but also because it has a lot of features. As the presentation on their website says, VMukti offers: file sharing, chat, telephony, video conferencing, remote management, CRM and more. It is built ... http://www.easytutorials.net/cool-software/vmukti-unified-communications-social-community/ Finally! We got an official tool for keyword research, from Google. I know that this news is not related to Microsoft, tutorials or Windows, but it's a damn good news for webmasters, so it can't pass untold :-) So, here it is: Google Keyword Tool. http://www.easytutorials.net/news/google-keyword-tool/ Are you interested? Because there is a lot of work building them, so I don't want to do a worthless job. Please leave a comment about that or vote in the poll and I will do it based on the results. [poll id="2"] http://www.easytutorials.net/video-tutorials/c-and-aspnet-video-tutorials/ Brandon LeBlanc just posted about the coolest little gadget I’ve seen in a while – the Mars weather gadget for Vista. Thanks to the Phoenix Mars Lander, this gadget displays the maximum and minimum daily temps on Mars as well as the Mars weather. Hint: It’s sunny a lot there. ... http://www.easytutorials.net/cool-software/mars-gadget-for-vista/ Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research with those images? Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? How about taking a 5 minute break and ... http://www.easytutorials.net/cool-software/take-a-tour-of-the-sky-with-worldwide-telescope/ Microsoft just released Silverlight 2 Beta 2, which is available for download here. If you don't know what Silverlight is, check out its website. There are a lot of demos, presentations and video tutorials to get you started. http://www.easytutorials.net/news/silverlight-2-beta-2-is-here/ Microsoft released a Technical Preview preview of Windows Live Writer that can be downloaded here. You can see some improvements on Windows Live Writer's blog, which basically are: tabs for better accessibility, a word counter, image cropping and support for some services like LightBox. http://www.easytutorials.net/news/new-version-of-windows-live-writer/ A post on Nick MacKechnie's blog reminds us that the public beta of Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8 Beta 2) will be available in the third quarter of 2008. IE8 is standards-compliant by default, which means websites that have been coded to work with previous versions of IE may ... http://www.easytutorials.net/news/ie-8-beta-2-is-almost-here/ Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates, hotfixes and select out-of-band releases. For example, the Service Pack includes the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0 and the Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0. Microsoft is not adding significant functionality from ... http://www.easytutorials.net/windows-client/whats-new-in-windows-xp-service-pack-3/ This tutorial will be split into several parts, as I'll try to cover more and more about how you can make your own fully automated, customized Vista installation DVD, using Microsoft's official tools. I will cover also Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) "slipstreaming" in the next part of this tutorial. ... http://www.easytutorials.net/unattended-setup/vista-installation-customization-windows-unattended-setup-part-1/ There is a cool trick that lets you do a search on various websites, such as Wikipedia or IMDB, right from your Vista Start Menu. It works for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. 1. Go to Start -> Run -> type gpedit.msc and hit enter. 2. From Local Group Policy Editor select ... http://www.easytutorials.net/tips-tricks/search-wikipedia-and-other-services-from-vistas-start-menu/ Now that SP3 is out, let's slipstream (integrate) it into a bootable Windows XP installation disc. You need to download Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package and MagicISO (I used version 5.4). As Microsoft says, Windows XP Service Pack 3 includes all previously released updates for the operating system, so ... http://www.easytutorials.net/windows-client/slipstreaming-xp-service-pack-3/ Yes, Service Pack 3 for Windows XP is out, downloadable from Microsoft Update and it can be installed even with Internet Explorer 7 (which had issues on beta versions of Service Pack 3) Check my blog tomorrow, I will write an article about slipstreaming the Service Pack. http://www.easytutorials.net/news/windows-xp-service-pack-3-final/