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Google Wave is a project announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 28, 2009.It is a web application and computing platform designed to bring together e-mail, instant messaging, wiki and social networking, mixed with spellchecker and translator extensions, which are able to work in concert. It is planned to be released later in 2009.

Google announced on the Wave site that the service will feature an open protocol, Google Wave Federation Protocol, that can be used to build a “custom Wave system”. It provides APIs for writing extensions on both the client and server. Google also announced that they plan to release the majority of the source code as open source. Google Wave is created using the Google Web Toolkit.

March 19, 2009 Microsoft Corp. will release Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) at 9 a.m. Pacific time today, beating its biggest rival, Mozilla Corp., in the race toward final code.

The new browser (see Computerworld’s review) will be available for manual download from the company’s Web site; the hour selected to coincide with a keynote address at MIX09, the Microsoft-sponsored Web developer conference where IE8 will be introduced, said James Pratt, a senior product manager on the IE development team.

“We’ll be launching IE8 [release to manufacturing] in 25 languages for Windows Vista, XP, Server 2003 and Server 2008,” said Pratt.

Download link available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

* You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
* Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
* You can create video tutorials for school or college class
* You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
* You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
* You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

You can download it from here.

Open a text file in notepad and write:

copy from here:-

Dim msg, sapi

msg=InputBox(“Enter your text”,”Talk it”)

Set sapi=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)

sapi.Speak msg

Save the file with a (*.vbs) extension, it will create a VBScript File.

It will prompt you for a text, input the text and press ok.”

VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by German software company innotek, now developed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Sun xVM virtualization platform. It is installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp, Windows XP or Vista, and Solaris, while supported guest operating systems include FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp, Windows and Solaris.

According to a 2007 survey by DesktopLinux.com, VirtualBox is the third most popular software package for running Windows programs on Linux desktops.