Linux turns 17 today and in these 17 years it has evolved so much that it can be seen almost everywhere, from school books to office computers and hey even my smart phone runs on Linux! Today 6th October was the day when world saw its first Linux, it came to existence from a post made on usernet named Linux. No one would have thought that Linux will come to this stage giving trouble to software giant Microsoft. From the consumer point of view, Windows is still the preferred OS and home pc are always found to have windows installed but for commercial use where security is more important than ease of use, Linux is the way to go. This gave rise to Linux flavors like Red Hat which are premium and comes with support just like any other paid software.

Computer literate people know how much secure and powerful UNIX operating system is but we still use windows because it’s more useful to common man. However in times when you have to study UNIX, you have no choice but install some Linux flavor on your PC just for learning UNIX commands and scripts. However as the title of this post says, you can learn UNIX on your Windows system too! Telnet and free UNIX account provider like sdf.lonestar.org makes this possible. All you have to do is type: telnet sdf.lonestar.org in the run box and you will be connected to a UNIX system where you can create free UNIX account. This account remain active for 100 days but if you want it to be forever then you have to pay a tiny fee of 1$ (or 5$ via paypal). This service is best for students who want to learn UNIX without messing up with their existing operating system.

We all have a habit of finding small apps on net for editing, converting and recording video on media but we end up installing huge number of small software which often messes up our PC and we are not able to do any productive work. Blaze Media Pro is a great all-in-one multimedia application that offers conversion, ripping, editing, recording, burning, playback, and much more. So no more small apps to do one task as now you can do all you need by just using a single software and even use it as a CD burning software to burn videos on CD. Sure it’s powerful software, yet it’s easy to use. Previously I also had number of software’s to complete single task like one for ripping, encoding, other for editing, one for burning and a number of players to play videos of different format. Blaze Media support a number of formats which include CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC, and two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV are available for video. You must not forget that it’s also a DVD burning software so all these huge files can always be burnt on DVD directly without wasting HDD space. Talking of space, DVD movies take a lot of space and if they are converted to other formats like avi, mpg, they take less space without much loss in quality. Blaze media pro also allows you to convert DVD to AVI, MPG, WMV! So whatever you need to do with your videos, Blaze media is all you need.

Soon after the very late release of Windows Vista, there were rumors of new operating system from Microsoft called Windows 7. Vista being a biggest flop, it looks like even Microsoft is now not considering worth spending time on it for improving it. People are usually scared of installing service packs and they have an image in mind since early days of XP that service packs makes operating system even slower. With the team working hard on Windows 7 now, it was not possible to remain quiet and Microsoft launched a Blog on Windows 7. The Windows 7 blog is maintained by Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product.

So what’s new today? The new version of opera is guaranteed to excite you; they have really given a big update this time. Everything is new, new skin, new engine and it’s faster than before. You will feel more space for browsing website like we notice in Safari and pages are rendered faster than before. What I like is the new position of tab but that black color is something not desired, it looks too bold and distract. Overall a good update; visit opera.com today to download your copy.

If you do most of your daily work on PC like me, you are happy how easy it has made our life by automating several tasks and performing then quickly but sometimes there are problems too. For example I am working on a file and after typing I realize that the computer (either application software or OS itself) is not responding which we call in daily used term is computer freeze. This will really annoy me and waste a lot of time and cause frustration and even loss of money in case the data was very important one. Operating system is the heart of any PC and a rock solid operating system means rare (almost no) computer freeze and your applications runs more efficiently and smoothly. Windows Vista is one example of solid operating system which is perfect for not only home and entertainment use but business use as well where there is no room for mistakes. Microsoft is very prompt in providing customer service, like few days back I was experiencing some problem in windows update and just one email was enough to light a spark in their customer support team. I immediately received an email with solution to my problem and I also received a call from support team regarding my problem and my problem was solved in no time.