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Top Tech News This Week (Dec 1-Dec 7)

Posted by Adhavan on Sunday, December 7, 2008

This is a weekly post on every Sunday which features the most important software and tech news that matter to you.

Youtube goes HD




Last week Youtube went widescreen now it has gone HD. You can now see an option to see your videos in HD.


Songbird 1.0 Hatches


Songbird, the media player built of the mozilla's XUL platform launched version 1.0. Touted to be the firefox of media players, it comes loaded with lots of features to rival iTunes. Also like firefox addons can be used to add features.


Opera releases Version 10 Alpha

Opera released the alpha of version 10 of its web browser. It has a new Presto rendering engine and passes the Acid3 Standards test with a perfect score.


Google Reader streamlines its look


Google Reader has updated its look. Now there is less blue and more white to enhance readibility.



Windows 7 beta 1 comes on Jan 13, 2009


The next version of Windows named as Windows 7 releases its first beta on Jan 13 next year. Windows 7 has a new updated taskbar, more ribbon interface and lots of performance improvements.

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3 Minimalistic Image Viewers For Windows

Posted by Adhavan on Friday, December 5, 2008

There are lot of image viewers for windows which supports tons of formats and has loads of features. But here we look at the image viewers which are ultra light-weight, fast and minimalistic which is enough for most people. When using these image viewers just clicking on Esc closes the application.

VJPEG

VJPEG is just one .exe (168KB) and opens common image formats. When you open a image all you see is the image and it acts as a object on your screen. Then you can move, resize(zoom) around the screen. It also comes with keyboard shortcuts.
It can be downloaded here.

Picasa Image Viewer

The image viewer that comes bundled with Google Picasa 3 supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, TGA and RAW formats and has a javascript lightbox effect (see the screenshot below). It comes with slideshow, zoom options and shows all images in the current folder as thumbnails at the bottom. 

It can be downloaded here.

imv(stb)

imv(stb) is inspired by VJPEG and is similar to it. The application comes with a 74KB image viewer and also a lighter 47KB image viewer. The images have a minimal border to see its edges unlike VJPEG. Use the arrow keys to browse all images in the folder and zoom using your mouse. It is also possible to open multiple imv(stb) windows.

It can be downloaded here.


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