The World of Windows

1.- How to upgrade to Windows 10: What you need to know Beginning July 29, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will be able to download Windows 10. It’s a monumental shift for both Microsoft and its customers. But Microsoft has provided a wealth of information to ease the transition, and let you upgrade to Windows 10 as simply and easily as possible. For c... 2.- Save your work: Microsoft is forcing an update and restart for Windows 10 tonight Windows 10 users, save all your work before logging out today. Microsoft is rolling out a major patch today and tonight that will force a system restart. What’s known as “KB3081424” is a cumulative or “rollup” patch, tying together all of the major incremental updates that have already been appli...

So you’ve finally finished that poster or design for a client, yet you feel that it’s missing a certain “je ne sais quoi”. You can’t seem to point your finger at it, yet it seems to be lacking something. Hopefully, these free fonts will fill in that empty gap and improve the overall aesthetics of your design. Typography is what language looks like. - Ellen Lupton You may be wondering, with a ton of free fonts floating around, why 23 and not 100? Well, there may be a lot of free fonts online, but how many of them are seriously good? How many of them would actually fit your project and make them more appealing? Sure, I could have created a list with 100 fonts but it would have compromised the quality of this list. As you probably know, quality always beats quantity. *Click on the images to download the free fonts 1. Dude Designed by Dan Gneiding 2. Blanch Designed by Atipus 3. Manteka Designed by Eduardo Araya 4. Bariol Designed by Atipo 5. Mission ...

In early June we told you about public availability of libmspub — a library for reading Microsoft Publisher files and converting them to OpenDocument and SVG. It's time for an update. Work on this library, including reverse engineering of PUB files, is a Google Summer of Code 2012 project. Brennan Vincent is the primary developer and GSoC student who is mentored by Fridrich Štrba (LibreOffice) and Valek Filippov (re-lab). There will be certain issues with the built-in SVG converter that are easy to predict. First of all, SVG doesn't yet have pagination, and according to Tavmjong Bah, an Inkscape's representative in the W3C SVG working group, it's a low priority feature at this point. SVG also doesn't have a notion of linked text frames, albeit this could be solved thanks to recent Adobe's work on CSS. And then there is the whole sad story of flowed text in SVG. The example below is a good illustration of that, because contrary to that LibreOffice r...

Reading Microsoft Publisher documents with LibreOffice Draw has just become available thanks to Google Summer of Code program. Fridrich Strba officially announced public availability of libmspub, a free library for reading and converting MS Publisher documents. The code will be first used in LibreOffice 3.7. So far the library is capable of reading v2003+ files with bitmaps, basic text formatting features (typeface, font size and color), shapes with fills. Here is an example from stocklayouts.com opened with LibreOffice Draw: There will be certain issues with the built-in SVG converter that are easy to predict. First of all, SVG doesn't yet have pagination, and according to Tavmjong Bah, an Inkscape's representative in the W3C SVG working group, it's a low priority feature at this point. SVG also doesn't have a notion of linked text frames, albeit this could be solved thanks to recent Adobe's work on CSS. And then there is the whole sad story of flowed ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft has created an operating system that is, at least in part, genuinely usable with nothing more than fingers. While it took the company a long time to recognize that finger-based touch systems were more approachable than stylus-based ones, and that touch-based software needed to be designed to accommodate the imprecision that fingers imply, Microsoft has its finger-based platform at last with the new Metro-style interface and new Metro-style applications. Office 2013, however, isn't a new Metro-style application. Instead, the suite contains two Metro-style Office apps: a new OneNote client (that will work alongside a regular desktop version) and a Lync client. Everything else is a desktop application, which poses a problem. Office is an important product for Microsoft and makes up a significant part of the Windows 8 sales pitch. Windows RT, the ARM variant of Windows 8 that will be used on the company's Surface tablets , will ship with Word, Excel, Pow...

Company's own suite has been given the honor as the first desktop program, or non-Metro app, to grace the Windows 8 Store. Dominated by Metro apps, the Windows Store has landed its first desktop program. Office 2010 is now available through the online store, making good on Microsoft's promise that it would offer both desktop and Metro apps for Windows 8 users. But there is a key difference between the two. Users can download both the free and paid Metro apps directly from the store. A simple Install button downloads and then installs the app in the background. An alert flashes on the screen once the app is fully installed. The listings for desktop software serve more as pointers to external Web sites where you can purchase them. The store page for Microsoft Office provides a description and details about the suite. But instead of a download button, the store page displays a "Go to developer's website" link. That link opens Internet Explorer, taking you...

Here are 20 free Windows 7 applications that stand out in terms of quality of results you get from them.  Ninite is a quick and easy way to download most of these applications into a single customised installer. 11. Ditto Since Windows 7 doesn't improve upon one of the most common used techniques used on a PC - copy-paste - the freebie Ditto enhances copy-pasting by placing a universal clipboard storing every single object that has been copied, to be pasted in whatever order that is required. 12. Defraggler The creator of CC Cleaner has also created the Defraggler , a defragmentation tool for Windows. The stand-out feature is, however, the ability to defragment individual files or a specific portion of a drive. Defragmenting only what is needed saves a lot of time instead of defragmenting a whole drive that could take a few hours. 13. Recuva Recuva is a freeware app that recovers files that have been accidentally deleted from the Recycle Bin, MP3 Players...