Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, the latest virtual Windows XP environment for Windows 7 that allows you to run Windows XP from your Windows 7 desktop requires processors capable of hardware-assisted virtualization with AMD-V, Intel VT or VIA VT turned on in the BIOS.

To determine whether your PC works with Windows XP Mode:

Step 1. Does my PC have a CPU with support for hardware virtualization?

• Download and run the Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool
  • If you receive the message “This computer does not have hardware-assisted virtualization,” your computer does not meet the hardware requirement for Windows Virtual PC
  • If you receive the message “Hardware-assisted virtualization is not enabled on this computer,” go on to Step 2 below.
  • If you receive the message “This computer is configured with hardware-assisted virtualization,” download and install Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode.

Step 2. Does my PC BIOS support hardware virtualization, and is it turned on? Instructions to turn on hardware virtualization in your PC BIOS are specific to OEM models. Visit Windows Virtual PC Configure BIOS on how to enable hardware virtualization in the BIOS.

The screenshot above shown if your computer has a HAV capable processor and this feature (HAV setting) is enabled on the processor (from the BIOS). You can install Windows Virtual PC or Windows XP Mode on the supported Windows 7 edition.

With a Web OS, you don’t need to worry about any additional software or storage on your local computer. This means any browser-equipped machine can become your personal machine with a simple log-in. And since all of your data is stored centrally, it’s also generally easier to share and collaborate with others.

With Jooce, you can:

• Upload and store files, music, photos or video from your computer or from the web.
• Watch video or listen to music using the built-in media player.
• Instantly share files with friends in your contact list, just by dragging and dropping on to their contact or chat window.
• Chat with friends using Jooce’s multi-platform IM system that integrate withYahoo! IM, Msn Messenger, ICQ or AIM easily.
• Build a custom public Joocetop where your friends can see any files or folder you post there, or you can visit your friends’ Joocetops and transfer their files to your desktop.

Jooce allows you to have your public and private desktops. Public Desktop (”joocetop”) to keep all the stuff you are happy to share with friends such as pictures, videos. Private Desktop to keep all your personal files such as IM, emails. You can easily move folders from one desktop to the other by dragging the file.

Jooce can make your online life so much more enjoyable. Check out Jooce at http://www.jooce.com/.

MythBuntu, Another alternative for windows media center computer that really can help you record all your favorite show. MythBuntu is an open source media center that combine Linux uBuntu operating system and MythTV concept together. The installation process totally painless when setting up a standalone MythTV system with Linux OS. All you need is a PC that install with MythBuntu OS and TV card supported.

Once you finish downloading Mythbuntu and install it. If you want a fully functioning media center that can record record television shows, you’ll want to install the backend ( TV Card that support ) as well.
Here is some features that support MythTV on uBuntu (MythBuntu ):-

• Basic ‘live-tv’ functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind “live” TV.
• Support for multiple tuner cards and multiple simultaneous recordings.
• Distributed architecture allowing multiple recording machines and multiple playback machines on the same network, completely transparent to the user.
• Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping
• Grabs program information using xmltv.
• Displays basic program information on channel change using a themeable semi-transparent on-screen display.
• Electronic Program Guide that lets you change channels and select programs to record.
• Scheduled recordings of TV programs, and playback and deletion of those programs, all through a themeable UI.
• A nice web interface to let you select programs to record remotely.
• Rip, categorize, play, and visualize MP3/Ogg/FLAC/CD Audio files. (FLAC, Vorbis, and MP3 encoding). Create complex playlists (and playlists containing playlists) through a simple UI.
• An emulator frontend. (MAME, NES, SNES, generic PC games)
• An image viewer/slideshow application.
• A weather module.
• A generic video player module, with automatic metadata lookups
• A DVD player / ripper module. Make perfect backups, or transcode down to smaller file sizes.
• An RSS news feed reader module.

Beside that, MythTV also have a list of Plugin and themes to increase the usability and functionality of the media center.MythBuntu currently still on public version and dosn’t expect everything can be run smoothly. But you can try to download Mythbuntu ISO image and burn into bootable CD. Then you can load up the front end of MythTV to work without having to reformat your own hard disk.

Further information: How to setup MythUbuntu media center with Video Card | screenshots of Mythbuntu | screenshots of MythTV

Download Link for MythBuntu

Torrent Links: Mythbuntu 7.04 x86 (Alpha: 06/03/2007) ISO

Direct Download : Mythbuntu 7.04 x86 (Alpha: 06/03/2007) ISOVia Cybernetnews

Coda is an all-in-one FTP client, text editor, preview browser, css editor, terminal, and reference library. You can organize your files using Sites, edit with the text editor, utilize the built in preview functionality, style your pages with the CSS builder and even access Terminal with one click.

FTP Client – Coda uses Panic’s Transmit Turbo engine, making file transfers noticeably faster.

Text Editor – syntax coloring, line numbering, auto completing, block editing, international support, etc.

Preview Mode – Preview in a browser. Safari is selected by default.

CSS Editor – There are 2 editing modes when working on your CSS. In visual mode, you’ll get convenient GUI controls that let you edit your style sheets with point and click simplicity. With text mode, your CSS styles are organized and you can edit the details, hard-core style, directly.

Terminal – real time some files directly on the server using the built in Transmit FTP engine.

Books – It includes HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP reference books all for easy reading.

Coda has a beautiful interface and fast in loading. And it is a great application for someone just do HTML/CSS and not so much programming. Too bad, Coda only runs on Mac OSX 10.4 and higher. You can download the trial version of Panic Coda here.

Here are the First Impression on Panic Coda and Panic Coda 30 Tips and Tricks if you want more details.

With Wubi, you can test the new operating system, Ubuntu 7.04 while keeping your old one intact. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a virtual disk file in the windows file system (c:\wubi\disks\system.virtual.disk), this file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk.

Wubi comes with a robust suite of Linux applications and utilities (the same stuff that comes with Ubuntu). Wubi is beta and it is free, you can download the it from http://cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/latest.html. For more information, visit the Wubi Guide.

Beside that, G.ho.st virtual computer also integrate various application from web2.0 to arcade games which provides standard working environment for business purpose and relaxing environment. You can even upload your files from your computer and personal data that you need to G.ho.st online storage management services. With the upcoming wave of widget desktop product, I think g.ho.st would be a great match for the gadgets we’ll soon be adding to the desktops of our personal computers.

One of the best features on virtual computer is that never have to reboot on virtual computer. Meanwhile, There is a backups features on our data and taking care by specialist. Everything is available out there on the browser on a single unified file system.

Since G.ho.st virtual computer is develop under on Lazlo platform, The services required javascript enabled browser like Firefox and IE to run G.ho.st virtual computer, The javascript enabled browser is required to allow pop up window. Meanwhile, Your browser required to set accept cookies and latest flash player available.

I pretty much impressive by G.ho.st Virtual computer performances although they can still improve office productivity more productive. Overall, g.ho.st virtual computer is definitely one of those companies looking to eliminate the need for Windows software.

“With added features to both the desktop and server editions, Ubuntu 7.04 is the most user-friendly version to date and is ideally suited to anyone who wants to make the switch to Linux and join the community of Ubuntu users. In fact, with this version of Ubuntu, it is easier than ever to move away from proprietary platforms.” said Jane Silber, director of Operations, Canonical Ltd.

Ubuntu is distributed on 3 types of images:

1. Desktop CD – install Ubuntu without changing your computer at all
2. Server Install CD – install Ubuntu permanently on a computer for use as a server
3. Alternate Install CD – allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu

Ubuntu 7.0.4 comes with a lot of new features, including data migration from Windows, new and easier ways to install multimedia codecs, binary drivers, as well as networking improvements and of course, GNOME 2.18, the 2.6.20 kernel. Visit the Ubuntu 7.0.4 Tour to find out more about Ubuntu features.

The next version on Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon is scheduled for release in October of 2007. That is just 6 months from now.

To download the Ubuntu 7.0.4, visit http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ and select type of installation image. For more information on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, read the release notes.

Pingwinek also releases Pingwinek GNU/Linux, and their Haiku distribution includes the base Haiku system, the GCC 2.95.3 compiler, several simple games, SDL, Midnight Commander, and ncurses. It also includes 40 packages ported from the Pingwinek GNU/Linux distribution. The GNU/Haiku distribution can be installed on an HDD or run under QEMU or VMWare. There is also a LiveCD made available for download. The LiveCD boots slowly but the games work much better then running under QEMU or VMWare.

Haiku is not a Linux distribution. It is a self-contained operating system that includes a graphical user interface tightly tied to a unique graphics system, all configuration applications, development tools, the GNU tool chain, and a bash terminal.

You can download the distribution here. The Haiku operating system is still in alpha state and this distribution doesn’t have an installer which could install system on a hard disk. Take a look at the screenshots of the distribution working on a real hardware.

VMware Fusion allows user to run either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 operating systems on Mac OS X without the need to reboot. It also allows you to run multiple virtual machines at the same time as long as you have enough memory to run multiple environments.
Features of VMware Fusion:

• Fusion supports all Intel Mac hardware, including the new 64-bit Mac Pro and iMac.
• Your virtual machines can have multiple virtual processors, taking advantage of the Intel Core Duo chips in today’s newest Intel Macs.
• Fusion supports high-speed USB 2.0 for a huge range of devices. Even devices that do not have drivers for Mac OS X will work in a virtual machine.
• Simply drag and drop files and folders in and out of your virtual machines to transfer your data.

Register to download Fusion Beta from http://register.vmware.com/content/beta/fusion/registration.html

Photopolis can be downloaded from Photopolis Homepage:
Download for Windows XP,

Download for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Photopolis is open-source, you can download the source code and continue to develop it.

System requirements for Photopolis is Windows XP and Mac OS X v10.4 or later, Java 1.5 or later, .NET 2.0(for Windows XP only), G3 or faster processor, dedicated graphics card and 100MB of hard disk space for each 1000 photos.