Tag Archives: Windows 7
Font rendering comparison

Cross browser font rendering comparison

by Debsuvra on December 22, 2009 in Computing, World Wide Web

When designing a website, apart from the usual gradients and other graphical elements, the single most important constituent is the Font. It takes a hell lot of trial and error to get the right font for your website, you need to try different ones, look at them from different angles and decide if they’ll work [...]

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Parallel Processing and GPGPU support in Snow Leopard and Windows 7

Parallel Processing and GPGPU support in Snow Leopard and Windows 7

by Debsuvra on June 13, 2009 in Apple, Computing, Microsoft

Going through 2008, hardware vendors like Intel, NVidia and AMD buzzed off the terms Multi Core Processing and GPGPU support several times over various keynotes and presentations. While we had multi-core processors for last few years, none of the current operating systems can leverage that hardware power rightfully in multi-threaded applications. On the other hand, [...]

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Pricing Windows 7

Pricing Windows 7

by Debsuvra on May 25, 2009 in Microsoft

Windows 7 is just around the corner. As various sources put the news in, the next version of Microsoft’s coveted operating system is most probably going to release on this holiday season. Before the actual release, since MS already announced the SKUs, actual pricing of the various versions will be officially declared. Now the rumor [...]

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Bypassing CDBOOT error with Windows 7 DVDs on older PCs

Bypassing CDBOOT error with Windows 7 DVDs on older PCs

by Debsuvra on May 16, 2009 in Microsoft

Windows 7 pre-RTM builds are already hugely popular among technology enthusiast. And now, with the public release of Windows 7 Release Candidate, Microsoft advanced another step to bring a super solid operating system on the market that actually works. Since Windows 7 requirements need fairly lower resources in today’s terms, PCs from circa 2005-06 can [...]

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