HDD Doubles as Drive Cloning Tool

Making a clone of a hard drive isn’t something that most people do on a regular basis, but it can be a pain when you do find yourself in that position. It’s been a while since I’ve had to do it, but the process always involved special software and the undivided attention of one of my computers for a while. If you go through this very often, you might be interested in this Double Rack USB/ eSATA dock.

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Windows Phone 7 Games

windows7It appears that the very latest incarnation of Microsoft’s mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, is very heavily biased against the game or entertainment sector. However, every Windows Phone Series 7 phone will come with special buttons for Bing to provide one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone.
The main feature of this release is the six themes to focus ‘hub’ is built into the system. This is people, image, game, music + video, markets and offices. Microsoft Game hub offers what he called, “The first and only official Xbox Live experience on the phone.” There is no official, then?

Of course, music + video hub is the relationship to Microsoft’s Zune service. These include tighter integration with the songs any Zune owners have on his PC. Plus there are aspects of the Zune Social, so users can share their favorite songs with like-minded friends.

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Facebook’s Impending Homepage Redesign

Facebook is in the midst of testing a new iteration of the site homepage, and earlier today, One thing that immediately stood out to me is the elimination of “Log Out” button, which I guess is not frequently used links, or just something that the company wants to de-emphasize. Chat link has also continued to appear in the bottom right corner, but the site “toolbar” does not take the entire footer.

Many of the design is not really a surprise to anyone who has followed the changes to the developer road map which is updated by Facebook. Also we see that there are no skyscrapers in the sidebar ads, something that we’ve heard Facebook eliminate entirely, choosing to generate 100 percent of their income from their internal advertising system. We are not sure if this happens to be coincidence that no skyscraper ads, or that the new design, in fact, will mark the abolition of third-party advertising on Facebook.

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Gmail Offline Mode with Google Gears

Gmail Lab has introduced its latest great feature called Offline Gmail. Offline Gmail enable e-mail access even when you are not connected to the Internet. Well offline Gmail is actual implementation of Google Gears to make Gmail accessible in offline mode.

Once you have enable Offline Gmail, a local cache of your email will be stored in your computer using Google Gears. This local cache will be synchronizes with Gmail server whenever you are connected to network. You can star,label your email or send, reply emails. All the send email will be stored in your outbox and will automatically sent as soon as Gmail detects connections.
Currently, Google lists Firefox 2, Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 in their list of support browser. Another feature of Offline Gmail is ‘flasky connection mode‘. It uses the local cache as if you were disconnected but still synchronizes your mail with the in the background.

How to enable Offline Gmail:

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