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Check Outlook.com: Modern Email Application from Microsoft
Standalone Gadgets Provide You With Useful Desktop Widgets For Windows 7
Check Out Over 100 Preliminary Designs Apple Rejected Before Launching iPhone

Check Outlook.com: Modern Email Application from Microsoft

Posted: 31 Jul 2012 11:06 AM PDT

Microsoft just introduced webmail application Outlook.com, a new way to send emails and stay in touch with friends. The main feature of this webmail is better and clutter free user interface, connect your friends on Facebook, Twitter directly within the mail UI, talk to friends over Skype,major mobile platform integration, Office web apps integration, smart newsletter filtering, spam protection and many more.

Check out these videos to know this email service in more detail:

This email service will surely going to create vibes and it can give hard competition to Gmail if it markets properly. Currently free registration is open to all and you can get the desired username you want. So what are you waiting for. Go, grab your account before anyone grab it.

Check out Microsoft Outlook Webmail.

Standalone Gadgets Provide You With Useful Desktop Widgets For Windows 7

Posted: 31 Jul 2012 10:48 AM PDT

We often use widgets on the desktops of our computer to have an access to easy information right on the hand. We keep a check on the CPU usage, disk space, calendar appointments and various other things using widgets. However, these are usually scattered and there is hardly a set out there which can satisfy all our needs.

But standalone gadgets pack is a wonderful gadget pack that combines various useful gadgets that can find space on your desktop. In a lot of ways these are must haves on your desktop for quick reviewing and information gathering. This set of gadgets brings with it stats, Gmail mail count, battery power, folder shortcuts, Google News updates, date/time display and system resources.

The only drawback of this widget pack is the fact that it is completely ad supportive, having said that, the UI is really well made and the widgets do exactly the job that they are set for. They are pretty light on the CPU and I did not experience any sort of performance lags while using my laptop in real time. The installation is rather simple as all you have to do is launch the file and follow up the simple instructions.

You also have the option of installing just the widgets you require if you feel you do not need the entire pack. The look of the widgets is sober and clean and it pretty much does the job that it sets out to do with minimum fuss.

You can download this pack from: Deviant Art

(Via: Addictivetips)

Check Out Over 100 Preliminary Designs Apple Rejected Before Launching iPhone

Posted: 31 Jul 2012 07:24 AM PDT

iPhones have always blown our mind away. From sleek design to a very simple UI, they are probably the phones that anybody can use. There is a popular saying in tech industry that if you want to gift a phone to a woman or elderly person let it be an iPhone, they can try as hard as they want, but they wont be able to mess it up. However, not too many of us know that Apple rejected about 100 designs before the iPhone got the look as we know it today. This was obviously the first gen iPhone we are talking about, the one with Aluminium chassis.

In their quest to prove that they did not copy Sony while designing the iPhone a lot of images have surfaced which show a plenty of designs that Apple at least considered while designing the iPhone. Some of these designs are very unique and we seriously wonder what would it be had Apple gone ahead with some of these designs.

Here are some of them for you: