Run Windows on your Intel-based Mac computer using Apple Boot Camp 1.4

The following are required to install and set up Windows on your Mac.

An Intel-based Mac computer, with:

A USB keyboard and mouse, or a built-in keyboard and trackpad
Mac OS X version 10.4.6 or later
all firmware updates for your computer
10 GB Free Harddisk space
2 GB RAM when running Windows Vista on a Mac Pro computer
Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later, or Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate
Boot Camp Assistant
A blank recordable CD or DVD

Download Boot Camp Assistant then run it. Boot Camp Assistant helps you in making a Mac Windows Drivers disc, Creating a partition for Windows without moving your Mac data. (You will need this Mac Windows Drivers Disk, after you install Windows, to install Macspecific drivers and other software).

Now insert your Windows installation disc, follow the onscreen instructions that come with Windows. Select the appropriate disk partition for windows installation and complete the installation.

After the installation process is completed, then install the Boot Camp drivers on your Windows volume.

Now you can use either Windows or Mac OS X on your Mac computer. just hold down the option key at startup to choose between Mac OS X and Windows.

You can get all full installation details from Installation and Setup Guide.

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Jmol, an open source molecule viewer

Jmol is a free, open source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D. Jmol is very useful for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry. Jmol is an interactive web browser applet. JmolViewer can be integrated as a component into other Java applications.

The Jmol application runs on any system that supports Java 1.4 or higher. The latest Java 2 Platform Standard Edition is recommended. No special 3D hardware is required to run Jmol. Jmol supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems. Jmol supports Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, and Opera browsers.

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Microsoft launched Windows Live SkyDrive

Microsoft launched Windows Live SkyDrive. This service gives users 500 MB of free online storage. You can use this free Web space for storing and sharing files. You can Create personal, shared, and public folders. Also you can decide who has access to each folder.

You can password protect your personal folders with your Windows Live ID. You can Use personal folders to back up important files that are only for you. When you create a shared folder, the friends you are sharing with need to sign in with their own Windows Live ID and password. You can decide how much control each person has over each shared folder. Some can just read what's there and some others can add and delete files. Anyone on the Internet can view your public folder files, but they can't change them.

Windows Live SkyDrive works on any Windows or Macintosh computer with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher.

Windows Live SkyDrive

Unable to install Network Printer in Vista, if the Printer is hosted by Windows XP or Windows Server 2003

The Printer is connected to a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 in your network of Computers. On one of your network computers you have installed Windows Vista. Now you try to install network printer in Vista, but you will fail to install network printer. So many users faced this problem.

Sometimes you may successfully install a network printer in Windows Vista. But after successful installtion, it works properly for one or two times only. After that when you try to use it, you will get messages like “The Printer Spooler service stops unexpectedly” and the printer stops working.

Also you will get Printer Spooler Service problems during your network printer installation.

Recently Microsoft released Performance update and Reliability update to Windows Vista. Install these two updates. Then you can successfully install Network Printer in Vista, if the Printer is hosted by Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Also you will not get “The Printer Spooler service stops unexpectedly” problems.

These two updates for Windows Vista fixes so many other problems also. Performance update improves the performance of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. Reliability update improves the reliability of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. Windows Vista users will be free from so many problems after installing these two packs. Only genuine Windows Vista users can install these packs.

Performance update for Windows Vista 32 bit

Performance update for Windows Vista 64 bit

Reliability update for Windows Vista 32 bit

Reliability update for Windows Vista 64 bit

Open source 3D Engine G3D 7.00 Released

G3D is a commercial-grade 3D Engine available as Open Source. G3D is used in games, tech demos, research papers, military simulators, and university courses. G3D provides a set of routines and structures that are needed in every graphics program. G3D is intended for users who are already familiar with C++ and DirectX or OpenGL. G3D allows users to write code that will compile and run on Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, and OS X without ifdefs or modifications.

G3D is built on OpenGL because it is platform independent and allows access to newer features than DirectX. G3D supports all OpenGL implementations, from software rasterization under Mesa to the latest GeForce and Radeon hardware accelerator cards. G3D supports images in PNG, TGA, BMP, JPG, PCX, PPM, PGM, PBM, DDS, and ICO format. G3D has loaders for the BSP, PLY2, IFS, 3DS and MD2 mesh formats.

You can get G3D installation details for all operating systems at this location.

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