User Experience for Mobile and Desktops

It took a couple of hours to figure out there is a simple and new way to boot and install OS using USB flash drives in Netbooks, Laptops and even our desktops. Note : Hardware that are older or that doesnt support Booting from USB ports cannot be used. So make sure your hardware's BIOS has support for booting through USB Floppy, USB Disk options. Consult your hardware's manual to find out. Items needed: 1. USB Drive (more than 1 GB) 2. Your Windows XP installation Disk 3. WinToFlash - Free utility to make a USB drive bootable (NT, XP, Vista and Windows 7). Also it copies the OS installation files 4. Obviously a prep hardware - a working desktop or laptop with CD Drive. How to make a bootable USB Flash drive? Earlier, creating a bootable USB flash drive involved a tedious process of downloading a HP flash drive format utility and working with BartPE utility. But now, WinToFlash has been launced. The 0.5 beta version is really good and conveniently stable, such that

Those days when internal blogs were introduced, it was fun. People shared information, wrote their own articles, various subjects, unique bloggers and a whole new dimension of noon-time-wasting opened out. Now as more and more people join the company, and many new people think that blog is more of a making-fun of others place. It's so sad, that only a few is continuing to post, while new people just copy-paste for the sake of posting. Also there is a new breed of comment-vultures, who vent out all their alter-ego's posing as "GUEST" in the comments section. Altogether, the blogs is more of a trash now. Did I mention that I stopped blogging in our company's internal blogs?

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I am attending the Usability Meet at iNautix on November 7, 2009 at Ascendas IT Park in Chennai. Some 13 companies are participating in the meet. 2 years ago, Satyam hosted such a meet, but it didnt catch up well later. Anyone who likes to attend pls contact Mr. Arun of iNautix. Contact details below. Arun Christian Assistant Vice President Usability and Graphics Team iNautix Technologies India Private Limited, an affiliate of Pershing LLC, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation http://www.inautix.co.in Office: 91-44-22546000 Extension 1390, VOIP: 5064 Fax: 91-44-22540661 - Rajesh