ShareAfter Bill Gates, Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft Corp. says he plans to give more than half his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to charity.
That’s a big some of money, till now we have seen only Bill and Melinda Gates to do a lot of charity work. Allen joins other wealthy philanthropists making public commitments to donate at the urging of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, whose The Giving Pledge campaign seeks to persuade U.S. billionaires to donate half their fortunes to charity, The …

ShareNotepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
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Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, …

ShareDownloads of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Developers Tools is going strong. Microsoft is reporting that since MIX10 over 200,000 downloads of the Windows Phone Developers Tools have occurred. Additionally, registration for the live WP7 training course is rather healthy as well. According to Brandon Watson, the number already has a comma in it.

Call it excitement, curiosity, or just simple interest the development community is taking note of Windows Phone 7. From the get-go, the development community was a key …

SharePayPal, eBay, HSBC Top-Phished Institutions; China and Russia Hosting Majority of Malware – Predictions for Malware Activity Over The Second Half of the Year
Today BitDefender, released a report that found the first half of 2010 saw a rise of worms exploiting various Web 2.0 platforms. The report examined data from January through June 2010 and found social networks and Web 2.0 services have become one of the most valuable channels of malware dissemination during the last six months, while phishers focused on impersonating PayPal and eBay, …

ShareJoulemeter is a software based mechanism to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual softwares running on a computer.

Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen etc) being used and converting the resource usage to actual power usage based on automatically learned realistic power models.
Joulemeter can be used for gaining visibility into energy use and for making several power management and provisioning decisions in data centers, …

ShareGmail added one of the most frequently requested features: rich text signatures.Some of you have tried your own solutions, including Greasemonkey scripts, browser plugins, and even using canned responses from Gmail Labs. Others have simply lived with frustration of not being able to change the colors or font size of your signature, or insert images and links. Either way, you’ll be happy to know that Goole had finally launched the ability to write your own rich text signatures right in Gmail.
Some other Gmail …