One of the coolest and most useful features of Windows Vista is Windows Meeting Space. Aside from creating meetings, this application allows users to collaborate and share files (such as documents, presentations, notes, mp3s, and photos). Moreover, you can also share your own desktop with other participants in the meeting.

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Setting Up and Using Windows Meeting Space for the First Time

If you have an Xbox 360 console, you can easily share all the pictures, videos and music stored on your computer with your console. This is nice if you have your Xbox connected to your huge flat-panel TV and want to show your family and friends home videos or pictures. Depending on what operating system you are running and whether or not you have a Windows Media Center PC, there are a few different ways to connect your Xbox to your PC.

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How to Connect Xbox 360 to PC

Windows does not have a feature that alerts its users if a certain application or user did modified something inside a folder. Events such as file creation, deletion, change, rename, etc, are not easily recordable in Windows. Users will not know if a program has automatically created a file or folder.

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Monitor All Changes to a Windows Folder

This paper proposes an efficient topology synthesis method for on-chip interconnection network based on crossbar switches. The efficiency of topology synthesis methods is often measured by two metrics—the quality of the synthesized topology and synthesis time

The Java virtual machine embodies a verifier that performs a set of checks on Java bytecode programs before their execution. The verifier carries out an efficient data-flow analysis applied to a type-level abstract interpretation of the code. The implementations of the bytecode verifier presented a significant problem with programs compiled with the Sun Java compiler (until version 1.4.1): there were legal Java programs which were correctly compiled into a bytecode that was rejected by the verifier