Yahoo Messenger was probably the best-loved Internet messaging and voice calling application until a few years ago. Yahoo lost its pace in the recent years, and now Skype holds the honor in those areas where the Messenger was once popular for. Ever since the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft the total user-base of the service kept on rising and currently when you talk about online video calls its Skype for everyone.
Those who buy a new Apple computer and move to the Mac OS X desktop platform from Windows would soon notice a disparity of the installation packages used. In Windows, the extension of an executable file is either MSI or EXE, and when it comes to Mac, it is PKG or APP. Some Mac software is also circulated in DMG format, which is actually a mountable disk image extension with inbuilt compression and security features. DMG helps a software vendor to pack several application files and libraries together for easy shipping. When an end-user clicks on a DMG file, it mounts on the system and opens up the read-only, compressed files enclosed. The installer app included in Mac OS X takes up these files and completes the installation. Since DMG is a disk image, it is comparable with ISO and other Windows formats to some extent.
You might spot a message “This program cannot be installed on Windows NT version x.xx or later,” when you attempt to install certain applications in Windows computers. It, by and large, signifies the incompatibility of old software programs with latest editions of Windows. So, if you want to run an unstable app in a PC by some means, you first have to determine the Windows version for it is written: thankfully, we can retrieve it by analyzing the NT marking recorded in error reports generated by those apps, that they produce after a failed installation/
I am a regular user of Facebook, and I have a good number of friends out there. When I don’t have the phone number of a pal or colleague, I normally refer his Facebook profile to get that, and revise my contact list accordingly. I was following this hand-operated redaction until Apple unified Facebook to iOS which ushered-in the social media served data syncing to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This change brings in the ability for importing a Facebook friend’s phone, email, website, address, etc. to your device without much effort. Not only that, you can automatically download Facebook profile photos to the equivalent contact records so that you will see your friend’s image as a caller ID when he/ she calls you.