T3Desk lets is an application if you wish to have a 3D desktop And adding the third dimension to your 2D Windows screen. “3Dmized” windows appears in three dimensions and transparent on your screen and have the ability to be flipped, zoomed, moved, swiveled in almost anyway you want. T3Desk is lightweight on your resources, unlike most applications of its kind.Aero Peek helps to display the program’s shrunken 3D view.

With T3Desk you can set the options regarding display, zooming, hot keys and sounds. You can configure your 3D window animation, transparency effect, the 3D initial angle and distance, the transition effects and more. T3Desk it’s a FREE product.

You can download it from here

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Google Voice has proven to be very useful, and reliable enough after a couple of months, even though Google still considers it a beta application.

If you use Google Voice very frequently and have got Adobe AIR, then you can try out the Google Voice AIR App. Google Voice Adobe AIR App will help you to easily access all your Google Voice Voicemail and SMS messages. It is a cross platform application which will work on any computer that has got Adobe AIR installed on it, which means that you can use it on your Windows, Mac and Linux machine.

Google Voice Desktop App

It’s not a real product yet, and might never be released publicly, so access is limited. But you can get "invitations" to the beta test group. Visit the Google Voice Web site, or ask a current user.
This desktop application makes it very easy to keep Google Voice available at all times. This makes it much easier to use for quick text messages and the added convenience means you’ll use it more often. The App looks similar to the mobile version of Google Voice Web site.

You can download GVoice from here.

Before you install and run this application you may need to install An application from adobe  i.e. Adobe Air

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Remember WindowsBlinds? Back in the day, this was the go-to tool for customizing your Windows user interface. By allowing far more modifications than any theme or desktop background change would provide, WindowsBlinds became a popular way to give your computer a whole new look and feel.

Over the years, the software has received less attention, especially as the built-in themes in Windows improved to allow more granular modifications, like the selection of custom colors for window borders or, as in Windows 7, themes that allow for multiple images which change at designated intervals.

However, if you want more control over the UI, there’s still no better tool than WindowsBlinds. In the latest update to this software, the program has added support for the new Windows 7 operating system, including 64-bit versions. Thanks to this support, users can now skin Aero using a new skin format called UIS0 which is a much easier and faster way to create skins, notes the company blog post. The software also includes skins you can use out-of-the-box like Submline, Aero Metals, Corporate, Aero Woods, Aero Clay, and Sabertooth. 

With WindowsBlinds running on Windows 7, you can give your desktop a Windows XP retro look (not sure why you would, but you could!), tweak the standard UI, or go all-out and do a complete overhaul of Widnows 7 down to the Start button itself.

The program, as always, is free to try, but costs $19.95 if you want to own it. You can download the trial version here

Source: channel10

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Microsoft has said on numerous occasions that it considers Windows Server 2008 R2 more than just an R2. However, despite this, the latest version of Windows Server is indeed considered only a minor upgrade to Windows Server 2008. Customers that are perfectly happy with Windows Server 2008 in their IT environments do have consistent reasons to upgrade, including new features such as Branch Cache and Direct Access, IIS 7.5 and virtualization improvements. Still, those who are looking for a major new version of Windows Server will have to wait at least until 2012, when the next iteration of the platform is planned for release.

Kyle provided a list with the Windows Server 2008 R2 advanced training content:

“- Windows Server 2008 R2: Building a Seamless Enterprise. This course will focus on the release of Windows 7 and how it has been coded to work succinctly with the features of Server 2008 to create a dynamic and reactive enterprise that can take advantage of the Branch Cache and Direct Access features available.

- Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop & Remote Apps. Some of the new capabilities in R2 such as Multimedia and DirectX Redirection have improved the landscape for administrators when it comes to RDP connections. This course will delve into some of the details and improvements found in the new release.

- Managing with Windows Server 2008 R2. The interactive controls and tools that were introduced in Server 2008 have been re-geared to give administrators even more leverage when it comes to performing everyday tasks. This course will focus on some of these including improved Identity Management within Active Directory as well as the new Powershell improvements.

- Windows Server 2008 R2: Web Server Improvements. This course will look at the new IIS 7.5 and some of the capabilities that come with it such as improved FTP as well as new management tools like Configuration Editor and Enhanced Auditing.

- Windows Server 2008 R2: Virtualization Enhancements. This course will delve into the areas where R2 has been streamlined and improved in the realm of virtualization. We will look at the enhancements made to Hyper-V in particular with new features such as Live Migration and Dynamic VM storage.”

thanks to Softpedia for the news

• Neat little CPU graph for running virtual machines
• Option to use Remote Desktop to connect to running virtual machines
• Support for turning on / shutting down a remote Hyper-V server using Wake-On-LAN

If you have not tried this tool out, you should go and grab a copy from here: http://mindre.net/post/Hyper-V-Monitor-Gadget-for-Windows-Sidebar.aspx

Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization is probably the most common form of virtualization you are familiar with.  Simply put it is the act of running a virtual machine on a desktop PC.  If you have run a virtual machine on your desktop using Virtual PC 2007, Windows Virtual PC 7, VMWare Workstation, Sun VirtualBox, Paralells etc… you have used desktop virtualization.  Over the years this has changed a little with the most recent changes with Windows Virtual PC 7 and XP Mode.  XP Mode runs on top of Windows Virtual PC 7 and using some terminal server technologies (Remote Applications) allows you to run an application in an XP virtual machine that is running in the background, while presenting the application on the local machine.  MED-V, aka Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, is XP Mode on steroids.  It performs the same task buts adds a management component to the mix to allow administrators to build, deploy, update and manage the virtual machine images running on users desktops.

Virtual Desktops

Virtual Desktops, aka VDI, also leverages virtualization and terminal server technologies but differs in the fact that the virtual machine is running on a server in the datacenter.  If you have run, or are familiar with how terminal servers operate, users log into the server using Remote Desktop and are given a session on the terminal server.  Each user has their own session separate from the other users but they are all using the same OS and have access to the same applications.  With VDI the same thing is taking place but rather than the user logging into a session on a terminal server, they are logging into a virtual machine running on a Hyper-V server.  This means that they are not sharing the machine (although they are sharing resources on the Hyper-V host) and each user can have a different configuration based on their needs.  For example you might have a few HR users who use a lightweight application for payroll, and a few users in engineering who use a resource intensive application to run simulations.  You can create different types of virtual machines with different resources, operating systems and/or applications and assign those based on user needs.

I hope this clears the air as to virtual desktops and desktop virtualization

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