Skype 5.0 Beta Allows Group Video Calls for 10 People

Skype has released a new Beta update numbered version 5.0that allows users make group video calls with up to 10 people. As well as allowing for more people on a group video call, the update also gets a new fresh look and also stability has been increased. Over all its quality has been increased when making video calls to a group so your calling experience should be smoother than before.

This new version also includes automatic call recovery, which should help automatically reconnect Skype calls that are interrupted due to network problems. To make a group video call, each users on the call needs to be running the latest Skype Beta 5.0. At present the service is free although the blog post announcement hints at a possible charge in the future.

Top 5 Games of 2010

Hey game lovers!!! Here is the list of the top 5 games of 2010

Mass Driver
Mass Driver is ranked as the most appreciated game by the PC lovers. Grand Theft Auto at 1,000 miles an hour is available as a Mass Drive in this fantastic game. The player has the ability to enhance the acceleration of any boat, airplane, car, truck, tractor, tank or little red wagon to insane, mach-plus speeds, thundering across a game world hundreds of miles wide. Going too fast causes a lot of problems and may cause damage to the player. To slow down the speed you have to hit any building, tree or any other obstacle.

Star Wars: Jedi Saga
Star Wars: Jedi Saga is the awesome real Wii swordfighting. It includes the lightsaber battle. Darth Maul, Count Dooku, that one retarded four-armed robot thing with the completely unprotected heart, all of them, leading up to a climactic duel with Darth Vader. It is really an awesome game for the action lovers. It holds second position in the ranking of best games by technology sky.

DC vs. Marvel Superhero Brawl

When the two super powers becomes enemy and starts a war a very difficult condition takes place. Everything in between these super powers had to face hard time. The same thing happens in this game it is about the fight between two super powers.

World War Omega

This is the Combined Arms Simulator PC gamers have been dreaming about from the first time a shot was fired in anger over a modem. A sprawling world war, a Battlefield 2 but with one gargantuan, persistent map that everybody plays on.

World of Starcraft

Gaming version of flying cars is provided in the form of this fantastic game. Every body wants to have it; no one is ready to leave it at any cost. Starcraft is the most famous fiction in the world of computer gaming. The three-way intergalactic war between the humans and the Zerg and the Protoss.

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Windows live Essentials Beta 2 Released

Windows live Essentials is highly appreciated software package from Microsoft available for Windows. Windows Live Essential extends our digital experience and provides advance features like reading e mail, instant messaging, photo editing, live sync, movie maker and live writer blogging tools.


On 24th June Windows live Essentials beta 1 was lunched and now Windows live Essentials beta 1 has been launched. The newly released beta consists of several bug fixes, improved performance, icons and new features. Generally Microsoft provides online download link which may be inconvenient to many users with slow internet connection or who may require the full offline installer for future use. Here are the download links to both the installers. Using Windows live Essentials is really fun. Most of the people really love Windows live Essentials.

YouTube will Increase Video Uploading Time Limit

YouTube is the world’s most popular video-sharing website. It has been announced that video upload time limit will be increased on the YouTube soon. The video upload time will be substantially increased from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. This will facilitate the users in submitting their comparatively lengthy videos and they do not have to cut and edit them just because of the time constraints. So, the users are only going to welcome the move.
The sources from the company have revealed this information. However, it is still not known that why it intends to increase the upload time. It is to be noted that the upload time surge was expected long time ago. So, the change is welcome to the users.
Now users can more focus on including more content as they will not be slashing their videos anymore to abide by the time limit. The date of the new change has not yet been announced by the company. There are reports that the increase in the upload time will be celebrated by the company with a “15 minutes of fame” contest and the YouTube homepage will display it.

Autodesk Maya, a Powerful 3D Graphic Generator

Autodesk Maya is a software application used for 3D animation, 3D modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing and it is developed in Toronto by Autodesk's Media and Entertainment Division and the name Maya is named after the Sanskrit term that means illusion.
Maya is used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games, architectural visualization and design. The recent movie Avatar had been possible due to Autodesk Maya.
The new Maya contains all the features of Maya Unlimited 2009: Maya Fluid Effects (A realistic fluid simulator that is effective for smoke, fire, clouds and explosions), Maya Classic Cloth (Cloth simulation to automatically simulate clothing and fabrics moving realistically over an animated character), Maya Fur (Animal fur simulation similar to Maya Hair, it can be used to simulate other fur-like objects such as grass), Maya Hair (A simulator for realistic-looking human hair implemented using curves and Paint Effects, also known as dynamic curves), Maya Live (A set of motion tracking tools for CG matching to clean plate footage), Maya nCloth (nCloth gives the artist further control of cloth and material simulations), Maya nParticle (nParticle gives artists an intuitive, efficient workflow for simulating a wide range of complex 3D effects, including liquids, clouds, smoke, spray, and dust) and MatchMover (Added to Maya 2010, this enables compositing of CGI elements with motion data from video and film sequences).
Today, many 3D games and animated movie are being developed in Autodesk Maya. Kung Fu Panda, an animated movie, is also created in Maya.

Opera- A Web Browser

Opera, developed by Opera Software, is a web browser and Internet suite. It handles tasks related to internet such as displaying websites, sending and receiving e-mail (electronic mail) messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent (a software), and reading web feeds.
The features of Opera include:
• tabbed browsing
• page zooming
• mouse gestures
• an integrated download manager.
• built-in phishing and malware protection
• strong encryption when browsing secure websites
• the ability to easily delete private data such as HTTP cookies
Opera supports multiple Operating System, which includes:
• Microsoft Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Solaris
Opera has captured only a small fraction of the browser market of worldwide personal computer. It does, though, have a stronger market share on mobile devices such as smartphones, mobile phones, and personal digital assistants. Opera Editions are available for devices using the Maemo, BlackBerry, Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, and iPhone operating systems and also for Java ME-enabled devices. About 120 million cell phones have been shipped with Opera.
Opera was designed with a goal to computer accessibility for users who have visual or motor impairments. It is possible to control nearly every aspect of the browser by the use of keyboard and the default keyboard shortcuts can be modified to suit the user. It is the only major browser that includes support for spatial navigation and Opera also includes support for mouse gestures (patterns of mouse movement that trigger browser actions such as "back" or “forward” or "refresh"). Voice control (co-developed with IBM) allows control of the browser without the use of a keyboard or mouse and it can also read aloud pages and marked text.