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OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs your Facebook friends profile photo’s with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. This is very useful with Windows Mobile devices, so when one of your Facebook friends call you’ll see his profile picture on your cell.

OutSync is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. It requires Outlook 2003 or 2007.

You can download this free Windows Application through Mel Sampat’s site or the OutSync Facebook page.

Speed key’s

What I found very useful is the key combination of the windows key and numbers. The number is consistent with the object in the menu fast start. So if your Firefox is on place 2 (like with my setup) you can use Win+2 to start your Firefox. Easy and Fast.

We all use the Alt-Tab key to switch programs or even the Win-Tab key to switch programs with the fancy 3D view. But what if you don’t know what you’re looking for? Instead of constantly Alt-Tabbing, try Ctrl-Alt-Tab or Ctrl-Win-Tab to keep the switching open instead of fading back. Also you can try using Alt-Tab/Win and your scroll wheel to ease the program switching even more.

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If your used to use the up button in Windows XP you can’t help to notice that Vista only has the back and next button. But no worry’s the functionality is still there, you can call it through the shortcut alt-up. So the next time you started browsing your filesystem and the back button just isn’t good enough, hitting alt-up can be the perfect alternative.

Move Up a Directory in Vista’s Explorer [lifehacker]

When you’re a cooked in Windows user it can be very hard to make the plunge to Linux, or even to install it on your desktop can be a big step. But now in the new Ubuntu Hardy Heron there’s a cool feature to install a version of Ubuntu on your desktop like a normal every day using Windows program that you can just as easily remove as install.

The installation disk

First of all you need a Ubuntu Hardy Heron installation disk, and because Ubuntu is open source which means it’s frEE like in bEEr you can get it just like that. All you have to do is download the iso (or the Dutch version), burn it with your favourite burning tool to a disk and voila. If even that’s too much work to do you can request a free cd and the Ubuntu community will send to you one.

The installing itself

You just insert the Ubuntu cd into your cd drive while windows is running (just like any other program you install). If your disk drive auto run is on there will be a popup else you just click the cd you just entered. For the windows installation mode you select the install inside windows mode. You can

select several options like drive, installation size, language, username and password. After installation you reboot the system and get a boot menu asking you which operation system you want to boot. If you for some reason don’t like it you can easily remove it through the Windows program list, just like any Windows program.

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nLite is a freeware customization tool for Windows, it gives you the opportunity to remove Windows components like media player, MSN Explorer from the installation wizard. With other words you can make your own personalised Windows installation disk. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components.

This freeware tool you van download from http://www.nliteos.com

Features

Service Pack Integration, Component Removal, Unattended Setup, Driver Integration, Hotfixes Integration, Tweaks, Services Configuration, Patches, Bootable ISO creation

What do you need

First of all this tool does not make your Windows installation disk, it customises the disk. So to begin you have to own your default Windows installation disk of Windows 2000, XP x86/x64 or 2003 x86/x64 of any language. You also need the .NET Framework 2.0 in order to run. Downloading the tool itself can also be very usefully.

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