Windows 8 Task Manager screenshot

Windows 8 build 7850, the first leaked Windows 8 build, may be old (it was compiled on September 22, 2010) as it's from Milestone 1, but not only does it contain new features such as the Portable Workspace but it also has a new Task Manager. Users on the My Digital Life forums have figured out how to turn it on and have taken a screenshot of how it looks (pictured below).

The new Task Manager is not completely functional in the aforementioned build (closing an application with the utility does not make it disappear from the list). Still, it's noticeably different. As you can see, there are three tabs: Programs, Startup, and Users (compared to Applications, Processes, Performance, and Networking in current versions of Windows). This will likely change, but it's still interesting to see what Microsoft is experimenting with.

Microsoft has also decided to categorize Programs into Windows System-Critical Programs, Background Programs, and Applications. This should make it much easier to find the task the user wants to kill. There's also an Advanced Task Manager interface in Windows 8 that lets users see more information about running processes and services. This feature will likely be changing quite a bit, so we'll keep an eye on it in future builds.

I frequently use the Task Manager in Windows so I'm rather excited to see that Microsoft is tweaking it. It shows the company still cares about power users. What do you want to see in the new Task Manager?

Capture/Record/Save Streaming Online Flash Video from 'ANY' Website

To save streaming flash video files from popular sites like YouTube, Google Video..etc isn't a big deal anymore. There are lots of software tools & web services available for that! However, each one of them only support a limited number of sites.

But what if you want to download video files from sites that aren't supported by these softwares & web services? Oh yes! It can be done with a small software called WebVideoCap.
Basically, when you are seeing a video in your web browser, the video is first cached by the browser. And WebVideoCap creates a video file from this cache.

Here's how you can capture flash video files with this software:

1. Run WebVideoCap and specify a folder where you want to save the flash video (flv) file. Click the 'Start Capture' button.
2. Now, open your browser and go to the site where the video is located and play it within the browser.
3. When the browser completes playing the video inside the Webpage, WebVideoCap saves the video file in the folder you specified earlier. After finishing, click the 'Stop Capture' button in WebVideoCap.


You can now play the video file in a flash video player.

Limitations:
1. One limitation is if the video is already in your browser cache, WebVideoCap won't save it. To overcome this, you have to clear the browser cache, start capturing from WebVideoCap again & reload the video web page.
2. Only flash videos can be saved. Other streaming media types aren't supported at this point.

WebVideoCap is a very small and easy to use utility with no installation required. Best of all, its Free! This one is certainly for the non-geeks.

Tested with Firefox on Windows XP. This should also work with Internet Explorer.

[Download Web Video Cap (Windows Only)]

Advanced Free Screenshot Capture Utility For Windows

We blog writers often need to take screenshots of programs and Windows to give necessary information to our dear readers. After all, one image is equal to thousand words. We used to use default Windows print screen function to capture the screen and then, Picasa for other basic purpose until we came across a free utility which we are going to show you here.

Screenshot Capture is a free utility to capture screenshots on your computer and it’s different from other screen capture utilities in many ways. Moreover, Screenshot Captor costs nothing to use it.
Silent Features:
* Screenshot Captor can embed comments in files.
*Supports multi-monitor.
*Helps you to add effects.
*Supports Desktop, Windows Object, Active Window and Multimon(for multiple monitors) modes.
*Hundreds of configurable options.
*Quick Screenshot Emailer Menu
*Helps you to create thumbnails.

|Download Screenshot Captor|