Site Issues Fixed
Recently there was an issue with the site when posting new articles, I’m happy to say that its fixed now and adding and editing posts are working as they should be.
Also I would like to take this oppertunity to welcome three of our new authors, Jaddis, bob and techyie. We are really happy to have you in the team guys. And Jaddis was a superb poster in our forums and had one of the highest post counts we are delighted to have you, also techie and bob I hope you guys continue to share your knowledge with the world your articles are nice to read and informative.
Welcome on board guys.
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta
Microsoft has now released a beta of its new office suite, Office 2010. Microsoft Office 2010 offers you rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work – at work, home or school – on your computer, from a Windows Mobile-based Smartphone or via a Web browser. Quickly and creatively grab your audience’s attention and inspire them with your ideas by using enhanced and easy-to-use tools, customizable templates, color schemes, and photo-editing capabilities. With a new co-authoring experience, you can work with people from different locations at the same time. And by offering more ways to access your files from almost anywhere, Office 2010 puts you in control of getting things done according to your schedule. Simplify your tasks and create amazing results with Office 2010 — wherever life takes you.
FreeWatch
Were you ever doing something on your computer that you needed to time but you did not have a stopwatch handy? Or have you ever looked online for a simple free stopwatch/timer and been frustrated by the many complicated applications out there that did not really do what you wanted? Well look no more. FreeWatch is a very simple stopwatch application that will run under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. You may start as many instances of FreeWatch as you like or need. It is a self contained executable that makes it both small and portable.
Download (Pocket PC ARM/SH3 release)
Slowdown of Site – We Need More Writers
If you have been visiting in the past few weeks, the site has gradually come to a standstill. The reason is that I’m too busy to write things for the site and way more occupied in my new Job. Therefore I would like to ask any of you with writing skills to join our staff and keep the momentum going. You can write to us using the contact us form.
Hope to see some of you with our staff. We are also looking for people to moderate and administer our forums (which we are planning to start) as well.
Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 is Released
Mozilla has released yet another beta of Firefox 3.6, and they have fixed more than 140 bugs fixed, get it now from the link below.
Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 – Eng
Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 – All Lang
Google Chrome Backup
Google Chrome (web browser) has just hit the world. Google Chrome backup is a small tool to create, backup, restore and manage Google Chrome profiles. The profile holds personal data like history, bookmarks, etc. Everything is done with one click. Latest version also supports Chromium, which modified version of Google Chrome, for portable use.
Fishbowl is a silverlight-powered Desktop Facebook Client from Microsoft
Microsoft has just concluded their 2009 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and i thought i should write one of the many new applications mentioned. In the end i handpicked Fishbowl, a desktop-based application capable of running Facebook on your desktop.
Google Chrome OS UI Concept Video (REAL)
Finally a real video for the Chrome OS
Google did a press event demoing their Chrome OS. Here’s what we know about Chrome OS:
- It will be launched next year (they wanted to cash in on Microsoft’s PDC09. Cheapos!)
- It’s ONLY meant for Netbooks.
- The OS looks exactly like the Chrome browser.
- It’ll be locked to the hardware, like Apple the OS will come bundled on Netbooks.
- It is an Open Source project and bits are available for developers now.
- It is based on Debian. It’s basically just another Linux distro.
- Everything you do will be stored online. Notes and documents will be synced to Google Docs.
- No native applications.
- The current build can be compiled and installed on any machine.
- An App store is likely & no word on weather it will support Android apps, nothing certain but maybe.
Here is the Google Chrome OS Youtube Channel
Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 Released
Mozilla has released yet another beta for Firefox 3.6, this is the third beta meaning the RC is at hand, this beta fixes more than 80 bugs and much more stable and the improved JavaScript engine does a good job in rendering but the 3.6 is marginally faster than 3.5 I hope this will change in 3.7.
If you are using 3.6 beta 1 or 3.6 beta 2 I advise you to upgrade ASAP. Incompatible plugins are always an issue, but you can always disable compatibility checking by following this guide, but Its better you install Mozilla’s Add-on Compatibility Reporter add-on and tell Mozilla if your favorite add-ons work with the new Firefox release. This add-on disables compatibility check as well.
I have checked and I’m confirming that Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 DOES NOT break the following extensions:
LastPass
Xmarks
Greasemonkey
Ad Block Plus
Ad Block Plus Element Hiding Helper
Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 – English
Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 – All Language
ExtremeCopy 1.5.1 Free
What’s ExtremeCopy ?
ExtremeCopy is a Windows copy file utility which copy and move files and folders extremely fast and operation is simple,it can increase 20% ~ 120% speed up than Windows copy handle. It includes some powerful features such as pause copy process,error recovery and so on but as easy as Windows default copy handle:
- Added Failed file list feature which allow user recovery the failed files when run time .
- Reserve Window Paste when ‘As Window’s default copying’ is set .
- Added Task Log .
- Localization Language Support
- More reliable .
