I love reading. Everyday I read dozens of articles in my RSS Feed Reader. And when I am done I stumble across the web trying to quench my thirst for information. Here are five Firefox extensions that are tailor made to satisfy the thirst for information of power surfers.
KwiClick is a fascinating extension for Firefox which simplifies your browsing experience by getting rid of unneccesary tabs. KwiClick works via an in-page floating window. Normally, if you want to know more about a term on the page you are currently reading, you would have to open up a new tab and then copy+paste the word in the search bar. With KwiClick you can do this without opening a new tab and without navigating away from the current page. A simple right click is sufficient. KwiClick allows you to instantly lookup a term on google or even fetch the latest twitter search result. It can plot any address (mentioned in the webpage) on a map, play videos while allowing you continue surfing and more. Due to its unique set of features it can be a hard tool to describe in words. Check out the video to learn how it works.
Microsoft just opened registration for Office 2010. Beta accounts will be granted on a first come first serve basis. If you are interested head over to http://www.office2010themovie.com/ and click on the signup link. The beta program is designed to gain feedback from a wide range of users and is expected to be launched in July. Earlier this month Microsoft kick-started its Office 2010 promotion with this fascinating video.
With 2GB and 4GB pen drives becoming common these days it often makes more sense to burn (or rather setup) the Operating System installer onto a pen drive rather than burning it onto a CD or DVD. This is especially true if you love trying out new linux distros, or rush to install the latest leaked build of Windows 7. Not only that many notebooks such as Acer Aspire One doesn’t come with a built in CD/DVD drive and USB drives are the only way users can install the latest build of Windows 7 or Ubuntu (or whatever operating system they wish to use).
This tutorial will teach you how to install any (well…almost) operating system from a USB drive.
Windows 2000 and XP
For creating a bootable USB drive with Windows 2000 or XP installer we are going to use a utility called WinSetupFromUSB. Download it from MSFN forums and install it. You are going to need the Windows 2000/XP installation disk. If you have an ISO, extract the iso. Enter the path to Windows 200/XP installer as Source. After this, plugin in your USB device and format it. You can use the PEtoUSB tool to format USB drives smaller than 2GB as FAT16 drive. However I would recommend using HP Format Tool to format drives as FAT32 or NTFS (recommended). That is all you need to do to create a basic installer for Windows 2000 and Windows XP on your pen drive (USB device). Don’t bother yourself with any of the other settings. Click on GO to begin the process. WinSetupFromUSB is a fairly advanced tool and allows to you create multiboot pen drives that can have Windows Vista, Windows 7 and even Linux installers. If you want to know more about this utility just read through the thread at MSFN forums. Continue reading “Install Any Operating System from Pen Drive (Works on Netbooks)”
Sony Ericsson is a doing a major revamp of its multimedia phones line-up. Yesterday they unveiled three gorgeous new multimedia phones which would hit the markets by the fourth quarter of this year.
Sony Ericsson Satio
The much hyped Idou has a new name – Satio. Satio features a 12.1 Megapixel camera with Xenon flash, Image Stabiliser, Face Detection, Smile Detection and Geo-Tagging. The 3.5 inch TFT touch-screen with 16:9 widescreen dimensions is ideal for watching videos on the go. Satio is powered by Symbian S60 5th edition, which means that it will be capable of running a wide range of applications on it. Satio will include an 8 GB micro SD card to complement 128 MB of internal memory.
Kaspersky – a leading manufacturer of security products, is well on its way to releasing Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. The initial beta testing phase for KIS 2010 and KAV 2010 is over. General avaibility hasn’t been announced yet. Kaspersky may go ahead and release this build to the public or decide to go for another round of testing on a modified build. Whatever the case may be, 2010 is shaping up to be an impressive update. Here are some of the new features.
IM Anti-Virus: This module scans all your communications via Instant messenger for malicious files and URLs. Many instant messanging clients including ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber and Google Talk are supported.
Revamped Application Control: Application Control monitors every action performed by a process and manages their activities based on how much you trust them. It monitors access to the user’s personal data and to the operating system’s settings and objects, and prevents applications from performing dangerous actions within the system. Continue reading “Looking Ahead at Kaspersky Internet Security 2010”
For the past few days I have been using my old system (AMD 64 3000+ with 512 MB RAM). Thanks to my fairly demanding multitasking habbits my RAM usage often exceeds 95%, in the process making the system extremely sluggish. I decided to give a new product from KoshiJohn – MemoryCleaner a try. I had earlier reviewed his two other products – DiskMax (best hard disk cleaner and space recovery tool I have come across) and Neosearch (instant desktop search)and was extremely impressed by both. So I expected decent things from this new product.
I am normally extremely hesitant to try or recommend Memory Cleaners (or Memory Optimisers or RAM Defragmenters) as I have only had bad experience with them in the past. Most of them slow down the system by deleting cached data. A huge majority of them use excessive CPU and bring the system to a standstill during their cleaning operations. Koshi himself is extremely honest about the capabilities of his software. He doesn’t claim big things and attempt to deceive the user like many other manufacturers.
MemoryCleaner is a small download. Like all other KoshiJohn software once you choose to accept the EULA the installer takes over from there and does the rest. I really dislike the fact that I can not specify the install location. MemoryCleaner has two options – Continue reading “MemoryCleaner Optimises Your Memory and Cures Memory Leaks”
Welcome to the seventh edition of Opera Bytes – my semi-regular column about all things Opera.
Opera got a makeover with Kestrel (v9.5). While the new skin was definitely better than the previous one and put Opera ahead of most of its competitors as far as looks was concerned, it did have a few kinks. In the previous edition of Opera Bytes I had reported that the famed designer Jon Hicks has joined Opera. Yesterday he unveiled a new snapshot (weekly build) of Opera that featured a tweaked skin. You can download the latest build of Opera featuring the new skin from the Desktop Team Blog. Continue reading “Opera Bytes v7 – A Brand New Skin and More”
Firefox is the browser that the world loves to love. But there is a lot of confusion regarding its spelling and abbreviation. I have seen a lot of people abbreviating Firefox as FF or even writing Firefox as FireFox.
Mozilla had done their bit to clarify the matter as far back as 2005. From their FAQ :
How do I capitalize Firefox? How do I abbreviate it?
Only the first letter is capitalized (so it’s Firefox, not FireFox.) The preferred abbreviation is “Fx” or “fx”.
There you have it! Even I was unaware of this. Credit for correcting me goes to my friend [deXter]. And now you also know.
PDF Readers are dime a dozen these days thanks to the explosion in popularity of pdf files. Everyone has their own favourite software for reading pdf files – most popular options being Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader and Sumatra PDF. All of these are awesome options. But allow me to suggest another wonderful free viewer that can open not only PDF files but also DjVu, TIFF and TXT files.
STDU (Scientific and Technical Documentation Utility) Viewer has a clean and simple layout. It features a tabbed interface and all documents are opened within a single window. This works great and is definitely better than opening half a dozen windows to handle all of my open documents. However, this feature isn’t exclusive to STDU Viewer also present in some of its competitors like Foxit Reader. Taking a leaf out of Opera’s (and other modern browsers) book STDU Viewer helpfully prompts to open the documents opened during last session. The ability to resume sessions is present in almost all modern day browsers and works wonderfully in STDU. I don’t need to manually open all the documents I was studying before I took my lunch break. STDU does it for me. Continue reading “STDU Viewer – A Free PDF, DjVu and TIFF Reader”
We are long past the days when Air Conditioning was considered to be an essential requirement for Computers, but paying a little attention to your computer’s temperature levels can save you some headaches and prevent disasters.
HWMonitor reads all the main health sensors present in your PC. Its a complete solution that displays your voltage levels, fan speeds, CPU temperature, hard disk temperature and graphics card temperature.
1. KwiClick – Get Things Done Quicker
With 2GB and 4GB pen drives becoming common these days it often makes more sense to burn (or rather setup) the Operating System installer onto a pen drive rather than burning it onto a CD or DVD. This is especially true if you love trying out new linux distros, or rush to install the latest leaked build of Windows 7. Not only that many notebooks such as Acer Aspire One doesn’t come with a built in CD/DVD drive and USB drives are the only way users can install the latest build of Windows 7 or Ubuntu (or whatever operating system they wish to use).
Kaspersky – a leading manufacturer of security products, is well on its way to releasing Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. The initial beta testing phase for KIS 2010 and KAV 2010 is over. General avaibility hasn’t been announced yet. Kaspersky may go ahead and release this build to the public or decide to go for another round of testing on a modified build. Whatever the case may be, 2010 is shaping up to be an impressive update. Here are some of the new features.
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