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Google’s Chrome OS

Filed under: Computer, Google, Software, microsoft — Tags: , , , , — IamShipon1988 @ 1:49 pm July 9, 2009

While surfing through the web, I ran into a article by CNN relating to Google. The article spoke of an idea Google was developing and their vision of the near future. After reading the excerpt, I got drawn to the article and had to read the full thing. I thought the faithful users of this forum will enjoy a little new update to the tech world after a long time of little to no update.

Googles Chrome OS, set to debut next year, will make use of Googles browser and Web-application technology.

Google's Chrome OS, set to debut next year, will make use of Google's browser and Web-application technology.

(CNN) — Google is jumping into Microsoft Windows territory — and threatening to change the way personal computers work — with its own version of a computer operating system.

The company says the forthcoming Google Chrome OS will revolutionize how computers operate, putting more emphasis on Web functionality, making computers faster and opening them up to helpful tinkering by outside program developers. (more…)

Personas for Firefox – Customize your Firefox

Filed under: Software — Tags: , , , , — Ehsan @ 4:26 am April 9, 2009

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Personas is a Beta Labs Product by Mozilla which enables you to personalize your Firefox. Personas for Firefox is a Firefox Addon which lets you add lightweight theming to your Firefox Browser like changing the top head and footer of Firefox by replacing it with your very own background image.

I was jsut trying it and i absolutley love this new feature its better than installing new skins finally i can fullfill my need to pimpout my Firefox !
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46 Free Desktop Software Applications, Webapps, and Projects

Filed under: Software, Wordpress — Tags: , , — Muneeb @ 2:32 pm December 2, 2008

Searching for the right software for a particular job certainly is a very difficult exercise (at least for me) , finding the right Antivirus even a codec for playing videos would be a headache for me. Now for those who are looking for some great softwares applications, webapps and projects i’m giving you guys a list of FREE desktop softwares applications that has been voted and are the best of the year, now without any further ado here is the list of what i came across :

  1. Firefox
  2. VLC Media Player
  3. Ubuntu
  4. Open Office
  5. Pidgin
  6. (more…)

Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta

Filed under: Software — Ehsan @ 11:48 pm March 5, 2008

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Microsoft has just released Beta version of the much improved Internet Explorer 8 sooner than expected you can download the Beta version right now (Download Link at the End of the Post) but beware we have heard that Internet Explorer 7 overwrites the old installation of Internet Explorer 7 or IE7, The IE8 download is available for the following systems

  • Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1),
  • Windows Vista,
  • Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2),
  • Windows Server® 2008 and
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

The main new features of IE8 include an interactive activities menu , Web Slices a new feature for website’s to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage
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