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The wait for the first Beta build of Firefox 3.6 is over. Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download. This version is faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo. Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. However I think this version has no Windows7 jumplist feature as expected. This first revision of the Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features: Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas. Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe. Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames. Support for the WOFF font format. Improved JavaScript performance, overall brow...

As its name suggests CopyWipe lets you copy or securely wipe entire hard drives contents. This is useful, for example, if you want to transfer entire hard disk contents to another disk and want to securely delete all data from the old disk. CopyWipe is a free utility and is very ease to use. Besides copying contests it will help prevent confidential or private data from being recovered, by securely wiping the contents of a drive. A number of options are provided for wiping (shredding), most of which exceed governmental standards (such as DoD 5220.22-M, NAVSO P-5239-26, etc.); this allows the user to choose an optimal balance between security and duration of the wiping operation. A USB 2.0-to-IDE adapter, along with CopyWipe, provides a convenient method to create and maintain a complete hard drive mirrored backup. Best of all, CopyWipe is now FREE and you can download it from here

Windows XP Mode is a new feature for Windows 7 (a virtual Windows XP environment for Windows 7) that makes it easy to install and run many old XP programs directly from your Windows 7 PC. However, in order to do this, your system processor must support hardware virtualization (AMD-V or Intel-VT) and also need the corresponding option to be activated in the BIOS ( if not available a BIOS update may help ). The HAV (hardware-assisted virtualization) detection tool from Microsoft helps you check whether your processor supports hardware virtualization and also checks if this feature is enabled on the processor. You can also use the tool SecurAble to find out whether your computer is capable of running a virtual machine. The tool works with Intel and AMD processors. Just runs the tool by double clicking the icon, if you got a ‘NO’ as the result, the only thing that can help is changing CPU. XP mode is included only in the Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Windows 7. Do...

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is the light-weight, one of the best and free antivirus software from Microsoft for Windows 7, Vista and XP. If you have installed MSE on Your PC and incase face any issue with it, here is a freeware tool called Fix MSE (unofficial) to repair it with out reinstalling Microsoft Security Essentials. Simply run Fix MSE utility. It will restore all its registry values & service settings to known good defaults, without re-installing MSE. The utility may take only a moment to run, and works on both 32bit and 64bit of Windows Operating Systems. Requirements: Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0, Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0, Windows 7, Vista and XP. Download Fix MSE

Because of the strong integration with the operating system uninstalling or removing any security software often stopped in the halfway and causes serious problems to the operating system. We have already covered special uninstaller for almost all major security software including Norton, Kaspersky, Nod32, AVG, Avast, etc; here is Zone Alarm Removal tool for removing Zone Alarm Firewall and Internet Security completely from your computer. Zone Alarm Removal Tool is a small, portable and freeware tool to uninstall and remove Zone Alarm Firewall and Internet Security from PC. Download Zone Alarm Removal Tool (3.3Mb)[via – Blogsdna ]

The Windows 7 ISO Image Edition Switcher is a freeware, portable tool that will help you to switch any Windows 7 ISO image edition to you need very easily. This is quite useful, if for example, you have the Windows 7 Home Edition and is looking for the upgrade edition like Professional or Ultimate edition. The program is a set of small binary patches (and a tool to apply these patches) that will convert an official Windows 7 ISO disc image into an official Windows 7 ISO disc image of another edition. The resulting ISO images are bit-for-bit identical with those posted on MSDN or TechNet, and their SHA-1 hashes should match the official hashes posted by Microsoft. Download Windows 7 ISO Edition Switcher [ Via ]

Drop2Open gives a Mac OSX like feature for Windows 7 . When you dragging and dropping a file, the default behavior of Windows 7 taskbar or superbar is pin the program to the jump list. Drop2Open will reverse this default behavior. It will open the file in the program as in OSX dock when you dragging a file onto a pinned taskbar program. That is, simply dragging and dropping will now open the file in the program, while Shift-Drag and Drop will pin the program to the jump list. Drop2Open is a freeware AutoHotKey script for Windows 7 . After installation, it will launches on start-up and runs in the system tray. It detects when you drag a file onto a docked program and proceeds to open it. The program requires a little memory when running; it will only take up about 3MB of memory so speed should not be an issue. Download Drop2Open from programs home page.

Although it is possible to zoom a webpage by pressing Ctrl key and scrolling the mouse wheel, it will also zoom all objects, texts and images . If you find small letters are hard to read or find difficult to read a webpage because of inappropriate text color and background color, here is a free tool to solve this for Firefox browser. NoSquint is a Firefox add-on (3 – 3.7) that could override the default text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels for all websites, enforce your own foreground and background colors, and remember your zoom levels and color settings per site. How to use it? NoSquint is powerful add-on with dozens of features. Install the add-on from here . After installation configure the tool (Tools – Add-ons – NoSquint Option). Now click on the “ Zooming ’ tab and change the default value “ Default Full page Zoom Level back to 100. Select ‘ Primary zoom method ’ dropdown menu and choose ‘T ext Zoom’ (text only) . Now you can change the zoom settings of...

Here is an exclusive and beautiful fall leaves theme pack for Windows 7 . The theme is composed of 11 high quality images and all are in 1920×1080 (Full HD) resolution. It would fit pretty nicely on all types of displays, wide-screen or not. Download and spice-up your Windows 7 desktop. If you want to create your own theme for your Windows 7, this guide will help you .

If you are looking for a comprehensive guide of what Windows 7 has to offer and how it can help you, the official Windows 7 Product Guide is the best resource available. This easy to read guide covers everything you would want to know about Window 7 - all the new features, functionality, capabilities, comparison of different editions, shortcut keys and much more. The Windows 7 Product Guide is has three major sections: Introduction - Describes how Microsoft designed Windows 7, what editions of Windows 7 are available and what is new. Windows 7 for You - Goes over features in Windows 7 that, simplify everyday tasks, works the way you want, and makes new things possible. Windows 7 for IT Professionals - Explains how Windows 7 can make people productive anywhere, manage risk though enhanced security and control, and reduce costs by streamlining PC management. This section also has an overview of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack to help you learn about how this set of applications ...

Here is a Gmail Notifier for Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7 . This freeware, portable tool can notify you new emails at a fixed time intervals from multiple Gmail accounts. There are several Gmail Notifiers ( here / here ), but this one is specially made for Widows 7 and comes with Windows 7 new feature Jumplist . The program is very simple to use, no installation is required. Just unzip and run the tool, click + icon to add your Gmail accounts, specify a time interval (1 min or above), select a sound (if required) for notification, and click Ok to save. That’s all. To preview new mails from multiple Gmail accounts, just hover over your mouse on the Gmail Notifiers tray icon (or right click on it to bring jumplist). You can download Gmail Notifiers Plus from here [ home page ]

TwitBird Pro (formerly known as iTwitter) is a fast, flexible and feature rich twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch. It has several cool features to enhance your twitter experience like multiple account support, push notifications between other TwitBird users, landscape mode, icon badges, address book, group feature, reply directly to tweets and send direct messages, and many more. TwitBird Pro offers everything you'd expect for a good twitter client and it should make your Twitter experience with your iPhone or iPod touch that much more enjoyable. Users who likes to get it for free ( today only ), just visit here for downloading TwitBird Pro. The program normally costs around $2.99.

Windows 7 compatibility center will let you how you can make sure all your software and hardware is compatible with Windows 7, the new operating system from Microsoft which has been released a few days back. Of course you can use a free tool from Microsoft called Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor that will let you know the compatibility issues with your programs and devices after scanning your Windows XP or Vista system. But it will not help users who plan to buy a new computer. Here comes the importance of Windows 7 compatibility Center - an online service from Microsoft that can check hardware and software for compatibility with Windows 7. Here you can check any software or hardware using a simple web form. For example, just enter a search term (e.g. Firefox) in the search field under software to know whether it is compatible with Windows 7 or not. You can also browse software or hardware by category , Microsoft will show you the most popular software or hardware that is compatible with Wi...

Every modern browser has facility to delete ordinary tracking cookies, but there is no option for deleting flash cookies also known as super cookies. These hidden, never expiring flash cookies (also known as PIE (persistent identification element) and LSO’s (local shared objects) can reveal what websites you have visited and offer unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Of course one can manage flash cookies by going to Adobe's Settings Manager , but for a beginner it is quite difficult. Here is a freeware flash cookie cleaning software that allows you to view and delete the flash cookies from your computer. Flash Cookie Cleaner is a freeware, portable application and there are no complicated settings or configurations. Just run the application, click on ‘Scan’ button. Then click on ‘View’ button to see who tracking you and click ‘Delete’ button to delete these cookies. Flash Cookie Cleaner works on Windows 2000/ XP/Vista and Windows 7. Download (1.5Mb) the pr...

The Grabanddrag is an add-on to Firefox browser that gives different ways to scroll a web page, like the one in popular PDF readers. This is especially useful for Tablet PCs, UMPCs and Touchscreens, where you do not use your mouse (normal computer, with mouse can also use). It provides PDF readers style grab and drag page scrolling and scrollbar-style scrolling initiated by dragging anywhere on the screen. Grabanddrag can recognizes mouse Flick gestures for scrolling up, down, left, or right a screen at a time, handy for pen based computers. It also supports page Momentum . If you enabled, when you releasing a page you have been dragging at a constant velocity will cause the page to continue moving at its current speed until clicked to stop. The extension is easily toggled on and off for text selection and has a variety of customization options and is suitable for both mouse- and pen-based navigation. Download DragandDrag [ via ]

Wally is an open source, developed in Qt4 , wallpaper changer for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. It uses different sources for background images, such as local folder or FTP remote folder, Bing search, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, etc Using the program is very simple. Download (7.4Mb) and installs it (Windows XP). Select a source (for example Bing, or add more), add key words like garden, flower, nature, etc, select time interval (1Min or above) and click OK to save. Now right click on the Wally tray icon and select ‘Play”. That’s all. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Download Wally form http://code.google.com/p/wally/

Swap Mouse is a tiny (8Kb), portable tool that allows swapping the default left and right mouse buttons just with a click. This tool especially is useful in places where different people (Left-handed and Right-handed people) use same computer frequently, like schools, libraries, etc. SwapMouse is very simple to use. Download and unzip it. Double click the ‘swap mouse.exe to swap right – left mouse buttons, once again click to revert back it (no GUI to configure the tool). SwapMouse tested on Windows XP and Windows 7. You can download the freeware tool from here .

DesktopInfo is a tiny, portable tool that can display relevant information about your computer in real time on your desktop's background. This tool is similar to BGInfo from Microsoft, but I think the working of DesktopInfo is smoother than BGInfo. This tool is useful, if for example, if you manage multiple computers and want to know important aspects of its configuration occasionally like IP address, OS version, etc. The program requires very little memory and nearly zero CPU power. The tool does not require any installation, unzip and run the exe file. The program has no GUI. Just right click on the desktop to close or configure (font, color, etc) the tool. The program works on Windows7, Vista and XP. You can download DesktopInfo from here . Program’s home page .

Windows Easy Transfer lets you transfer your documents, photos, music, e-mail, bookmarks, settings, and other files to a computer running Windows 7 from Windows XP. As its name suggests, it is really easy to use, the screen information is enough for most users. You can transfer your files via removable disks (USB flash drive or external hard disk), USB Easy Transfer Cable or Network connection. The only pre-requisite is both computers must support the transfer method you choose. That is, if you choose to transfer data via network, both computers must be connected on the same network. To transfer your data, run Easy Transfer on both computer and follow the screen instructions. You don’t need to install Easy Transfer on Windows 7, because it is already built into it. Download Windows Easy Transfer .

Microsoft has made available few more themes for Windows 7 that you can downloaded from the Windows 7 theme page. A theme includes a desktop background, screen saver, window border color, and sound scheme. To download a theme, just visit the official theme page click the Download button, and then click Open. The theme is applied to your desktop and added to Personalization in Control Panel. You can also download wallpapers and desktop gadgets for Windows 7 from the theme page.

The Sonar Power Manager is an interesting power saving software for Laptops. It uses Laptop’s microphone and speaker as a sensor to switch of the display. I don’t know how much effective this, but the goal according to the author “is to shut off the screen immediately after you leave, even if you just moved the mouse 10 seconds ago”. It uses ultrasonic sound on your computer's regular sound system. But unfortunately not all Laptops are able to detect ultrasonic sound properly, but many could. This new user presence detection technique may be more reliable than the slow and error-prone mouse and keyboard activity timeouts. The open-source software works on Windows7, Vista, XP and Linux. Interested users can download it form author’s site .

It is a good practice to keep track of all the drivers installed on your computer. That may be useful to check the driver version that you have installed when you have driver related issues with your system. Of course there are several freeware tools available as downloads across the internet; here is a very simple, manual method to generate a list of installed drivers. Just run the command prompt (click ‘Start’ – enter cmd in the search box and hit Enter button), type driverquery and press Enter button. You will now be able to view a list of drivers that are currently installed on your system. To save this as a text file type driverquery>filename.txt and press Enter in your command prompt window.

WinX DVD Author is well-known as home DVD creation software which brings you perfect DVD authoring experience with much easier manipulation It lets you create stylish DVD movies by making menu, clipping video segment, adding subtitles, etc. You can make DVDs from various video formats, like AVI, MOV, MPEG, WMV, FLV, etc and burned to DVDs with this powerful DVD authoring software. With DVD video disc burner inside, WinX DVD Author is the unique DVD software which supports two kinds of burn modules. Full compatible with DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD DL+R, DVD DL+/-RW perfectly helps you backup your precious files. WinX DVD Author 5.5 is not a freeware (original price of it is $29.95), but under a promotion , you can download it free from their website (Oct 20 to Oct 31) [via- gHacks ].

With every update software becomes more secure and stable by fixing bugs and vulnerabilities. We should regularly check all installed software, and if required update it, so that malware doesn’t find any loopholes to enter the system. And also usually software updates add new features, which make the software more useful. Manually updating a program is difficult, so here is a program to automate this task. The Update Notifier is a small utility that checks what software is already in the computer and compare the version with online data base. It lets you know which software are required updates, so that you can update the software by clicking a button. Update Notifier is a freeware, portable tool that can be downloaded from here .

Panda Security giving away free 1 year license of Panda Internet Security 2010 on Windows 7 launch day, Oct 22 . Interested users can register on 22nd Oct 2009 for a free license. The ultra light weight, built around the company's Collective Intelligence system, Panda Internet Security 2010 is able to protect you from every threat and offers a complete peace of mind while you online. The new, Windows 7 compatible Panda Security Suite protect you from viruses, malware, Trojans, worms, identity theft, online banking and other threats from infecting your PC. Follow the steps to get a free one year license to Panda Internet Security 2010 (worth $59.95) Register here on 10/22/09 Download Internet Security 2010 from the Panda Web site Receive an activation code for one free year and use it Run Internet Security and instantly begin protecting your PC from all the cyber junk that will make fixing your computer the opposite of free. (via – Webtrickz )

AnyBizSoft PDF to PowerPoint Converter is an easy to use, powerful PDF converter software that can batch convert PDF files (up to 200 PDF documents simultaneously) back to PowerPoint slides very quickly. It preserves the original layouts, text, images, and hyperlinks of PDF files to PowerPoint documents, no need to reformat the converted documents. One of the notable features of this application is its easiness to use. You don’t need to be a computer geek, just select PDF document(s) by clicking ‘Add Files’ (or drag into the window) and click on ‘Convert’ button, that’s all. Main Features of AnyBizSoft PDF to PowerPoint Converter: Supports Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7 (Office 2002 – 2010, ppt, pptx) Produce an editable and dynamic PPT presentation with a few clicks Retain all the original layouts, text content, images, and hyperlinks Can convert 200 PDF files at the same time Interested readers can download a free licensed copy form GOTD (Giveawayoftheday.com) http://www.givea...

Here is an extension directory for browser Google Chrome (unofficial), which is very useful for people who want to extend the functionality of their browser. Currently only the developer build of Google Chrome supports installing extensions (stable version won’t allow). If you have not installed latest developer build you can try using the Channel Changer to install the latest dev build. All extensions are organized by category and have a direct link to install on Google Chrome (and also on Firefox). You can search extensions by using keywords or by browsing the category list. Remember that the extensions for Chrome is very new, you can not see a large catalog like in Firefox. [ via ]

Windows 7 is almost here, but how you can make sure your hardware and software is compatible with Windows 7, especially if you prefer an upgrade? Well! Here is a tool from Microsoft called Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (beta) that scans your PC system, programs and devices for any compatibility issues. It will let you know compatibility issues with your programs and devices. When the scan is finished, you will see which upgrade options are available and get guidance on fixing the programs, devices issues before you install Windows 7. The program requires NET 2.0 Framework or higher if running on Windows XP and supports Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 2. Download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (beta)