Have you been reluctant to make the switch to Google’s excellent HTML5-compliant browser, Google Chrome? If you love music and frequent a lot of MP3 blogs, you might want to change your mind: thanks to an amazing new extension, Google Chrome just became your killer app.
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Wine 1.2 stable has finally been released today after more than two years of development.
The release sees support for 64bit applications, new Tango-based icons (props to Joel Holdsworth who helped lead the work on the refresh), 3, 000 bug fixes and a staggering 23,000 changes.
Google Chrome has been my default browser for quite some time, but I’ve got to admit… I like what I’m seeing so far in Firefox 4, and the tweaks just keep on coming. One recent addition which has been talked about for some time is the option to create App Tabs.
Firefox 4’s App Tabs look pretty much like a pinned tab in Google Chrome. For now, an App Tab appears to simply force a tab to the left and display it with the favicon only. It’s a great way to save additional space on your tab bar, and a feature I use religiously in Chrome.
Right now, you’ll only find App Tabs in the Mozilla nightly builds of Firefox 4 — which you can download here for Windows, Mac, and Linux. To create an App Tab, just right click and select the option from the context menu.
Google Operating System reports that Google is testing a feature for signing in using multiple accounts.
While the post itself has a screenshot (which you can see above), it does not include any instructions on how to enable this functionality. This is obviously a limited or closed-beta test; the question is just how limited it is.
This functionality is not just “useful” – it is often vital. I have one account tied into an AdWords account, another account tied into Analytics, and yet a third Apps account. Merging them is impossible, especially as long as Google Apps doesn’t support Reader. Having a way to sign into all three at the same time from the same browser would certainly make things less irritating.
Computer Laptop Battery Care and Usage Tips for getting more from a notebook battery.
1. Turn off Wi-Fi and BlueTooth – Most laptops have shortcut keys to instantly disable wireless networking.
2. Don’t play computer games, music or DVD movies – Multimedia activities drain laptop batteries.
3. Disconnect all external device like PC Card modems, Firewire, USB devices and optical drives. Use the notebook touchpad instead of an external mouse.
4. Adjust your screen brightness – Dimming your display saves battery power.
5. Tweak Windows Power Options – Choose a Laptop power scheme that turns off the notebook monitor and hard disk after 10 minutes of inactivity.
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Late last week, mobile communication services provider fring released an updated iPhone app that enabled iPhone 4 owners to engage in unrestricted 2-way video calling over Wi-Fi or 3G internet with other iPhone, Android or Symbian devices. This garnered a lot of attention, mainly because Apple’s native FaceTime application works only over Wi-Fi and between iPhone users.
This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora 12, Fedora 13 and Red Hat 6 (RHEL). Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository.
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Would you like to download pictures from your Facebook account and your friend’s Facebook pages? Here’s a nice web app that can help you quickly download your pictures so you can use them anyway you want.
Getting Started
If you’d like to download pictures from your Facebook account and your friends pages, Pick&Zip is a great tool that lets you download as many pictures as you want in a zip or PDF file. Head over to the Pick&Zip site to get started (link below), and click the Login with Facebook button near the bottom of the page.
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