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Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 RC Available For Download

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Mozilla Firefox has announced the public release of the release candidate (RC) build of Firefox 3.6.4.

This RC release of Firefox 3.6.4 fixes various issues found in the previous beta releases of Firefox 3.6.4.

Since the launch of Firefox 3.6.4 Beta, Mozilla has started to include a new feature that runs plug-in in separate process keeping them out of the main browser process (Out-Of-Process Plugins feature), which is now being called as “uninterrupted browsing”.It means that if any of the plugins Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight, it won’t affect the main Firefox browser process.

Users who are using the previous betas of Firefox 3.6.4 should receive this Firefox 3.6.4 build 6 (RC) as an automatic update.If no issues are found during testing of this RC version, this build (build 6) will be officially released as Firefox 3.6.4 final.

Direct Download Link:

Firefox 3.6.4 RC (Windows – 7.7MB) Update: Link expired

All other Platforms (Mac, OS X, Linux)

Download Picasa Web Albums Without Installing Picasa Desktop Software

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Are you using Picasa web albums to store your pictures online, but doesn’t have Picasa desktop software installed in your system to download the Web albums to your hard drive? Well, here is a solution available if you want to download entire picasa web album of any user (albums set to public only).

Thanks to Bradley Beach, for coming up with Picasa Webalbums Assistant, who has developed this simple Java program primary to help his dad who is a Mac user to download photos from Picasa web albums when Picasa was not available for Mac OS.I’ll help you out in using this tool to download picasa web albums of any user that are available publicly.

1. Download Picasa Webalbums Assistant 3.1 and extract the zip file [You will see PWA3.jar file and a lib folder].

2. Now you need to run the .jar file in Windows.Here I’m going to run it using command line.Go to Start Menu and type cmd in the search.Right click on the cmd.exe and click Run as administrator.

run cmd as administrator

3. Now in the command prompt, type java –jar followed by the file path, as shown in the following screenshot:

Running a .jar Java program in command line

Here G:\\Soft\\PWA0_3_1\PWA3.jar is where the .jar file is located in my system.

4. Just click Yes (accepting the terms)when you get the Welcome message of PWA as shown here:

PWA welcome message accept

5. Now you will the main PWA program running with basically three options.If you know the user ID of the Picasa Web albums, click Get User Public Albums and enter the user ID and click OK.

PWA screenshot

User ID in PWA

6. Now you will have a list of all the public albums of that particular user ID.Use CTRL + Select to many albums and click select to get the thumbnail previews.

Select an album in PWA

gathering information PWA screenshot

7. From the thumbnail previews generated, select the files that you want to download and click Download Selected at the bottom.

Thumbnail preview in PWA

8. Select the location to save the pictures and wait till the pictures have been downloaded completely.

Select Save Location in PWA

Downloading PWA Picasa web albums

That’s it, you have now downloaded the entire Picasa Web albums of the user without even installing Picasa desktop software in your system.

Tip: Close All Your Open Applications At Once In Windows

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Are you the one who extracts the most of the multitasking from your computer by simultaneously opening too many applications and switching back to one another.But when it comes to closing all application, it’s a bit difficult to close the each application one by one , isn’t it?

What about closing all the open application windows at once with a single click ? Yes, that’s what the tiny program “CloseAll” from ntwind has too offer.

Just download the latest version of CloseAll from the links given at the bottom of the post and extract it to the program files (C:\Program Files\) on your hard disk.For easier access drag the CloseAll.exe to your desktop or Quick Launch Bar pin to the taskbar in your Windows 7.

CloseAll drag to taskbar

Now just click on this shortcut to close all application windows that are currently open.You calso make use of the advanced option to exclude certain programs to be closed by CloseAll, by adding a exclusion list,

to add a simple exclusion list, go to the CloseAll shortcut properties and go to Shortcut tab, find Target under this tab.Add -x="app-to-exclude.exe": for example:

-x="explorer.exe|firefox.exe|msnmsgr.exe"

CloseAll properties

Click OK and save the settings.So now if you click CloseAll, all application windows except the Windows Explorer, Firefox and MSN Messenger will be closed.

Download CloseAll (Zip file, 36 KB)

WSUS Offline Update: Update Your Windows And Office Offline

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It’s very much essential to keep your Windows OS up-to-date when it comes to securing your OS from security threats which may cause damage to your private data.Microsoft knows the importance of the same, hence release Windows update patches more often.You need to be connected to the internet to download these updates from Microsoft.

But what about those innumerable number of people who still can’t manage to get an internet connection for them? Microsoft used to offer AutoPatcher,unfortunately this service was discontinued from 2007.Luckily there are some third party software available on the internet which provide the similar offline update facility, the one which I’m going to talk about is WSUS Offline Update.

WSUS Offline Update:

WSUS Offline Update generator

WSUS Offline Update lets you download the patches and updates for Windows and MS Office without requiring an active internet connection on the target computer.All that you need to do is go to your friend’s computer which is having an internet connection, install this WSUS Offline Update, download the Windows updates on an USB drive (or some other removable media) and transfer them to your machine and install them using WSUS Offline Update.

Features:

1. WSUS Offline Update supports: Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7.

2. Supports MS Office 2003 & 2007 versions.

3.You can create an ISO of the updates.

4. Supports copying updates directly to USB

Download:

You can visit the Homepage of the WSUS developers or follow this direct link to download the WSUS Offline Update version 6.51

Schedule Shutdown Based On Advanced Options With Shutdown Timer

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Shutdown Timer For Windows:

Many a times, you may need to keep your computer on, until it completes its task like downloading a movie or ripping an entire DVD for instance, these tasks take a considerable amount of time (and considerable amount of CPU usage in some cases), so much so that you just can’t wait until the task gets completed.This where Shutdown scheduler programs will help you.

Even though there are quite a number of shutdown scheduler programs available on the internet for download, the one which I’m talking about is more than just a scheduler.Shutdown Timer, as the name speaks out, is basically a shutdown scheduler for windows.

Shutdown_timer_by_time

But unlike other schedulers which will only offer you to schedule your shutdown to a predefined time, Shutdown timer offers to schedule your computer’s shutdown based on a wide variety of scenarios.Bundled with a neat and clean UI, Shutdown timer allows you scheduler your computer’s shutdown based CPU memory usage limit or CPU temperature threshold or on network traffic basis besides scheduling your shutdown on a pre-defined date and time.The program continuously monitors your CPU usage and once it reaches the thresholds defined (temperature or memory usage), it will trigger the shutdown event.Scroll down to the bottom for the download links.

Shutdown timer by CPU usage and temperature

Shutdown timer by memory

Shutdown timer by network traffic

Download Links:

Shutdown Timer (Windows 32-bit)

Shutdown timer (Windows 64-bit)

Related: Read how to create desktop shutdown shortcut

Password Protect A RAR File Using WinRAR

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WinRAR is my favorite archiving software till date.It’s so simple and easy to use.That’s why almost all PC users will have installed this by default as their archiving program.But how many of you are aware that you can actually password protect any RAR file using WinRAR ? If you don’t know how to do ut, follow these steps:

Steps:

1. Right click on the file for which you wan to archive with a password.

2. Select “Add to Archive”

add_to_archive_winrar

3. In the Archive name and parameters window, go to Advanced tab, click “Set Password”

Archive name and parameters password

4. Choose the password for the archive and click OK.

setting archive password in Winrar

You can select “Encrypt file names” option if you want to encrypt the files names also, if this is selected, users will not be able to even see the contents of the archive file.

Tikona Wi-Bro Dialer [Downloads]

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We have already posted a review about various tariff plans in Tikona wireless broadband.Tikona broadband tariff plans range from Rs.299 to Rs.4999.Tikona is still much like a start up, without much penetration into the broadband users, so we need to wait and see how much users base it can gather.But there are quite a number of folks out there , already using Tikona.

Tikona Wi-bro dailer

If you have already subscribed to Tikona Wi Bro broadband, you might be knowing that you need a dialer to connect to the Tikona wireless network which would have been already provided to you by the Tikona technicians.However, if you have formatted your computer where the dialer is installed without saving the backup file on any other media, you may want to download the Tikona Wi-Bro dialer software to install.So I’m sharing the Tikona wibro dialer file, which you can download from the link given below:

Download Tikona Wibro Dialer 1.4.9.7 (Size: 6.16 MB)

Password: techrena

Apple iTunes 9.1.1 [Downloads]

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Apple has  release updated version of the iTunes, version 9.1.1.This is an update mainly addressing and fixing the various issues.The various issues addressed by this update are listed below.In addition to those,  previous version for the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 dealing with a third-party software conflict that could cause iTunes to close the program unexpectedly.

iTunes new version 9.1.1 available

iTunes 9.1.1 Improvements:

  • Addresses several stability issues with VoiceOver
  • Addresses a usability issue with VoiceOver and Genius Mixes
  • Addresses issues with converting songs to 128 kbps AAC while syncing
  • Addresses other issues that improve stability and performance

iTunes 9.1.1 free download

Direct Download Link

Download iTunes 9.1.1 – 93 MB  (Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 32-bit)

Opera 10.52 For Mac [Downloads]

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Opera has released its latest version 10.52 for Mac.Opera claims this version of the browser to be the world’s fastest browser available for Mac, the newer version being 10 times faster compared to the previous version 10.10.

The new version for Mac boasts of improved UI, Cocoa integration, multi-touch trackpad gestures and Growl support.Combined with new JavaScript engines, Carakan and Vega, provides a rich browsing experience.Opera 10.52 supports the latest Web standards like SVG support and HTML5 video support.

opera 10.52 sleek design

Features:

# Top speed: 10 times faster than the previous Opera Mac version.

# Mac-ified UI: New more responsive UI for Mac, and design overhaul.

# Finger navigation: Better support for multi-touch trackpad gestures.Pinch to zoom or use your two fingers to scroll, three fingers to navigate back and forth directly from the trackpad.

# Turbo-charged browsing: Opera Turbo helps you to save your time by loading pages loading faster in case slow and congested networks.It is tested and proved that Opera Turbo provides about 65% faster browsing speed on Edge networks and around 50% faster on 3G networks.

Download:

Download Opera 10.52 for Mac [23.49 MB]

BtProx: Auto-Lock Your Computer When You Move Away [Software]

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Bluetooth Proximity Lock or BtProx in short is a free Bluetooth based application that locks your system using a paired Bluetooth device.BtProx works with any Bluetooth device that is already paired with your system.Just use your Bluetooth enabled phone (paired already) to start with.BtProx automatically locks down your computer screen when you move away from the Bluetooth range of your PC or alternatively it can be user initiated too.You can configure the BtProx to set a custom timeout , the time after which the computer screen needs to be locked down once the Bluetooth connections is lost.

Bluetooth Proximity Lock:

Bluetooth proximity lock

Once your Start the application, it monitors the paired Bluetooth connection for any connectivity issue.Once the connection gets lost and the timeout time is reached, your computer gets locked keeping the running process as such.The program runs on any Windows operating system including Windows 7.

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