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[Download] Adobe Flash Player 10.2 With Hardware Acceleration

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Adobe has released the final version of Adobe Flash Player 10.2, which has been in beta since December last year. Adobe Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux has some new cool features and many feature enhancements. The new release is 34 times more efficient than its predecessor.

New features in Flash Player 10.2 include:

  • Stage Video hardware acceleration
  • IE 9 hardware accelerated rendering support
  • Native custom mouse cursors
  • Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors
  • Sub-pixel text rendering

The ones that standout among the rest are the “Stage Video” hardware acceleration and the support for full screen mode while using multiple monitors. The Stage Video hardware acceleration speeds up the video delivery process while watching videos on webpages. According to Adobe, Stage Video hardware acceleration can play most online HD videos with just 1-15% of CPU usage on a MAC or Windows PC. Adobe has also recommended users to watch a suggested 1080p HD video to experience the new video performance enhancements after installing the new 10.2 version of Flash. Flash Player 10.2 allows you to work on your primary computer while watching content in full-screen mode in the secondary monitor.

Download Adobe Flash Player 10.2:

Download the Adobe Flash Player 10.2 from the below direct download links for your MAC, Windows or Linux computer. It’s highly recommended that you uninstall the previous version of the Adobe Flash Player before going ahead with installing 10.2.

Windows (2.7 MB – Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003)

Mac (5.5 MB – Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.6) Update: Link expired

Linux (4.74 MB )

If you are on Google Chrome, read our guide on how to force Chrome to use Flash Player 10.2 (based on 10.2 beta version, but still works!)

[Download] Google Chrome 9 Stable Offline Installer

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Google Chrome 9 stable version has been released and is coming just after two months of the release of the Google Chrome 8 stable version. Hitting the landmark of version 9.0 (current version 9.0.597.84) is quite a good achievement for the two and half year-old browser from the search engine giant.

The new version includes few enhancements like:

  • Chrome Instant: Courtesy of Google Instant, this new feature in Chrome auto-completes the URL bar with the pages that you visit frequently as soon as you start typing it in the address bar.

Chrome instant demo

  • WebGL: Bings Hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Chrome and enables you to experience a rich 3D experiences without needing to install any plugins. Visit the Google’s demo page to test the WebGL capabilities of Chrome browser.
  • Chrome Webstore: The Chrome Webstore (integrated into Google Chrome) has been made available to the users in the United States. Users can quickly access the Chrome Web Store on the New Tab page. (Try Tweetdeck app)
  • About:conflicts: New about:conflicts lets you quickly check for any possible conflicts with third-party software that conflicts with Chrome (Windows only).

Besides these new features, Google Chrome 9.0.597.0 is coming with five important security fixes and Adobe Flash 10.2.

Download Google Chrome 9.0 :

As usual, unless the Google Chrome’s “Auto update silent mode” is disabled, you should automatically get updated to this version if you were using an older one. You can also quickly check for update by going to Wrench > About Google Chrome.

>> Online Installer:

Google Chrome 9 Stable:

Windows (Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP)

Mac

Linux

>> Offline Installer (Full Setup):

Windows (23.96 MB)

Mac (32.35 MB)

Tip: Learn how to make Google Chrome to use Flash Player 10.2

[Download] Windows Home Server 2011 Release Candidate

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Windows Home Server

Microsoft has yesterday released the release candidate version of the upcoming Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS 2011) for testers. The product which was codenamed “Vail” during its development was previously in the news because of Microsoft’s surprise and controversial move to not to include the popular Driver Extender (DE) feature in WHS 2011. For starters, Drive Extender was a handy feature in WHS which allowed the users to merge hard drives into a storage pool that made it easy to manage all the drives. Microsoft has decided to drop this feature apparently because it thinks that the drives coming these days are big enough (storage wise) and the users may not go for the drive pooling via Drive Extender. The another limitation in WHS 2011 is that the maximum size of a partition can only be 2TB. To makeup for these limitations, Microsoft has added few new features like Move Folder Wizard which makes you to move data from one drive to another and the other being Shadow Copy which allows you to quickly return to a previous version of existing files.

If you want to test the Windows Home Server 2011, you must sign up for the Windows Home Server Connect Program using a Windows Live ID.

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[Download] Valentine’s Special Windows 7 Themes

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2011 is already a month old and we are into the beautiful month of February. The first thing that comes to the minds of most people when they think about the February is the valentines day. As with Microsoft, the practice of releasing some new free themes for all seasons and important occasions continues and Microsoft has already released a new “Lovebirds” theme for Windows 7 keeping the upcoming 14th February’s valentines day. Lovebirds theme has five beautiful high resolution desktop backgrounds filled with the valentines colors (pink & purple) decorated with flowers, birds, etc.

Love birds windows 7 theme

Download Lovebirds Theme For Windows 7

And by the way, you must also check out the Lacey Hearts Valentines Windows 7 theme (released last year) which still looks great and suits your valentine mood.

Download Lacey Hearts Windows 7 Theme

Check USB Flash Drives For Errors With H2testw

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Portable flash memory storage devices like USB flash drives (pen drives) and SD cards are in increasing demand these days, owing to their simple usage and portability. This has also lead to foray of many fake devices resembling the actual ones. They even outdo the original in looks but it is while using it actually only that you would come to know it is fake. A good USB flash drive should both read and write the data. But the fake device would fail either in writing or reading data from the device.

But until now there is no way to detect these corrupted devices. However, there is a small freeware (Windows only) that checks for write/read errors in storage media like USB flash drives, memory cards, hard drives and network cards for errors.

The usage is pretty much simple: Just download the H2testw zipped file, extract and run H2testw.exe. Select the target, the drive which you want to check for errors. Choose the amount of available space for which you want to verify the disk and hit “Write + Verify” button. You might want to free up the occupied space by formatting the device and choose the “all available space” option under the Data Volume section for more precise check.

H2testw

H2testw scan complete

Even if you have some files on your drive before running the scan, the files won’t be damaged or altered by the program if the drive is not malfunctioning. The program will create a “.h2w” file whose file size would be equivalent to the data volume you chose while scanning, You can manually delete these files after the tests are completed. If you click on “Verify” which would be enabled after the initial test, the option actually uses these .h2w files instead of running all over from the beginning again, so harm in deleting these files created by the program.

Download H2testw

If you have got a USB flash drive (pen drive), learn how to install Windows 7 from your USB stick.

[Tip] Know The File Size Before You Download It In Firefox

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Knowing the file size before you could actually start downloading it is good practice as you can plan your work accordingly. For instance if you want to download a relatively bigger file, you might want to postpone it to later without interrupting your current work. Most of the sites especially download portals always show the information about the size of the file before the download. However it is not the same case always. There are times when you download a file and come to know about its size only after the actual downloading begins in Firefox.

Thankfully there is a Firefox ad-on called “Show File Size” that allows us to view the file size information before you download it. Once installed, the extension show information like the type of the file and the size of the file you are downloading it in a separate row just below the name of the file row in the download window as shown:

firefox file download size

It is a basic, lightweight extension (just 4KB !) that just serves the purposes justifying the name. Show File Size add-on works fine with Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4 versions.

Install Show File Size

Download HP Media Card Reader Drivers for Windows 7

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Well I have a HP Pavilion dv-5000 series notebook PC. There has been a problem since I had upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. The problem is that, my Media Card Reader is not working. I have been trying to find the driver but all in vain, until today.

I have downloaded the driver from HP Website, where they have given the driver is meant for Windows Vista. Well I have tested it in Windows 7 Ultimate and it works perfectly fine.

The problem I faced looked like this:

Mass Storage controller

There it is seen that, in Computer Properties->Device Manager->Other Devices, The Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing. The Automatic Driver update eventually fails.

The Solution steps are as follows:

1. Download the Texas Instruments Media Card Driver from the link given below:

Operating System: Windows 7 32 bit
Tested in HP dv-5200tx
Size: 6.31MB
Link: Click here to Download from HP

2. Install the driver.

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3. Now check the Device Manager. The Missing Driver in Other Devices should be gone. The Texas Instruments PCI Devices should be visible.

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4. Test by inserting a compatible card to your reader.

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Hope this will solve your card reader problem in your HP Laptop.

[Tip] Lock Your Desktop With Transparency

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We, all the Windows users are very much used to the famous Windows + L shortcut to lock the computer when we are moving away from the system. This is just fine and serves the purpose. I have just come across a small Windows freeware that lets you lock your computer while keeping a transparent layer of your desktop screen at the background.

So you would still see the the desktop as it is, the same way as it appears if it had not been locked. But the only catch is that you need to provide the password to actually get into the system. Thus you may even tease others by allowing a sneak peek at your desktop while not allowing them to enter into it.

ClearLock screen

Download the ClearLock from the link that I have added below and run it. It will ask your for a password. When you confirm the password, the screen gets locked.

Download ClearLock [Link: Official site]

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[Download] Skype 3.0 For iOS To Make Video Calls

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Skype has released a updated version of the popular VoIP app for the users if iOS. With the Skype 3.0 app on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch or iPad, you can now make video calls to other Skye users on any client over 3G or Wi-Fi network. Video calling is going to be an exciting feature for the Skype app users on iOS, which was among the top 5 free iPhone apps downloaded according to Apple.

Skype iPhone app v3

New in Skype version 3.0:

– Skype to Skype video calls over 3G and Wi-Fi

– Cross platform calls between Skype users on different platforms (Windows, Mac OS X etc.)

– Video call receiving only for devices without camera like iPad and iPod touch (3rd gen)

– Video calls in portrait and landscape mode

If you are on iPhone and heavily rely on FaceTime feature to make video calls with other iPhone 4 users, you must checkout Skype which allows video calls between Skype users on virtually any client.

Download Skye 3.0.3.0 from iTunes App store (size 11.9 MB)

[Download] WordPress 3.0.4 Important Security Update

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WordPress has probably rolled out the last update for the year 2010, WordPress 3.0.4, an important security update for the popular CMS. In a blog post about the release of the update, Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has termed the latest update as “critical”. The update apparently fixes a core security bug called KSES found in WordPress HTML sanitation library.

WordPress 3.0.4

To keep your website or blog managed by WordPress CMS, it is strongly advised that you immediately update it to the latest version. You can either choose the automatic update mode or download the file from the links below and extract to your server using an FTP client.

Download:

WordPress.zip (3 MB)

WordPrress.tar.gz (2.7 MB)