It’s almost 8 months since Google released Chrome 2.0 and today Google announced Chrome 2.0.181.1 Dev Release and  Chrome 2.0.172.28 Stable Release. Google claimed they fixed more than 300 bugs in Chrome 2.0 The latest version of Chrome is build with latest  WebKit and an update to JavaScript engine, V8, interactive web pages will run even faster.While Google Chrome 2.0.181.1 is the last release of the browser up for grabs, the Mountain View-based search engine is also offering the 2.0.172.27 Beta and 1.0.154.65 Stable versions. In latest release Google focused on speed and also added some of the most-requested features some of them listed below.

Google Chrome 2.0.172.28 Stable Release.

Google Chrome 2.0.181.1 Dev Release

• Improved New Tab Page: The most requested feature from users was the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page. Now you can finally hide that embarrassing gossip blog from the Most Visited section.
• Full Screen Mode: If you’ve ever given a presentation or watched a large video using Google Chrome, you might have wished you could use every last pixel on your screen for the content. Now you can hide the title bar and the rest of the browser window by hitting F11 or selecting the option in the Tools menu.
• Form Autofill: Filling out your information in forms over and over again can be tedious. Form autofill helps by showing information you’ve previously entered into the same form fields automatically. If at any point you want to clear out your information, that’s easy to do from the Tools menu.

Good news for the people who wants to transform their existing Windows XP and Windows 2003 Installation in to Windows 7 like environment. Windows 7 transformation pack is successor of Windows Vista Transformation pack. This transformation pack is created by Windows X so it’s a reliable source. You don’t have to purchase Windows 7 or any 3rd-party applications to get Windows 7 UI experiences. This transformation pack will simply make it done for you for free. This will update your Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with Windows Seven GUI by adding some themes and replacing system files. Seven Transformation Pack gives to your system the fresh and cool look of Microsoft’s new operating system: Windows 7. The pack changes most of the system icons, skins and toolbars and also adds new  enhancements to your desktop.

 Improved 3rd-party applications Included in Pack:
ViStart – build recompile in native mode increasing its performance with Windows 7 skin
TrueTransparency – Improved stability with version 1.0 plus SevenStyle’s skin
Functionalities update
Automatic theme applying – Setup now applies themes automatically without user’s interaction after restart
Multi-user Login UI support – Allowing to see user accounts in horizontal view with multiline support
Setup personization – Allowed ViSplore and WinFlip and support load/save configuration

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Free Video Joiner is a freeware software. Free Video Joiner application makes you able to join several small videos into one large video file. It is a powerful tool and easy to operate , it works fast and keep the quality of video, supports popular video formats include: AVI ((Divx,XviD,MPEG4), WMV, MPEG (MPEG1 and MPEG2), MP4, MOV, DVD, VCD and other formats.This free tool is very easy to understand and use, you just need click “Add” button to add your video files in same or different formats, then click “Join” button, you will get one single file of these video files. Free Video Joiner includes all video encoders and decoders; it can be used as AVI Joiner, MPEG Joiner, WMV Joiner, RM Joiner, MP4 Joiner and Movie Joiner.

Features of Free Video Joiner

• Combine video files without quality loss?
• You can combine AVI, WMV, MOV, MPEG, MPG files.
• You can combine and save video as AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4 (MPEG4).
• You can combine and save video as DVD, VCD compatible mpeg and as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP video format.
• You can combine unlimited video files.
• You can combine different video formats into one video format.

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Orbit Downloader is a good solution  for downloading video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora. It can also be used to download and accelrate Rapidshare downloads. Orbit is a freeware graphical download manager for Windows operating system. One of the main features of the program is its ability download embedded Flash Video files from sites like YouTube, Dailymotion,Metacafe etc. Orbit Downloader also accelerates downloads by acting as a peer-to-peer client, utilizing bandwidth of other users. Moreover it consumes less than 3MB of memory and 3% of cpu when downloading. Additionally, the installation package is less than 2MB. In general, Orbit Downloader is based on P2P technology. It has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation. And Orbit Downloader has advanced robust multithread download algorithm implemented with high quality. It can speed up to 500% faster with great acceleration.Orbit Downloader can resume broken downloads. So you needn’t start the downloading process from the very beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted.

Orbit Downloader supports the following protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Metalink, RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol), PNM (rename PNM to RTSP), MMS (Microsoft Media Services), NSS (rename NetShow Services to MMS), RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol).

Features : 

• Grab Pro – Download RTMP protocol video
• Download e-mail and forum attachments with great speed!
• More Efficient mirrors selection algorithm and faster download sources!
• Maximum possible download speed, up to the fastest download manager!
• Download social music and video include Youtube, Pandora, Myspace easily
• Support all streaming media protocol include RTMP/ MMS/ RTSP
• Support all popular browsers include Firefox 3

 Download: Orbit Downloader 2.8.8

Opera Software company Released Opera 10.0 Turbo Alpha Build 1355. Opera 10 alpha pass 100 score out of 100 Acid3 test. Opera handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds. Opera 10.0 comes with turbo-charged browsing technology. Opera turbo is a performance optimization and compression technology designed especially to improve end-user experiences when dealing with poor bandwidth. Roberto Mateu product manager at Opera Software Revealed that Opera Turbo is “a server-side optimization and compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections by compressing network traffic. This does not only make you surf faster, but also lowers the cost of browsing when you are on a pay per usage plan,” Apart Turbo Opera also comes with Privacy Protector “ Even when Turbo is enabled, encrypted traffic does not go through our compression servers. This means that when you are on a SSL site, we bypass these traffic and let you communicate with the SSL site directly. Opera generates statistics of the usage of Opera Turbo, but these are aggregated numbers and no information can be linked to a single user. Opera does not store any users’ private information. ”

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Download:

• Opera Turbo for Windows                 HERE.     
• Opera Turbo for Mac OS X                HERE.
• Opera Turbo for Unix/Linux                HERE.

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Opera Wikipedia : Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, it branched out into a separate company named Opera Software ASA. The Opera Software company claims that Opera is “the fastest browser on Earth.” One set of third-party speed tests concluded that Opera 9.5 was indeed faster than Internet Explorer 7and prerelease versions of Firefox 3 and Safari 3.

Nero is an optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG. Nero 9 is the next generation of the world’s most trusted integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite. It features new cutting-edge functionality that makes enjoying digital media content simple.Using Nero 9 you can now easily burn, rip and edit, convert and share, backup and protect your digital media. Whatever you want – music, video, photo, and data – enjoy and share with family and friends anytime, anywhere. You can download the free trial version of Nero 9 with certain limitations. The Nero 9 trial version can be tested for 15 days starting from the date of installation. AVCHD authoring and playback as well as MPEG-4 and BD-AV formats are not supported in the Nero 9 trial version. Nero 9 requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 to run on Windows XP. Please download and install from here.

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                         The following applications are included in Nero 9.

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Nero StartSmart

• Nero StartSmart: The central hub for utilizing various applications in Nero suite of applications. As of version 8, Nero SmartStart is able to perform several basic operations without launching any of Nero application, such as simple CD Burning.

Nero Disc Authoring Tools

• Nero Burning ROM: The well-known optical disc authoring program of Nero AG and one of its first products.
• Nero Express: A more simplified incarnation of Nero Burning ROM targeted for starter audience.
• Nero ImageDrive: Nero’s virtual drive utility that allows users to mount their CD or DVD disk images into a virtual DVD drive and treat them like real media from within other Windows applications.
• Nero CoverDesigner: Enables users to design and print disc covers.
• Nero BurnRights: Enables administrators to assign required drive access rights to other users.
• Nero DiscSpeed: A disc speed measurement and performance diagnostic tool.
• Nero DriveSpeed: A utility for measuring and fine-tuning various aspects of disc writer drives.
• Nero Info Tool: Helps extracting valuable disc-authoring related system information.
• Nero DiscCopy Gadget: A Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that allows users to perform simple disc-burning operations quickly from Sidebar.
• Nero RescueAgent: Helps recovering files from damaged or partially-unreadable media and restoring files that were accidentally deleted.
• InCD: InCD is a packet writing software that allows optical discs to be used in a similar manner to a floppy disk.

The official Adobe AIR Team Blog Announced , the release of version 1.5.1 for their Adobe AIR runtime environment with several bug fixes and improvements.Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.As of February 2009, there have been over 100 Million installations of Adobe AIR across the globe.companies using AIR include AOL, NASDAQ, The New York Timesand Yahoo!.Over 180 applications are available on the Adobe AIR marketplace. To run in the AIR environment JavaScript toolkits need changes – because of the security model A number of toolkits have been modified in this way, most notably dojo.

Download Adobe Air 1.5.1 For Windows here.

Download Adobe Air 1.5.1 For Mac & Linux here.

Adobe AIR Engineering Team, explains the importance of Capabilities.cpuArchitecture and InvokeEvent.reason  new featureincluded in Air 1.5.1 “[...] In the login case, applications often want to avoid opening new windows. In all other cases, they generally want to make sure they do open a new window. Starting with AIR 1.5.1, the InvokeEvent class contains a new property, “reason”, that distinguishes between these two cases. It has two possible values: “standard” and “login”. These are, I hope, self-explanatory.”

Yahoo released the latest beta version for Mac OSX users.the most frequent functionality like stealth mode, file transfer, mobile settings, and interoperability with Windows Live Messenger are now fixed. ” Mac users will now be able to add Windows Live Messenger contacts to their Yahoo! Messenger list without any issues. We also fixed a problem that was affecting some file transfer requests.”

On stealth function team of engineers at Yahoo! says “so if you want to appear online to everyone but not to your boss Joe, you can set yourself to appear offline to him but online to your friends,”

“Although Windows users have been availing themselves of the feature for quite some time … Mac users will now be able to add Windows Live Messenger contacts to their Yahoo! Messenger list without any issues. We also fixed a problem that was affecting some file transfer requests,” the same people said when releasing Yahoo! Messenger 3.0 for Mac. Currently at its fourth beta release (4 Build 156957), the software includes enhancements like,

Features of Yahoo! Meesenger.
· Free voice conversations with other Messenger users on both Mac and Windows.
· Cheap PC-to-phone calls: make calls from Messenger to landline and mobile phones at low rates with Yahoo! Phone Out.
· Receive phone calls: get a phone number for your Messenger and start taking phone calls on your computer with Yahoo! Phone In. Plus, choose your area code!
· Forward calls and voice conversations to another phone number.
· Get voicemail by email.

We’re hearing more and more about specific netbook-optimized operating systems, and Intel is joining in the game with an alpha release of Moblin, their netbook Linux OS optimized for Atom.

Moblin is based largely on Fedora (red hat), and it’s still a work in progress, but its main goal is to optimize performance for Atom and Core 2 processors running on smaller machines. The alpha Intel just released already has an innovative network connection manager and fast optimized boot times, and it’ work well with Dell’s Mini 9. While working on Mini 9 the OS seems to be faster then Ubuntu and boots real quick thanks to Intel engineering coz fedora is one of the slowest distros and i am also not fan of RPM based distro’s i prefer Debs.

Performance is all well and good, but what I’m most interested personally is finding the perfect graphical UI for a netbooks’ smaller screen. Right now Moblin is using the Xfce (no kde 4 and Gnome Buhhh) desktop, which is pretty bread and butter. Later in the development they might swith to diffrent Desktop Enviourment. They might have there custmoized UI like Dell has customized UI for Mini 9. Waiting for the next Beta.

iPerform3D is the only Guitar learning program in the whole world of internet.You can signup for sign up for a FREE 5-Day Trial & if you like it than you can buy a 1 month, 3  month or annual subscription.Check the following video for more information.

“Learn how to play guitar in your browser (in 3D): Apple’s Macworld announcement about professional and celebrity music instruction as part of GarageBand ’09 may have been impressive, but what might be a little more eye catching (and ultimately useful) is iPerform3D. This browser-based music learning system shows users how to play guitar in 3D, and works on both Macs and PCs. 

Overview of iPerform3D