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Google Chrome on Mac

deerawan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:51:01 +0000

Google Chrome is already available for Mac OSX. It is still beta version but you can try it to feel the power of Chrome runs on Mac. Google really works hard for it to create simple interface design, integrate beautiful OSX-style animations and effects to make satisfying browsing experience. Google try to make Chrome a native application for Mac. How about the speed of Chrome on Mac? Google claims that the speed is really fast like what they said in this quote

— there’s hardly even time for the icon in the dock to bounce! -Google

Chrome on Mac

As you know that Mac has already great browser, Safari. I think Chrome will try to take over some Safari users. But as a smart user, you can decide what your favorite browsers to use, Chrome or Safari. You can compare the features. Chrome now supports extensions like Firefox. I don’t really know much about Safari plugin or add-on instead of its awesome speed.

Alright, here is the great video that show you about Chrome on Mac.

If you want to try the beta version of Chrome on Mac, you can download by clicking this link below

Download Google Chrome Beta Version For Mac

New Fishbowl: Bring your Facebook to Your Desktop

deerawan — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:01:14 +0000

Fishbowl is a desktop application that brings your new ways Facebook experiences. The purpose is almost same from previous application that I wrote before but it is more powerful, more friendly and more enjoyable. Lets take a loot at my review using this application.

Awesome Home and Profile page
Fishbowl tries to design its home and profile page same like Facebook has but gives more style for photos. You can still give comment and give like status for your friends status from here. You can do zoom in and zoom out in home page by click “plus” and “minus” button at upper right corner.

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In bottom right corner, you can see inbox, notifications and friends online information. Click them to see the detail informations.

Fishbowl - Notifications

Photos functionality
When you see photos, you can zoom in and zoom out of it. You can also print and start slideshow.

Go to Facebook
If you want to open Facebook website, you can open it inside Fishbowl.

Fishbowl - Go to Facebook

Windows 7 Taskbar Fully Integrated
Fishbowl really supports windows 7 taskbar. You can see live notifications there and if you hover the taskbar you can see some shortcut buttons such as go to your home page, go to your profile page, see photos of your friend, etc.

Fishbowl - Taskbar Windows 7

Mini-mode window
Fishbowl provides mini-mode to help you get still updated with all of your friends activities.

Fishbowl - Mini Mode

Automatic Updates
Yup, Fishbowl supports this feature. If there is a new version, Fishbowl automatically download the new one but of course after we approve to download it.

Fishbowl - Automatic Updates

But not all Facebook functions are integrated in Fishbowl such as Inbox message. If you want to see your new message, Fishbowl will open Facebook website in it then you can see your messages there. Anyway, it is still worth to use this application for your everyday Facebooking activities.

Below is the system requirements to install Fishbowl

Operating system: Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (32-bit edition only), Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit editions), Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows Server 2008.

Processor: 1 GHz or higher for Windows 7 or Windows Vista; 800 MHz or higher for Windows XP.

Memory: 1 GB of RAM for Windows 7 or Windows Vista; 512 MB for Windows XP.

Internet connection: Internet functionality requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately). Local or long-distance charges may apply.

Graphics or video card: A video card that supports DirectX 9.0 or higher, and Shader Model 2.0 or higher.

Fishbowl needs online installation so it needs enough internet connection to make it succesfully installed. Anyway, download Fishbowl by clicking link below

Download Fishbowl

Free Download Firefox 3.6 Beta

deerawan — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:37:11 +0000

One of the biggest browser on earth, Firefox, has new 3.6 beta version. Lets we see the new features and updates from this Firefox. The Mozilla community also appreciates the feedback and assistance evaluating this preview of the next version of Firefox.

Changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.

The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.

More than 140 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.

This beta is available in more than 60 languages – get your local version.

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 browser responsiveness and startup time.

Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Lets we try this new Mozilla Firefox.
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta

2 Tips in Google Chrome to Search Text

deerawan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:29:12 +0000

When you want to search a text in Google Chrome, there are two simple tips that you can do. First, you select the text and right click then choose “search Google For blablabla”.

Chrome Searching Text Tips No 1

Let’s see the second tips

The second one is dragging the text to omnibox. Omnibox is a place where you type the url address. The step is select the text, hold it and drag it to Omnibox.

Google chrome will find the text in your default search engine automatically. So, hope these tips are useful for your Chrome daily use. ^_^

Boost Up Your Firefox Speed with SpeedyFox

deerawan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:35:49 +0000

Firefox is very famous browser nowadays. Lot of plugins are availabe to download. But sometimes, you can feel that day by day the firefox really consumes more memory in your computer. It becomes slow. The reason is fragmentation of profile databases. In order to boost up your Firefox speed, you can use SpeedyFox. You will get benefits using this application such as

Boost Firefox startup in up to 3 times!
Speed-up browsing history
Quicker operation with cookies

SpeedyFox Screenshot

To use it is very simple, make sure that you already close your Firefox browser first then you run the SpeedyFox and click “Speed Up My Firefox” button. That’s it! This application is FREE to use.

Download SpeedyFox

Download AIMP : An Awesome Audio Player

deerawan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:50:55 +0000

What is your favourite software to play your audio files in your computer? Some people will say winamp, foobar, windows media player and maybe iTunes. I used to use winamp as my favourite. However, after I found AIMP, I never use winamp anymore.

AIMP Screenshot

AIMP supports a lot of useful and great features than I expected. They are:

1. Crystal-clear sound
2. 18-band Equalizer
3. 32-bit sound processing
4. Replay gain/ replaygain (RG)
5. Voice Remover (to remove voice from song)
6. Plugin & DSP (you can also use winamp plugin in AIMP)
7. Multi-playlist (you can create many playlists)
8. Auto arrange playlist
9. Bookmark, Queue, Quick search, Advanced search
10. Skin & Visualisation (you can also customize your AIMP skin)
11. Internet radio (radio streaming from internet)
12. Mini Player/ TrayControl
13. Information line/ Splash bar
14. Hotkeys
15. Remember the last state of song (Very cool feature)
16. Flexible program settings
17. Auto shutdown/ Timer
18. Multilingual interface
19. Low Memory Usage
20. Built-in sound effects
21. And many more

Wow, can you see that lot of features are available on AIMP. AIMP is freeware aka FREE. Grab AIMP now and feel the new way in listening your music. I guarantee you that you will not regret using this audio player.

Download AIMP 2.60.486 Beta 2

Download Opera 10 and Opera 10 Portable

deerawan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:01:10 +0000

Yippie! Opera has launched Opera 10 after several release candidates has been introduced. Based on their blog, you must try their awesome features:

1. Opera Turbo

Opera Turbo gives up to eight times faster Web surfing over slow connections than other browsers.

2. A sleek and beautiful interface

Opera 10 gave the browser a streamlined and elegant new interface.

3. Better tabs

Opera now shows you full thumbnails of all your open tabs.

Download Opera 10

Download Opera 10 Portable

Expose on Windows Vista

deerawan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:10:23 +0000

Hello everybody Have you ever heard about Expose? It is an awesome effect feature in MacOS to switch between windows smoothly. I really love it since I saw it on my friend’s macbook. Finally, I found a great application for windows Vista called Switcher that has almost have same usage compare to Expose in Mac. Switcher is a software to enable expose effect on windows Vista. This software runs very beautiful in my Windows Vista. You don’t need to worry about the cost because it is FREE. Some features are supported such as:

1. Three ways of view : Dock, Grid, and Tile

Switcher provides you three types of view. Just see the differences from the images below. Although you already choose one of view, you can activate another view when doing expose by pressing F1(Tile), F2(Dock) or F3(Grid)

Expose on Vista - Dock View

Expose on Vista - Grid View

Expose on Vista - Tile View

2. Search

It is very useful if you have many applications opened and you feel that very hard to find one. Just type the name of application and Switcher will find it for you.

Expose on Vista - Search Function

3. Personalize Appearance and Shortcut

You can personalize the appearance of Switcher like the color of background, the icon, the animation effect, etc. You can also customize your shortcut to run Switcher by using keyboard and or even mouse.

Expose on Vista - Personalize Appearance

Expose on Vista - Personalize Shortcut

4. Multi monitor

Switcher supports expose effect for multi monitor but I haven’t tried it because I only have one monitor. :p

Conclusion

Switcher is really awesome software. I really love it so much. It is stable enough and very useful. If you want to feel the thunder of expose effect in Windows Vista, Switcher is the one. Grab Switcher from download link below! To install this, you need windows Aero activated.

Download Switcher

ViGlance : Windows 7 Superbar for Windows XP

deerawan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:11:27 +0000

If you are still using windows xp and you want to feel the great superbar of windows 7, ViGlance makes your dream come true. You don’t need to worry because it is FREE. Take a look at its screenshoot

ViGlance - Windows 7 Superbar for XP

ViGlance - Windows Thumbnail

Some features are supported such as

- Transparency for taskbar
- ViOrb for start button
- Windows Thumbnail
- Automatic Start Up
- Customize application position
- No installation needed
- Freeware

A promotional video of ViGlance

Conclusion
ViGlance is really great tool to customize xp for having Windows 7 superbar. It is stable and since I installed on my desktop, I really love using it.

Download ViGlance