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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

Firefox Addon: WebRank Toolbar

deerawan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:43:24 +0000

WebRank Toolbar is a Firefox addon for displaying the google pagerank, alexa, compete and quantcast of the website currently being viewed and pages indexed in three search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo). Here is the screenshot of the addon

WebRank

You can click on the button to view detail information about the rank for example if you click on Alexa button, you will be directed to alexa page show detail alexa information about the website. If you click on Google button, you will see the list of your indexed pages from your website. Installing it is very easy, run your Firefox then

1. Choose Tools

2. Choose Add-ons

3. Choose Get Add-ons

4. Type in Search Box “WebRank”

5. Choose Add to Firefox

Hope this information is useful to enhance your browsing experience using Firefox

New Inkscape 0.47

deerawan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:07:02 +0000

Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, Xara X or Corel Draw. While Inkscape does not have all the features of the leading vector editors, the latest versions provide for a large portion of basic vector graphics editing capabilities. Now, Inkscape has new version 0.47. Some new features available

Timed autosave: no more lost work

Many other improvements, usability tweaks, memleak stops, and misc bugfixes

Spiro splines: an exciting new way to work with paths, fully supported in Pen, Pencil, and Node tools

Auto smooth nodes: a new type of node that keeps the path as smooth as possible as you move it or its neighbors

New modes in Tweak tool: pushing and jittering whole objects, scaling/rotating objects, deleting and duplicating using the “soft brush”

Reworked, much more usable snapping system and a Snapping toolbar

New path effects, including sketch, hatching, envelope deformation; effects can be stacked and assigned to groups

A huge collection of preset filters in the new Filters menu

New cairo-based PS and EPS export: improved quality, more features supported, fallback rasterization for filters and transparency

Spell checker for text objects in a document

Many new extensions: restacking, calendar, printing marks, cartesian and polar grids, interpolating attributes

Optimized SVG code options, now with their own Preferences page

Inkscape 0.47

If you want to try new Inkscape 0.47, you can grab this software by visiting this link below
Download Inkscape 0.47

Download Official Microsot Office 2010 Beta

deerawan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:59:31 +0000

Different from my previous post about Microsoft Office 2010, now I give you an official link to download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta directly from Microsoft. This Microsoft Office 2010 final release will be launched in the first half of 2010 but you can try the beta version now. It will be available for Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows Vista, and Windows 7. With the introduction of Office 2010, a 64-bit version of Office will be available for the first time, although only for Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. Office 2010 is not supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Office 2010 Suites

Anyway, there are about six editions/packages of Microsoft Office 2010. They are Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus. For this beta version, you will get Home and Business edition which contains Word 2010, Excel 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Outlook 2010, OneNote 2010. Not bad for try, huh?

Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

Review and Free Download New Yahoo Messenger 10

deerawan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:08:14 +0000

Finally, I’ve changed my old Yahoo Messenger 9 to new Yahoo Messenger 10. I thought it is time to feel the new one. Hmm…the installation process is easy. However, it is not offline installer, so you need internet connection. First impression after I run YM 10 is the interface is changed. You can choose language in your login area now. Many languages are supported start from English, Thai, Vietnam, Bahasa Indonesia, Italia, and more.

After login process, you can see two tabs inside YM 10. There are Contacts and Y! Updates. Contacts tab will display you all of your friend and Y! Updates will display all latest updates from your friends such as status.

YM 10 - Contact and Y! Updates tab

Each tab has its own options and customizations. For Contacts tab, you can see options like “Show Offline Contacts”, “Show Empty Groups”, “Sort by Name” and many more. For Y! Updates, you can decide your friend’s status come from such as Twitter, MyBloglog, Yahoo 360 plus, Last.fm, and many more. Unfortunately, there is no from Facebook. Other customization is you can also decide which friend that you want to see the updates.

YM 10 - Y! Updates Customization

A new design interface you can see at contact detail box when you do mouse hover on your friend.

YM 10 - New Contact Detail

In my YM 9, I got a problem when changing my display image. After I had chosen the image, sometimes YM wouldn’t set it as my display image. That problem has been solved in this YM 10. One last feature of YM 10 is new video calling. I have not tried it due to lack of my internet speed in my location, Indonesia. Overall, YM 10 is better and worth to try. Visit link below to download Yahoo Messenger 10.

Download Yahoo Messenger 10

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

Free Download Aptana Studio 2.0: The Best CSS and Javascript Editor

deerawan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:41:57 +0000

It is no doubt that Aptana Studio is the best free CSS and Javascript editor for now. If you already have a Eclipse, you can get Aptana as plugin but you can download Aptana as standalone application. Aptana is available for Windows, Mac and even Linux. The latest Aptana Studio is version 2.0. The major differences with the previous version such as

Radically improve the remote<->local file transfer features

Merge the Project and File views into a single view

Firebug 1.4 Integration

Improve our Find/Replace mechanism

AJAX framework updates, including support for YUI 3.0

Aptana PHP is no longer included in Aptana Studio 2.0, and only PDT will be supported

Aptana 2.0

Hope these features help us more effective in coding CSS and Javascript. Grab the latest Aptana Studio now!

Download Aptana Studio 2.0

Free Download WinX HD Video Converter

deerawan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:01:52 +0000

WinX HD Video Converter is a professional video converter specially designed for HD video conversion. The friendly interface can assist you to effortlessly convert HD videos mutually with no loss of image & sound quality, like MTS, M2TS, TS, HD MP4, MKV, HD WMV, and HD MOV, etc. Besides, it also lets you convert between HD videos and regular AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc.

WinX Screenshot

Some main features such as

HD videos to Audio/Image Conversion
Extract background music from HD videos to MP3 file. Capture images from HD videos to JPG & BMP file.

Customize Video/Audio Parameters
Enables you to customize video & audio parameters like resolution, and frame rate, etc, to control video quality.

Split Video Clips
Easy video splitting assists you to convert your favorite HD video clips as you want.

Some cool features such as

Support multi-core CPU, which makes it faster to convert HD videos.

Support conversion in both single & batch modes.

Support batch rename video clips with “Renaming Template” before converting.

Allows you to automatically shut down your computer after conversion completed.

Friendly interface helps both beginners and veterans complete the conversion as simple as 1-2-3.

100% Clean, No Spyware, No Malware, No Adware and No Virus.

WinX Team still need advices to improve this product in next upgrade. So this giveaway program is to collect feedback or suggestions from users and also to celebrate upcoming Christmas.

The original price of WinX HD Video Converter is $39.95. Now it is given away to all users. This offer starts from Dec.1st and will expire at 12:00am GMT Dec. 16th. During this period, you can get the full version for free. So, hurry download Winx for free and register this product with the following information

Reg Name: HDgiveaway
Reg Code: WINXHVC-5230-1898-1278

Visit this link to grab free winX HD Video Converter

Download Free WinX HD Video Converter

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. ^_^