My Technology Guide

Mozilla has released the second beta version of its improved and redesigned Firefox 4 web browser. The new version can be downloaded from the release notes or official beta download page. It available for all supported operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows) and now available in 24 languages. This second beta release also gives Apple Mac's the same tabs-on-top look as in Windows. The one orange main button is still isn't there in the Mac version, but the new toolbar formations are available now.

The most "talked about" new feature in Firefox 4 Beta 2 is "App Tabs", which looks like Google Chrome's "Pin Tab" feature. This "App Tabs" mode lets you keep an eye on sites you want to. Now, every tab in Firefox 4 has this new option "Make into App Tab," on right-click to convert it into an "App Tab".

Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, formerly was known as Daniusoft Media Converter, is a multimedia software application by Daniusoft, which according to the developer, "is a massive working platform which cuts in the scope of multimedia decoding & encoding, legitimate copyright circumventing, DVD decrypting & authoring and media file transferring for personal use."

By the tag "Ultimate" in Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, you can easily understand that it is not just another video converter out there. It comes geared with up to 6+ independent components, like Video Converter, DVD Ripper, DRM Removal, DVD Burner, Device Transfer, YouTube Downloader. All this is packed in a neat package whose download size is only 22 MB approx.

Linux users always miss out on one feature that their Windows counterparts enjoy while listening to music. Most of the time, while listening to music using music players like Audacious, BMP, XMMS, etc in Linux, users misses out the equalizer presets that is present in most of the Windows music players like of Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.

For any die-hard music-aficionado who loves to listen to music and cannot compromise with quality, can never forgive a player that doesn't comes with an equalizer preset. If you are a music lover who don't likes to compromise with music and likes to have equalizer presets for fine tuning his music, there's a simple trick to import the Winamp equalizer presets into your Audacious, BMP, XMMS, etc Linux music players.

Mozilla recently released a security update for their popular Firefox web browser, version 3.6.7. Firefox 3.6.7 fixes several security issues that were found in the 3.6.6 version. Over half of the vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 3.6.7 were listed as "Critical," which is the highest danger level that Mozilla associates with security issues.

Mozilla has now done a quick update of Firefox 3.6.7 to Firefox 3.6.8, which according to The Mozilla Developer Center blog, "fixes a single stability problem that affected some pages with embedded plugins".

We are happy that we successfully completed running three different giveaways of popular softwares. Starting from July 7, 2010, we were running the Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 giveaway, in which we were giving away 5 licenses each worth $40 and valid for 1 year. Then, starting from July 11, 2010, we were running the Mediaraptor Platinum 4 giveaway. In this giveaway, we were giving away 10 free licenses of Mediaraptor Platinum 4, each license worth $40. The next giveaway was of CodySafe Sigma, which started from July 14, 2010 and we were giving away 15 licenses of CodySafe Sigma, each worth $9.90.

To take part in those giveaways, all you had to do was subscribe to our site updates and comment in the respective giveaway pages. The last date for participating in the giveaways was July 20, 2010 (12:00 pm, GMT -7), which is over now. Today, we will announce the winners of these three giveaways.

Microsoft today released a new, limited beta for their increasingly popular security application, Microsoft Security Essentials, the next big version of the well acclaimed Windows security software. Microsoft Security Essentials was first released in September 2009 and is Microsoft's award-winning, no-cost, freeware, light weight security application. It's designed to give security to computers running genuine Windows editions.

If you dual-boot or multi-boot your PC, then it might be sometime a daunting task to edit and change the boot loader entries. But there are some utilities available for both Windows and Linux platforms that makes this daunting task easy.

EasyBCD is one such freeware utility available for the Windows platform, that helps you to take control of your boot loader easily. EasyBCD lets you customize your Windows Vista or Windows 7 boot loader settings easily. Using EasyBCD, setting up and configuring dual-boot or multi-boot options between Windows 7, Windows Vista, older editions of Windows like Windows XP & Windows 2003, Linux distros like Ubuntu, BSD, and even Apple Mac OS X is an easy task.