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".

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".

Mediaraptor is a superb application that can find millions of music videos and songs from social media websites for you. It can then record and convert the music video, or simply find the MP3 format of the song, depending on its search results. It can then convert them, according to your choice, in a more portable formats or in standard WMV and MP3 format. Unlike Tunebite and Radiotracker, the two other products from Audials, Mediaraptor is pretty much very useful out of the box. Mediaraptor can save video tracks from several social media sources, including MySpace, Esnips.com, YouTube, Hulu, and others.

On starting Mediaraptor, you will find the user interface quite similar as seen in Tunebite, Radiotracker, and the ultimate of them all, AudialsOne, divided into two parts.

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We reviewed TuneBite 7 Platinum, an all-in-one tool that will make any type of audio/video conversion a snap. Tunebite also enables you to remove DRM protection from files, record video and audio from the most popular sites (such as Last.fm, Pandora, MySpace Music, Hulu, Movies.MSN and many others) and quickly save them with the highest possible quality. You can read about it: TuneBite: Record your Favorite FIFA World Cup Football 2010 Videos.

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Microsoft's new Windows Live Essentials or Wave 4 is ready to rock - in beta form. If you're interested in checking out the new releases, then visit the Live Essentials beta download page now. You can download Windows Live Essentials beta from the official website. Downloads are provided in seven different languages including English, Chinese, French and Spanish.

Two different clients are offered on the website, wlsetup-webd.exe will automatically download and install the Windows Live Essential applications, while, wlsetup-webc.exe offers a choice menu to install only specific applications as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite.

TuneBite is an easy to use application that allows users to easily remove DRM protection from music files, videos, and audio books. The added benefit of TuneBite is it's ability to record videos off any video sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, etc and convert it to a format the user likes. And this football season, TuneBite will really come handy for all the soccer fans out there who may want to record the matches, so that they can watch it later.

The Internet offers a lot of soccer videos at special soccer video sites. For instance you can visit any of the following and watch soccer videos. Most of these websites are also offering free World Cup Football South Africa 2010 videos.

If you like chatting with your Facebook friends when you are online on Facebook, then you may be interested in this application. Chit Chat for Facebook is a free desktop client specially made for Facebook chat. Chit Chat basically connects to Facebook Chat and entirely removes dependency of web browser to chat with your friends using Facebook Chat. You can see Chit Chat as just Facebook IM - without the browser and no other IM networks are included in Chit Chat.

Chit Chat offers tabbed interface so that you can chat with multiple folks at once and also gives instant alert notification. You can easily minimize the application but still get alerts for new chat messages as soon as they come. Chit Chat also saves your conversation history so that you can easily pick up where you left off on your previous session.