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".

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.

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.

Norman Security Suite 8 DnBNOR edition is a special edition of the latest version of Norman Security Suite, offered free by the company. This special edition does not need any license key to install and activate the program, and will protect your computer for 4 years, which is really long!

Norman Security Suite 8 DnBNOR Special Edition does have some limitations. Features like Intrusion Guard, Privacy Tools and AntiSpam are disabled from this special edition, but users will have the standard Antivirus, Anti-spyware, Norman Personal Firewall and Parental Control features for free which is valid for 4 years. The offer page can be found here.

Microsoft has released the official beta version of Windows 7 SP1 at last publicly. Users who want to download and install the beta version of SP1 are first needed to register at the Evaluation Center. During registration remember to select IT or any developer related occupation to be able to download Windows 7 Service Pack 1. SP1 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, and are available in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish language.

This service pack is also offered via Windows Update and in standard ISO image format, which is around 1.2 GB in size and required to be burned to a DVD first to use it.

Do you want to easily remove your User picture from Windows 7 Start Menu? Kishan Bagaria, one of our fellow mate and a member of The Windows Club Forum has came up with an one click solution. He has developed a free portable app known as Windows 7 Start Menu User Picture Remover that allows you to remove your User picture from your Windows 7 Start Menu with just one click.

To use this app, you just have to download it from his website door2windows and save it to a location on your hard drive. The download size of the app is amazingly only 441 KB for the ZIP version and 896 KB for the EXE version. After saving it, just run the app with Administrator rights and click on the Remove Start Menu User Picture button.

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