Songbird for Window adds Cd Ripping and MSC Device Support

By Martin Kaba • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Songbird, the free and open source audio player application and web browser recently updated to version 1.4.1, but after a few bugs where found in v1.4.1 it then quickly updated to the most recent version 1.4.2.

Firefox 4 Design Mock-Ups Updated

By Martin Kaba • Dec 22nd, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Windows

Product Visual Designer of Mozilla, Stephen Horlander has posted on his blog a series of Windows design mock-ups for Firefox 4 – there is much of Opera 10.50 and Google Chrome in these mock-ups. You’ll also notice that the Application button that will certainly take the place of the file menu doesn’t seem to fit [...]

Make Internet Explorer to always Plug-In Google Chrome

By Martin Kaba • Sep 25th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Windows

To make Internet Explorer open up your web pages in Chrome, first you have to download and install the Chrome Frame plug-in on your Windows PC. Secondly, each time you want to open a web page with Internet Explorer, you need to manually add the URL prefix: cf to enable the Chrome engine . For [...]

Stable Google Chrome 3 with More Features

By Martin Kaba • Sep 15th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Windows

After celebrating its first birthday two weeks ago Google Chrome moved on and today it launches a super stable version of Google Chrome 3 web browser. Feature-full Google Chrome comes with, Speedy Chrome: This stable version of Chrome is the fastest ever, its faster than any previous stable version. Google says they’ve improved it “by [...]

MobaLiveCD 2.1 Adds USB Drive Support

By Martin Kaba • Sep 10th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Windows, portable

MobaLiveCD is a little windows executable application that permits you to run your Linux LiveCDs directly from a running Windows without the need of extra hardware. It one of the many free ways to approach Ubuntu/Linux from Windows

Synchronize your Chrome Bookmarks with Xmarks Alpha

By Martin Kaba • Sep 9th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Windows

Google was the first to bring synchronization to Chrome development channel without any add-ons, with the switch --enable-sync, but Xmarks was the first to announce it syncs bookmarks with Chrome development channel though in closed alpha test. Now I got an invitation to try Xmarks alpha for Chrome development channel 3.0.196.0 or greater. It all [...]

Get RSS and Twitter Updates on Your Monitor with FeedRoller

By Martin Kaba • Sep 4th, 2009 • Filed under: Windows, freeware

Windows only: FeedRoller does what it says, it places at the top of your monitor your RSS feeds and Twitter Updates. On my 24″ LCD Monitor it’s almost perfect, but my 17-inch laptop monitor is just too small, I can’t let FeedRoller’s black background banner eat up more space.

Wine 1.1.29 fixes Adobe Reader 9.10 Upgrade Fails

By Martin Kaba • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Wine gets a development release today. Version 1.1.29 is a developemnt release that fixes bugs found in the previous version. Amongst the many bug fixes, the worth noting are;

Sony Vaio to come with Google Chrome as default browser

By Martin Kaba • Sep 1st, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Windows

That Sony Vaio will be shipped with a default browser that is not Internet Explorer is good news. That Vaio-branded Windows machines will be shipped with an Open Source browser, or a open-source backed browser called Google Chrome, then the news gets even better. Right now, Sony Vaio computers are already shipping with Chrome loaded [...]