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Archive for September, 2009

Make Internet Explorer to always Plug-In Google Chrome

By • 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 […]

Firefox 3.7 to a Get Chrome-like Page and Tools Menu

By • Sep 24th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Windows

Mozilla’s intention to revamp the Firefox design starting with Firefox 3.7 is by now a public affair. Firefox 3.7 for Windows Vista and Windows 7 will be the first to get this new visual appearance, Mac and Linux will follow suit. Firefox 3.7, scheduled for release in March 2010 will systematically drop the Menu Bar […]

VLC 1.0.2 Security and Maintenance Update

By • Sep 24th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, PortableApps, Ubuntu, Windows

The popular open source media player VLC gets a maintenance release to fix bugs found in previously released VLC 1.0.1. VLC 1.0.1 that was rolled out about two months ago had a number of bugs and security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in VLC 1.0.2. VLC 1.0.2 fixes issues in subtitles, Theora video compression format […]

Firefox: Seamlessly Update your Twitter Status and Get Updates with Echofon (TwitterFox) Add-on

By • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Why use another Twitter application when the Twitter teams keeps rolling out design tweaks for its web version? I no longer find it necessary to get a “”full fleshed” and often bulky Twitter application with all the new features the web browser version offers. Twitter fans who use the web browsers for tweeting like Firefox […]

Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 Available for Download

By • Sep 22nd, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Email, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

For Windows, Mac and Linux: The Mozilla Thunderbird team released today the fourth beta of its popular desktop email client Thunderbird 3. This new beta release is available for download for all major operating systems, Linux included and has supports for 42 different languages. The release notes of Thunderbird 3 beta 4 is a long […]