So, got my hands on iLife ‘11 today.
First impressions:
Now, I wish they would hurry up with iWork ‘11 already.
Windows Live Wave 4 Preview.
Wow! This looks amazing, can’t wait for the final version to come out.
More details [here].
EDIT 1 - Replaced with a YouTube version, since earlier embed was Silverlight based.
This is as the title says a little piece of software that automatically mutes your Windows PC when you lock it.
This is the description given by the readme file included in the setup:
Mute on Lock is a tiny resident utility that sits in the system tray and monitors your session: when you are locking your Windows workstation, it mutes the sound of your speakers. Do not want to bother your colleagues by sounds of instant messenger, reminders or leaving music when you are out? Use Mute on Lock and forget about this problem! Moreover, with the help of this program you can quickly mute or unmute the system sound by double-clicking the tray icon or using an optional hot key.
Some screenshots:
(the right click menu of the icon that sits in your taskbar)
(the options menu)
(the about screen)
Download the program from {here}.
Enjoy!
Microsoft has released their latest iteration of Internet Explorer to the general public.
It has improved support for HTML5 and CSS3. It also much faster with JavaScript.
You can find the benchmarks done by Microsoft here:
Some screenshots:
You can download the developer preview from [here].
As you may notice there is no address bar, this is because this is a very early build. However you can add a address bar by this small which you can download {here}.
I also wanted to do a small poll of what browsers my readers (if I have any) use:
Happy browsing!
These are some Firefox add-ons, that I couldn’t do without. If you don’t already use Firefox, I suggest you get it ASAP here:
Here we go:
This addon is a must have for any Firefox user. This amazing add-on block almost any kind of ad, by using a variety of filtering techniques. This add-on is the primary reason I haven’t switched over to Google Chrome instead. The Adblock extension for Chrome is not as good as the one in FF, because it still loads the ads. It just hides them after the page is done loading.
This is a must have add-on for people who love to download files. This add-on makes it very convenient to pause, cancel/stop, monitor downloads from the bottom of your Firefox window.
This is a very useful add-on if you have multiple computers, and would like all your bookmarks to be synced, so you don’t have to worry about different sets of bookmarks on different computers.
The best thing about this add-on is that there are versions for Chrome and Safari (Mac OSX). So you don’t have to worry about bookmarks if you use different browsers for different computers.
This is a very useful add-on if you like to read a lot of content over the internet. This add-on basically serves as a reading list of stuff that you want to read later. As the description says on the website it “eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.”
As the name suggests this add-on, is very useful if you watch a lot of videos over the net. It allows you to save videos from almost any website that use flash video. It also allows to batch download images from a particular images; this function is particularly useful if you are downloading a lot of images from a gallery. It becomes tedious to save all of them manually.
That’s all my favorite add-ons for Firefox.
More useful add-on lists for:
Enjoy!
P.S - If you still use Internet Explorer, WTF are you doing?
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