Update your Hotmail account to Windows Live Hotmail account

Windows Live Hotmail is the next generation of MSN Hotmail. Windows Live Hotmail brings you 2GB space, improved spam protection. It identfies suspicious email by color coded safety bar. It scans every incoming email and attachment automatically for viruses. You can send attachments of size upto 10 MB now. Lot of Themes are available in new hotmail. You get the themes from Options tab. You can change the color of the window as you like with themes. You can change your Inbox view to an advanced view. In Advanced View, you can preview email message without opening it. See the screenshot below.

In Advanced View on the left you have check mail, Contacts etc. In the middle of the window you have your messages. If you select any message then preview of the message will appear to the right side of the window as shown above in the figure.

If you donot like the Advanced View then you can switch back to traditional Inbox view by clicking Switch To Classic button on the left side of the window. Also you can switch back to MSN Hotmail easily. Simply click the Options tab. In that window you will observe Switch To Hotmail link.

Update your Hotmail account to New Hotmail

http://mail.live.com is the web address of new Hotmail site.

SeaMonkey 1.1.3 Released

Mozilla Foundation's SeaMonkey Project released it's latest version. It has fixed several bugs and several security vulnerabilities found in previous SeaMonkey versions. It is a Freeware.

SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet application suite. In one application we have Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.

The SeaMonkey browser includes all the features of a modern browser. It includes modern features like Tabbed browsing, Popup blocker, Image Manager etc. You can control your email from spammers by SeaMonkey's Junk Mail controls. You can manage your email with customizable Labels and Mail Views and color code your email.

SeaMonkey supports windows 95, 98, 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Mac and Linux.

So many Browser Extension Add-ons, Plugins, Sevaral Themes are available for SeaMonkey at the Mozilla site given below.

Download SeaMonkey

How to select and print the content you want on the Web page with HP Smart Web Printing 2.0?

HP Smart Web Printing supports I.E 6.0 and I.E 7.0. After installaing HP Smart Web Printing, it adds two new buttons to the toolbar in your IE browser. They are Clip Book and HP Smart Select. Also it adds Clip Book Pane to your browser window's right side. You can turn it off by simply clicking the close button. It also adds Standard Selection and HP Smart Selection options to the Edit menu. Standard Selection is nothing but the Original Selection method of IE. So from Edit menu you can switch to HP Smart Selection or IE's Standard Selection.

What is the use of HP Smart Selection?
Selecting content you want on a web page using Internet Explorer's standard selection is difficult. Sometimes you want to select an image and text around it. Then it will be a difficult thing to do it with Standard Selection. But with HP Smart Selection feature you can select the content you want on a web page very easily. Also you can print that selected content.

How to select and print the content you want with HP Smart Web Printing 2.0?
First turn on HP Smart Selection from Edit menu of your IE browser. Now open the web page whose content you want to select, with Internet Explorer. Now drag out a rectangular area containing the content you want to select. Only content within the area is selected. A pop-up menu with the following options also appears when you make a selection as shown in the fig below.

If you choose the Clip option, then the selected content will be added as a Clip to the Clip Book Pane on the the right side of the browser window. The Clip Book can store upto 100 clips. Once the clip is added to the Clip Book Pane then you can print the content in the clip or you can save the content in the clip as a PDF file.

If you choose Print option, then You can print the selected content with the printer you have.

If you choose Use Standard Selection then the present HP Smart Selection mode will be switched back to Standard Selection.

How to save the entire Web page as PDF file with HP Smart Web Printing 2.0?
First turn on HP Smart Selection from Edit menu of your IE browser. Now open the web page you want to save as PDF file, with Internet Explorer. Now drag out a rectangular area over the entire page. Now a small pop-up menu appears as explained above with Clip, Print, Use Standard Selection options. Choose Clip option. Now the entire web page will be added as a Clip to the Clip Book Pane on the right side of the browser window as shown in the fig below.

Now select Print Clips from the Clip Book Pane. Now Print Clips window will present on the screen. Now click Save As PDF button. Now choose a save directory and type a name for the PDF file then click Save. Now your entire Web page will be saved as a PDF file. But the Text and Images quality will be low as compared to the original web page.

Download HP Smart Web Printing 2.0

Security Issues fixed in new Firefox 2.0.0.5

Mozilla developers fixed many bugs and security issues in Firefox 2.0.0.5 update. The following security issues have been fixed by Mozilla in Firefox 2.0.0.5 update.

XPCNativeWrapper pollution

Unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents

Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer

File type confusion due to %00 in name

Privilege escalation using an event handler attached to an element not in the document

Frame spoofing while window is loading

XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

You can download Firefox 2.0.0.5 update from here

SMPlayer

SMPlayer is a free multimedia player which plays Videos, Vcds, Dvds. SMPlayer plays all known video and audio formats without the need of external codecs.

SMPlayer uses the award winning MPlayer as engine. SMPlayer plays known formats like avi, mkv, ogm, mpeg, vob, 3gp, asf, mov, wmv, mp3, ogg without the need of external codecs. We can play internet streams also with SMPlayer.

SMPlayer remembers the settings of all files you play. Suppose you watch a movie for sometime then close the SMPlayer. If you play the movie again then SMPlayer will resume the movie at the same point you left it.

So many features available in SMPlayer. But SMPlayer is still alpha software. So additional features may contain bugs. In future so many new feautures are also available in SMPlayer. SMPlayer is now available for both Windows and Linux now.

Download SMPlayer

In the same site an update to SMPlayer is also available. Download it also. After installing SMPlayer, uncompress the update file on the same directory where you installed SMPlayer, overwriting the old files.