FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 now available

FireFox 3.0 Beta 1 version is available to Linux, Mac, and Windows users now. It is available in 22 languages.

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Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

Today Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 versions. Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 are core components of the Microsoft application platform. Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework make it easy for development organizations and developers of all skill levels to build software and services on the latest platforms including the Web, Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and Windows Server 2008.

Visual Studio 2008 delivers over 250 new features, makes improvements to existing features including performance work on many areas. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features than previous .NET Framework versions.

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Take your Bookmarks, Saved Passwords etc with FireFox Portable Edition

A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device (USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod etc ) and use on any Windows computer. When your portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data. When you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind.

Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition is nothing but Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

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Process Explorer - an alternative to Windows Task Manager

Process Explorer is an advanced process management utility which shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window shows a list of the currently active processes. If the bottom window is not visible, then you can make it visible by selecting Show Lower Pane from View menu. You can set Lower Pane View either in DLL mode or Handles mode. You can set the required mode from View menu of Process Explorer. If Process Explorer is in handles mode then you will see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened. If Process Explorer is in DLL mode then you will see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.

Process Explorer is useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way windows and applications work. Process Explorer supports Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 and IA64 processors, and Windows Vista. Latest Process Explorer supports replacement of task manager on Vista also.

You can kill a process very easily with Process Explorer. Just select a process in Process explorer window then from Process menu select Kill Process.

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Know audio,video information of your multimedia files with MediaInfo

This is a freeware tool which analyze multimedia files. It can give you information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration, etc.

MediaInfo supports MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF audio formats. It supports 3GP, AVI, DivX, WMV, MKV, MP4, OGM, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB) video formats. MediaInfo supports 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is very easy to use this tool. Just install the tool. Now right click the media file you want to know it's audio,video information, then select MediaInfo. Now MediaInfo displays information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration etc of that file as shown below.

Now if you want full details just go to View menu then select Text. Now MediaInfo displays the file's audio and video information in detail.

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Note: Win 95/98 and Windows Milenium users must enable the Unicode functionality for those Operating Systems. For this download the following utility.

Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems