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Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is out
Find interesting facts on any number [Fun]
Password recovery tool for all messengers on computer
Keep a watch on backlinks to your blog
Surf smartly to reduce your monthly Broadband bill.

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 07:36 PM PST

Firefox two days ago announced that it is coming out with a release candidate (RC) version of Firefox 3.6. Previously you might have read up on Firefox 3.6 beta version update. Now with this Release candidate version Mozilla will probably start the transition towards version 3.7 and the much awaited and hyped Firefox ver 4.

Firefox 3.6 has had over 5 beta versions and using it I am very satisfied with its compatibility with add-ons while most of them have been updated now.

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Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

Now you can change the appearance of the browser with a single click using Personas.
It has improved support for new CSS and HTML5 technology.
It will support third party applications integrating with Firefox to improve stability.
It will alert the users about out of date plugins.
Improved automatic form fill with better options.
Better JavaScript performance along with improved start up time for the browser. I personally did not find much difference after installing the Release Candidate version with the time it took to start up.
You can manually update it from their website but if you have 3.6 beta version it should update automatically.

I am not a software testing expert but since the upgrade I feel the Mozilla Labs features which I had installed with my Firefox seem to be working a lot better and in a streamlined way. I think this will be quite crucial considering the applications and features in Labs which are present now will be the mainstay of Firefox’s version 4. Even though it is rumored that version 4 will be out towards the end of the year, its integration of applications lying in Mozilla labs will be crucial. I think it will get a lot better with Firefox 3.7 and we might be soon using some features like Weave in a more friendlier and reliable way.

Do let me know what do you think about the new release candidate? Download it from here.

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Find interesting facts on any number [Fun]

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST

I am going off topic as far as being techie is concerned but for maths lovers this website can be quite entertaining and interesting. This website is actually a created by a mathematician and a lot of research has gone into it where if you enter any number between 0 to 9999 you get properties of that number along with certain facts which are very unique to the number.

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Number Gossip allows you to give some interesting details which includes even jokes used with that particular number. For instance when I entered the number 666 considering we call our website Devils Workshop. :-p
The results were quite a lot of fun. I got its various properties along with even a joke about the number 666 .

Here is another example of the results for the number 4523 and one of its rare properties comes up as Google. It’s defined as Google because of a unsual hiring ad regarding numbers Google would put up.

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Unfortunately this website only supports numbers upto 9999 and not any more. But just the voluminous amount of information available on ten thousand numbers is quite worth it.

Go ahead and pass some of your time if you love numbers on Number Gossip. Even if you are good at Math, you will certainly learn a few new things!

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Password recovery tool for all messengers on computer

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 08:11 AM PST

Forgetting passwords is a common problem. We have previously covered how to recover passwords from protected excel files in our past post. Here is one more I thought you might like as it covers recovering passwords from the messengers you use on the computer.

If you use many chat messengers and have unique passwords for each of them. Forgetting one such password is a situation many of us might have found ourselves in. In this case what you need is a password recovery tool specifically meant for messengers.

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About MessenPass Password Recovery

MessenPass recovers password from almost all popular messenger clients (list is included below).
It is a tool that can be used for grabbing the current user on the system using the chat clients. It cannot recover the passwords from chat clients which is used by logging into a different user account on the system.
The only problem with MessenPass is that some Anti-Virus programs to consider the installation file as a trojan and that can be a problem. On the website there is are details on dealing with such a scenario.

List of Messengers included:

MSN Messenger
Windows Messenger (In Windows XP)
Windows Live Messenger (In Windows XP/Vista/7)
Yahoo Messenger (Versions 5.x and 6.x)
Google Talk
ICQ Lite 4.x/5.x/2003
AOL Instant Messenger v4.6 or below, AIM 6.x, and AIM Pro.
Trillian
Trillian Astra
Miranda
GAIM/Pidgin
MySpace IM
PaltalkScene
Digsby

Do check out the password recovery software and let me know what you think about it?

Download Link: MessenPass Password Recovery Tool

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Keep a watch on backlinks to your blog

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 06:29 AM PST

If you are a blogger or running a website and looking to drive traffic to it, there is hardly a chance you have not heard of backlinks and chances are you tryout various tactics and implement long term strategies to build a decent number of backlinks from prestigious websites.

For the uninitiated, backlink is a link to your website from another one. In search engine context a backlink is taken as a vote by one website to another. Majority of articles written on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) will basically tell you ways to improve the number of backlinks to your website. This in a way gives a higher page rank to your website and hence ends up helping drive traffic to your website.

In such a scenario keeping a watch on backlinks to your website is quite important. Backlink Watch allows you to do just that.

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About Backlink Watch

Just enter the URL of the website you are looking up and it gives your a list of all the backlinks to the website.
It also gives you a total number of backlinks to the URL along with which website along with its exact URL which has given this backlink to the URL.
It also shows abnormal flags like nofollow on the backlink.
It also shows for every backlink the total number of Outbound link (OBL). OBL are the total external links on the backlink giving website.

Looking up this list of backlinks would be a great way to help you realise what exactly is being recommended by other websites. Picking it up as your strength you can work on similar content or adding to previous content to increase the chances of getting more backlinks based on content rather just various strategies.

Hope you find this information useful and let me know if there are any other similar website. Do drop in your comments.

Link: Backlink Watch

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Surf smartly to reduce your monthly Broadband bill.

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:18 PM PST

Often we have such situations when we are just about to reach our monthly limit of broadband and we limit our self to surf the world of internet in limited constraints. However we can surf smartly to reduce our monthly usage. Below are a few tips that may come handy.

1. Install Google chrome (dev version):

Install the dev version of Google chrome by clicking here.

2. Add Flashblock extension:

It stops all the flash files before loading, so approximately 1mb pf data is saved on each website you visit. It blocks the flash and show a PLAY button so that if you really want to see that flash then you can resume it by clicking on that play button.

screenshot of fashblock

3. Install AdThwart extension:

We know that half of the bandwidth of any typical site is taken by those irritating ads. This extension blocks the ads before they load and save your bandwidth.

BEFORE: