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VisualCV - The NextGen Online Resume Maker

VisualCV is the next generation of online resume services, VisualCV makes your resume come alive with interactive features letting you add video, pictures, audio-clips, work samples and other supporting documents. Informational pop-ups provide background data on the companies you’ve worked at and the colleges you’ve attended.

Try Firefox 3 Beta Without Affecting Your Older Firefox Installation

Firefox 3Recently Firefox 3 Beta 3 got released for download, and like everybody else I was tempted to test the browser, but lack of support for my old extensions and the BETA tag prevented me to upgrade, fearing loss of my existing pimped up browser configuration, but there existed a solution for my problem allowing me to use Firefox 3 Beta with my older version of Firefox, and that was portable Firefox 3 Beta 3 meant for portable devices like removable USB drives, I tweaked the existing portable version to make it more suitable and efficient for installation on hard-disk usage and here it is for you to enjoy the much improved Firefox 3 Beta 3.


Firefox 3


Faster performance and new sleeker GUI makes working with Firefox 3 a pleasant experience, With nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 12,000 issues - Firefox 3 is based on the new new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, including major re-architecting for performance, stability, correctness, and code simplification and sustainability.


The most notable changes in this version are:

  • Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. New in Beta 3 is an improved search algorithm which calculates the recency and frequency of a visit to come up with a frecency score that is used to determine the most relevant results.

  • New Firefox 3 Location bar
  • Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available, When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is also shown.

  • New Firefox 3 Addon System
  • Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.

  • Firefox 3 Bookmarks
  • One-Click Easy Site Info : Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you're connected to.

  • Firefox 3 Bookmarks

Digsby - Free Desktop Client With Multiprotocol IM, Email And Social Network Integration

Digsby Networking ApplicationDigsby is a feature rich, easy to use free desktop client offering multi-protocol instant messaging with email and social networking integration aimed at bringing all major online communication services and social networks under one roof making things simpler to manage and use.





Currently Digsby supports:

  • Instant Messaging Services : AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
  • Email Services : Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts.
  • Social Networking Services : Facebook and MySpace (support for more services coming soon).

Digsby is in private beta now and you need an "Beta Invite Code" to use it (see end of the post for special invite codes for our blog readers).

VidSplitter - Free Software To Split Video Files With Ease

VidSplitterMany times we need to split large video files into smaller pieces in order to copy them on several CD's or DVD's, you don't need a full-fledged video editor to do this, VidSplitter is a free, easy to use complete Video splitting tool that lets you to split large AVI, mpeg, WMV, ASF files into smaller video clips in various formats quick and easy.


VidSplitter Slicing Video

VCDCut Pro (or VCDCutter) is another professional software with advanced features for achieving the same result, but it is not free.

Free Solution To Protect Your Laptop From Being Stolen

Laptop TheftEvery few second a laptop is stolen and most of them are never recovered, your laptop is not only a expensive hardware gadget but it also contains lot of information about you with all your data, and losing it posses a great danger.

Clonezilla - Open-Source Alternative To Symantec Ghost Corporate With Unicasting And MultiCasting Support

CloneZilla HDD cloner We have written about DriveImage XML and Seagate DiskWizard as free alternatives to commercial hard-disk cloning software's like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image, but both of them lack support for multicasting cloning (cloning many computers in a network simultaneously) as provided by Norton Ghost Corporate, so here it is not only free, but a open source solution for your unicast and multicast cloning needs - "CloneZilla" is based on DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux providing systemless environment for client machines), Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allowing you to do bare metal backup and recovery with ease.


CloneZilla Cloning

CloneZilla supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, FAT and NTFS filesystems, providing you freedom to clone GNU/Linux or MS windows. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is also supported by Clonezilla.

Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!

Apple Aperture 2 Released

Apple Apperture 2Apple released the next major version of their popular photo editing and management software "Aperture 2", with over 100+ new features, streamlined interface, faster performance and enhanced image processing capabilities the software seems to be worthy upgrade for its users.

Image Editor For Mac

Aperture 2 lets users directly upload portfolios on the .Mac Web Gallery for viewing on the web using their .Mac account, Aperture also lets users sync their Aperture library to an iPhone or iPod. Or enjoy photos on a widescreen TV in high definition using Apple TV.

VideoSpin - Free Video Editing Software by Pinnacle

VideoSpinLeaders in commercial video editing software Pinnacle launched their free video editing movie maker software "VideoSpin" targeted at home users.

VideoSpin is a brand new tool offering similar workflow as of professional Studio family of applications, allowing users to create their own movie clips in minutes using videos and pictures.


VideoSpin

With this fully functional free video editor you can:

  • Mix videos, photos and music together
  • Add titles and transitions (with capability to create scrolling titles)
  • Upload directly to the web like YouTube
  • Export to Flash support

You can use VideoSpin to convert video formats and even extract audio from video files, if you are looking for a free, easy to use, feature rich replacement for windows movie maker this is the best thing available right now.

BootZilla - Free Bootable CD For Performing Adavance System Tasks

Free System Boot CD BootZilla is a free, simple to use bootable cd for computer technicians and advanced computer users, to perform advance computing tasks like removal of viruses and hardware tests to pinpoint hardware failures without booting into windows.


BootZilla Apps

The toolkit provides common windows troubleshooting softwares into a easy to use package with bootable functionality and can come in handy while your computer is screwed up because of some malware, virus or hardware issue.

Internet Explorer Crash After Upgrading To XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate

If you installed the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate and facing Internet Explorer 7 crashes , MS XP SP3 team has made available a FIX for it, download it from here.

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