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It’s already the sixth of December and Christmas is just around the corner. For starters, you can head over to Earbits streaming online radio and listen to a selection of 15 nice Christmas music from independent artists. Besides listen to the music online, thanks to the partnership between Earbits and Google Chrome, you can download a whole collection of Christmas songs for free . The download file is about 112 MB in size and contains a total of 15 Christmas songs, all in MP3 format. To download, hop over to this page and hit the download button at the top right of the screen. Yes, enjoy the music.

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games. New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind. Steve Jobs April, 2010 Thoughts on FLASH Symbolic: Steve Jobs vs The Flash. Apple has a...

Couldn’t locate the right information for your online research, even after countless hour of searching using the Google search engine? Most probably the information isn’t there or if it’s there, you just don’t know how to perform a well-executed search on Google. But it’s never too late to learn how to use Google search effectively , in order to boost your productivity instantly. Check out the following infographic, “ Get More Out of Google : Tips and Tricks for Students Conducting Online Research “, where you’ll learn a few awesome Google search tips and tricks to get Google to return the right result you are looking for.

What would you do in your leisure time or a time without connecting to internet? How about taking a read on the articles from the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia while working offline? Yes, you can read Wikipedia offline with the help Offline Wiki extension for Google Chrome. Offline Wiki enables you to download a copy of nearly all of the textual content of the Wikipedia (English articles only) to your computer and make them available offline on your Chrome browser . You can access the articles anytime without having to connect to the Internet . Read also – Set Random Wikipedia Page as Windows Desktop Screensaver In the settings page , you can choose to download either a approx. 14 MB compressed dump file of the most popular Wikipedia articles (1337 articles) or a 1GB database containing 314k of articles. On top of that, you can select one of four available parsers which turns the Wikipedia information into HTML contents that are readable in the Chrome bro...

Windows 8 targets tablet market specifically and specially iPad , is what we believe. This review is full on based of preliminary testing done on the developer preview which further helps to improvise the content on comparing the recent and the successor of Windows operating system . So getting on to the basic comparison chart for these two ventures lets discuss a common thing one must be looking for in a performance upgrade. Say for instance booting speed , Archiving time both for compress and decompress , Encode a media, Browsing speed with respect to tabs count etc., Performance Comparison Windows 8 Windows 7 Boot Time 0. 10 0.35 Cut-Paste(Duplicate a 700 MB file) 0.01 0.02 Compress (700 MB) 0.29 0.32 Decompress (700 MB) 0.11 0.12 Encode a movie 8.06 8.15 Open 10 tabs in chrome 0.07 0.07 Start 9 Applications 0.46 0.46 Total Time 9:56 10:29 We should surely consider the effort by Microsoft for reducing the bo...

In the Internet age, it is important to protect your information and data while surfing in the Net. Norton Internet Security 2012 is now in Beta version and you can be the first to download it, at free of charge! What’s new in Norton Internet Security 2012? Norton Protection System which includes 4 layers of protection to proactively protect against latest threats. Customizable Control Center allows you to switch between simplified screen or traditional detailed view. Identity Safe alerts have moved to Norton Toolbar so that it’s less interruption while you are online. Bandwidth Management to limit Norton’s processes and updates when you have limited bandwidth or monthly downloads. Download Insight 2.0 now tells you how stable a download is before it creates harm to your computer. Download Norton Internet Security 2012 beta . Norton AntiVirus 2012 beta is also available, though Internet Security has more features: block spams, parental controls, identity protection. Che...

Today (31 March 2011) is World Backup Day. It was proposed last week by a Reddit user, adamjeff , to serve as a reminder to save all your important data to somewhere secure. The date is set for March 31st. They have an official site: http://worldbackupday.net and on twitter: @WorldBackupDay The website explains the importance of backup and the different ways to backup your data. There are also sponsored giveaway for online backup accounts, as well as exclusive offers.

Firefox 4 for Android is finally official after several beta releases . We tried their Firefox 4 Beta 1 which was rather horrid but Mozilla had constantly improved with each release after that. In fact, the latest beta release we tried on a Samsung Galaxy Tab worked pretty well and it is no wonder they have made it official today. So what’s great about Firefox 4 for Android? Well, it extends your desktop Firefox experience to your mobile device from synced bookmarks, history and even open tabs on your desktop computer. In addition, you can add on more functions with Firefox Add-ons. It also supports full HTML5. To download, grab it from the Android Market , while Maemo users can download theirs here http://www.mozilla.com/m/

If you’re anything like 99% of everybody, you have some sort of PDF viewing software installed on your PC—but did you realize that you can use Google Chrome to view PDFs from your PC? It’s easy! We’re showing off how to do this in Windows, but theoretically it would work for OS X or Linux as well. If you’ve tried it, let us know in the comments. Enabling Google Chrome as Your Default PDF Reader Start off by right-clicking on any PDF file, and heading to the “Open with” item on the menu. If you don’t see this, you can usually hold Shift and right-click, and it will be there. This will bring up the Open with dialog, which lets you choose what to open your PDF files with, but sadly Google Chrome isn’t listed—but no matter, you can just click the Browse button. If you know where Google Chrome was installed, then just browse to that location—otherwise, you can right-click on the Chrome shortcut, head to Properties, and then Shortcut. You’ll see the location in the Target box (best bet...

Have you installed Internet Explorer 9? (or, already uninstall IE9?) Here is a video walkthrough of Windows Internet Explorer, comparing IE from the very first version 1 to the latest IE9.

  Internet Explorer 9 has been released at March 14, 2011. Free download is available on BeautyOfTheWeb.com in 39 languages for both 32-bit and 64 - bit Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008. (No Internet Explorer 9 for XP) Direct download link after the break. If you do not like the IE9 online downloader or want to keep a copy of IE9 installer, you can download Internet Explorer 9 standalone offline installer in the language that match your Windows version at here . Language interface packs (LIPs) are also available for Catalan, Hindi, Indonesian, and Vietnamese languages. Click here to find out your PC running 32bit or 64bit Windows. Have you install Internet Explorer 9? Do you like IE9? What is your default web browser now, and why? Please tell us in the comment.

I still remembered few months back, a friend of mine asked me to repair her Windows. The problem was her CD-ROM was not functioning. Therefore, I couldn’t boot from the Windows XP bootable CD . I did think about copying the file from the XP cd to my pen drive and boot from my USB pen drive. But how can I booted from my USB pen drive when the pen drive itself was not bootable ? That’s a few months old story.  If today my friend comes again to me with the same problem, I will be happy to help because now I know how to make USB pen drive bootable . MakeBootable is a freeware application that turns your USB pen drives into a bootable media with just a single click.  This nifty utility makes your pen drive to be bootable without erasing any data in the USB device . MakeBootable consists of a single executable file and requires no installation . To use MakeBootable, run the MakeBootable executable file. On the main window, select the USB device you wish to make bootable. Click ...

The way a Windows desktop behaves, has not been changed since thirteen years. Its all the same, rough and rigid icons lying dumbly at the cold desktop. Now is the time you can give your desktop a little extra. Bring your desktop to real 3 Dimensional life like . Arrange icons in a pile or groups. It takes just a few clicks or your finger movements to do with all the data at your desktop to arrange it in the way you want it in a real 3D environment. BumpTop is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better. Now with awesome mouse and multi-touch gestures, you will experience your desktop as never before. Your desktop doesn't have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore! Transform it with BumpTop. Create the desktop that suits your needs and style. MAC and Linux versions are also available. Multitouch features require Windows 7 touch hardware support. <p>[Javascript required to view...

How would you like to replace the boring Google Text Logo with your own name or any names that look appealing to you? It really looks cool to me, now there is no more Google Logo Text in my firefox browser . What’s I have now is the My Tech Quest Search Engine !! LOL! Read also – Replace Google Text Logo with Your Favourite Google Doodle If you find this trick looks really cool, here’s how to make your own Google Logo Text. Please note that this trick only apply for firefox browser . First, you need to install the GreaseMonkey firefox add-on Next, install the required script Once finished, head for Google . Double clicks the Google Logo and a box will appear similar to the figure below. Now, you can type your own text ( letters and space ) and assign different color for each letter. In color edit box, type the numbers: 1 – blue, 2 – red, 3 – yellow, 4 – green or other – random . Click the “ Change ” button when finished and you will noticed the new Google Logo Text. v...

AVG Internet Security 2011 is a comprehensive security suite from AVG Technologies that gives ultimate protection for everything you do online including surfing, shopping, downloading and banking. AVG offers an amazing collection of components for security protection in it’s security suite product. This include the AVG Firewall, AVG Anti-Spam and AVG Identity Protection for superior web protection without the fear of identity theft, the newly introduced AVG Social Networking Protection gives you protection while on social networking sites plus the improved AVG LinkScanner can now scans links posted on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. AVG Internet Security 2011 is priced at $54.99 per single license. As part of the limited-time promotional offer from AVG Technologies, you can download the AVG Internet Security 2011 with free license serial key, valid for one year . How to grab FREE 1 year license key for AVG Internet Security 2011? It’s simple! Simply visit t...

Simply visit http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and you will see the version information of the Flash Player installed on your computer. A table of latest Flash Player version for different platform and browser is at the bottom of the page. (Google Chrome has own built-in Flash Player) Compare your Flash version information to the latest version in the table and you will know whether you have the latest version or not. If you do not have the latest Flash Player, you may download it from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ .

The Firefox browser for Android has come a long way since the days of Fennec. When Mozilla started developing a mobile browser for the Android (and the Maemo) platform, we were eager to try it out but the first versions of the beta was a major disappointment. Then beta 2 came bringing much needed improvements and added features making the Firefox mobile usable but still, we placed it within the “also-rans” category in the mobile browser race. Now Mozilla has released the latest version of it Firefox mobile browser and we have to say that Firefox has climbed up from being just another mobile browser to probably one of the best offerings out there. The most noticeable improvement brought about by this latest addition of Firefox is speed. Browser pages load considerably faster than previous versions of Firefox. In fact this version of Firefox is one of the fastest mobile browsers we’ve tested. In addition, the responsiveness is also felt when feeding inputs into the browser like scrol...