Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

After had enough teasers from Mozilla project community about upcoming features in Firefox 3.1, the second beta finally released for testing. The release notes list are:

• This beta is now available in 54 languages - get your local version.
• Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
• New support for web worker threads.
• The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for web content.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
• Support for new web technologies such as the

As usual most of your extensions will probably not work with beta 2. I will for the portable version.

Download Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

Google Adds Themes for Gmail

Previously I did mention about the third-party design customization for Gmail with a sleek black design.Now Google finally decided to spice up Gmail by adds almost 30 new themes to spice up your inbox.

If you open your Gmail inbox you can notice the update about the theme availability on top of your inbox. Besides that, you also can access to the theme settings by accessing through Settings (on your top right corner) and when the settings panel open you can see the Themes link on your far right.

Head to Official Gmail Blog for a quick look of the available themes.


Technorati Tags: gmail, google, themes

Download Movies and Games from Puntuna

Hi there, my name is Steven a.k.a newly joined co-author in Kesh Zone. I might give a brief explanation in next post on who am I and how ended up in here. As for now I will try my best to provide some interesting articles . If there are any mistakes please kindly teach and guide me as I can be categorized as ‘noob’ in blogosphere. Thank you and enjoy my first post.

As my Windows Vista blocked my torrent downloads couple of weeks ago – numerous tweaks, file restoration, patching had done to fix the problem alas it’s still the same. So, that’s the reason why I searched for websites that offers free direct downloads to download some latest movies and game – that’s how I stumbled upon Puntuna.com. These files are uploaded through Rapidshare and Megaupload. Seeing as, those files sizes are huge for Rapidshare and Megaupload as they only allow maximum 200MB per upload for Rapidshare and 1024MB (1GB) per upload for Megaupload those files are split into .rar format (you can use WinRAR, 7-Zip to extract).


Most of the movies and series can be categorized as DVD quality and as for games; it’s in full version, playable and safe. Certain torrent downloader might think downloading through Rapidshare is just waste of time, problematic and lots of hassles. In my own experience, I downloaded a file from Rapidshare and its reached download speed of 120 – 160 kB/s constantly. It took only half an hour to download 655MB file.Whereas, friend of mine took more than 1 hour to download the same file using torrents at average download speed of 30 – 60kB/s. There are pro/s and con/s for everything.

Thus, for those who unable to download through torrents you can give a shot for Puntuna. I know there are lots of websites provides the same features and benefits but for now I found Puntuna, if you have one/more mind to share?

visit Puntuna

Blippr -Twitter Like Product Review

I stumbled upon this cool website couple of weeks ago and thought sharing it would a great idea. A Twitter the popular micro-publishing tool influenced Blippr  a social network based on movie, book, music and game reviews. You got 160 words to squeeze your reviews including with 1-4 rating system using cute emoticons.

Like Twitter you can follow what your friends are Blipping and update your media status and get score in form of badge for your reviews that you made. Blippr updates your Blips to Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed etc. For those who followed me in Twitter, you might noticed my Blips.

If you bored with reviews in IMDB, click here to sign up and get yourself an account to be a critic in a cool way. Blippr is still beta and the only bug I face is just the verification process each time to login apart from that it’s perfectly fine.

Technorati Tags: blippr,reviews

How to Surf Internet without Internet Browser?

Ever find yourself sitting in front of a computer where Internet Explorer or Firefox was blocked by IT Administrator – and restricted you from install any software? If that PC is running Windows XP, then there is chance for you to still surf Internet.

Using Windows Applications

1. Open Calculator, Start> Program Files> Accessories> Calculator or press Windows+R and type ‘calc’ in the run box, click OK.
2. In Calculator, go to Help> Help Topics.
3. Right click on the left hand side of the title bar and click on ‘Jump to URL’.
4. Type in the URL and make sure include the ‘http://’ at the beginning.

Basically what you are looking at is Internet Explorer 6 inside a help window, but this version of program isn’t quite smart as Internet 6. This was tested in Windows XP SP2 with Internet Explorer 6 and I’m not sure whether it will works in Internet Explorer 7 installed computer.

Using Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is the popular 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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Live Chat Support for Firefox User

Mozilla has launched a new live chat support service on their support page. The service is staffed by a handful of volunteers, and is currently only open for a few days.

The service is currently only for Firefox related issues.

How to Watch Removed YouTube Videos

I already mentioned about Deletube capability that can let user to view the removed videos from YouTube and of course with one condition YouTube didn't remove those videos completely from their server.

Besides Deletube, you may try:

FtvTeen.com
You can find some deleted or removed video clips from these websites. You can search for the deleted clips by name or by ID. However, these websites may contain adult content that is illegal for below age viewers.

TubeMall UndeleTube
UndeleTube is another service provided to view the removed video clips from YouTube. It works pretty well.


via MyDigitalLife

Sick News for Malaysian Torrent Downloaders

Ouch it is seriously a heart breaking news for me since being almost 24/7 torrent downloader .

Reported by The Star newspaper, the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry will be cracking down illegal material downloading activity from Internet. Moreover, if you were caught you can be fined a minimum of RM250, 000 while the maximum RM500, 000.

If the government starts to get serious about it, I'm dead - so do other downloaders

Source: LowYat via The Star

Nada: What a Great Tool and I'm Sarcastic

Well how should I start to write something about Nada? I read about this Nada application from Ghacks, that was the first time I ever seen such an application.

Nada 0.5 is a 1kb download, upgraded from Nada 0.9. According to the developers they will have Nada 0.0 out by the end of the year, not much more to go then.

However, do not assume that Nada is actually a virus and read what they wrote about that:

No. We would not even have the coding knowledge to create a virus. And we would certainly not advertise such an evil program on our web site. Where did you get that ?

If you want to know more about this tool, head to Nada homepage and I strongly recommend you to read throughly the whole page. Its hilarious - just read the whole page first .

Gmail and Its New Features

Lately Gmail added 4 cool features such as IMAP, Group Chat with Emoticons, AIM added to chat and coming soon Colored Labels and Folders.

IMAP
Gmail now able to support IMAP for retrieving emails using third party email clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird.
IMAP is better for those who access emails from more than one device. As an example, if you use the same email account to retrieve your emails at work, home or while traveling, IMAP ensures that new mail is accessible from any device at any given time.
Google recommends IMAP over POP3, so reconfigure your email clients to retrieve emails using IMAP. Instructions for your email client can be obtained here

Group Chat and Emoticons
You can now have group chat conversation at the same time. Group chat can be initiated by clicking on the Options link at the bottom of a conversation window. You will see "Group Chat" as a new option, just select that and type the name of the person you did like to add to your current conversation. If you cannot see the group chat option try signing out and logging in again.
Emoticons also have been introduced and there are three sets of emoticons - plain, round and square.

Adds AIM Supports to Chat
The new AOL Instant Messenger support lest you log into your AIM account to chat with your AIM friends right inside Gmail. To try it out you have got to be using the new version of Gmail in IE7 or Firefox 2. Sign into Chat and hit the Options menu to see the "Sign into AIM" option.

Colored Labels and Folders
The latest features to be included in Gmail is colored labels, which lets users easily categorize emails can recognize them based on label color.
You can assign colors for labels by clicking on the box next to each label in the sidebar.

Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta Released

Yahoo today announced the launch of its Messenger 9.0 Beta that designed to work on both Windows XP and Vista. The new Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 not only supports Vista, but also allows people in six new markets to use the program in their language. They are Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and India.

The features:

• New design and choose from several color themes. Avatars and status messages can now be seen right next to contact's names. New skins and emoticons add to the visual appeal.
• Fully compatible with video and photo sharing applications such as YouTube, Yahoo Video or Flickr.
• Call forwarding option - allows users to stay connected with contacts even when they are away from their desktops. Voice mails are sent as MP3 attachments via email.
• File transfer claimed to be much more secure.

Download Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta

How to Watch Removed YouTube Videos?

Sure everyone used to watch couple of videos in YouTube and embed it in your blog or MySpace, Friendster etc. or maybe uploaded your own videos. Maybe sometimes you stumble onto some popular vidoes that not longer on YouTube because of its offensive contents or copyright violations.

If you happened to end up like that staring at YouTube message - 'this video has been removed due to terms of use violation' then you can check out Delutube. Just try to enter the YouTube video ID to see if the video available.

Delutube let you to watch those removed video from YouTube by playing the video from YouTube folder. Hence, if you YouTube removed the video from the folder then it will disappear from Delutube as well.

Delutube

Download HD Quality Trailer from Apple

I got a friend that prefer watching trailer to decide whether to watch it in cinema if its out. He also collector of very nice and cool movie trailers but he often complains because there is no decent website high definition trailer download. IGN one of the site that offer trailer download.

However most of you might prefer watch trailers in Apple website right but there is a trick you can't download it. If you a Firefox user then this might be helpful, if you are then you need to download Greasemonkey extension - click here to download and install Greasemonkey.

For next step head to here, for further information regarding installing the script. Don't worry there is no hassle to install just one click and you ready to go. Check the demos as well to get know how does it functions.

Enjoy..

MyBlogLog Belongs to Yahoo! Now

MyBlogLog users do you aware that Yahoo! finally bought MyBlogLog after few speculations been released in Internet? According to Forbes, Yahoo! purchase MyBlogLog the Florida based company for $10 million. Yahoo! users now able to register or login with their existing Yahoo! ID. Besides that, reader community will soon be able to access Yahoo! services, like the Flickr photo site and Yahoo! Answers informations service, to their groups.

MyBlogLog is currently available on about 45,000 blogs, according to company chairman Scott Rafer.

via Forbes

Mango Where You Can Learn Foreign Language

A cool web application Mango offers 11 free foreign language courses in Spanish, Russian, Greek, German, Mandarin (haha I already learned it), Chinese, Japanese (anime taught me bit by bit), Brazillian Portuguese, French, Italian and Polish. To start using it, simply sign up with your email address and you’re ready to go. Choose any of the available course and view slideshow presentation instantly. As you progress through the slides, you able to quiz yourself. There are about 100 available lessons per course, and they seem to do a good job setting the foundation for conversational foreign language – and then some.

Worth to give try huh

Understand Types of Malwares and its Definitions

Malware? What’s that? Malware is the collective term to describe malicious programs; these includes

• Virus: It is a program that can replicate itself and affect normal operation of a computer without the permission or knowledge of the user.
• Polymorphic Virus: This type of a virus keeps changing its signature every time it replicates and infects a new file.
• Worm: Unlike a virus, a worm is a program that is capable of replicating and spreading to various other systems without the need of a host file.
• Trojan: It is a program that contains or installs a malicious program though it appears to be a genuine one.
• Spyware: Such type of software collects personal information about the users without their informed consent.
• Adware: This software are capable of playing, displaying, or downloading advertising material automatically to a computer after it is installed on it.
• Backdoor: It is a program that can bypass normal authentication to gain remote access to a computer and remain hidden from cursory inspection.
• Botnet: It is a network of computers controlled by a Bot developer.
• Rootkit: These software tools hide some malicious running processes, files or system data from the operating system.
• Key-Logger: It is a program that is used to capture the user’s keystrokes.
• Fraudulent Dialers: It is a program that installs a malicious program.
• Phishing: It is a fake website appearing to be genuine one in order to extract personal details from users.
• Pharming: Pharming is aimed to redirect a website’s traffic to another phoney website.

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thecrims.com Criminal Online Game

I just started to play thecrims.com yesterday after my friend Vijay a.k.a Danwulf introduced to me when I was chatting in MSN. It was a quite complex game and it took time for me to fully understand on how to play the game.

thecrims.com mainly about a criminal lifestyle game where you do your dirty works, earn money and respects, get arms, develop business, mess with other player and more. Oh ya importantly its free and you can also buy credits that have its own benefits.

After registered you need to pick your character:

1. Pimp - take care of your hookers and pimp your way to wealth.
2. Hitman - a vicious killer known as gangleader.
3. Bussinessman - a man with courage and sharp brain.
4. Robber - a partner in crime
5. Gangster - neutral criminal with evenly divided characteristics.

After picked your character and click few 'Next' buttons you will brought to your dashboard. On your right there will be your profile with your stats (your stats increase automatically when engage in any robbery). On your left panel there are quite number of interesting things you can do, its too much too explain here so check it out on own my friends. Before you engage in robberies head to crims.biz and bookmark it because its important and handy. There will be few tutorials where you can learn more and I'm still learning .

If you faced any difficulties or questions you can ask me, I will try my best to help you.
*Reminder please be careful with Brazilian players after your respect reach 100 and entering clubs. You will know why

Grade Your Website with Website Grader

Geeks Are Sexy came across a tool that evaluates a website or blog a grade from 1-100. The report point out some of the site's weakness and what can be done to improve from SEO point. What is SEO actually? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from a search engine. For further information regarding SEO, head to Wikipedia.

Website Grader is a free SEO tool that provides an SEO score for your website with custom search engine optimization and marketing advice for your website. Use the form above to enter your website, your keyword phrases and your competitors to receive a report about the marketing effectiveness of your website.

The service is completely free, so no harm to give a try.

Moyea FLV Downloader

Yet another easy way to download videos from video sharing websites. Moyea FLV Downloader is a free software that can download FLV videos from most file sharing site. It will monitor your browser for any FLV videos and automatically capture the URLs for downloading.

Features:

• Automatically detects videos, no need to copy paste the URLs.
• Download FLV videos from Youtube, iDaily, Metacafe, Yahoo, Google, Dailymotion, Myspace, etc.
• Preview panel for downloaded videos: also features a linked full feldged FLV player.
• Display video information such as frame rate, codec, bit rate, etc.
• Compatibility: Support IE, Firefox, Maxthon, Opera. Windows NT4.0/+ SP6/2000/XP/Vista.

Download Moyea FLV Downloader


via Freeware Genius

Firefox Extensions Causes Problems

The major advantage of Firefox is its extensions, they can provide unique and useful features but at the same time they can cause problems. Certain extensions can cause your browser crash, excessive CPU usage and memory leaks.

Cybernetnews listed handful of famous extensions that cause problems with any known fixes. You may find answers for your confusions for your erratic behavior of your browser.

Cybernetnews [Firefox Extension Cause Memory Leaks and Crashes]