The Firefox team is calling the world to help them set a Guinness world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Pretty exciting! They’re currently getting people to pledge to download Firefox 3 within 24 hours of its release as a part of Download Day 2008.
The release date is still unknown, but it will be soon we guess, but by pledging you will signed up to receive updates on the Firefox 3 release, in addition you can stay updated on the awaited day via social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc…
So, are you willing to contribute and be part of this big event? We already did here at Zero Hour Sleep!
Forgot to tell you that Firefox 3 has MORE THAN 14,000 improvement over its predecessor!!!!
We believe that having a local webserver is a must for every web developer, as it can help them easily test their code on their computers, and since uploading upload a files every time it is changed on remote webserver doesn’t really make sense because it is time costly especially is the file is of a large size.
Moreover, some developers like to try out some web applications such as Drupal, PunBB, Wordpress, MediaWiki, Mambo, and others, but they sometime refrain from installing them because these applications require other software that might seem hard to install.
Well, that’s wrong, we have actually found a VERY EASY way to install a local webserver with Apache, SQL, PHP and other applications in Windows environment!
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Quicktime media files are quite popular on the net, and that’s nothing new, so we usually have no option but to install it in order to play our favorite files. But hey, we also hate the add-ons that come with Quicktime! and we hate to have processes running in the background and slowing down our computers.
So we were thinkinking today if we can get a lite version of Quicktime to just fit our basic need of playing media files, and we started searching until we stumbled upon a very nice alternative! (You thought there was no alternatives huh?)
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If you’re a fan of The Matrix movie then you’ll definitely like this post!
One of the things that we remember the most is the stream of characters pouring down the screens in the movie. And guess what, we lately have stumbled upon a cool desktop enhancement tool called “ZMatrix”, that imitates the same effect by creating streaming characters on the desktop, very similar to the above screenshot.
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Remember when we introduced Hiren’s BootCD to you in a early post?
Recently this excellent bootable CD has been updated to version 9.5. To those who still don’t know what Hiren’s BootCD is, it’s a boot CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems. So it is pretty useful when your operating system is not booting and you need to troubleshoot the problem
Check below for a list of the available programs utilities in Hiren’s BootCD and the link to download it.
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A lot of Firefox users nowadays are using multiple computers (Home, Work, University, …) and their main concern is to keep their tabs, bookmarks, and saved passwords the same on all computers.
Suppose you’re working on 5 tabs on your home computer and you want to restore them on your work computer, or you simply want to transfer your bookmarks and saves passwords from one computer to another. It is a bit hard to be done manually.
But luckily for us, there’s a nice extension from Google that is capable of synchronizing Firefox across all our computers. That includes synchronizing cookies, saved passwords, bookmarks, history, and opened tabs.
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You probably have heard about Adobe AIR lately. AIR stand for “Adobe Integrated Runtime” and is a platform that brings the web to your desktop by allowing developers to build web applications that run like any other desktop programs without the need of a web browser.
The idea is pretty nice and we were impressed by the results we have seen in the already existing applications. The first one we tried was the Google Analytics which turned out to be much easier to use than on the original web page, in addition to the fact that the user interface is better using Adobe Air.
We also have put together a list of our favorite applications, check it out.
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Screen recording programs have became common to demonstrate how does an application work and to create training videos to teach people how to use a certain software or how to solve a certain problem sometimes.
The problem with such recording programs is that they’re quite expensive, so their prices may go up to $200 and $300 sometimes… We know, that’s totally out of budget! That’s why were going to tell you today about an excellent free screen recording software. In addition, and to make your videos very useful, we will be telling you our little secret to optimize them.
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We work in an environment where RDP is heavily used, so we end up with several windows in the task bar leaving no space for other windows! And it’s disturbing… especially when you have to move from one application to another all the time.
That was actually our situation until we found out about a tabbed RDP client. Pretty cool, you get to open several remote desktop connections, and they will all be grouped in one single window. Just like in Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.
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We’re sharing with you today a very useful software called Net Tools.
Net Tools is actually a set of network tools all incorporated in one easy to use software. And by saying set of tools we don’t mean 10 or 20 programs… there’s 175 different programs available for you to use! It’s actually a strong combination of network scanning, security, file, system, and administrator tools useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your PC and computer’s network connections for system administrators.
Best of all, it is for free! Here’s a list of available tools and the link for you to download the software.
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