Software
Fasterfox for Firefox 3.6
Fasterfox 3.1.2 & Fasterfox Lite 3.8.2 for Firefox 3.5.4/3.5.5/3.5.6/3.5.7/3.6/3.6.1/3.6.2
Fasterfox Lite: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148
Simply visit any of the above, click “Let me install the experimental add-on” and let it do the magic for you =). Its not experiment per se, I have been using it since a long time without any problem.
Fully working with latest build:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Firefox 3.6 Downloaded 17 Million Times in the First Week
Firefox 3.6 has been out for almost a week now, but the latest major release is proving less popular than its predecessors, at least it terms of downloads, if only slightly so. This isn’t completely surprising as 3.6 is more of an evolutionary build which, while coming with quite a few new features and updates, is still a much smaller release than either 3.0 or even 3.5. By now, according to Mozilla’s own numbers, over 17 million people grabbed the latest and greatest Firefox. Technically, it’s not necessarily 17 million people as the same guy could have downloaded it 10 times. On the other hand, another guy could have downloaded it once and installed it for his entire family.
Of course, the bulk of it came in the first couple of days when eager enthusiasts grabbed the final version of Firefox’s latest iteration. In its first day of availability it, Firefox 3.6 was downloaded 4.5 million times, 66 percent of them by downloading the installer from the Mozilla page and 33 percent by using the “Check for Updates” feature inside the browser.
That sounds like a decent number of people, but considering that when Firefox 3.5 came out it managed to snatch 5 million downloads in just the first day, it doesn’t really sound that impressive. To put things in further perspective, Firefox 3.0 got 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours, setting a Guiness World Record in the process.
In the first two days, Firefox 3.6 was downloaded more than 6 million times. Things wined down a bit after that, but it’s still spreading at a healthy pace adding 2 million downloads just from last night, during daytime in the US, from where Firefox 3.6 got the most downloads, almost 3.5 million so far. Expectantly, the runner up in the country rankings is Germany with a little over 2 million downloads. Firefox is extremely popular in Germany and is already the majority browser. After the latest IE security scare numbers picked up even more in the country, so it looks like Firefox still has room to grow.
How to Install Chrome OS in Windows 7
Guide by Redmond Pie via ChromeandChromeOS.com
Step 1: Download and install the latest version of VirtualBox for Windows 7. (download link)
Step 2: Download .vmdk file for Google Chrome OS. (from gdgt)
Step 3: Start VirtualBox and click on “New” button. This will start a wizard that will help you create a new VM in VirtualBox.
Step 4: Name your VM “Chrome OS” and select “Linux” from Operating System dropdown menu, and “Other Linux” from Version dropdown menu.
Step 5: Assign your VM some Ram in megabytes. For this tutorial, I have allotted Chrome OS VM 512 MB of Ram.
Step 6: Now Select “use existing hard disk” option and select the .vmdk file of Chrome OS that you downloaded in Step 2.
Step 7: Click Next and finish the wizard.
Now simply click on the green colored “Start” button as seen in the screenshot above and wait for about 7 seconds for Chrome OS to boot up. You will need a valid Google ID to login into the operating system.
IW.net allegedly spreading a Trojan virus
This is perhaps the first time hackers have used a popular and record setting game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and online gaming network to spread a Trojan virus. Please be on guard if you are using the PC version.
Reported in this forum post on the official IW forums and our very own forums apparently hackers have found a way to go around the IW.net system and send a Trojan virus through the IW.net system to Modern Warfare 2 players. Reverse engeneering the source code for Modern Warfare 2, the hackers inserted their Trojan and used the IW.net system to spread it to players across the globe. This was brough to light after several players got notified of a breach in their security by their antivirus software. The Trojan TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen had been sent to them using Modern Warfare 2’s IW.net as the official transmitter (according to the antivirus). The Trojan itself apparently already surfaced in Call of Duty : World at War and is some sort of keylogging software hackers use to steal keycodes or potentially worse (stealing credit card information for instance).
The Trojan would exploit the port that is opened by Call of Duty when you are a listen server (when you are the host of a game) to send you the Trojan without your knowledge.
Read complete details at the source: [Tek 9]
WordPress Wins CMS Award
A well deserving award;
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
Read more at WordPress Blog
Microsoft Office 2010 (Beta 14.0.4536.1000) Details & Download Links
Office 2010 Beta has been made public by Microsoft as mentioned earlier. Following are the version details, hashes and file sizes for Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta for those who are interested, details are direct from MSDN.
Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta (x64) – (English)
File Name: en_office_professional_plus_2010_beta_x64_x16-19234.exe
ISO/CRC: D5C14D40
SHA1: D07BC0DEE307E05F955CE44825F85084B94595B8
File size: 749.87 (MB)
Version: 14.0.4536.1000
Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta (x86) – (English)
File Name: en_office_professional_plus_2010_beta_x86_x16-19227.exe
ISO/CRC: D3ACD2EF
SHA1: F219E1D7FE830DCD6A796FAFEA3A5D0D4662EE89
File size: 684.48 (MB)
Version: 14.0.4536.1000
