Mozilla released out the first Thunderbird 5 beta

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Mozilla has released the first beta of Thunderbird 5, its next generation email messaging client.

Apart from Mozilla's decision to skip a major version number, Thunderbird 5 features a new addon manager and extension management API. Mozilla says that the user interface for the addon manager will change before the final release. For Mac users there will be 32-bit and 64-bit Universal binaries, however Thunderbird 5 will drop support for Mac systems running on PowerPC processors.

At present Thunderbird 5 looks similar to the tabbed interface found in Thunderbird 3. Mozilla says that there are interface tweaks such as being able to reorder tabs as with Firefox. Given that this is just the first beta, it's likely that more adjustments will be made before the final release.

The latest version of Thunderbird Beta has the following changes:

-New Addons Manager and extension management API (user interface will be changed before final release)
-Tabs can now be reordered and dragged to different windows
-Revised account creation wizard, offering improved set-up
-Attachment sizes now displayed along with attachments
-New troubleshooting information page to aid supporting and diagnosing problems in Thunderbird
-Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default
-Various other user interface fixes and improvements
-Support for Mac 32/64 bit Universal builds (Thunderbird Beta will no longer support PowerPC on Mac)
-and numerous other bug fixes

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Advnaced System Care 4 Free Giveaway

Last month Iobit released Advanced SystemCare PRO 4 version, which got new interface and some amazing new features. I have been following Advanced SystemCare for a longtime (since 2006), irrespective of ‘Malware bytes’ episode I can it is a pretty good PC maintenance and optimisation tool that you must have on your PC.

Advanced SystemCare 4 splitted the main interface in to 4 groups :

1. Quick Care : Performs a quick-fire scan of five key areas of your computer: malware, Registry, shortcuts, privacy sweeper and junk files.
2. Deep Care : this performs the same five scans as Quick Care, plus it will dig deeper with full malware scan and deep Registry clean.
3.Turbo Boost : Switch on this to shut unnecessary background processes and services, for releasing more RAM for your PC’s ultimate speed.
4. Tool box : a collection of 20 portable tools, which are included within the main program itself, but the Toolbox allows users to choose the tools they wish to run.

Advanced SystemCare PRO 4 key Features

- Super easy to use. Install it and forget it. Advanced SystemCare PRO works continuously,
- automatically and quietly in the background on your PC
- Can find and fix 200% more registry and system problems than other system utilities.
- Powerful Hard Drive Defrag and Optimization
- Next-generation Registry Deep Clean and Optimization
- Defends PC Security with Extra Protection
- Keeps Your PC Running at Peak Performance
- Quick and Extensive Clean-up for Hard Drives
- Designed for Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000

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Install it, run the software, then Click on “Upgrade Now” button and click “Enter license”, then use below license code to activate pro version.

License code : 1DA1-1DA1-F0FF-73CC

Also use this license code EABC-EABC-F0FF-E950 this code provides 99 days of validity.

Firefox 5 beta Available

Mozilla released the beta version of Firefox 5 under rapid release development cycle and is available for download for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. It seems Firefox is following Google chrome by releasing new versions more rapidly but with less differences compared to the previous versions.

For Now Mozilla development cycle includes 3 main versions of Firefox :

1. Stable version for normal web-surfing.
2. Beta Channel : new features under testing.
3. Aurora channel : Introduces new features.

Also there is a nightly channel which shows the latest Firefox build that are released in the last 24 hours, but these are most likely un-stable.

What’s New in Firefox 5 Beta ?

The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following changes:

Added support for CSS animations
Added support for switching Firefox development channels
Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
Improved spell checking for some locales
Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users

Firefox 5 is scheduled for a final release on June 21 and Firefox 6 is currently  moved to Aurora channel

Firefox 5 beta- Windows (English)
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Google to roll out Street View

Google has recently announced that Bangalore will be the first city in India, to have Google Street View. This will surely open a Pandora's box and will start of a few debates about privacy in India. If you are living in Bangalore, you might expect to get cars like in the image below buzzing about scanning the streets of Bangalore.

This might be a welcome move for street view fans, who can look up streets level imagery from their computers. But, Street View does not serve any real purpose except that it makes Google maps a lot more interactive and addictive.

Popular tourist destinations have probably found that such street view imagery with Google Maps might actually encourage more tourism.

Concerns on Privacy and Safety

• Google Street View has had its fair share of controversies and some countries consider it illegal. It has been banned temporarily in Austria and Czech Republic.
• It is not countries like Israel due to security issues cropping up.
• The biggest controversy wallowed in certain as when Google collected and stored encrypted data from Wi-Fi connections in Germany. Google has apologised and said the data was picked up unintentionally. Since April 2011, Google has discontinued Street View in Germany.
• There have also been some positive stories about Street View, like once when a teenager used it to help the police find two robbers.

What are your views on Google Street View, do you welcome it? The geek in me welcomes such innovation as long as it stays clear for privacy issues for people. Do drop in your comments.

Source: Google India

Tablet PCs below Rs 10,000 in India

Chinese company G'Five announced that it will launch Android and Windows software based tablet computers in India by end of June 2011. Said pc's will available below the price range of Rs 10,000 .

The company has plans to launch two 7 inches and 10 inches in size Android base tablet PC . The Windows model will be 10 inches in size. 

Kingtech Electronics is fully owned Indian subsidiary of G''Five International.

"Both the Android and Windows-based tablet computing devices shall be launched in India," Arshit Pathak, Managing Director, Kingtech Electronics India said

 "These shall be WiFi and 3G powered and the price range will be below Rs 10,000 - shattering the price barrier once again," Pathak said.

Download From Rapidshare, hotfile without waiting with Online Storage

The new Bittorrent related service Fetch.io has been in the news ever since it was mentioned over at Torrentfreak two days ago. Fetch.io acts as a middleman by downloading torrents to their servers.

Fetch.io additionally supports file hosting websites such as Rapidshare, Filesonic or Megaupload besides torrents.

The service is currently offering free beta accounts that give users 20 Gigabytes of storage and 40 Gigabytes of bandwidth. You can get your bandwidth reset by emailing the developers.

The developers mentioned that they are starting to add more server hardware to improve overall performance of the service for all beta users.

Plans are to launch a paid service after the beta phase. There will still be a free account available for users to test the service, but the storage and bandwidth will likely be reduced. The fact that both torrent and file hosting sites are supported makes the service attractive, the pricing and payment options will however determine if the service will become a success, or if it will disappear like many others before it.

"By using this, free users wait for downloading files from sites like Rapidshare.com, hotfile.com, mediafire.com are over. You have to just copy url of file you want to download and paste it in given filed of your fetch.io account. Then this particular file will transferred from that server to your fetch.io account. Then you will be able to download it as regular file. fetch.io also extract files from your transferred .rar, .zip files."

Joint - Instant Messaging Platform for Twitter

Joint is an IM platform that uses your existing Twitter network. It takes away all the constraints
of Twitter messaging and lets you have engaging, flexible, and realtime conversations.

Joint is an IM platform built on your existing Twitter network.

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Windows 8 Installation Screenshots

winbeta.it just released screenshots of Windows 8  installation. Windows 8 is scheduled to be released in next year. But its beta version which named "Windows Confidential" leaked on internet few weeks ago.

Bin Laden death huge increase in Internet traffic

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- As news of Osama bin Laden's death made its way across the globe Sunday night, Internet traffic exploded.
Twitter: At the news event's peak, Twitter said that users were sending off more than 4,000 tweets per second. That makes the volume of tweets surrounding the event either the second or third-highest in Twitter's history.

That volume is on par with the 4,064 tweets-per-second peak of this year's Super Bowl, but still far short of the 6,939 tweets per second record set when Japan brought in the 2011 new year.
Twitter recently has played an increasingly important role as a disseminator of breaking news, and the bin Laden story was another prime example.
Just before White House officials told the news media that bin Laden had been killed, Keith Urbahn, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's chief of staff, spread the word via Twitter.
"So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn."
Urbahn later said he was tipped off by a well-connected network TV news producer.
Other news agencies quickly followed with tweets, and the microblogging site soon exploded with information about the event.
Urbahn was actually not the first to break the news. A Pakistani IT consultant named Sohaib Athar with the Twitter handle ReallyVirtual, who lives in the city of Abbottabad where bin Laden was killed, unwittingly live-tweeted the event as it was happening.
"A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad ... I hope its not the start of something nasty" Athar tweeted at about 5:00 p.m. ET on Sunday.
Google: Google Trends ranked the keywords "osama bin laden dead" as "volcanic," the highest level it assigns for a trending topic.
Sunday was not the first time that the term "osama bin laden dead" peaked on Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). On Sept. 24, 2006, a French newspaper l'Est Republicain reported a story supposedly based on leaked Saudi intelligence documents that said bin Laden had been killed a month earlier. The CIA and French governments quickly denounced that report as false.