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Mozilla has a team responsible for mobile Firefox development,under the product name Fennec. Why Fennec? Well, the Fennec Fox is a smaller member of the fox family, or in other words, a smaller version of Firefox. This is apparently what passes for punnery in the development community. Earlier this year, the company said it is in informal talks with mobile operators about its free Mobile Firefox browser. At the time, Mozilla said it would release mobile browsers for the Linux and Windows Mobile operating systems.
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Microsoft> on Monday announced the release of a final "refresh" of its beta Windows Live Essentials applications.
The updated applications include Windows Live Messenger, Mail, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Writer, Toolbar, and Family Safety, according to the Windows Experience blog.
The applications will become key to Microsoft's Windows 7, which will not ship with e-mail reading software and other conveniences traditionally included with Windows.
The blog post offers little by way of explaining the changes, except to say that the developers are "getting very close to the final release" and want to make sure the software is stable.
"Beginning on December 15, we are giving existing beta customers the ability to download the latest version of the Windows Live Essentials suite as a means to get feedback on the changes that we've made to date and confirm that the applications will be ready for full-scale release in the coming months," a Microsoft spokesperson said in an e-mail.
The updates include some minor changes, such as the way signature sounds are handled, but major features remain the same. The software is available for download from download.live.com.
The versions released today aren't dramatically different from the Windows Live Wave 3 apps w But Microsoft says the latest beta refresh means that the company is almost ready to take the beta label away and say that the Windows Live Essentials apps are ready to call final.
There is, however, a rather lengthy list of known issues, especially for users who are running Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. So you might want to check out the release notes and system requirements before installing Windows Live Essentials.

From there, installing new scripts is simple. Just click the "X scripts available" entry, then browse and find a script you like in the pop-up window. Click the install button at the bottom of the window when you find something you like.
Greasefire is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.
Nowadays ebook has become quite common and gradually replacing your conventional printed materials. You can enjoy the convenience of reading anywhere in your portable electronics gadget and best thing is, it doesn’t consume much of your memory space. If you are one of the preferred ebook readers, here is a good online website, ManyBooks that you can find plenty of interesting ebooks resource at no charge.
There are total 22,476 online ebook available for free downloading. You can search any ebook that you are interested in by author, title, category, language or recommendation from the website such as most recent reviews, popular titles, recent downloads, reader recommendations and more. Good thing about this service is it doesn’t require you to register prior to download the ebook. However, if you register an account, the service will help you keeping track of all ebooks you have read and you are able to share your favorite ebook to your friends through RSS Bookshelf feeds.
To download ebook in manybooks.net, just click the link of the ebook title, then it will bring you to the brief introduction page as well as readers’ reviews and total downloads. There are various formats being offered to download the ebook such as PDF, eReader, JAR, mobipocket-prc, palmdoc, iPOD notes, Sony .Irf and etc. Once you have chosen the desired format, click on the download button and it will be downloaded to your local drive and you can start reading it at your own pace.
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Nowadays it is very common to hear about online security vulnerability with email and domains being stolen by unauthorized third parties. As a frequent internet surfer, how are you going to ensure your Gmail is safe from being attacked by phishers and prevent your private information from being stolen by third parties?
You never know or suspect the email is actually sent by phisher as the web page looks like a legitimate site you have visited before. Phishers can imitate as banks, email, online merchants, payment services providers and even governments that you may be confused with what they have claimed and follow the instructions to enter your username, password and other private information on the site. All these information can be used by phishers to steal your bank money, open new credit card applications under your name and etc. In order to prevent or minimize such incident from happening, there are few tips you can apply to prevent phishers’ attacks:
• Examine if there are any suspicious filters which are not created by you
Access to your Gmail account, go to Setting -> Filters, then verify if there are any filters which are not created by you. Delete them right away if there is any.
• Disable Forwarding and POP/IMAP
Access to your Gmail account, go to Setting -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP, disable forwarding, POP and IMAP if you have not used them.
• Be alert when being asked for sensitive information.
Any email or link in the email asking about your user name, password, bank account number or other personal information need to be cautious before submitting those information. Bear in mind that most of the legitimate websites never ask for sensitive information through this channel.
• Do not click on suspicious links in email
If you receive an email asking for private information from a organization which you know of, instead of clicking on the link directly from the email, go to the organization website directly by typing the address in URL. If there is something you need to do, usually there will be an announcement on the homepage. If you can’t find any information from the homepage, don’t hesitate to call the respective party to find out more.
• Use a browser that has a phishing filter
Use the the latest versions of browsers such as Firefox 3.x,Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9.x which have included phishing filters for safer web browsing experience without being interrupted by these kind of phishing activities.
• Do not be deceived by “great offers” or fantastic advertisement
Whenever you have received any online offers and requires you to enter private information, don’t be too excited and make sure that it is really safe or try to find more information.
Here’s a list of 15 Multiple Activation Key (MAK) which is the genuine legit product key for Windows 7 activation. Each product key can be used for unlimited number of client system activation, unlike a Windows Vista beta or release candidate key which limited to activate up to 10 copies of installed system.
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Windows 7 early pioneers (or genie pigs) can use one of the key to activate Windows 7 online or by phone activation.

A) Click on the Download button below to download the BlueBadge_rev2_x86.zip file.
WARNING: This is for the 32 bit version of Windows 7 Build 6801 only.
B) Go to step 3.
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For the 64 bit (x64) Windows 7 -
A) Click on the Download button below to download the BlueBadge_rev2_x64.zip file.
WARNING: This is for the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Build 6801 only.
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3. Click on Save and save the ZIP file to your desktop.
4. Open the ZIP file and extract the BlueBadge.exe file to the desktop (C:\Users\(user name)\Desktop).
5. Click on the BlueBadge.exe file to run it.
6. Click on Yes in the UAC prompt.
7. Click on the I understand the risks, continue button.
8. Click on OK.(if warning message comes)
9. Restart the computer to apply changes.
Adding another theme to Windows Vista can only be done if several system files are patched first. You can find instructions on how to patch a system file at uxtheme.dll patcher or directly download the required files for your operating system here. http://www.withinwindows.com/uxtheme-patches/
The zip comes with two files: VistaVG Seven Boot Screen for Vista.tbs which can be used with the Tuneup Utilities or winload.exe.mui which can be used if the Tuneup Utilities are not installed on the system. Using the winload.exe.mui file requires to replace the original file located in the system32\en-US\ folder with the one downloaded. You need to take ownership of the file by right-clicking it in system32\en-US\ to be able to replace it with the new one. It might be a good idea to backup the file before replacing it. You could also move the old file out of the folder and the new file in. Restart the computer system to see the new boot screen. You might need to enable No Gui Boot in the Boot tab of msconfig.
Download the file from the link above and unpack it on the hard drive. Start by installing Logonvista (LogonStudioVista.exe). Start the application afterwords and load the Windows7.logonvista file.Then take permission for basebrd.dll which is located in c:\windows\branding\basebrd\basebrd.dll and replace it with the one in the dll folder of the unpacked file. It is again advised to backup the file before replacing it. Logout to see the changes.