According to Microsoft’s Windows 8 development team, Windows 8 Consumer Preview hits 1 million downloads within the first 24 hours of its release announced on Twitter. But it doesn’t mean that that many users have actually installed the preview.
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Rufus is a free software to format and create bootable USB flash drives(USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks)
Main features:
create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
100% free
small size
no installation is necessary
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Facebook Timeline has arrived for brand Pages.All Pages can upgrade to Timeline today.It also have an optional 30 day period to publish the page.
Notes:
1.Only admins can see this preview now.
2.Timeline is forcibly pushed to you On March 30, 2012.
3.Cover photos are 851 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall (must be at least 399 pixels wide)
4.it removes the ability to set an app as a default landing tab.
5.Covers may not display calls to action or references to Facebook features such as “Like this Page”, purchase or pricing info such as “40% off” or “Download at our website”, or contact information such as web address,email.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview (beta) is now available for download.
Note:This is just a preview(beta) and not the final product.
System requirement:
1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution
How to download Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
There are two ways to download this consumer preview.
To create bootable linux flash drives/USB drive/pen drives download and install LinuxLive(LiLi) USB Creator.
LinuxLive USB Creator is a free software for windows and it creates portable, bootable and virtualized USB (flash) stick running Linux.
Program: LinuxLive(LiLi) USB Creator
Linux distro:Ubuntu 11.10
Difficulty: Beginner
Estimated Completion Time: 4 Minute
Collusion is a firefox add-on and it allows you to track who’s tracking you across the web . It will show the data in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
This mozilla collusion add-on development is supported by the Ford Foundation.
This is still in experimental stage.
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Author’s description:All-in-One Sidebar is firefox add-on to open various windows as sidebar panels, and quickly switch between them.
Main features:
includes a slide-out button and a toolbar
set the orientation to left or right
set the minimum, default and maximum width
set the behavior on browser startup
options dialog
Sidebar Grippy
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Google is celebrating Gioachino Rossini’s 220th birthday and leap year with a new google doodle on its homepage.This doodle is inspired by Gioachino Antonio Rossini’s famous 1816 comic opera II barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces.
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Sigil is a free and open source ebook editing software for Windows, macOS and Linux. Using this you can edit books in ePub format. It supports both ePub 2 and ePub 3 file formats. It is based on QtWebEngine and released under GNU General Public License v3.0. It comes with full full UTF-16 support, code view and preview view, metadata editor, Spell checking and you can extend the features of Sigil with plugins. Some other useful features are diect editing of EPUB syntax in code view and comes with build-in table of contents generator with multi-level heading support.
TaskUnifier is a free task management software based on GTD (Getting things done) methodology.
Main features:
supports subtasks, tags, folders, contexts, goals and locations.
supports plugins
synchronize your data (tasks, notes, folders…) with third-party websites
customize the appearance
requires Java 1.6 minimum.
works behind a proxy
supports notes
sort and filter tasks
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