Google Earth 2.0 for iPhone/iPod Touch

Google has officially announced the new version of its popular and free application. Google Earth was firstly introduced about one year ago and is the second most downloaded free application overall. New version helps to view maps just like it is created on desktop. If you are planning for a vacation for tracking or hiking Google Map could be quite helpful. Design track on desktop and import KML file in My Maps in Google Maps. Multiple language support, improved icon selection and performance are few of the features.

Download Google Maps 2.0 for iPhone/iPod Touch from iTunes

IEEE Spectrum October 2009

 
IEEE Spectrum October 2009

IEEE Spectrum September 2009

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Twilight Map [Bing]

New Moon fever is over rising the mercury. With less than a week left for the Twilight extravaganza to start, its boiling hot. To keep up the excitement Bing team has come up with an innovative Twilight Virtual Tour.  This web based video application bring Forks, La Push, Port Angeles an Volterra, The Cullen house, Fork's Police station, Fork's Hospital, Bella italia, The dress shop, The book store, The High school and more right to your desktop. When you click to any location it gives a detailed view of the location with showing streets, roads etc. In addition it also gives short cut navigation to the near most popular places with distance mentioned in miles. It also gives the option to watch locations more precisely with photos and videos powered by Bing search.

Twilight Bing Maps uses Microsoft Silverlight which is required to view this application. Go to http://msntwilight.com/

WiFi Hotspot with Virtual Router

Connectify is the one application which allows us to convert Laptop/PC running Windows 7 into a WiFi HotSpot. However there are some limitations with Connectify. Firstly its beta version is free and final version won't be. Secondly it supports a limited number of Wireless Cards.

If your plans are long term, choose Virtual Router. For now its in beta and unlike Connectify, Virtual Router final version will be free. Apart from Windows 7 it also supports Windows Server 2008 R2. It uses WPA2 encryption and this application is purely written in C#.

Download Virtual Router

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta page Live

Microsoft Official page to Download or try its Beta version is live now. It is free to try the beta version or try the beta version online using your hotmail or live id. The download offers Home and Business editions which include Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook and Web Apps. Where as Office Professional beta include Access and Publisher in addition to Home/Business editions. There is another volume available Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta which is a suite pack.

Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

Mac users can download from here.

Follow instructions for Office Web Apps in Windows Live here.

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Final

After the beta release and many bug fixes, new and clean version 10.0.0.1102 is available free for download.

Many new and enhanced features include

1. Enhanced Video calling

2. Improved language support

3. PC-PC and PC-Mobile calls

4. IM forwarding to Mobile

5. Call forwarding

6. Stealth/Privacy settings

7. Plug-ins support and many more

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Final

Update iPod Nano Firmware to 1.02

Apple recently issued update to iPod Nano 5G. It include some of the bug fixes and is highly recommendable. New update covers

1. Audio podcast playback fix

2. Genius Mixes for iPod+Nike

3. Headphone voice issue fix

To upgrade download iTunes and update via PC/Mac.

Download Firefox Beta 2

A new and latest version for Firefox 3.6 beta series is available for download. This Version beta 2 is fixes 190 errors which beta 1 reported to have. Many improvements for Web and Add-On Developers and users is promised. The beta version of Firefox 3.6, web rendering engine named Gecko includes features such as

   1. Mechanism to avoid frequent crashing.
   2. Change browser appearance with one click.
   3. Builtin personas support
   4. Out of date plugins update
   5. Open, native video can be displayed for full screen, and supports poster frames
   6. WOFF font support
   7. Improved JS, browser responsiveness, startup time.
   8. CSS, DOM, HTML5 support

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 2

Firefox Maemo 5 Beta released

 Latest up to date mobile version of Firefox Maemo Beta 5 is released . This release is available for Maemo OS2008 and Maemo 5 software platforms running of Nokia N810 and Nokia N900. This release includes noticeable improvements like

   1. Firefox official branding with name and logo
   2. Multiple location support
   3. Flash support
   4. Support for viewport meta tag
   5. Auto Form assistant
   6. Improve panning and zooming
   7. Bug fixes

You can find more information on release notes and do check in new mobile page.

Download Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard

Recently Mac user have been reporting about many issues like deletion of data in Guest user account etc. Mac team has over come with some bug fixes in this new version.This new update is highly recommendable for Current Mac Snow Leopard users. It fixes critical issues and improves stability, compatibility and security for Mac. Mac OS X 10.6.2 fixes includes

   1. Unexpected logout
   2. Graphics improvements
   3. Administrator authentication
   4. Guest account data deletion
   5. iCal web interface within select time zones
   6. Server side filtering of incoming mail messages
   7. Automating installation of NetRestore images
   8. Preventing brute force attacks

Download Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard

Download ultrasn0w 0.92 to Fix Carrier Name & Logo

iPhone Dev Team has come up with a new version of ultrasn0w to fix some bug fixes. Previously users reported no carrier logo and name when Jailbreaking with Pwnage Tool 3.1.4 or later. Now it has been fixed. ultrasn0w 0.92 can unlock only iPhone 3G, 3GS firmware version 3.1.2 baseband 04.26.08.

Follow below how to fix carrier name and logo

1. Open Cydia

2. Go to manage

3. Select source>Edit

4. Add repo http://musclenerd.com

5. Search for 'ultrasn0w' and install it

6. Restart iPhone

For users who have previously unlocked iPhone with previous version of ultrasn0w (0.9), should go to 'Cydia app' on their iPhone and click 'Modify'. To unlock baseband 05.11.07 blackra1n will be the appropriate choice.

RapidShare Mass Downloader

Rapidshare Mass Downloader tools helps to download rapidshare file links without actually going to the download site. It avoids the wait which we have to usually do. It is a windows based tool. There are 3 options available to download rapidshare files.

 

1. Add Single URL

2. Load Links from a text file

3. Load Links from a web page

Just give the required link and press 'start downloading'. It will take a moment to load the file, be patient at that time. This particular tool is developed by Sourceforge developer under GNU GPL license.

Download Rapidshare Mass Downloader