Firefox 4 is out and is much better, faster, sleeker and safer ! Here’s how you can install or upgrade your Firefox in Ubuntu to Firefox 4. Type the following commands into your Terminal.
Step 1 : Add the official Mozilla Firefox Ubuntu PPA by
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
Step 2 : Update the repository.
sudo apt-get update
Step 3 : Then, install Firefox 4 package.
sudo apt-get install firefox ubufox
Note : ubufox adds Ubuntu-specific modifications to Firefox.
That’s it !
The mozillateam is the group who maintains Firefox packages for Ubuntu. The stable release is in firefox-stable. Note, that this will upgrade your current Firefox version to 4.0. The packages in this PPA will not be parallel installable with the packages in the official Ubuntu archive. Installing Firefox from this PPA will provide Firefox 4 in English. For other languages you’ll have to install an extension.
Enjoy 
I think that it’s cool and ‘geeky’ to be able to launch your favorite and frequently used application just the way you launch regedit, cmd or services.msc from the Run dialog box or even from the Command Prompt. In this post, I am going to tell you 3 methods to do this. The first two methods can be used only to launch executable files where as third method can be used to launch any file or directory.
1. Using Add2Run utility
Let’s start with the most simple way to launch applications from Run. Add2Run developed by Jitendra Bangani is a tiny standalone portable utility designed just to do this. Read more…
GIF animations are most popular and are used everywhere right from banner ads to funny animations. UnFREEz is a very tiny useful utility developed by WhitSoft that allows you to make simple GIF animations. You do not need any knowledge or skills of editing frames or pictures. Basically what it does is, it creates a single animated GIF image from separate GIF files. UnFREEz needs no installation – it’s a stand-alone portable executable file.
Here are some of it’s features :
- Drag and Drop GIF Images
- Set Frame Delay Time
- Automatic Interlacing
- Automatic Transparency Detection
Read more…
Glass2k is a small little program developed by Chime Softwares that can make almost any window transparent. It’s very tiny, takes up very little system resources and moreover doesn’t need installation.
Here are some of it’s features :
- Set transparency level for individual windows or programs.
- Remember each window or program’s transparency settings.
- Load on startup.
- Make taskbar transparent.
- Beep on glassification.
- Keep windows on top
- Sits in system tray.
And all this at just 55 KB ! Read more…
What is Lynx ?
Lynx is a free open-source, text-only Web browser. Many search engines like Google recommend you to look at your site using Lynx browser as the search engine crawlers and bots ‘see’ your pages the way Lynx sees.
Browsing in Lynx consists of highlighting the chosen link using cursor keys, or having all links on a page numbered and entering the chosen link’s number. Lynx cannot display various types of non-text content on the web, such as images and video, but it can launch external programs to handle it, like an image viewer or video player. The speed benefits of text-only browsing are most apparent when using low bandwidth internet connections, or older computer hardware that may be slow to render image-heavy content.
Why use Lynx now ?
Most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site. Read more…
