Show Image and Link Properties On Mozilla Firefox 3.6

Got a Mozilla firefox 3.6 installed in your computer? Did you notice that in this new version has no properties option for link and image? Yup, that’s the problem. I was a little disappointed when I tried to "right click" on links / images I can’t find properties option. For some users maybe this is not a big deal but I’m sure some of you (especially bloggers and webmasters) are not expecting this problem.



Should I uninstall the new version and back to 3.5? Nope ... well, there is a solution to show "properties" on Mozilla Firefox 3.6. You can use add-on to add properties option to your browser. Just install the add on then restart the browser.

Free Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 For Windows, Mac OS X and Linux

Internet users must be know about this browser. Yup, Mozilla Firefox is the most popular open source browser ever, and I'm sure that most of you have this browser installed in your computer. Well, few days ago mozilla.com has released the new Mozilla Firefox 3.6 (latest version), have you update your firefox browser? If not, take some time to update your browser. If you don't have Mozilla Firefox browser, I recommend you to use this browser. By using this browser, there are many advantages you can get in your browsing experience. It's an opensource browser and supports a large number of popular OS, so you can get the free download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 for windows, mac os x and linux.

What's new in firefox 3.6? As they stated in the website, the featured feature is built in support for Personas. It allows you to instantly change the look of your Firefox with thousands of lightweight themes. By looking at the download page, now Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Personas supports more than 70 languages. The browsing speed is also increased, 20% faster than the previous version plus improved javascript performance.

One more, when I updated my firefox browser there is a notification about outdated plugins (not compatible with the new versions), the plugins will be disabled but they will be enabled again when there is a new update on the outdated plugins. No more babbling, go to mozilla download page to get a free download mozilla firefox 3.6 for windows, mac os x and linux - supports over 70 languages.

Free Online Based OCR Service - Convert Image To Text

In my last blog post about OCR, I mentioned some free OCR software. Now I would like to share two (2) online based OCR tools which has similar abilities with the OCR software. As you know Optical Character Recognition or OCR tool is useful to convert images to text, so if you have scanned documents (in jpg,gif,bmp or other image formats) you can convert them to text easily, you don't have to re-type all characters in microsoft word.

Anyway, the conversions will not always perfect (depends on many factors, such as image quality), so I recommend you to re-check after the conversion. But the result is not bad either and most importantly these free OCR tools are free.

Free Online Based OCR Service
1. Free OCR
2. Online OCR

Both of OCR are free to use and have a simple interface. All you have to do is upload your images then recognize them. Finally, although they're not perfect but I hope they will be your solution for free OCR tools to convert images to text.

Download Valentine Day Themes For Windows 7

Now, it is near to the special valentine day 2010. For you who are looking for a gift for the day, why don't you consider to give him/her your favorite Valentine day themes for Windows 7? If you buy a computer with windows 7 as a gift then you can install these themes before you give it to your someone special.

Here, I listed some of free Valentine Day themes for windows 7. I'm not the creator of these Windows 7 themes. I only put them all together in this post so hopefully this will make you easier to choose your favorite themes. Credit goes to their respective author.

Valentine's Day Rose and Valentine Day 7 Themes



Author : Windows 7 Themes (Download Page)

Exclusive Windows 7 Valentines Day Themes Series I


Author : Tucknoloji (Download Page)

Exclusive Valentines Day Theme for Windows 7 Series II


Author : Tucknoloji (Download Page)

Tucknoloji provides more valentine day themes for windows 7 such as Disney cartoon valentine themes, broken heart themes, and top valentine day themes, plus you can find tons of other themes for Windows 7 and XP on the "themes and layout" category.

Free OCR Software Download – Freeware Apps To Convert Image To Text

How do I convert images to text? If it is the case you can use OCR software. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a tool to help you to extract any characters (words, alphabet, dots, numbers, etc.) from images, convert images or pictures or photos to editable text and then you can save it to document formats such as Microsoft word, PDF, txt, rtf, html and etc.

So if you have images from scanned documents or photo shots (jpeg, tiff, gif and bmp formats), you don’t have to re-type all characters from images to your office program, just use OCR software to convert image to text. However, the conversions are not always perfect, it will depend on image’s quality. But don’t worry; because the text is editable thus you can correct them manually.

Most of OCR programs are commercial software, there are few OCR freeware available. Here I would like to share 2 (two) free OCR software for you. If you know another softwares, please share them on comment section.

Free OCR Software Download

SimpleOCR
It is a 100% free OCR software, unlimited use for personal, educational institutions and corporate users.
download SimpleOCR

TopOCR
You can convert document images from scanner and digital camera (even your phone camera) to text documents. Topocr.com has 2 freeware products, there are TopOCR 3.1 and Babel Reader LE (for windows mobile phone).
download TopOCR

Free Download GOM Media Player Latest Version For Windows

GOM multimedia player is one of my favorite tool to play video on my computer. GOM Player supports all popular video and audio files. It's such a headache if you want to play a certain formats but your media player doesn't support the codecs. With GOM player latest version you don't have to install the codecs separately because the download contains a complete package of popular video and audio codecs, all you have to do is install the application and enjoy watching videos from any video formats. It allows you to play various video's formats such as 3gp, mp4, flv player, avi, wmv, dat, mkv, rmvb, mpg, divx, xvid, vob, asf and mpeg formats.


GOM player also has a good looking interface plus easy to use. Cool isn't it? Moreover, based on my experience if you have a damaged or incomplete video files (ie. avi) you can still play the video, it will skip the damaged frames. Furthermore GOM player is able to play online internet TV channel and Radio broadcasting. The default settings will keep your GOM player up to date with internet automatic update. GOM multimedia player is a freeware so you can download it for free.

Download GOM Player latest version from its official site
download size : 5.86MB
installation size : 20MB
OS : Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7

Free Download Easus Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 - Giveaway Software!!!

Hi everyone, I found something interesting! There is a free giveaway from Easus, that is the full version of Easus Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 (for unlimited use). The giveaway is still active until now so you better be hurry to get this software download.

Easus Data Recovery Wizard is drive tool which has abilities to recover deleted files from your computer hard drive. This tool could be useful if you lost your important data because of virus, software crash or you accidentally delete your data.

What you can do with Easus Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 ?
1. Format recovery
2. Partition recovery
3. Bring back your deleted files
4. Recover data lost because of virus or software crash
5. File recovery after accidental format, even if you have reinstalled Windows
6. Get data back from RAW hard drives.
7. Get back files after a partitioning error.
8. Disk recovery after a hard disk crash.
9. Recover office documents (such as microsoft word, excel, powerpoint and etc.), photos, images, videos, music, email, etc.

Easus Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS/NTFS5 file systems on your hard drive. Go to the download link to get it for free!

Download link!

Free Download Yahoo Messenger 11.0.0.1751 Beta Standalone Offline Installer

As one of the most popular chat tool, Yahoo messenger is definitely a "must installed" chat application in your computer. The latest version is Yahoo Messenger 11 Final. In the past blog post I also mentioned about the online installer download for windows. Now, if you want an offline installer for Yahoo! Messenger 11.0.0.1751 then here is the download link (direct download), the older versions are also available as well.

There are some improvements on the new version (now it is more like a social networking tool), plus some bugs have been fixed. After all I like Yahoo Messenger 11 Final but it runs slower on my netbook than the previous version. Don't forget to see also the tips and tricks about how to make symbols on IM, facebook, microsoft word, notepad, and etc.

Free Download Nero 9.4.12.708 Lite Latest Version

Nero basically is a tool for burning or copy data to CD / DVD. I visited their site and see their documentation about their latest product, it seems that Nero 9 is not just a burning tool. However, It is not a free software, but wait...they also offer you with the lite version. Nero 9 Lite is totally free to download and use.

The latest version for the free edition is Nero 9.4.12.708 Lite, the software offers you with all basic functionalities of data burning and copying to CD / DVD. The download size is only 32MB, smaller than the premium one. I think if you just want a data burner tool, it’s better to choose Nero 9 Lite edition.

How to download?
1. Go to download page
2. Enter your e-mail address
3. Click download button to get a free Nero 9 Lite Edition

Free Download eBuddy Mobile Messenger Latest Version

Download eBuddy mobile messenger the latest version and connect with your friends anywhere, everywhere, anytime as long as you have internet connection on your phone. eBuddy is a free messenger tool for chat on your mobile phone (blackberry, iphone and java based phones), it allows you to log in to multiple accounts such as yahoo messenger, GTalk, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Facebook. By using eBuddy you can easily chat, use emoticons, organize contacts, make a group chat, and etc.

The latest version for eBuddy mobile messenger is Ebuddy 1.5. How to download and install this application on your mobile phone?

How To Embed Office Documents (Word, PPT, Excel, PDF, text) in Website / Blog?

If you want to share your documents to your audiences via blog / website, you can embed your office documents, such as microsoft word, excel, ms powerpoint, PDF, text in your web page. There are many free document viewer service to help you. Here are my favorites, let's check them out.

Docstoc
To use docstoc services you must register an account. It allows you to upload and share / embed your documents to blog. Docstoc supports all popular office formats such as doc, xls, ppt, pps, pdf, rtf, txt, docx, xlsx, and ppts. Moreover they offer adsense revenue sharing.
example :

sample document test -

Scribd
This document viewer allows you to upload and share / embed documents in your web page. You have to register an account to use the service. Scribd support a large-range of document formats such as microsoft office, Openoffice, PDF, text etc.
example :
Sample Document Test

Zoho Viewer
It's very easy to embed documents in blog / webpage by using Zoho viewer. You don't need to register an account, just upload and get the embed codes. Supports Microsoft Word Document, Excel / Spreadsheet, Powerpoint Presentation, and PDF
example :


so which one is your favorite?

How To Change Facebook Background With Your Own Picture

How to change facebook background? It's fun to play with this popular social site but it's kind of boring if we faced the same default facebook background everyday. In the previous post about FB tips and tricks I already mentioned about how to change facebook layout and styles, actually the technique is almost the same, we still use the mozilla styler add-on, but now we will try to change the background with your own picture / wallpapers.

Ok, enough with the babbling, let's begin the tutorial about how to change facebook background.

1. First, make sure that your browser is Mozilla Firefox and you have installed the Styler Add-On.

2. Make sure you have installed and apply one of facebook layout/style. In this tutorial we'll use Facebook Windows 7 Black Edition.

3. Go to your facebook page

4. Find picture / wallpaper on your computer, and decide what picture you want to be used for your facebook background, and then open the image with your browser.
For example, here I choose a National Geographic Wallpaper and open it with my browser:


Take a look on the address bar, you'll see the picture's url (location address). As alternative, you can also put your picture in image hosting or your server.

5. Copy the picture's url

6. Now, back to your facebook page.

7. Open the "style manager". Click on the "S" symbol on the bottom right of your browser window - then choose "manage styles..."


8. Select "Facebook Windows 7 Black Edition" and then click "Edit"

9. Find the default background url, it would be something like this:

background: url("http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3729/windows7qs.jpg") #000000 top left fixed no-repeat !important;

10. Change the default background URL (http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3729/windows7qs.jpg) with your picture's URL (ie. file:///F:/Wallpaper/NatGeo%20Wallpaper1.jpg).

11. To make the wallpaper fit in your browser window, make sure you change the image alignment, top with center, and left with center

So, after you changed the style, the result will be like this :

background: url("file:///F:/Wallpaper/NatGeo%20Wallpaper1.jpg") #000000 center center fixed no-repeat !important;

12. Click preview to see changes and save to apply the changes to your facebook style.


Done! Now you have successfully changed your facebook background with your own picture.

Turn Your Scanner and Printer Into PhotoCopier With iCopy

Change / Turn your printer and scanner into photocopier machine? Sounds interesting eh...? well I tell you, it’s not impossible now. With a simple portable software, called iCopy, you can combine your printer and scanner – turn them into copier machine. It allows you to make photocopies on the fly, with speed comparable to a copy machine.

You don’t have to manually scan the physical documents or re-write them using microsoft word then you print them, that’s not effective. iCopy is a free full open source software developed by SourceForge, so it's a trusted freeware. It turns your scanner and printer into a powerful, yet easy to use instant copier, allowing the copying of documents and images by pressing a button. With iCopy you have all the options for scanning and printing in a small and simple window.

How To
Select the number of copies, color, paper size, image settings and press the blue "Copy" button to start copying.


Start your prints quickly through the scanner button. Click the scanner button and choose the iCopy as default / standard software. When you click the button again, the iCopy will start automatically.

iCopy offers several options to improve the outcome of the copy. You can change the picture settings as brightness, contrast, resolution and magnification.


Other features : preview, scan to file, selecting the scan, function expansion by percentage, you can scan multiple pages before printing, etc.



iCopy is compatible with large numbers of printer and scanner products from various brands such as Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lexmark and others.

Turn Your Scanner and Printer Into PhotoCopier : Download iCopy

How To Create A Group On Facebook? Easy Tutorial

How to create a group on Facebook? Well, actually it's very easy to make it. A group is a facility to assemble community with same interest such as hobby, school, activities, office, club and others. You know, it is fun to have friends with the same interest, so we can share information, talk, planning and coordinating activities on a group.

Okay, no more babble, let's start the tutorial to make a group on Facebook. Just follow to these steps :

1. Log in to your facebook account
2. Click "Applications" (on the bottom left) on your facebook layout then choose "Group"


3. Now click "Create a New Group"


4. Type your group name, description and category (required). Recent news, office, email, website, street, city/town are optional.


5. On the Step 2, customize the group and set the rules or access. If you're not sure you can Skip this step.


6. Click Save or Skip

7. Now you can invite your friends to join the group


Click Back To "your group name" to see your group page. You can access customization menu on the top left sidebar of your group page.



Ok, that's all for how to create a group on facebook :)

Integrated Chat Feature On Google Translator Toolkit

Just want to inform you, now, Google translator toolkit has an integrated chat feature. The integrated chat functions are exactly like the pop-up chat on Gmail.



Google Translator Toolkit is a free language translator tool / dictionary that allows you to make a translation from web page, text, document formats (such as microsoft word, open office etc.) and Wikipedia. Moreover, because the translations are not always perfect, you can edit and fix the text translation on side by side view. Finished with the translation work, you can download or publish it, you can also share the translation to your friends.

See the video to learn more about Google Translator Toolkit.



The integrated chat on Translator Toolkit includes all contacts on your mail, so it can be quite useful for coordinating work on a document that is modified by several members of a team. Learn more about chat on translator toolkit on google blog.

HTC Google Nexus One Officially Announced - Reviews, Detailed Specs and Price

Google officially announced the HTC Google Nexus One on January 5, 2010 at Googleplex, Mountain View, CA. Nexus One is a cell phone made by HTC with much input from Google and the phone comes with all the best features. The best feature from this superphone is equipped with the fast 1GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. It’s also the only phone that used the new Android 2.1 operating systems.

Google Nexus One manufactured by HTC, but Google designed almost the entire aspects of this phone, from physical appearance to the software application running on it. From the design, it has strong impression with slim design, wide and big screen – almost covers the entire surface. Its height x width x depth is 119mm x 59,8mm x 11,5mm with weight 130grams (include battery)

The phone comes with quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz and 3G support. Other features from HTC Google Nexus One: equipped with 3.7-inch widescreen WVGA AMOLED touch-screen, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash - auto focus - 2x digital zoom, GPS, digital compass, WiFi, accelerometer, proximity sensor, 3.5mm headphone jack, multicolored LED under the trackball and etc. The most innovative software feature is the smart voice-enabled keyboard, which allows you to speak to any text field.


Watch Google Nexus One On YouTube Video

Google HTC Nexus One Pictures



Click to enlarge!
Images taken from techradar

Google Nexus One Is Available on Google Web Store
Where’s to buy Google Nexus One? Along with the phone announcement, they have also announced Google Web Store. And Nexus One is the first phone available on the Web Store, so you can check out this phone, see the complete specifications and features. Right now, the unlocked version of HTC Google Nexus One is priced for $529, available for shipping to the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. As an alternative you can also buy this phone cheaper, only $179 with 2-year contract with T-Mobile USA.

How To Create A Bootable Linux Ubuntu USB Flash/Thumb Drive? The Easy Way!

How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB Flash / Thumb Drive? Linux Ubuntu is indeed a good alternative for free operating systems as a replacement for microsoft windows. After you download the ISO file, then your first problem is how to make it bootable. On Ubuntu official site they describe well about the process, from downloading to installation. But if you are new to this open source OS maybe the tutorial is too confusing.

To make a bootable Linux Ubuntu setup you cannot simply open the ISO file then extract / copy the files directly to the media (USB drive/CD/DVD), but you will need a tool to make it work. It is simple to burn ISO to CD or DVD, you can use free burner tool such as InfraRecorder. But how to copy the ISO file and make it a bootable setup on USB drive? Here I provide you the easy tutorial to create a bootable Ubuntu USB Flash/Thumb drive as the solution for the first step after you download the Ubuntu ISO file. Note: this tutorial is only for windows XP or Vista.

What will you need?
1. One (1) blank USB Flash / Pen / Thumb Drive (minimum has 1 GB storage size)
2. Ubuntu 9.10 ISO file
3. UNetbootin windows application, download it here

How to Create a Bootable Ubuntu Flash Drive

1. Plug your USB flash drive to your computer
2. Run Unetbootin
3. Check (tick) the "Diskimage" option and make sure you select ISO value on the drop down option.



4. Browse the location on where the Linux Ubuntu ISO file is – then select Ubuntu ISO file.
5. Make sure you have selected "USB Drive" value on the Type option and select the right USB drive location.
6. Now click OK button
7. Please wait the installation process.



8. Once the installation finished, UNetbootin will ask you to reboot your computer or to exit.



That’s it, now the bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive is ready to use. Click exit if you want to restart computer manually or you want to use the USB drive on other computer. Don't forget to change computer's boot priority on BIOS menu. If you are new to linux Ubuntu, you can learn how to geek the OS with Ubuntu Guide PDF ebook by Keir Thomas.

How To Change Facebook Layout, Style and Background

How to change facebook layout or background? Can you do that? Yes of course, you can alter your facebook wallpaper / template to meet your style. To do this trick, now there is an add-on for mozilla firefox which called "stylish" to change facebook styles, so basically you don’t use facebook application to change the layout. Okay, now let’s try it.

1. Start your mozilla firefox browser, if you don’t have it please download from its official site.

2. Install Stylish Add-On then restart your browser.



3. Go to facebook styles page and choose your favorite styles / layout / background.



4. Click "Install with Stylish"



5. Done! Now go to your facebook page and see the result.

You can manage facebook layout or combine styles. Styler manager enable you to manage : activate/deactivate, edit and uninstall current styles. To manage styles click the "S" symbol on the bottom right of your browser window.



To combine the styles, for example you have installed the "Facebook Windows7 Black Edition", now combine the layout with "Facebook Cool Blue Windows 7 Taskbar" style. And here is the result :



Okay, that’s all for how to change facebook layout / background / styles. Easy isn’t it?

Download National Geographic Wallpapers, Free NatGeo Downloader

If you are looking for high quality wallpapers, then this is your chance to download National Geographic wallpapers for free. There is an easy way to get them, by using NatGeo wallpaper downloader - with a single click you can grab hundreds of HD quality photos from NationalGeographic.com and save them to your computer.



You know that National Geographic sites, including the NGM and its photography site provide high quality photos, pictures and wallpaper from their scientific research. There are tons of amazing photographic shots from photo camera, you can download them for free and make them as your desktop wallpaper. In National Geographic sites you can find many nature category wallpapers including animal world, countries, mountains, sea, underwater, and other places around the world.

NatGeo wallpaper downloader is a freeware application – a simple tool to download wallpapers from National Geographic sites. It is easy to use this tool, just follow to these steps :

1. Download NatGeo wallpaper downloader 1.4a (the latest version) in this site
2. Run (double click) the application
3. Choose the destination folder – on what folder do you want to save the National Geographic Wallpapers
4. Customize the years and set the resolution
5. Click "Start Download"



Please wait while the application do the job to download National Geographic wallpapers. That’s it, once the process finished you can apply the wallpaper (set it as your desktop background) to your Windows 7 themes or Windows XP themes.

Install Facebook Emoticon ChatBar - Firefox Add-on!

In the previous post I mentioned about facebook emoticon codes. There is a more convenient way to use emoticons in your chat box. Now you can post emoticon easily by using Mozilla Firefox Add on / Plugin, it will add facebook emoticon chatbar so you can insert any emoticons with a single click. For Google Chrome users, please use facebook emoticon chatbar Chrome extension instead.



If you don't have firefox, you can download it on its official site. Then install firefox add-on. Restart your browser, now you can use the facebook emoticon chatbar. For other alternative you can also make symbol or emoticon using the alt key keyboard, which enable you to post any symbols on text media such as IM, notepad, microsoft word and others.

Lists of Facebook Chat Emoticon, Emotion, Smiley - Complete Codes

Facebook has been grown as the most popular social site, especially in Asia. Facebook also features chat facility to enable users to do a real time text base communication. By using some codes you can make some cool emoticons / emotion icons / smiley when you chat with your friends on facebook. For your reference, here I provide you the complete lists of facebook emoticon codes to express your feelings.

It is easy to create facebook emoticons, emotions or smileys, just type these following codes into facebook chat and they will appears in your chat window. Enjoy :D


UPDATE : install facebook emoticon chatbar (for Mozilla Firefox only) or install facebook emoticon chatbar google chrome extension (for Google Chrome browser)

Facebook Emoticon and Smiley Codes

happy
:-) or :)

big grin
:-D or :D

wink
;-) or ;)

happy eyes
^_^

laughing eyes
>:o

cat smile
:3

grumpy
>:-(

sad
:-( or :(

crying
:'(

Shocked
:-o or :o

Glasses
8-) or 8)

Cool shades
8-|

Tongue
:-P or :P

Woot
O.o

Nerd
-_-

Uncertain
:/ or :\

Devil
3:)

Angel
O:)

Kiss
:-* or :*

Love
<3

Pacman
:v

Robot
:|]

Guy face / chris putnam
:putnam:

Penguin
<(")

Shark
(^^^)

You can also make symbols, more smiley emoticons on facebook chat using "alt" key with your keyboard. Moreover, you can also use them on myspace, IM, notepad, microsoft word, blogs, etc. For example ☺, ☻, ♥, ♦, ♣, ♠, ♂, ♀, ♪, ☼, ♫ ... For more instructions, go to "how to make symbols using alt key" page. This can be an alternative to make more facebook emoticon, smiley and symbols.