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This article was written on May 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

Today is a big day for Mozilla because it marks the last version of Firefox 1.5 that will ship. Last month Mozilla kindly extended the "end-of-life" date from April 24, 2007 to today in order to get one final release in. This last release was definitely necessary though since Mozilla had never prompted 1.5.x users to upgrade to Firefox 2, but that is about to change.

The Firefox homepage has not been updated with the new versions yet so I have put together two downloaders for each of the new versions. The downloaders below use Mozilla’s load balancing techniques to distribute the downloads across their mirrors, so you don’t have to worry about hammering their servers:

Download Firefox 1.5.0.12:

Download Firefox 2.0.0.4:

The list of changes in these builds haven’t been posted yet, but should be available on the release notes for later today. The release notes for Firefox 1.5.0.12 will be here and 2.0.0.4 will be here. However, there are 117 bugs that have been fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.4, of which 24 caused crashes, 2 were memory leaks, 18 were regressions, 2 were privacy-related bugs and 12 were security-sensitive. So, as always, the upgrade is highly recommended.

Overall it looks like most visitors to our site have made the upgrade to Firefox 2, although Mozilla said last month that about 40% of their users are still stuck on an older version of Firefox. For the last 30-days here is how the different versions of Firefox stack up on our site:

The good news is that Firefox 1.5.0.12 is finally supposed to prompt existing users to make the upgrade to Firefox 2. This seamless transition is what a lot of people have been waiting for, but I wish they would have gotten it done a little sooner than 7-months after the release of Firefox 2.

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This article was written on January 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

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I don’t think that anyone would argue that getting used to Microsoft Office 2007′s new interface takes some time. I’ve been using Beta 2 for what seems like forever (probably about 8 months in reality) and I finally feel comfortable being able to find the commands that used to reside on toolbars and menus in previous versions of Office.

It turns out that Microsoft is working on a plug-in for Office 2007 with the codename Scout, according to I Started Something. It will offer an additional tab that is similar to the one pictured above so that users will be able to quickly search for the commands that they could instinctively find before. As you start to type a word in the search box, such as “pictur” in the example, it will show you live results from the list of available commands.

One recommendation that I can give you is to make good use of the Quick Access Toolbar that is located above the tabs. It keeps you from having to constantly switch back and forth between tabs to get to the commands that you use frequently. The easiest way to add something to the Quick Access Toolbar is to just right-click on any item located on a Ribbon, and select the “Add to Quick Access Toolbar” option:

To keep the toolbar from getting too cluttered you can customize it using the respective option on the right-click menu. That way you can reposition items and put separators in.

Of course, you’ll have to be able to find the command in the first place. I’ve found the help to be quite useful and it can save you more time than you think, but once the Scout add-on becomes available that will surely speed things up. This morning I actually came across an interactive tutorial that Microsoft is offering for Word 2003 users that lets you hover over a command to see where you can find it in Office 2007 (as pictured below). If that isn’t enough for you then click on the command and it will actually demonstrate how you can find that command in Word 2007.

I was really impressed that they even let you go through all of the menus and select commands there as well, so it will be pretty comprehensive for most Word users. It would have been nice, however, if they put a tutorial like this together for Excel and PowerPoint but I couldn’t find one.

Once you start to get used to Microsoft Office 2007 it is hard to switch back to the previous versions that only have the toolbars. Everything works so smoothly and, despite the initial frustration, you can find things much faster. If you really give the new interface a fair shot, and still walk away not liking it I would be quite surprised.

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We wouldn’t say it was delivered with lightning speed, but Dell’s firmware update for the Venue Pro is at least on schedule. The outfit’s Lionel Menchaca tweeted that the refresh, which brings a fix for a WiFi lockup issue (among others), “starts rolling out today for T-Mobile customers in the US + all other customers outside the US.” Unfortunately for AT&T customers sporting this pro phone, it looks like you’ll be left in the firmware lurch a bit longer — there’s been no mention of a similar update for Ma Bell.

Dell Venue Pro firmware update silences WiFi woes originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on February 28, 2006 by CyberNet.

Did you know that your computer is supposed to boot up in less than 30 seconds, and that 30 seconds is the time from when you push the power button to the time that you are able to use the computer. The hibernate startup time should be 20 seconds and the resume from standby time should be 5 seconds. Like most people, that is not a reality and as computers become bloated then the startup times get longer and longer.

Years ago Microsoft realized this problem and offered a solution. The free solution that Microsoft released is known as BootVis. For some people the software does not offer much of a performance increase, but for others it does. I would say that my startup time was decreased about 20%, which isn’t bad for free software.

Another really cool feature of the software is the ability to graphically see how long each program takes to startup on your computer and at what time it actually begins to startup. It shows a block on the graph for each program that you have run at startup, which really helps you to identify the bottlenecks in your system.

Here is a quick tutorial on how you can use BootVis to optimize your system (repeat about every 2 months):

1. Download BootVis.
2. Install BootVis from the downloaded file.
3. Run BootVis.
4. Select Trace => Next Boot + Driver Delays.
5. Click OK on the Trace Repetitions dialog box that pops up.
   PLEASE NOTE: Your system will now reboot itself.
6. After your system reboots, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING because BootVis will automatically startup after it has finished examining the computer.
7. After BootVis has finished starting up, Select Trace => Optimize System.
8. Your computer will take longer than usual to reboot this ONE time. After your computer has rebooted, BootVis will display a screen telling you that it is “optimizing your system”. Your computer’s startup has now been optimized. Enjoy!

Download Source For BootVis: Major Geeks

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You read that correctly — Netflix streaming is about to get really real on impending Honeycomb tablets. One of the nuggets that makes Lenovo’s newly unveiled IdeaPad K1 so special is the internal DRM module that allows it to play nice with a fresh build of the Netflix app. As we saw back at MWC with the LG Revolution, future Android 3.x tablets (with an unspecified hardware inclusion) will not only support native Watch Instantly streaming over mini-HDMI / HDMI, but it’ll also enable something totally new: local storage. The fresh build of the app — which will remain exclusive to Lenovo for “a short while” — will have a heretofore unseen option that’ll let subscribers store flicks locally for offline viewing. We’re told by Lenovo that files can be stored on the internal flash as well as on microSD cards, and while we’ve yet to get a hands-on look at the app, we’ll be doing everything we can to change that.

Just to answer the obvious question: no, your existing Honeycomb tablet won’t be able to support this goodness through a firmware update. You’ll actually need a slate with the requisite hardware within to take advantage, and it’s hard to say at this point who will follow Lenovo down the path. We’re hoping that the added functionality won’t lead to a boost in Netflix’s monthly rate, but given the history of the app, we can’t say we’re too terrified about that possibility. So, how fast will the APK be ripped from the fabric of a K1 and thrown out onto the web? Somewhere between “quickly” and “you’ve got to be kidding me,” we’re surmising.

Netflix to stream natively from HDMI-equipped tablets, enable local storage with hardware DRM module originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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