Firefox 3.5.1 Update now Available for download

After two weeks of launching the Firefox 3.5, Mozilla releases its first update which is version 3.5.1. Firefox 3.5.1 fixes several startup, security and stability issues. The complete list of changes are posted at bugzilla. To install the update click on Help menu then select for Check for Updates to download and install the latest version.


If you need the full install package visit Firefox website.

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VB.NET: Alternate the Background Color for Rows in a ListView

One way to make your presentation of data on ListView be more readable is to use alternating background color on rows. For today's article, I will try to explain How to do such task in VB.NET. Listview's SubItem has a built-in BackColor to make alternate colors possible. Here is a short code to demonstrate alternating background colors in ListView.

        Dim altcolor1 As Color = Color.Blue
        Dim altcolor2 As Color = Color.Crimson

        Dim lv As ListViewItem = ListView1.Items.Add("Test 1")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 1")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 1")


        lv = ListView1.Items.Add("Test 2")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 2")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 2")
        lv.BackColor = altcolor1


        lv = ListView1.Items.Add("Test 3")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 3")
        lv.SubItems.Add("Test 3")
        lv.BackColor = altcolor2

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CDBurnerXP: Free CD/DVD Burning Software

While looking for a good CD burning software on the net to use to burn my MP3 to Audio CD format (for my low end car audio that can't still play MP3 format), I stumbled upon this great freeware CD Burner called CDBurnerXP. Contrary to its name, CDBurnerXP is a complete CD/DVD burning solution for the creation of data CDs and DVDs, audio CDs and Video DVDs.


CDBurnerXP 4 was recently released, and it has some impressive new features:
- Support for burning Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, and Double layer DVDs
- Support for FLAC audio files
- Disc to Disc copy for audio and data
- Save discs and compilations as ISO files
- Support for WPL playlists

Here are some screenshots I captured while testing the newest version.

CDBurnerXP Main Screen


CDBurnerXP Initialization


CDBurnerXP Burning Process


You can download CDBurnerXP for free via Freewaregenius.com

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Google Calendar now has its own Labs

After 3 years from launching, the Search Giant finally decided to add Google Calendar its own Labs. If you login today, you will see a new "Labs" tab under the Settings menu. Like other Labs its purpose is to release early features to users in a quick and experimental fashion before including it to the current version. We've seen how successful Gmail Labs has been and decided Calendar deserved Labs too


There are 6 new features available for testing under Google Calendar Labs.

- Background Image
- Attached Google Docs
- Word Clock
- Jump to Date
- Next Meeting
- Free or Busy.

Here is a sample screenshot from my Google Calendar Account.



Aside from Google Calendar Labs, Google is also releasing an experimental API for developers, you can check out this post at the Google Code Blog for more details.

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Free software to create photo mosaics

Whenever I see photo mosaic, all I can think of is how hassle was the creation process for the person created it. But in contrary mosaic creation can be as easy as counting 1, 2 3. This is of course with the use of a freeware called Foto-Mosaik-Edda. Foto-Mosaik-Edda is freeware (this means you don't have to pay for it) that can create mosaic-pictures that are composed of many small pictures (tiles), from your own photos.

To use it you need to specify the directory of your images (recommended number is 2000 or more) and it'll scan through and create a base set of "tiles" for your mosaic (it can take minutes to finish). Once all pictures are scanned, you can pick your primary photo to be the mosaic image.

Here are some screenshots of the Foto-Mosaik-Edda.





Download this cool software via sixdots.


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