The very first Twitter client for Chrome was Chromed Bird, an excellent extension that keeps improving with each update. But this is not the only one, there also other nice Twitter clients for Chrome to choose among that really worth trying. Those ones are Chrowety and Kutano. So lest’s take a look at each one features so you can choose your favorite one:

Chromed Bird

This is my favorite Twitter client for Chrome. It has support for timeline, replies and direct messages reading,
sending tweets, and the latest version includes lists viewing and drag n drop tab reordering. It uses OAtuh for login authentication and its source code is available at http://wiki.github.com/cezarsa/chromed_bird

Chrowety

This extension has a nice user interface, with lots of options to customize it from its configuration panel. Besides tweeting, timeline, replies, DMs and favorites support, its list viewing support it’s really good. It also has new tweets alerts notification popups, tweets translating and preview for images and videos shared through Twitpic and YouTube.

Login can be done through OAuth or Twitter API. Check out Chrowety’s source code on http://code.google.com/p/chrowety

Kutano

Similar to Chromed Bird and Chrowety, this extension has support for sending tweets and reading the timeline, replies and DMs. It also has pictures preview and geolocation support showing your location on a small maps. One cool feature is that it shows the tweets that mention the website you are visiting, letting you know the social buzz of that site.

This client has two drawbacks in my opinion, one is the lack of Twitter lists support, and the other is that you need a Kutano account in order to use it.

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This theme is customizable through TwentyTenBuddy, a Firefox extension that is installed toghether with TwentyTen. This extension allows you to choose among 9 different colors and set some options, such as enable or disable the Aero Glass effect on Windows Vista o Windows 7, show or hide the new tab button and the tab close bottom, etc.

Moreover, the theme supports Fission extension, an addon that gives more visibility to the progress bar by putting it on the address bar, and with Aero Glass activated looks really nice on TwentyTen.

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This free software has more than 90 tweaks and fixes for IE including:

• Browsing Options: This menu option helps you to quickly turn off/on the following: Smooth Scrolling, Clear type font, Animation, Sounds, Picture Display, Automatic Image resizing.
• Clear Junk Files: This option will help you to quickly remove all the temporary IE files, cookies, history, passwords, and AutoComplete data.
• Tweak IE: Tweak IE menu has the following tabs:
  • Basic Tweaks: Offers you the basic tweaks such as Turn off/on Menu bar, Favorite bar, Tabbed browsing, Full screen mode, Caret Browsing support etc.
  • Browser Menus: Helps you to disable/enable the Browser Menus
  • Toolbars: Helps you to hide/unhide the various options on the bars and also the bars itself such as Status bar, command bar, etc.
  • Control Panel: Helps you to hide/unhide the various tabs in Tools -> Internet Options.
  • Advanced: Helps you to Turn off/on various options such as Compatibity view etc., and also allows you to change the IE Title, and Default download directory options.
• Restrictions: This menu option has the following tabs:
  • Restrictions: Provides you various restriction optionss such as Changing default search provider, Add-ons management, Autocomplete features, etc.
  • Settings: Restricts the users to change various settings.
  • Security: Allows you to enable/disable options such as InPrivate Browsing, Filtering etc.

  Repair: Repair menu option provides you various options to repair/fix various issues that you have with Internet Explorer.

Best of all is that IE Tweaker is available as a portable application, meaning that is doesn’t need to be installed. Just download it and run the IE Tweaker.exe file.

Supported OS by IE Tweaker are Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

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A couple of day ago they release version 0.7.79, which adds besides perfomance and memory improvements, a long awaited feature, LAN Sync.

What does that mean exactly? Well, when you add a file to your computer’s Dropbox, the file is then synced with Dropbox servers. Dropbox will then initiate the syncing process as soon as it determines a change has been made to the file. All linked computers and shared folders will then download any new version of the file. With LAN syncing, Dropbox will look for the new file on your Local Area Network first, bypassing the need to download the file from Dropbox servers, thus speeding up the syncing process considerably.

LAN sync is an extra advantage for use in locations where computers are networked together over the same router or other local area network.

In order to take advantage of Dropbox’s LAN Sync, go to the Preferences screen and check the “Enable LAN Sync” option. Of course, you still need to have internet access in all the network computers to use this feature.

If you still don’t have a Dropbox account, you can sign up using this referral link and get 2GB plus 250MB of extra storage space.

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To celebrate such thing, Microsoft has release the Avatar theme for Windows 7, which includes 7 high definition wallpapers with scenes from the movie, that will rotate in the background of the desktop.

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One option to get Jolicloud installed on your netbook, is downloading the ISO file, copying it to a USB drive and installing over your existing operating system.

But what if you don’t want to format your current OS installation to try Jolicloud. Ok, no problem, because they also made available Jolicloud Express, a 600MB installer that makes very straightforward to install Jolicloud from Windows and keep both systems running side by side.

Just download JolicloudExpress.exe to your hard drive and follow this simple steps:

1. Execute the file, a welcome screen will appear. Click on ‘Get Started’.
   
2. Now you have to create a login account. Fill in the fields with a computer username and password, and your computer nickname. Please note that the computer nickname should not contain spaces or special characters.
   
3. Here you can change the language, installation drive and size to allocate to Jolicloud, or leave the default configuration.
   
4. If you choose to set your own configuration, take into account that a smaller disk space will not impact on Jolicloud’s performance but on the amount of applications and file that you will be able to store locally.
   
5. The installation will begin and it will take a couple of minutes.
   
6. Once the installation is done restart your netbook and choose the “Jolicloud” on the startup menu.
   

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With Paragon Total Defrag 2010 you can perform a complete low-level defragmentation that provides almost zero fragmentation level, and also speed up and optimize all critical system files and metadata including MFT (Master File Table), directories, paging files, registry hives and others.

Other features of this application are:

• Maximize file system performance – perform safe boot-time defragmentation of MFT and paging files, online Directory Consolidation. Moreover, defragment and move critical system files and frequently accessed files together on the external (fast) cylinders of the hard disk.
• Use any of 9 optimization strategies on partitions of any size or number, whether your hard drivers are IDE, SATA or SCSI.
• Original Paragon technologies allows to overcome limitations of build-in Windows® Defrag. Also unlike other defragmenters, Paragon Total Defrag works at low-level, can sort and move files to external (fast) cylinders and requires less than 1% of free space on the hard drive to operate.
• Use one of 2 available modes for defragmentation: Fast or Safe. Safe Mode is slower but it protects your data in case of a power failure during defragmentation.
• Run Paragon Total Defrag without installation. Create a bootable CD or DVD and boot the system and defragment all the available disks directly from it.

Once you download Paragon Total Defrag 2010, you have to visit the registration page to get your free serial number.

Note: The promotion has ended

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• Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one host to another (see the manual for more information)
• VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well (”branched snapshots”; see the manual for more information)
• 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion (see the manual for more information)
• More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to an arbitrary IDE controller, and there can be more than one such drive (the manual for more information)
• The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
• Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher
• Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
• Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface; see the manual for more information)
• Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net; see the manual for more information)

Moreover, VirtualBox 3.1 offers a 30 percent improvement in memory handling over its previous version, upgraded network performance that offers better throughput and reduced CPU cycles through a new high-speed, paravirtualized network driver, and a new two-dimensional video acceleration feature for Windows VMs. It also includes better snapshotting features, according to Sun officials.

VirtualBox 3.1 is available to download for free and it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris hosts.

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Specifically, the version available to test is Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta, which includes the following applications: Word, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook, InfoPath, Excel, SharePoint Workspace, OneNote and Communicator.

How to get your free copy of Office 2010 Beta

1. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/es/default.aspx and click on “Get it now”:
   
2. Now you are going to need a Windows Live (@hotmail.com or @msn.com or @live.com) account to access the download page. If you don’t have one you can register for free:
   
3. Fill in the form with any data you like:
   
4. Take note of the Multiple Activation Key (MAK). You will needed to activate the product later:
   
5. Finally, choose the language and platform version (32-bit or 64-bit) that you want to download:
   

How to activate Office 2010

1. Open Microsoft Word 2010 Beta and click on the “File” tab. This will take you to the Backstage view. Next click “Help” in the set of tabs on the left.
2. Click “Change Product Key” on the right side of the screen.
3. Enter the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) displayed above. Please check the box to activate automatically or restart the app to activate using the activation dialog box.
4. That’s all you need to do. Entering the MAK key in Microsoft Word 2010 Beta automatically activates all the Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta applications. Click on the “File” tab to return to the Document view.

Microsoft recommends to uninstall any previuos version of Office. Also take note that the Beta version of Office 2010 will expire on October 2010.

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