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February 19, 2013

Firefox 19 Final Offline Installers Full Setup Download [All Languages]

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Firefox 19 Final has been released by Mozilla. As of now, the main website of Firefox does not mention Firefox 19 as the latest stable build but it has been uploaded to Mozilla’s FTP servers and may be downloaded from there (direct download links at the end of the article).

There have been two major features and a lot of enhancements to the new Firefox 19 browser. The first feature that was in works before has been released in this build. A more secure built-in PDF viewer based on HTML5 and JavaScript has been included in Firefox 19. This is from the project PDF.js. Although there was nothing wrong with this new feature in the alpha and beta development cycles, Mozilla has given a way to disable this feature is you are not satisfied or if anything wrong happens due to this feature. So now the users will be able to view PDF files directly inside Firefox securely and without crashing the browser.

If you are not comfortable with the inline PDF viewer of Firefox 19, you can easily disable it by following the steps below:

Open Firefox 19
Go to Tools –> Options –> Applications tab
Find “Portable Document Format (PDF)”
Select Always ask from the drop down selection

The second major feature is a security feature. Firefox 19 Awesomebar will now alert the users if an application or add-on changes the default search provider. Now the user will be able to revert to the default search provider with the alert. The search provider can be changed in Firefox through about:config page.

Here is the changelog list of Firefox 19:

Built-in PDF viewer
Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob
Startup performance improvements
Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties
Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true)
There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true)
Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor
CSS @page is now supported
CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
CSS text-transform now supports full-width
Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode

Some unresolved issues include:

Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages
If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash
For some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual
Windows: The use of Microsoft’s System Restore functionality shortly after updating Firefox may prevent future updates
Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode

Let’s go through the screenshots of Firefox 19 installation (Upgrade) process.

Firefox 19 download links

Firefox 19 32-bit installer for Windows

Firefox 19.tar.bz2 for Linux

Firefox 19.dmg for Mac

The are the direct download links for Firefox 19 Final setup in en-US. If you want to download Firefox in another language, just go to the following URL and then go to the right folder.

Firefox 19 multilingual for Windows

Firefox 19 multilingual for Linux

Firefox 19 multilingual for Mac

February 13, 2013

Terminate And Kill Multiple Processes Simultaneously In Windows

Arfa Mahmood Software troubleshooting, Windows Task Manager 1 Comment

Multi-process killer is an easy to use program and can be used to kill multiple processes at once. Windows task manager does not give you with this option. In multi-Process Killer you just have to select the process you want to kill from a list of all the programs that are running. You can use its minimize to tray option and the icon will appear in taskbar.

What Makes Multi-Process Killer Different?

Multi-Process killer is a portable program that lets you terminate several running processes at once. This option is found rarely in other system process termination programs but this software offers this exceptional feature for free. The interface is pretty simple and anyone can understand how it works. The program is pretty fast and offers two to three simple options. The program refreshes your program list automatically and allows you to see each program that is running.

Features:

Multi-Process killer is a lightweight tool as it comes in only 0.58 MB size. This means that it doesn’t need any specific system requirements to run.
The program does not need any installation. You can directly download it and run it through any external device.
The interface is very simple and user-friendly. The program resembles Windows Task Manager. However, some of its features are better than task manager.
The program gives more information like full path and process identifiers.
The program is easily understandable as anyone can use this program.
The program offers the option to kill many undesired processes without any inconvenience. It’s fast performance is one of those features that make it perfect.

Task Manager does not show all the processes running on your device. Sometimes, it hides processes that mean unnecessary to it, but Multi-process killer shows all the processes that are running on your device. The program has the capability to terminate system as well as users’ processes.

The software’s window is not re-sizable but you can minimize it to tray. The whole program consists of three options along with a help option. It is a must-have utility for your PC if you are an advanced Windows user. The program, due to lightweight, performs your task quickly and does not take much space.

Installation and usage

The program does not need any installation. It is a ready-to-use program. Just download it, open the program and it will start its work. This is the reason Multi-Process killer is better than other similar software. The installer version of this software isn’t available in the market yet but it will be made available soon.

After downloading and opening, the program looks something like this:

The window consists of a list of all the processes running on your device along with more information related to the processes. You can see a Minimize to Tray option which lets you minimize the program and use when necessary.

The program also has a change refresh rate option through which you can ask the program to refresh process list. It is configurable and you can set time limit for process refreshing. You can see a list of process below and can see a tick-box just before a process.

Tick on the processes you want to terminate and press Kill Select Processes button. Now, the software will kill all the selected processes.

Download Multi-Process Killer

I hope this article has been useful for you and I’d like to thank you for reading. If you like the article, please leave a helpful comment and share it with your friends.

February 10, 2013

Extract RAR Files With Free RAR Extract Frog

Arfa Mahmood Software compression software 1 Comment

Like WinRAR, Free RAR Extract Frog is another exceptional software to extract your RAR files reliably. No matter how large your files are, Free RAR Extract Frog extracts these files easily.

Why RAR?

RAR is actually a format for compressed files developed by Eugene Roshal. RAR format ensures you with file recovery option unlike .7z or .zip formats. RAR files compression rate is also exceptional.
This is the reason why you should go for .rar files and so for RAR extractors.

Unlike other RAR extracting software, Free RAR Extract Frog is pretty fast and extracts your files in a few seconds. The software has a clean interface and does not take much space. The standard version of this software is about 4 Megabytes in size.

The software is exclusively made for extracting RAR files. It comes with a RARzilla engine to ensure faster extraction of RAR files.
You can install and use it in 3 or 4 simple steps. Another benefit of this exceptional software is that you can extract RAR files in 3 different ways.
1 – Drag your file to the software screen, choose the directory and Free RAR Extract Frog will do the rest.
2 – Click on Unrar button and proceed accordingly.
3 – Send click on the RAR file to be extracted and select “Extract” from the options.

The software is customizable and you can have any kind of image inserted as background image. Just drag the image you want to keep as background and its interface will automatically change. One thing that should be noted is that you have to choose a small image for its interface. You can choose any image for Free RAR Extract Frog.

Another great feature of this software is that it also extracts password protected files. Just enter a default password or a list of passwords and the software will extract that password protected files.

Installing Free RAR Extract Frog

Installing Free RAR extract frog is as simple as installing any other basic software. Just open the setup file from where it is located and you will see the following screen:

Now click on next and following will appear:

Read the terms and agreements (which one does not :p) and click directly on “I agree”.

Choose the destination where you want to install the software and click on Install. After installation, you’ll see the following screen:

Click “Finish” and there you go.

So, anyone can install this basic software as it requires no more than 4 steps.

Extracting Files With Free RAR Extract Frog

As mentioned before, the software is pretty easy to use and the whole process takes not more than two minutes. The software has the capability to extract multiple files at a time. You can also extract password protected files through this software. The whole process is very easy, however if you didn’t get it, then here is a tutorial to extract files through this great software.

1. Run this software and click on “Unrar” button present in the program menu. You can see the button at bottom right corner of the interface.
2. A pop-up will appear. Choose the RAR file that you are going to extract. You can even choose many files at a time.

3. Now, the software will ask you to choose a folder to which you want to extract your files. The software lets you choose the directory or if you want to extract it to the same folder in which the RAR file is, then you can choose that from the option.

4. After you select the directory, the software will start its work and will extract your file within seconds. After the extraction is complete, the folder to which the file is extracted will open.

If you need a basic software to extract your files within no time, then get Free RAR Extract frog. The software is quite easy to use and require no expertise to run.

Download Free RAR Extract Frog

February 8, 2013

Creating Virtual Machines In VirtualBox [Complete Guide][Windows]

Rahmeen Ahmad Khan Featured, Software, Windows 1 Comment

A virtual machine can be understood as software implementation of the Operating System over your existing computer system (consisting of hardware and software). This means that you can make a virtual machine and install the latest version of Windows 8 on your PC running on Windows 7. These are known as the ‘Guest Operating Systems’ or ‘Guest Programs’. These guest software are unaware that they are running on any virtual machine and they operate in the same way as they would on a physical machine.

Defining Virtualization terms

Virtualization

Virtualization is a technique of creating an imaginary version of something. In our case, virtualization means creating a virtual running computer inside the physical computer.

Types of virtualization

Software virtualization
Network virtualization
Server virtualization
Storage virtualization

Virtual Machine

Virtual machine is the software implementation of the Operating System which runs inside another Operating System. For example, we can run Windows XP inside Windows 7.

Host Operating System

Host Operating System is the main OS installed on the physical computer.

Guest Operating System

Guest Operating System is the virtual OS which runs in a Virtual machine installed on a host Operating System.

Why is creating a virtual machine useful?

Here are some of the benefits of using a virtual machine instead of installing an Operating System on a physical computer.

It saves dual booting time. You can run multiple Operating Systems simultaneously.
It provides system independence. The virtual machine acts as a portable Operating System. You can always take the virtual machine anywhere with you and run it without actually installing the Operating System again and again.
Technology writers and geeks install and try different software on the daily basis. Some of these software may not be reliable enough and they may corrupt the computer system. You can run them on the virtual machine so that they may not cause any harm to your physical system.
You can do rigorous testing of your newly developed application or program on the virtual machine and roll back the machine when done.
It is easier to move virtual machines between the physical machines. All you need to do is to move the virtual disk/image file and some configuration files.

Software to create virtual machines

The following software can be used to create virtual machines. The list contains free as well as commercial software.

VirtualBox (This is what we love the most)
VMWare Workstation (Another respected virtualization solution from VMWare.
QEMU – a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Virtual PC – a solution by Microsoft which is mostly compatible with Windows as guests. It has some limitations for running other Operating Systems as guests.
VMLite VBoot – allows the user to boot a physical computer from a virtual hard drive.
Microsoft Hyper-V – the latest virtualization solution from Microsoft.
BitBox – specifically created for an isolated browsing experience. A virtual environment created just for secure and comfortable browsing.

Installing VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product developed by the Sun Microsystems. It is high performing , feature rich product which is freely available under GNU General Public License. The term ‘Virtualization’ sounds advanced and you may think that it will be very technical to set up a machine like this. But, you will be glad to know that installing virtual machines is easy and you have to go through a sequence of ‘Next’ buttons. You may customize the set up features, but going with the default settings is a recommended choice. You may get a warning that your internet connection will be disconnected during installation, so make sure that you are not performing any important task online or downloading any content. It will ask for your permission before installing device drivers or software, permit it.

After successful installation of the virtual box, you will see the following window displaying that the installation is complete.

Create and Configure Your Virtual Machine

Go to Start -> Oracle VM Virtual Box set up and a window will be opened greeting you to the virtual box.
Click ‘New’ to set up a new virtual machine.
Give it a proper name and select the platform type i.e., Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh or Solaris.

Allocate Memory to Virtual Machine

Next comes the memory allocation to your virtual machine. Move the slider bar to increase or reduce the memory size. The recommended memory size is 1024 MB, but if you plan to run light weight software on your machine then you may reduce it to 512 MB.

Create a Virtual Disk Image

It will then ask you if you want to create a new virtual hard drive or use any existing virtual hard drive file. Since, you are installing the machine for the first time and any virtual hard drive file does not exist in your system :

Select ‘Create a Virtual Hard Drive Now’

Select an appropriate location for your virtual hard drive and label it with a reasonable name. This will help you locate your virtual hard drive, when you want to move a virtual machine from one system to another.

Choose Storage Type

Now you need to choose between dynamically expanding or fixed storage. Fixed is storage is efficient but dynamic storage is more flexible. Dynamic storage allocates little space at first and expands itself eventually if required by the operating system. So, the choice may vary with user requirements.

Assuming everything goes well, your virtual machine is now created. You can see the details of your machine in the Virtual Box Manager. Explore the ‘Settings’ tab and you will notice that you can change the configuration settings of your machine (including memory) in a very easy manner.

Empower your machine with the Operating System

Select the machine name “Windows 8” (in our case) and click ‘Start’ to start your virtual machine.
Select the disk drive that contains the operating system, you wish to install.
Rest of the procedure is same as the one you carry out while installing OS on to your physical hard disk drive.

We will be sharing more tips and tricks about using virtual machines efficiently However, till then you may like to experience Virtual Machine Servicing Tool.

Making VirtualBox portable

The best bit about VirtualBox is that it can be made portable to run the Operating System from a USB Flash drive. Portable VirtualBox is a software which lets you run any virtualized Operating System from any location without actually installing VirtualBox. Please note that there are quite a few drivers which need to be installed when running a virtual Operating System through VirtualBox. If you are using Portable VirtualBox and do not have those drivers installed, you will need to provide administrative permissions to Portable VirtualBox in order to run properly. It will still run without installing those drivers but with admin rights.

Download Portable VirtualBox

I hope all this stuff has been useful for you and I’d like to thank you for reading. If you like the article, please leave a helpful comment and share it with your friends and social circles.

February 1, 2013

Download Java 7 Update 13 Offline Installers With 50 Vulnerabilities Fixed

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Java 7 Update 13 has been released by Oracle today. The latest update fixes at least 50 vulnerabilities and security flaws in Java. According to the Oracle advisory the critical patch update is a collection of patches for multiple vulnerabilities. The update also includes non-security fixes to the language and run-time.

The actual Java 7 update 13 was scheduled to be released on 19th of February but owing to the reports that some of the vulnerabilities in Java were actively being exploited by the hackers, Oracle released the patches immediately. We have been covering the updates of Java and after Java 7 Update 11, the next update is Java 7 Update 13. Nobody knows what happened to the 12th update.

There have been some events where Java was found to be vulnerable to exploiting attacks and many vendors including Apple and Mozilla turned off Java in their software by default. This would have been a shock for Oracle and these rapid updates would have been in response of the actions taken from Apple and other companies. This update confirms that Oracle is still interested in the development of Java programming language.

Checking Java version on your system

If you want to check which version of Java you’re running, simply go to java tester website and run the applet. The applet will show the version of Java currently running on your system.

Downloading and installing Java 7 Update 13

The installation of latest version of Java 7 is quite the same. Nothing has changed. Just download the offline installer from the below given links and run the setup file.

At the end of the installation, you will need to restart your computer in order for the changes to take effect.

Java can be downloaded from the official Oracle download page but if you want to download the offline installers, here are the direct download links:

Java Runtime Environment 7 Update 13 (32-bit | 30.1 MB)
Java Runtime Environment 7 Update 13 (64-bit | 31.5 MB)

February 1, 2013

Save Webpages And Create E-Books Online

Rahmeen Ahmad Khan Featured, Internet, Software 1 Comment

There are times when we are researching for something and come across several webpages that are related to each other. We want to compile our research such that the content comes into a sequential form like an e-book for all of our research.

In such scenarios, traditionally, either we bookmark the page or copy the entire content into a Word document or even use OneNote for this purpose. This method has its shortcomings. For example, if you ‘Save All -> Copy’ and ‘Paste’ into the Word file, it will copy the advertisements, text in the sidebars and footer etc which are irrelevant to the content. Another option is to copy paragraphs and images and paste them one by one which requires more effort and time.

We will look into some ways by which we can transform webpages into e-books. These includes some site specific methods too meaning that those methods will only be applicable to a particular site like Wikipedia.

Create an e-book from Wikipedia articles

Some websites are generous enough to include the ‘Save A Copy’ or ‘Print as PDF’ in the options. This helps the reader to save the content in the PDF format to their computer. Let’s take example of the most visited website for research purposes, Wikipedia. You can download Wiki articles free of charge and in a proper readable format without putting any extra effort.

Go to the left side panel
Print/Export -> Download as PDF

Wiki users feel more privileged when they can save multiple inter-related articles at one place and create an e book of their own.

Go to Left side panel -> Print/export -> Create a book

It will inform that you can create an e-book and export it in different formats. Click ‘Start Book Creator’.

After enabling book creator, you will notice a Book creator bar above every article opened in Wikipedia. If you find your desired content, click ‘Add this page to your book’ and the page will be added.

Suggest pages is another useful option that suggests most relevant articles with your search topic. You may like to take a suggestion and add more information to your book.

E-book creator bar will keep updating the number of pages in your book as soon as you add one.

Select ‘Show Book’ to manage your book.
Give it a suitable title and subtitle.
You may like to create chapters or sort it alphabetically.
Download your book in PDF, e-Pub, OpenZIM or Open document format. Select Open Document format if you want to edit your e-book using Microsoft Word features. After editing it properly, you can save it in PDF, XPS, DOC etc.

You may want to create a new e-book. But, you can not do so without disabling the previous book creator else new pages will be added to the same old e-book.

Click ‘Disable’ in the book creator bar.
Again, select ‘Create an e-book’ and it will ask if you want to continue with your previous book or create a new one.
Click ‘Cancel’ and a new book has been created.

Using Scribd and Google Docs to create e-books:

Scribd or Google Docs users can also find a similar options depending on the type of content license (if it is redistributable ). Usually the documents uploaded in Scribd are already in the PDF or e-PUB format. Whenever you open any document in Scribd, you will see a ‘Download’ tab above and in the sidebar.

Click on the download tab and select the format as PDF or TXT. You may now specify the file location to save the downloaded document.

Similarly, Google Users can also find a download option in the File menu. Sometimes, the shared document is very large in size and Google fails to scan the file for viruses. It will display a warning message in that case and provides option of ‘Download Anyway’. Select download anyway and save your file.

Online tools to create e-books from webpages

There are many online tools available which can serve the same purpose. We will discuss some of them.

Zinepal

Zinepal lets you create an entire e-Book containing several web pages and publish them in PDF or e-Pub format.

Enter a single URL and Zinepal will retrieve all the stories on that page.
Select and add multiple stories to your e-Book.
Give it a proper name and introduction (make use of keywords intelligently).
Your e-Book requires some editing, formatting and personalization.
Customize your e-Book appropriately and add your logo or any other advertisement for promotional purposes.
Select Preview your e-Book before you click ‘Finalize e-Book’ because it does not allow editing after the book is published.

A free version is always compromised by accepting the watermark of the vendor. Same is the case here; you have to tolerate PREVIEW watermark in your e-Book which does not look good. However, you may get a Pro Version of Zinepal to enjoy all the features and publish it on Zinepal and Scribd.

DotEPUB

DotEPUB is a cloud based online service which lets you create an e-book from any webpage. You can make use of the bookmarklet feature which will let you create the e-book of from any page instantly. Just go to the webpage and click on the bookmarklet. It will be turned into an e-book. You can use this service along with Evernote Clearly which will be discussed later in this article.

DotEPUB

EverNote Clearly

All this discussion leads us to the easiest and most appropriate way of saving web pages and online content. This technique involves the use of the Evernote add-on for Firefox and Chrome. Evernote offers clipping tools that can help you make notes of online content and save them for later use. Evernote Clearly provides a distraction free reading environment as we discussed in our recent article. The basic purpose of Evernote Clearly is to remove advertisements and irrelevant content. Besides this, you can also print blog post or web page by pressing the CTRL+P (or click on the printer icon).

Select the name of a printer. We have chosen XPS Document Printer as it will print the document in XPS format. Microsoft XPS Viewer is the program that reads XPS documents. Now you can forward this document to anyone without making any changes in it as it is already well-formatted. You may also install Cute PDF Writer for printing files and webpages in PDF format.

Evernote Web Clipper adds a pleasant online notebook flavor to your browsing experience. In a case, you are using someone else’s PC or using a public computer , you will not save your documents on that system. So, why not create a free Evernote account and clip your favorite notes, news and stuff to your online notebook? You can either install the web tool separately or use it through Evernote Clearly. You will find the clipping option in the panel. Select a text or clip the entire page and you will notice a ‘Tick’ on the clipping icon meaning that the content is successfully clipped.

This is how Evernote saves clipped content and your notes. Of course, you can access and edit them anytime.

Microsoft OneNote 2013

You can also send the online content to your One Note notebooks using Evernote Clearly. Follow the same procedure , as described above, but select ‘Send to Microsoft OneNote’ in the printer name tab. It will paste the blog post into one section of your Work Notebook.

Now, you can either move or copy this section to any other notebook.
Right click on the Project tab -> Move or Copy.
Select the notebook and the section where you want to move it.

You can save the pasted content as PDF, DOC or XPS format also.

Go to File -> Export.
Select format and click ‘Export’.

While working and researching on the Internet we often wish to note down several points.You can now easily take notes while surfing on the web or reading any research paper using a smarter option—Dock to Desktop.

Go to View -> Dock to desktop.
OneNote compressed window will be appeared at the right of your desktop.
Select the text or image you want to copy and paste it into the notebook appearing next to your browser window.
You may observe that the formatting is preserved and the web address is also pasted into notebook.

There are many add-ons and buttons available claiming that they will save the web page in PDF format. We have tried many of them but found these tricks most convenient. Which trick do you use?

January 23, 2013

Get Windows 8 Ribbon Bar In Windows 7 With Better Explorer

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Windows 8 comes with the Ribbon UI in Windows Explorer. The Ribbon UI was first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007 and now it is the default menu structure of all Microsoft applications except Internet Explorer. Windows 8 Explorer makes it easier for us to perform our tasks and is compatible with the tablets. It is designed to run on tablets which means more ease of use and visual appeal.

Windows Explorer has remained almost the same throughout the history of Windows development. But in Windows 8, it has taken a positive visual appeal by adding a Ribbon bar instead of the traditional menus.

Windows 8 Explorer builds on the foundations of Ribbon UI which was introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. If you are using Office 2007 or Office 2007 and like the new interface, you will definitely love the same user interface in Windows Explorer.

While Windows 7 does not include the Ribbon UI in Windows Explorer by default, BExplorer (Better Explorer) attempts to integrate the same Ribbon UI in the Explorer interface.

BExplorer is a file manager and needs to operate separately than Windows Explorer. You will need to get used to opening BExplorer for managing files and folders.

When you start BExplorer, it will look very similar to Windows Explorer except for the top part which is the Ribbon UI.

There are two tabs in the BExplorer ribbon. The Home tab contains tools for all the basic operations for the managing files and folders like copying, deleting, renaming and moving files, copying file path and opening file and folder properties.

The View tab lets you customize the appearance of BExplorer window like sorting of files, viewing files as icons or lists and grouping by date, size, name and type.

As the ribbon UI takes a lot of screen space, you can easily minimize it using the up arrow button at the top right of BExplorer window.

The File menu (green button on the top left of BExplorer window) is still blank and needs to be worked on. Hopefull it will be in a working condition in the next releases of BExplorer.

Another feature that I found out is not functioning is the search feature. The search dialog box will return nothing if you want to search for anything. These errors should be corrected as soon as possible to make BExplorer a better alternative to Windows Explorer. But right now BExplorer is still in its initial stages and needs a lot of work. Overall it’s a nice utility to have for occasional usage.

Better Explorer

Update: Better Explorer has been updated and now it has its own domain instead of hosting at Codeplex. We have updated the links appropriately.

January 20, 2013

Mozilla Language Packs For Firefox With Auto-Update Feature

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As we know that Firefox is available in so many languages in addition to the default English language. You can download Firefox in any language from this page. The problem with Firefox downloaded in different languages was that only one language could be installed at a time. The second biggest problem was that the language packs of Firefox had to be updated for each and every release of Firefox. This was quite a hard work for the people who were maintaining the language packs.

There was yet another problem that the users had to download and install the correct language pack that was compatible with their version of Firefox. If the wrong language pack was selected and installed, it would not work. So this feature of language packs auto-update feature remained a feature request for quite some time.

Now Mozilla has made the language packs feature available to all the users. Now whenever the user updates his installation of Firefox, the language pack he has installed will also be auto-updated with the most recent and compatible language pack. This means that the users will not run into compatibility issues any more.

If you go to Mozilla language tools section, you will see two downloads for each language, dictionary and language pack. The dictionary will add auto-correct feature for that particular language in Firefox while the language pack will change the language of Firefox completely including menus, toolbars, help section etc.

Now you can also change the language of Firefox on the fly. For this, you will have to follow the instructions below:

Go to the awesome bar and write about:config.
Pressing enter will take you to the advanced Firefox configuration.
Please note that you will be given a warning that changing the advanced settings can be harmful to your installation of Firefox. Just press the “I’ll be careful, promise” button.
Search for general.useragent.locale and change its value to the locale or language abbreviation you want to convert to.
You will need to restart the browser in order for the new selected language to take effect.

An easier solution would be to install Quick Locale Switcher Firefox add-on. This will give you an additional menu under Tools menu from where you can select any language that is installed in your Firefox browser.

January 18, 2013

See All Saved Passwords In Windows Applications With PasswdFinder

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Those days are long gone when a computer user had to remember only a bunch of passwords for their daily work. This was because there were quite a limited number of services to work with. Fast forward today and everything has changed. Now the users have to rely on password management utilities to save all their user credentials. These utilities are dedicated to this very purpose of remembering the passwords for us.

I personally use KeePass which is a nice and secure utility to save all your user credential related data. People also use online password management utilities like Lastpass to sync all their user credentials across different devices. A lot of programs are also coming with built in password remembering capabilities.

Take an example of web browsers. All modern web browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera come with a password manager. Google Chrome and Firefox will also offer the user to sync their passwords and other browsing data across multiple platforms.

PasswdFinder is a small nifty utility which can reveal all the usernames and passwords saved in Windows applications. There is a large number of Windows programs supported by this utility. When you start the program for the first time, it will show the disclaimer that the utility will not send any passwords or local data to the Internet. This utility does not require any Internet connection to work correctly. So be assured that it is a legitimate utility developed to help you positively.

Unfortunately PasswdFinder is not portable. I wish it could go portable so that we can take it anywhere we want.

PasswdFinder comes with a clean and minimalist design and graphical user interface. There are not a lot of options available. There is a menu toolbar which features buttons like exporting the list of passwords to HTML, printing the password list, refreshing the list with the latest entries, find a specific username or password, Settings etc.

Below the menu toolbar, there is a list of username and passwords detected by the utility grouped app wise by default. You can see that the list does not give the usernames and password in one row. Instead, it places the username, password, server etc. in separate rows.

Right click any entry and you will get a context menu which will allow you to delete the entry or copy the information to the clipboard. You can also use the find function using the context menu option.

When you start PasswdFinder for the first time, it will automatically scan computer for supported software and retrieve their confidential information. To see the list of supported software, just click on the Settings button –> Filter by software titles. This will show you the complete list of supported apps. You can uncheck any app to remove its entries from the PasswdFinder list. This can be useful when you want to print the list of specific usernames and passwords.

One drawback of PasswdFinder is that it does not support the latest versions of some software including Google Chrome. I am running Google Chrome 24 and PasswdFinder was not able to extract the credential information from the browser.

Overall, this utility is must have for network administrators and tech geeks. It would have been even great if there was a portable version available.

Download PasswdFinder

January 14, 2013

Download Java 7 Update 11 Offline Installers

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Oracle has released a new version of Java 7 Update 11. The direct download links to the offline installers are included at the end of this article.

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) allows users to run programs and applications programmed in Java language. Java became popular because of its portability. Programs developed in Java could be run on any platform including the mobile platforms. When Java was with Sun, it was developing leaps and bounds but then Oracle bought Java.

Since Oracle bought Java, it has been in crisis. We receive news about critical vulnerabilities in Java every now and then. The latest zero-day vulnerability was discovered a few days ago. The exploit was discovered in Java 7 update 10. The security firm Alienvault has already confirmed that the exploit is already being used by many websites to silently install malware and even ransomeware in drive-by download attacks.

The security exploit has already been added to Blackhole and Nuclear Pack exploit kits which are popular among hackers for exploiting.

Quickly responding, Oracle has released Java 7 Update 11 which fixes these exploits and vulnerabilities. You can read more about the security exploit in the issue CVE-2013-0422. Here is the summary of the security exploit and its fix released by Oracle:

This Security Alert addresses security issues CVE-2013-0422 (US-CERT Alert TA13-010A – Oracle Java 7 Security Manager Bypass Vulnerability) and another vulnerability affecting Java running in web browsers. These vulnerabilities are not applicable to Java running on servers, standalone Java desktop applications or embedded Java applications. They also do not affect Oracle server-based software.

The fixes in this Alert include a change to the default Java Security Level setting from “Medium” to “High”. With the “High” setting, the user is always prompted before any unsigned Java applet or Java Web Start application is run.

Although most of the browser vendors including Google Chrome, Firefox and Apple as a whole have disabled Java in their respective browsers but if you are using Java on your computer, it is highly recommended that you update to the latest version of Java 10 Update 11 to keep yourself safe from the latest vulnerability.

If you have already installed Java, you may want to go to Java control panel and see which version of Java you are running currently.

If you are not running Java 7 Update 11, you may download it from the links below. All the links are direct download links to complete offline installers.

Download Java 7 Update 11 for Windows 64-bit [31.44 MB ]

Download Java 7 Update 11 for Windows 32-bit [30.02 MB ]

Download Java 7 Update 11 for Mac OS X 64-bit [50.31 MB]

Download Java 7 Update 11 for Linux 64-bit [44.61 MB]

Download Java 7 Update 11 for Linux 32-bit [45.86 MB ]

For more platforms and downloads, you may visit this Java SE Runtime Environment 7u11 page.

Java 7 Update 11 Portable runtime environment is also available for download from Portableapps.

Update: Java 7 Update 13 has been released with over 50 vulnerability fixes. Everyone who is using Java in their systems should update Java as soon as possible.

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