WordPress 2.6 Final Released
Today when I opened my site’s dashboard I saw a notification about updating to WordPress 2.6 and I was surprised as it was released a whole month ahead of its release date, thumbs up to the developers! there have been some new features added to this version along with 194 bug fixes.
I upgraded to the latest version and immediately saw some changes like the dashboard now shows your comments count along with spam comments and unapproved comments, the theme section is now paginated and whenever you click a theme an Ajax based preview page opens up and you can then apply the theme from there, there is a “press this” bookmarklet so that you can start posting quickly, now every time you or someone edit your posts wordpress remembers the changes so that you can restore them later if there is a problem and the plugins page has been redesigned to add inactive plugins and recently active plugins section, WordPress expert has a detailed post about the changes in this release check it out here
here are some screenshots of the visible changes in this release:
Backup Your Firefox Profile With FEBE
For me loosing my bookmarks or website login information is like a nightmare that’s why I regularly backup Firefox Using an extension called FEBE, I am using it for a long time and it has never let me down
It is a very powerful extension with a lot of configurable options, using it you can either backup the full profile or selected things e.g extension, themes, bookmarks, preferences, username and password, cookies, search plugins, userchrome files, browser history, form fill history, permission or a backup that you define, you can also use timestamp directories so that you can keep multiple backups and easily manage them (You can set the number of backups it should store), you can also schedule backups at a specific time either daily , weekly or monthly (Firefox must be running at that time) you can also set reminders if the backup somehow doesn’t gets created or you have not set up scheduled backups, febe also has a very good extension backing up support it can save all your extensions in a .XPI file so that you can easily install them again
Software Updates – Part 4
Stable Releases:
1. Software: Flock
Latest Version: 1.2.3
Changes: http://www.flock.com/release-notes/
Details: a browser based on Firefox engine especially made for social site’s users
Homepage: http://www.flock.com/
2. Software: CCleaner
Latest Version: 2.09.600
Details: Read This post
Changes: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/version-history
Homepage: http://www.ccleaner.com/
3.Software: AVG Free
Latest Version: 8.0.138
Changes: http://paste2.org/p/46943
Details: a very popular free antitrust for windows
Homepage: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/
4. Software: Winsnap*
Latest Version: 2.1.4
changes: http://www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap/history.html
Details: A very small footprint and fast screen capturing software
homepage: http://www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap.html
5. Software: Safari
Latest Version: 3.1.2
changes: http://paste2.org/p/46959
Homepage: www.apple.com/safari/
Details: apple’s mac OS browser ported to windows
6. Software: CPU-Z
Latest Version: 1.46
Changes: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php#history
Homepage: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Details: a handy software that shows information about your computer’s motherboard, processor and ram
7. Software: Adobe Reader
Latest version: 9.0
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
Details: a PDF document reader
8. Software: TMPGEnc XPress*
Latest Version: 4.5.1.254
Changes: http://pastebin.com/f4afcd479
Homepage: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html
Details: a very good video converter which gives good quality output
Backup Your Important Files In your Gmail Account Easily With GmailFS
Gmail has a lot of space to offer but for many that much space is useless but now I will show you a way to use that space for something useful that is backing up your files in your whopping 6.7 GB Gmail Account.
The other day I was thinking of backing up some of my files to a DVD but then I came across GmailFS over at file hippo and I thought that maybe I should try it and to my delight it worked like a charm! basically it places an icon in my computer so you can easily drag and drop or copy your file in that, once you copy your files in that folder it automatically uploads them to your gmail account for you, you can even make sub directories in that GmailFS folder so you can organize your files
whenever you upload a file you will receive a email in your Gmail account with your file as an attachment but now there is a problem those emails are stored in your inbox and if you are like me you wont like extra mails lying around in your inbox that’s when Gmail’s labelling features come in handy, here’s how to apply labels to your files and stop them from showing up in the inbox:
1. once you have backup your file go to your Gmail inbox
2.select the email which has your file, the subject will have “GmailFS” in it
3. now click on more actions drop down menu (next to delete button) and select new label
4. enter “files” in the dialog box that appears
5. now you need to create a filter so that these emails are archived and are not seen to you as soon as they arrive, to do that goto settings, click on “filters” tab and now click on create a new filter link
now Gmail will ask you to enter some data regarding your new filter
put “GMAILFS” in the Subject text box and click next step button
now here check “Skip the Inbox (Archive it)” , “Apply the label:” and from the drop down menu next to it select “files” label and “Also apply filter to xx conversations below”
when you are done with it click create filter button
now the files no longer will show up in your inbox but if you want to view those files just click on files label in Gmail inbox and it will show all your files
That’s it you are done start backing up your files!
there is also a Firefox extension for the same purpose, you can get it here
Get a 6 Month License Of Eset Nod32 Antivirus For Free
Nod32 Antivirus is the known to be best Antivirus but there is a problem, it is not free unlike AVG or Avast which people prefer because they cant afford to pay for the license but now thanks to guys over at My Digital Life you can get a 6 months license for nod32 totally free of cost!
They have got very nice and easy to follow guide with screenshots and all the required info. if you have nod32 already installed on your PC unfortunately you will have to un-install it otherwise you will get an error while installing the the exe file given with the guide but you can backup your Eset nod32 configurations before doing so by going to nod32 main window–>setup tab–>import/export configuration.
This has been tested to be working by me just fifteen minutes ago so hurry up and get your free license before the offer expires!
here’s the guide:
Update: This no longer seems to be working as people are reporting that they are getting an error which says “Failed to apply free active code”
