The biggest addition to the latest Google Chrome (Beta) is the inclusion of speech recognition for applications. The browser includes a new Web Speech API, which provides developers tools to integrate speech recognition within their web apps. There is some controversy over the security of such an API as apps will have permission to record and send audio.

Google Chrome (Beta) also adds some security enhancements, most importantly for extensions. Extensions that don't explicitly ask for permissions will be blocked automatically. This is great and will force extension developers to be more transparent.

If you want to check out what's on the horizon for Chrome, download and try the Google Chrome (Beta).

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Compared to the latest stable version this edition contains subtle modifications that make it worth trying for die-hard Chrome fans. As you expect from Google Chrome, you get a web browser with a sleek, minimalist design.

Even compared with Safari and especially Firefox, the browser has very few buttons. All settings and options to choose your extensions are accessible via icons in the top right.

Please note that this version of Google Chrome is strictly a developer release, so bear in mind that you may occasionally encounter bugs and the developers are very keen to hear feedback on such problems.

The latest developer version of Google Chrome gives you a taste of what's to come from one of the fastest growing browsers out there.

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Chrome's outstanding features, like its download manager, incognito browsing mode and bookmark syncing, already make it a stand out app. In version 20, it adds a more new features, as well some tweaks that make it even more user-friendly.

New features

Being able to search directly from the address bar is one of the great things about Google Chrome. Now Omnibox, Google Chrome's address bar, will offer you various suggestions as you type. Depending on how accurate it thinks its results are, Chrome may even begin to pre-load a chosen page. Popular sites like Facebook and Twitter are now sure to load almost instantaneously.

You'll now also receive warnings when Google Chrome thinks a downloading file that might contain malware or something harmful to your PC. It does this by tracing the download's originating server and comparing it to sites on its blacklist. If you're concerned about privacy when it comes to Google looking at your downloads for potential malware, you can disable this feature within your browser preferences.

Updates and tweaks

Google Chrome introduces several smaller updates designed to improve the user experience. First, Google Chrome has improved page zooming to make it more consistent with other browsers - you can now zoom up to 500%. In addition, Print Preview no longer shows up in its own tab but rather appears in a highly-configurable modal window - this improves your workflow and makes printing even quicker. Google Chrome's History tab has also undergone a redesign. It now allows users to filter out or even remove specific domains you don't want showing up there.

There's also been an update to the V8 JavaScript engine and more than a dozen security fixes. In short, these changes make browsing even quicker - and using the internet even safer.

In addition, version 20 helps with vulnerability greatly, in that it covers patches for quite a few security-related bugs. Google Chrome's latest update will consequently help make your browsing experience even safer.

Chrome extensions

Last, but not least, there are also changes for extensions - not only can you now count on a range of Google Chrome extensions that rivals (and in many cases betters) Firefox's, but those of you with a more technical bent can take advantage of improved extension APIs, so if you've got an idea, it's even easier to make it into an extension yourself.

If you're considering making the switch from old favorites like Firefox or Internet Explorer, we'd wholeheartedly recommend Google Chrome as the browser of the future!

Google Chrome, Google's browser, mixes a clean, minimalist interface with a variety of powerful tools, making it a great browser.

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The extension takes little space and lives in your notification bar. Persistent chat windows exist at the bottom of your screen and can be minimized when you aren't using them.

You can still send pictures and emojis using the extension. Hangouts is a perfect extension if you have a lot of friends using Google.

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Features in DriveTunes.

• Search through all songs


• Shuffle playback


• Order by title or number of plays


• Play only specific folders

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Features

These days, it's an app that attempts to be all things to all people - play DVDs, organize music, catalog photos, convert video, interact with social networking sites, browse internet multimedia....there's no end to what RealPlayer offers to its users. Even so, it's not an out-and-out success...

Usability

For a start, installation of RealPlayer is annoying - it takes a while, requires lots of "nexts" and tries to install and enable several features that users don't really need. Finally, when it starts, you're offered a chance to upgrade to paid versions of RealPlayer before you have to register yourself with Real Networks. If all this messing around doesn't appeal, check out a slimline app like UMPlayer.

When you're up and running, RealPlayer features a wide interface where you will notice ads and videos recommended by Real Networks. This looks cluttered and messy, and it's hard to know what the app actually offers. In reality, RealPlayer is ideal for playing and sharing video with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter and it works easily with BlackBerry, iPod, iPhone and other game systems. The new video converter allows you to copy online video to your iPod, Xbox, PS3 and other devices. Unfortunately, you can't rip DVDs with RealPlayer, although this is available as a feature if you upgrade to RealPlayer Plus.

Most recently, RealPlayer has been updated with far better mobile and social networking integration. You can now copy your favorite videos to an iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and dozens of other popular devices automatically. Downloading internet videos is faster, and for those of you with something to hide, RealPlayer offers a new Private folder. Social media has also been bumped up, with direct access to Facebook videos and usefully, a built-in feature to transfer videos to your mobile devices.

Quality

That said, RealPlayer isn't bad at all. It's comparable to Windows Media Player 12 as they both have some impressive ways of organizing your music. For me, the best feature is the CD burner which is something I've used from the early days of RealPlayer. The sheer quality of some of the media only available in Real formats makes RealPlayer an essential item in the toolkit of any fan of internet video and audio.

Conclusion

There's no shortage of media players theses days, and RealPlayer is by no means a bad option. It offers lots of features, good options and is a high-quality player that will do justice to your media. The only problem is that despite its modern features, it feels like a bit of a dinosaur. It's heavy and slow, looks chunky and takes an age to respond to clicks, and for many people - especially those who have experience of lighter options - it's just not the most comfortable player.

RealPlayer is a media player that, although powerful, has suffered from serious feature-creep over the years.

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Users can upgrade to PrintEco Analytics to track their print jobs, and measure the amount of paper, ink and carbon emissions that they are saving!

PrintEco focuses on formatting content, whereas many other print management or print-reduction software tools focus on rules-based print management. PrintEco is designed to work intuitively and seamlessly within the user's normal print workflow so the user does not have to sacrifice productivity in order to save paper and ink. Finally, our smart algorithms find a balance between paper savings and readability, so the finished producted is truly "optimized" for the user and the environment.

PrintEco was created for users who want to reduce the amount of resources wasted by the printing process. If emails with two lines printed on the last page bother you, or you're tired of printing web articles with tons of ads, PrintEco is for you!

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Features

Mozilla Firefox 18 is the latest version of the popular web browser and brings with it a few key and welcome new features. First among them is the company's claim to a speedier, safer browsing experience. Tests reveal that this newest version of Mozilla Firefox is certainly quick to load even the most graphics intense pages.

Firefox 18 also now features secure connections when performing Google searches to improve privacy and there's an updated site identity indicator in the URL bar. Windows users also now get silent updates while Mac users on Lion or above can use Firefox in full-screen mode.

Mozilla Firefox's new tab layout itself is a pretty noticeable new feature. Quite similar to Google's Chrome browser, instead of seeing a blank page whenever a new tab is opened Firefox users will now be treated to icons that offer quick access to everything from bookmarks to most recently accessed and most frequently visited sites.

These icons are fully customizable in Mozilla Firefox as well. You can click and drag them to any spot you like on your name tab's page. If you're not a fan, you can also go to the grid icon on the upper right side of your browser and erase them entirely.

Something completely new to Mozilla Firefox is Facebook integration. Firefox now supports Facebook's social API so you can have dedicated buttons for Facebook in your browser. Mozilla Firefox supports Facebook's Messenger within Firefox, giving users desktop notifications as well as a persistent friends list and activity feed on the right. Conversations will open up as overlays on top of whatever website you're on so you can multitask while you chat.

Usability

Mozilla Firefox really changed the way people browse the web when it originally burst onto the scene. Today Firefox remains an incredibly powerful and customizable browser, although competition from Google Chrome has given it a definite run for its money.

Conclusion

Mozilla Firefox 20's interface isn't much different from previous versions, but the features it has added certainly make for a nicer, more enjoyable browsing experience overall.

What's new

For full release notes, please visit https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/20.0/releasenotes/

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1. Slice Graphic Web Design and then Create CSS and DIV automatically 2. Support Importing PSD,PNG, JPG and GIF 3. Support Exporting HTML, HTM, ASP, ASP Include File, PHP, PHP Include File, ASPX, ASCX, JSP, JSP Include File 4. The Exported Documents can be Compatible with virtually all web browsers. 5. Support CSS Sprites to Make Your Webpage Load Faster 6. This software doesn't come with predefined set of templates, the created webpage is what you want your graphic web design look like.

SliceMaker Standard is designed to be an all-in-one website/webpage making tool easy enough for both beginners and professional web developers, but with powerful features that they can grow into.

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Adobe Flash Player (originally a Macromedia product) remains the standard platform for viewing a wide variety of web content, varying from navigation elements to every video you watch on YouTube.

Some of the main reasons to use Adobe Flash Player are:

-simple to use
-high performance
-small file size
-near-HD quality

Additions and Improvements

Adobe Flash Player 10 includes a wide range of interesting additions and improvements when compared to previous versions. Some of these great new features include the inclusion of support for the H.264 video codec and the HE-AAC audio codec, which together offer a much richer, higher-definition picture and crystal-clear sound. By introducing these capabilities and only slightly impacting performance, Adobe Flash Player is set to encourage another revolution in web video, since HD movies are becoming standard on YouTube. They also look and sound fantastic!

Adobe Flash Player 10 also irons out some of the problems that previous versions have suffered from. These include previous security and stability issues. This update also includes support for ActionScript 3.0 and makes fantastic 3D graphics possible. This means more dynamic and interesting navigation, games and interactivity on websites.

Adobe Flash Player 11 represents a leap forward in terms of quality, stability and security.

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Adobe Flash Player is an essential plugin for your browser that allows you to view everything from video to games and animation on the web.

Features

Adobe Flash Player 10 includes a range of interesting additions and improvements when compared to previous versions. Top of that list is the inclusion of support for the H.264 video codec and the HE-AAC audio codec, which together offer a much richer, higher-definition picture along with crystal-clear sound. Introducing these capabilities in Adobe Flash Player with only slightly reduced performance looks set to trigger another revolution in web video, as HD movies are already an important element on YouTube - and they look and sound great!

Quality

Adobe Flash Player 10 irons out some of the problems that previous versions have suffered from (like security and stability issues), as well including support for ActionScript 3.0. It also makes fantastic 3D graphics possible. This makes for more dynamic and interesting navigation, games and interactivity on websites.

Conclusion

Adobe Flash Player 10 represents a leap forward in terms of quality as well as stability and security. It's therefore a highly recommended download for all users.

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AntiBrowserSpy allows you to remove internet traces easily. This contains the removal of history entries and web cache. Download lists and typed URLs can also be cleaned. Additionaly AntiBrowserSpy contains a cookie manager allowing you to view and protect specific cookies. AntiBrowserSpy can create backups of your browser settings. This allows you to keep your bookmarks and all other data in a save place. You can also take the data with you in order to keep your bookmarks in case that you are moving to a new PC. AntiBrowserSpy can automate all main functions, too. For example it can clear all cookies on Windows startup. AntiBrowserSpy supports all common browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Netscape Navigator.

Many espionage features of common web browsers cannot be disabled by PC users – even experts cannot turn off all of them. AntiBrowserSpy makes it very easy to control all browser settings. With one mouse click you can configure the settings of all your browsers and disable even hidden espionage features.

AntiBrowserSpy is a tool designed for helping users to switch off those spy functionality.

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The great thing Google Keep is that it will work offline and sync with your devices when you get a connection again.

Using Google Keep is a way to keep your task lists all in one place and synced across different devices.

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ImageCapture Suite is specifically optimized for web applications. With ActiveX, Plugin and Mac Editions, it supports all the mainstream browsers on Windows and Mac. All-in-one image capture and processing SDK. You can do image capture from TWAIN scanners and WIA/USB webcams, edit the images, recognize barcodes or do OCR and upload images with the library. Easy deployment and installation. It's easy for developers to deploy and for end users to use the plugin in browsers.

Web Developers who want to embed image capture (from TWAIN/WIA/USB scanners or webcams) and document processing and management features to web application.

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This means that anything that appears in Google Canary, will eventually probably appear in both the developer and stable versions, so if you want to stay at the very cutting edge of Google Chrome, Canary is what you need. The good news is, when you install Google Canary, it won't install itself over any other version you've got installed, so you can test it to your heart's content.

However, since its completely untested and designed for those that want to help Google develop the next version of Chrome, you'll find it very unstable and unreliable at times and be warned that it will send anonymous usage stats back to Google.

If you want to see the cutting edge latest in the development of Chrome, Google Chrome Canary is your answer.

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The extension supports Word (DOC, DOCX), Excel (XLS, XLSX) and PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX) files.

Chrome Office Viewer lets you zoom in on your documents, save them or print them, but bear in mind that it doesn't allow any editing. At the moment, Chrome Office Viewer is only available for the Chrome beta release, but we think that it will be made available for the stable version very soon .

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A fresh look for Facebook

If you're tired of the blue and white theme imposed by Facebook, this tool will allow you to do slightly more interesting things with your profile and quickly create brand new themes.

Facebook Theme Creator allows you to change three basic Facebook elements - background, menus and text. In your background, Facebook Theme Creator allows you to pick a new color, add an image and adjust its position. You'll also be able to change the color of the top bar and text.

Once your theme is created, you'll be prompted to save it and immediately apply it to your profile. There's also an option to share it, and use the themes created by other users on your own Facebook profile.

Getting started

Once you've installed Facebook Theme Creator, an icon will appear on your Facebook profile. This gives you access to the tool and its three options. Tabs provide access to the elements you might want to change (background, menu bar and text). Once you change an item, the changes will be immediately visible.

Looks pretty good

We thought that themes created with Facebook Theme Creator were actually pretty good. The final rendering was of decent quality, and we just saw one little bug on the menu bar if you have Graph Search enabled.

Pick a new color for Facebook

If tweaking Facebook is your thing, then Facebook Theme Creator will provide you with the options you need. Literally within a few seconds, you can create complete Facebook themes and mold the social network to your tastes.

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How does Disconnect work? It simply blocks widgets that companies like Google and Facebook place on websites in order to capture data. Disconnect's real-time data display lets you see this as it happens, picking and choosing what you allow or disallow.

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