Spoon

Spoon virtualization lets you run desktop apps anywhere with no installs – at work, at home, or on the road.

There are a list of applications and games in various categories in Spoon website, where you can launch 7-Zip, VLC Media Player, Open Office, Google Talk, Paint.net, Picasa, uTorrent or Notepad++ directly from the web browser.

As you can see, these apps are run in a virtualized environment. Buffering may take a while, depending on the speed of the Internet connection, the application’s size and the current load of the Spoon servers. They looks exactly like the original though a bit slow as it is all in the cloud.

Spoon applications can be accessed from the Web at Spoon.net, on third-party websites via Spoon Feeds, and in private enterprise clouds using Spoon Server as long as you have installed the Spoon plug-in. It is compatible with the popular web browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari.

It is highly recommended for users who want to run or test applications without installing them first.

Download Spoon plug-in

Spoon – Free Cloud Hosting Service for Desktop Applications is a post from: TechieQuest

Meanwhile, IE9 perhaps is the first version of Internet explorer that support supports HTML5, bringing it up to the level of Chrome and Safari as well as certain newer versions of Firefox. According to Microsoft, IE9 brings to the table expanded support for HTML5, but also hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new, evolved JavaScript engine, designed to boost the overall performance of the browser. Obviously, Microsoft has improved all aspects of Internet Explorer 9 since the browser was first introduced at PDC 2009. In this context, hardware acceleration is applied to both HTML5 and SVG.

So, Users should read the release notes for known issues and other information about the release. Microsoft plans to update the preview releases every eight weeks. This is mainly offered to get feedback from web developers. A beta will follow later on.

Developer Tools

The Platform Preview includes built-in Developer Tools. These tools help developers debug and understand the interaction between their sites and the browser. To open the Developer Tools, click the Debug menu and click Developer Tools, or press F12.

The status bar indicates when the page generates script errors. You can use the Developer Tools to get more information about and debug script errors.

For more information on the Developer Tools, go to the Internet Explorer Developer Center.

Document modes

You can force the Platform Preview into different document modes. To do this, click the Debug menu and select one of the Document Modes. You can also press Alt plus the numbers 5, 7, 8, or 9 to select IE5, IE7, IE8, and IE9 document modes respectively (for example, Alt + 7 for IE7). You can press Alt + 0 at any time to reset the document mode to the page default. The current document mode is shown for the currently viewed page at the left of the status bar. Information on Document Modes is available on MSDN, as well as on our blog.

Common Keyboard Shortcuts

Below is a list of available keyboard shortcuts for use in the Internet Explorer Platform Preview:

Ctrl + O: Open a webpage
F5: Refresh
F10: Home
F12: Developer Toolbar
Alt + 5: Force IE5 rendering mode
Alt + 7: Force IE7 rendering mode
Alt + 8: Force IE8 rendering mode
Alt + 9: Force IE9 rendering mode
Alt + 0: Reset Document Mode to the page default
Ctrl +/-: zoom in and out
Alt + ?: Help
Ctrl + S: Save Webpage As…
Alt + /: About

You can download the Internet Explorer 9 preview as below link

Download Internet Explorer 9 From IE TestDrive Website

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According to the IE Blog, the Javascript rendering is faster than the its predecessor Internet Explorer 8, IE8 rendering engine performance is poor compared to the other browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Safari. But the early build of IE9 is faster than IE8 and close to other browsers performance tested with Webkit SunSpider test. The chart below shows the relative performance of different browsers on the same machine running the SunSpider test.

IE9 will support Acid3, DirectX Direct2D and other standards, including CSS3 and HTML5. This should improve the appearance of fonts and performance of text animation without requiring changes to the sites themselves.

The most interesting feature they are working on in IE9 is the graphics acceleration, IE9 can use the graphics card for the rendering graphics and text using DirectX technology installed on windows systems. Graphics hardware acceleration means that rich, graphically intensive sites can render faster while using less CPU.

You can read more from the IE team on this topic here.

An Early Look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is a post from: TechieQuest

You only need to apply UnChrome once and your browser cannot be identified after that. The functionality of your Google Chrome is not influenced by this. No installation is required and UnChrome is completely free.

Download UnChrome – Remove Chrome ID

UnChrome Removes Unique ID from Google Chrome is a post from: TechieQuest

iFree Recorder features:

• Manually (using start/stop/pause buttons) or automatically record all calls.
• Can be used to record Skype2Skype calls, SkypeOut/SkypeIn calls, Conference calls
• Choice to record different side (Record both sides / Only record my side / Only record remote side)
• Store your calls to MP3 format (Using Lame MP3 Encoder)
• Easy to track record history
• Built-in audio player

iFree recorder works with Windows XP/Vista and 7 and you need Skype installed on your computer.

Download iFree Recorder

iFree Recorder – Record your Skype Conversations is a post from: TechieQuest

Calaméo is the ideal way to publish, search for and share all your documents online. You can organize your publications into subscriptions. In addition, you, your family and your colleagues can browse and add comments to and start discussions on each publication.

Calaméo is compatible with the most popular social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Twitter and etc…

Calaméo – Publishing Your Magazine Online is a post from: TechieQuest

video

The video uses a simple story of a growing florist business to explain the basics of cloud computing: how it works and why it makes sense for businesses and individuals.

• The difference between on-site computing and cloud computing
• The financial benefits of cloud computing
• What makes cloud computing secure and efficient
• How cloud computing impacts consumers

Have fun wacthing and understanding the basics of Cloud Computing. It does a good job explaining Cloud Computing.

Understand the Basics of Cloud Computing in 3 minutes is a post from: TechieQuest

Youtube Downloader HD features:

• Easy to use: just copy video URL from your web browser and paste to Youtube Downloader HD.
  No need to use scripts or browser plug-ins.
• Convert downloaded video to various formats.
• Download Youtube High Definition videos (available on certain videos)
• Unicode support: Youtube Downloader HD can save movies whose names have non-standard characters (like Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, etc.)
• Support for big video files

Youtube Downloader HD can be downloaded from here. It is compatible with most versions of the Microsoft operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

YouTube Downloader HD – Download YouTube Videos in High Definition is a post from: TechieQuest

Flash Cookie Cleaner

Flash Cookies which are also known as super cookies or Local Shared Objects (LSO) are placed on your computer by a Flash plugin in your system folders and protected from deletion. Flash Cookies are small bits of data saved by websites you visit. They can be used to store website settings and info (like Flash game scores), to track website behavior, and to target advertisments. These cookies can reveal what websites you have visited. Also known as PIE (persistent identification element) and LSO’s (local shared objects).

Flash Cookie Cleaner works on Windows 2000/ XP/Vista and Windows 7. No installation needed, just run the application and click on the ‘Scan’ button. You can download the free Flash Cookie Cleaner here. ‘View Cookies’ allows you to see how many cookies have been written to your computer, under C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player folder.

Flash Cookie Cleaner – View and Remove Flash Cookies from Your Computer is a post from: TechieQuest

Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin, placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. Flash is a separate application running on your system, there is no way to prevent it from storing those LSO’s on your disk. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won’t be deleted – never.

With BetterPrivacy it is possible to review, protect or delete new Flash-cookies individually. Users who wish to to manage all cookies manually can disable the automatic functions. BetterPrivacy also protects against ‘DOM Storage’ long term tracking, a browser feature which has been granted by the major browser manufactures.

How does BetterPrivacy work?
BetterPrivacy finds the folder where your Flash plugin stores the LSO’s. Thus the first start of Firefox could be delayed for some seconds. Then BetterPrivacy does absolutely nothing until you close Firefox. At that time the addon will look at the LSO folder and if there are cookies existing it will show a popup. BetterPrivacy asks if you would like to delete the LSO’s at that time. You might decide to review every single LSO later at the next session. Otherwise you can choose to delete or even auto-delete on every Firefox exit.

You can download the latest version of BetterPrivacy from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623.

BetterPrivacy – Firefox Add-Ons to Remove Flash Cookies is a post from: TechieQuest