Is apple getting ready again to shake the word, with iPhone will there be a Macbook touch, will we be free from the keyboards, mouse and will only interact with our computers using the touch screens, will it be accessible for all computer users.

Well the Rumor has started picking up, ‘Mac Daily News‘ reports Apples Secret Product Macbook Touch and Gizmodo says it too ‘Rumor:MacBook Touch coming in Oct‘.

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading Super Drive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.In all honesty, we may have passed this story up, but we’ve heard vague reports from reliable sources that Quanta is busy building a touch product for Apple. This latest information seems seems to compliment what we’ve heard

Source [Mac Daily News] , [GizModo]

Do you like to keep track of global time, or are you the person who is quite fascinated with the clock on bbc.co.uk new website and wanted such a clock for your website. ClockLink provides online clocks made from flash which you can easily add into your web page or blog by copying a simple HTML tag into your website.

But its not as good and as free as it looks, clockLink makes its revenue through the ads that are displayed when you hover your mouse over the clock. Seems like a weird way of advertisement but that’s the core reason of providing a bunch of free clocks.

But one thin that was fun is the global time map:

Filezilla is a free FTP solution for client & server. A free software to make ftp connections to your web server upload / download files and manage your sites. Its a product by Mozilla Inc.  Its fast & reliable cross platform FTP, FTPS & SFTP client with features like :

• Easy to use
• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more
• Available in many languages
• Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB

Personally i am big fan of the software and recently ran into a problem that involved recovering saved passwords in filezilla.

How to recover Saved / Quick Connect Passwords from Filezilla.

Well if you Google this question up you will probably land up with tons of software’s each claiming to help you recover password i tried a bunch of them and the results were pathetic also its a bit unsafe to trust such unknown software’s to recover you passwords for FTP as you don’t know if they transfer that information across the internet as well.

So the way out is quite easy and a little shocking to, shocking because its so easy that the file containing the sensitive information for your ftp access is not even encrypted. So if you want to recover the passwords all you have to do is follow the three easy steps:

1. First go to folder options and enable all hidden files
2. Two Go to ‘c:\document and settings \ [username] \ Application Data \ FileZill’ (in win XP / 2000 ) & “C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\” (in windows vista) or “/home/username/.filezilla/” (for linux)
3. Locate the files
   • filezilla.xml (stores morst recent server info including passwords)
   • recentservers.xml (stores all recent server info including passwords)
   • sitemanager.xml (stores all saved sites server info including password in plaintext)

Using notepad you can easily open the file and all the user / password and ftp information is displayed.

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Cross Browser testing is a night mare for web developers and designers. You website might work fine in IE7 but it might not work well in Firefox or even IE6. So if you are choosy about your website and want to work into details to make it perfect then you have to test you web site on various browser.

So here are three great ways to test your website

1. Install All Browsers in Your Computer
2. Use web screen shot tool
3. Use a handy tool

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If you have a collection of DVD’s on one of your partitions and you have to move these files to a new location, its a nightmare on windows it will take a huge chunk of time and during which all the resource of your computer will focused on that move and of course there is a huge percentage of chance that it might get stuck.

So here is a quick tool that can help resolve this problem, download fastCopy a software that claims to be the worlds fastest Copy/Delete software in Windows build by Japanese. Its free light weight and can copy/delete unicode and over MAX_PATH files. Unlike windows it does not ask questions or reports so while copying files make sure the destination directory is empty or it will overwrite the files there without asking any question of making a prompt. It can also be used on a local area network to copy / delete / move big files from one location to another all you got to do is install it in two PC’s mutually and copy the log files.

Download FastCopy for free from here
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Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008 announced the new iPhone 3G, combined with all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking, built-in GPS, and iPhone 2.0 software that supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of third party applications built with the iPhone SDK.
iPhone 3G comes in two models:

• 8GB costing $199
• 16GB costing $299

So whats new with the iPhone 3G, well iPhone 3G the next version from Apple have worked out on improving a bunch of stuff, its more thinner, solid metal buttons, gorgeious display, camera, flush headphone jacks and improved audio. The Battery life has been improved to 300 hours of standby with a 2G talk-time of 10 hours (prviously it was 5hr). (more…)

Ever wondered how to fix your corrupt zip files? Well it usually happens when you transfer zipped files, download them or sometime leave them for a long time to return to see that “Ops they have gone corrupt”.What really happens is that some portion of the files do go corrupt while some portion is recoverable though you cannot recover or open it as when you try, it simply displays a message the file has gone corrupt.

So today we have zip repair, a free ware software that will repair you corrupted zipped files. The edge is if it cannot repair it, it will extract what it can. Usually what happens is zip tools check archives for integrity & If the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) values of the original files of an archive don’t match the extracted ones, the standard tools won’t extract them. So at that point Zip Repair gets handy it tries to repair corrupt zip file. All you have to do is provide it the location and the zip Repair will show a list of files from you zip archive that can be repaired and extracted.

Its a real life saver in terms of data when you don’t want to loose all of it and still can get some of it. The software is a free ware so you can easily download from here and for further information you can take a look at there website.

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As the globe is turning into a single marketplace regional clocks and keeping an eye on the time in different locations has become an important habit. What if you are working on a project where your designer is in Paris your programmers are in Germany & your Marketing team is in India with completely opposite timezones and remembering he no of hours of difference is quite difficult. So to solve this problem there are two way a Google way or the Firefox way.

Google has been a great help in that regard and i have been using it for a while, with google you can check the current time of any location around the globe by just typing location of the city or country in the Google search bar e.g. ( time : Paris ) and the result page will come up with the exact time of that location.

Another option for global time check could be with the help of Firefox Plugin, though if you want to keep a very strict eye on the clocks around different regions you can simply install FoxClocks , which lets you keep an eye on clocks around the world by putting up small clocks in your statusbar. You can set you own time formats, color code different clocks move them to toolbar or switch icons for it. FoxClock also comes packed with Zone Picker tree to browse virtually the world’s time zone by country / region or city.

Check out more on FoxClocks or download it

ooVoo 500 minutes free
Ever wondered where and how to make free calls to USA on land line, well as we previously covered ooVoo who gave away 150 minutes of free calls to USA / Canada is now offering 500 minutes of free calling. You don’t need a credit card nor you need to pay anything, just download there IM ooVoo install, sign up and start making the calls. We have been testing there ooVoo calling facility and no doubt its service is pretty good, the voice quality is superb.

ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.

http://www.oovoo.com/

Apple Launched MacBook Pro Review
The macBook Pro model features the latest Intel Core 2 duo processor running upto 2.6Ghx with a 6MB of L2 cache.  The latest processor launched by intel on that performance is  t9500, t9300 , t8300 .

With addition to the processor Apple also updated the graphic processors to the latest NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB of video memory. Apart from the specs update apple has also introduced the multi touch gesture previously released in MacBook Air. You can pinch, swipe, or rotate by simply moving your fingers.

How much it costs ?

• 15″  - 2.4Ghz = $1 999.0
• 15″ - 2.5Ghz = $2499.00
• 17″ - 2.5Ghz = $2799.00

Should you buy a MacBook Pro  or MacBook Air
MacBook Air is the worlds thinnest Notebook, we agree, its light and is very sleek one of the innovation that attracted allot was it had a multi touch gesture and was total wireless i.e. no ROM etc.  The MacBook Air the worlds thinnest PC is a 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz processor with a 13″ screen and costs around $1799.00 to $3098.00 means its slow, its just wireless and its way to expensive and buying it for the sake of its sleekness is ……………………..

On the other hand the multi touch features one of the only usefull feature in MacBook Air is not available in the new MacBook Pro. The pro is packed with really fast processor, supper fast and supper powerful then the MacBook Air and costs $1 999.0 for a 13″ display as compared to  MacBook Air starting at $1799.00 so for an added $100 you can get a MacBook Pro definitely not the worlds thinnest Notebook but the worlds fastest Notebook.