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For Firefox 3.7, Mozilla has released a theme preview. Although you can already customise your theme, they have updated the default to a contain a more glassy effect.

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Microsoft is promoting the development and release of the new Microsoft Office 2010 suit in a different way then before. They have been making move trailers.

A few months back their was a teaser trailer promoting Office 2010: The Movie. Now the trailer of the movie is now out, and you can view it below.

The new Green PC out by Medion, the Medion Akoya Nettop-PC E2010D with the 18.5 inch LCD TFT Monitor E53002D included, is going to hit the shelves in Australia on Thursday 25th of June 2009.

The green beast, although I wouldn’t say very powerful since it only has an Intel® Atom™ 230 processor 1.6 GHz, 512 KB Cache, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, and 160 GB hard disk is for sale for $699AUD with a possible 50% Education Tax Refund, making the product around $350. For more information about the tax refund, you can click here.

The Nettop PC uses 50% less power consumption then a normal desktop PC as it only uses a maximum of 65 watts. Although I’d love to get my hands on this PC, I don’t see it fitting my needs.  The only people I see buying this product is people who don’t like laptops and regularly move to different places requiring a desktop PC.

If you love your stylish desktop PC’s and want to have a lot of space on your desk, this is a PC for you, but if you want performance and portability, you can find yourself a nice laptop. Although it will cost a bit more money, it will better suit your needs.

I don’t think that this computer will be successful in the market, but if you like a green, stylish, desktop PC, this is the one for you.

To see more specs, and photo’s, have a look after the break.

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In my view, Google Chrome comes in close second with Firefox. But have you ever seen Chrome Crash?

Well this is what Chrome looks like when Adobe decides to crash the party.

If you have a lot of software installed, it is hard to keep them all up-to-date; downloading, re-downloading – it takes time.

But RadarSync does that all for you.

Just do a scan of your computer to find all the software that needs updating. Their list of supported software is huge catering for over 2500 programs.

RadarSync also allows you to save your favourite online in a software pack, and you might find software that you have never heard of before and didn’t know how you existed without it.

Today I was asked to download Windows 7 RC to try out and have a play with, so I headed to Google and Searched for “Windows 7 RC Download” and clicked on the Microsoft Link. I had a bit of a read, selected the bit version I wanted and hit go. I signed in using my Windows Live ID and filled out the forms and I was shown my product key before clicking on the download link.

The download occurred in a Java applet. Once it was done, this is how you get multiple product keys (well it worked for me).

Just hit the download button again, a popup box for the download will show, close it, the original page you where will change to a different page then go back to the other page but this time with a new product key.

If you keep doing it, you will probably get multiple keys.

Has this worked for you? Post in our comments.

Currently, their is a feature in Microsoft Windows that allows you to deny the Automatic Updates for Windows Service Packs. However, this will change.

For Windows Vista users, on 28th April, 2009, you will be forced to download and install Service Pack 1. Service Pack 2 will not be forced on you to upgrade.

For XP users, 19th May is the day that you will not be able to block the update.

For some PC users, this will be timely and costly. If you are still a dial-up user, the update will take a while and Internet time outs my make it impossible to update, using your Internet speed every day.

For broadband users on limited bandwidth (Telstra Bigpond 200mb plan), at 15 cents per megabyte, a forced upgrade to your computer will be costly. If your on this plan, you basically loose 15 days of not using the Internet because your computer will be heavily downloading this update.

Windows only gives you very basic information about your laptop battery such as the percent full and the estimated time remaining. But what happens if you want to know the capacity of your battery, or the discharge rate, and batter wear? You can’t, but now you can with Battery Bar. Just install and run Battery Bar in your Toolbar, right click and you will get a nice picture of your Battery Status.

See the image after the break.

But if you would like to see your battery status on the desktop, you might want to check out Power Meter Plus

If you have a list of msn contacts that you would like to import, simply look at the image and click on Import instant messaging contacts. Then your done. It is that simple.

Wanted to be your own DJ? Well it is possible for you to become your own.

If you wanted to create your free radio station, well it is now easy thanks to Shoutcast. Shoutcast is software that you install that allows you to broadcast your own audio over the Internet. It is simple to install, configure and then broadcast. However, if you want to broadcast music, you have to first get permission to do so. Have a look at ACMA for more information.

So now lets set up your online radio station.

Firstly, look around Shoutcast and get to know the site, listen to some radio stations and explore. Visit Download/Be a DJ. You can either find hosting yourself, or set your home computer up to act as a server.

Download the Winamp media player and install. Then install the DSP plug-in which allows you to stream your music online. If you already have a online streaming account, you can setup DSP to that account and start streaming. You can find Shoutcast hosting services with a simple Google search.

If you want to setup your computer to be a server, install the DNAS application.

Open SC_SERV.EXE, click on “Edit Config” and configure your server. Remember to open up the required ports on your modem/router so it can work successfully.

Then save the changes, restart, open up Winamp and start streaming.

Your station should now appear in the Shoutcast directory. What ever you play in Winamp can now be heard of the Internet.

Remember to comply with copyright laws.