Firefox 3.6 beta 1 is already out & available for download. Though not many new features but you can expect bug fixes and more stability. In past we have covered guide on how to install Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu now here is simple guide on how to install Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu for those newbie Ubuntu users.

There are two different ways of installing Firefox 3.6 Namoroka on Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04. Both the methods are easy to follow for novice users.

How to Download & Install Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu

Method 1: Installing via repository

1. Go to System -> Administrator -> Software Sources

2. Now Click on Third Party Software Tab and add below repository

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main

3. Now go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal and type below command

Sudo apt-get install firefox-3.6

Once you have completed installation to start Firefox 3.6 go to Applications > Internet > Minefield 3.6 Web Browser.

Method 2: Installing using wget

Below one line command can install Firefox 3.6 on your Ubuntu

wget – o – http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6b1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6b1.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~

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Here is an excellent Adobe AIR based application Trakkboard for Google Analytics stats lovers. Manually checking Google Analytics on web could be time consuming task especially when you have multiple websites on different Google accounts.

Trakkboard has been designed to make it easy to check analytics stats right from your desktop. Once installed you can add multiple Google Accounts, select Google Analytics Accounts and profiles, then choose from any of the pre-canned report widgets.

Features of Trakkboard – Google Analytics on Desktop

1. Trakkboard enables the compilation of reports of different websites without logging in at Google Analytics.

2. You can compare data of different accounts, websites and profiles without permanently changing sites at Google Analytics

3. You have the opportunity to compile individually and from different portals and websites all the key performance indicators which are of a certain importance for you on just one dashboard.

4. By means of tabs, you can create as many dashboards as you want and you can arrange the data individually

5. You can follow current developments on your desktop or you can lock certain data from changes to have them available at all times

6. With just one click, you can switch between the display formats, change time spans or rearrange data.

TrakkBoard in Action

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Most mobile phone users are crazy about fancy ringtones & often they end up paying high to get ringtones of their choice specially gadget freak iPhone users. Why to pay when you can create iPhone ringtones of any songs of your choice and yes you don’t need to buy any software for that.

Here is iRingtones open source tool that provides a graphical approach to using the freely available Nero AAC Encoder. It uses the Encoder to convert a standard WAV file into an iPhone compliant M4R ringtone, adds the ringtone to the users iTunes library and finally copies it into the users iTunes Ringtones folder.

Basically iRingtones converts any MP3/WAV songs into M4R format used by iPhone using free Nero AAC encoder.

iRingtones

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In past we have covered many interesting tools for Rapidshare which includes Rapidshare plus, Rapidshare Auto Downloader, Rapidshare Download Accelerator, MDownloader, RSdownloader, RapidZuca & FreeRapid Downloader.

Now here is yet another open source Rapidshare tool Rapidshare Mass Downloader which is an easy to use application designed to bring out human interaction while downloading files from Rapidshare (without premium account). It will download all the Rapidshare links sequentially to the specified location.

Rapidshare Mass Downloader

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In past we have covered many tools to retrieve product key of windows and other software like office now here is dedicated tool Game Key Revealer to recover and find product key/cd key of games.

Game Key Revealer retrieves the CD-Key and Serial for installed games on computer. If you lost legal CD-Keys or Serials of your purchased games, you can find them with help of Game Key Revealer. It displays over 1000 games keys along with Save to Text or Word (Word XP and above & print feature.

Game Key Revealer

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Most users tend to customize start menu, taskbar, desktop and several other settings. The biggest issue with customization is that often it leads to missing required options after customization. If you have recently customized Windows 7 start Menu and it’s messed up now and you are desperately looking for way to restore Windows 7 start menu default settings then check out below guide.

Restoring Windows 7 Start Menu to default settings is very easy and takes only few clicks check out below step by step guide.

How to Restore Windows 7 Start Menu to Default Settings

1. Right Click on taskbar and select properties

2. Click on Start Menu Tab and click customize button

3. Now click on “Use Default Settings” button at the bottom of customize window.

That’s it, now your Windows 7 start menu is restored to default settings.

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In past we have covered several twitter clients like TweetBrando, SpreadTweet, Up2date & TwitterFone. Now here is yet another twitter client Tweetc for Windows. Tweetc is command line twitter client for windows.

Tweetc is simple client with all basic features. You can view latest updates, messages along with your name mentioning. To get your most recent tweets, type, “tweetc”. Tweetc remembers the last message id so it only gets “new” tweets by default. Tweetc uses same proxy settings as Internet Explorer.

Tweetc Windows Command Line Twitter Client

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Now here is yet another similar utility PhotGrabber to download all photos of your Facebook account. You just need to select download folder and provide login details and start download Facebook photos & pictures.

PhotoGrabber

Download PhotoGrabber (Windows).

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Drivers are often biggest culprit of windows system crash. Conflicting drivers or damaged drivers can make your system unbootable or need reinstallation. The biggest issue of such crashes is it’s very difficult to find out which driver is responsible for crash.

Here is an excellent free tool WhoCrashed which is a comprehensive crash dump analysis tool to find out which drivers have been responsible for crashing your computer without requiring any debugging skills.

WhoCrashed shows the drivers which have been crashing your computer with a single click. In most cases it can pinpoint the offending drivers which have been causing misery on your computer system in the past. It does post-mortem crashdump analysis and presents all gathered information in a comprehensible way.

WhoCrashed

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Many a time you need to remove background color of image or convert into transparent to use it on website, application. Unfortunately Microsoft mspaint doesn’t provide such functions. The only tools which can help you in converting background color into transparent image is Photoshop & GIMP.

Installing Photoshop & GIMP only for that purpose isn’t wise decision when you already have lightweight freeware tools like Transpoint which lets you to select the background color in a image and convert it to transparent allowing it to blend in with the slide background in presentations.

Transpoint in Action

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