Wordpress 2.7 Released

The much awaited release of Wordpress, the version 2.7 is here and available for download. The new interface of Wordpress 2.7 comes with new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

The new improved look of Wordpress 2.7.

You can check out this video to see the complete features available in the new version of Wordpress.

Apart from the visual changes and better navigation, one of the major changes is the automatic upgrade of Wordpress. The new version of WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click.

The dashboard also has a very neat and clean look giving complete information of your blog.

Overall the changes are really good with improved navigation. So what are you waiting for, go ahead and upgrade to the latest version.

Download Wordpress 2.5 RC1

A release candidate of the latest version of Wordpress (2.5), which is slated to arrive in a few days from now, is available for download at the Wordpress blog. The latest version has a customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times. The new Wordpress dashboard has the look and feel of the demo wordpress site which was made available few days back. There was lot of discusion and dislike for this new dasboard.

There has been lot of changes in the layout and its mentioned that primary function like managing posts, comments etc have been separated from secondary tasks. The final version should be soon available once the feedback from RC is available from testers. You can download and try the latest features of Wordpress 2.5

Download Wordpress 2.5 RC

Download Window 7 Theme for XP

Window 7 is the upcoming OS from Microsoft and its expected to be released in 2010. There are lots of rumors and pictures of this upcoming OS, but nothing is confirmed as of now. Microsoft has confirmed that there would be minimal UI changes in Windows 7. By the time we wait for more news on Windows 7, try out the Windows 7 theme for Windows XP.

How to install this theme;
1. Download the Windows 7 Theme.
2. Install the UXTheme Multi-Patcher 6.0.exe” from “UX Theme Patcher” folder in the zip file.
3. Double click on the “Windows 7 M1 VS.msstyles” in “Theme\Windows 7 M1 VS” folder to install the theme.

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Monitor and Remove Autorun from USB Drives

Most of the time, spreading of viruses can happen due to the autorun.inf file which executes programs automatically from USB drives. AutoRunExterminator is a free utility which can monitor all drives and prevent autorun.inf file from being executing itself. This application monitors all logical drives (from C: to Z) looking for the file “autorun.inf” and if it finds a file with this name in the root of any drive, will exclude it.

This application will not disable autorun from CD/DVD drive as it is not writable. The utility runs from the Windows system tray and monitors all drives. You can also add the application to the start up folder of Windows.

The AutoRunExterminator shows in your window how many files “autorun.inf” were found and how many were excluded. The application is tested on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. The application needs Microsoft .Net framework 2.0 for working.

Download AutoRunExterminator

Automatically Find and Save Documents in Firefox

OutWit Docs is a simple Firefox Add-on which can find documents from any website, collect them and save them to the location specified. You can specify an URL or click the Outwit docs button on the Firefox Toolbar and the add-on will collect and automatically save all the documents. You can directly open the documents from the search results.

OutWit Docs searches website and common search engines and will find multiple types of documents, including Office (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX), CSV, SWF, or PDF files. Apart from this you can also specify document types to be searched.

OutWit Docs is a great way to search text documents, datasheets, PDF files, presentations from multiple online sources. All you need is to specify the URLs or click on the Outwit toolbar.