Download Google Chrome Portable Version 24.0.1

Google Chrome is the best and fastest web browser among web browsers software. Most of us use Google Chrome including me as our web browser for fastest access in the web. It has more than 310+ million users worldwide. If you are really a fan of Google Chrome and if you are very much used to it, then certainly you may wish to carry it wherever you go.

Now Google Chrome has released the latest version of Google Chrome portable version 24.0.1312.57. This latest version of Chrome portable is designed simply and stylish. You can have your,

Favorite bookmarks

Saved passwords

All History and everything that you want at any time.



You can simply install Chrome Portable setup file into your USB pen drive, and start web browsing from anywhere and from any PC. Portable Chrome is having all the features which you get in a usual Chrome PC version.

Click Here to Download Google Chrome Portable Version 24.0.1

The Old Image Search, Still Available

The old Google Image Search interface is still available in the OneBox result that's displayed for some Google searches like [tropical birds] or [europe map]. If you add "image", "images", "photo" or "photos" to your query, Google will show 4 times more image results. It's like a simplified image search interface inside the regular Google Search.

3 Applications To View Your Entire Internet History In One Place [Windows]

I’ve run into a bit of a problem lately. I’ve started using one browser for basic purposes, then another for everything Flash-based (such as games). Flash just feels faster in one browser, without heavy add-ons or extensions, compared to another. And then how many IM clients do we all use? I personally still use ICQ! I’ve got friends there who refuse to budge. Skype is also a necessity.

How many programs must we run, simultaneously, that ultimately do the same job? It happens. Market share is a competitive thing. Having centralized data is very important to me though, and I feel it’s a major inconvenience (and stress to your system) to constantly have multiple processes open, especially for something as intensive as a browser. Luckily, I’ve discovered a way to bring together the history of all major browser, email, and IM clients.

MiTeC Internet History Browser

MiTeC Internet History Browser brings together your history from every major browser out there:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer


• Google Chrome


• Opera


• Apple Safari


• Mozilla Firefox

You can choose to scan for your history automatically or load your data by a file. I’d recommend you click the top option at the main interface.

Shown above is how your history is viewed using the application. Everything can be viewed in chronological order. Near the top of the interface, there is a search field.

As you can see, multiple browsers work their way into the mix. They aren’t separated by tabs or anything like that. Everything is listed 100% chronologically. Clicking on one of the entries in your history will show when it was visited, what the exact URL is, and how many times you visited that page. You can then open that page in your default browser if you’d like to.

If you’re all over the place with browsers, it can be a headache to consider which browser you used to view what. MiTeC’s Internet History Browser turns it into an experience as if you were looking at your history all in a single browser.

MiTeC’s Email History Browser

MiTeC’s Email History Browser opens up with the same interface as the the last application. It supports the following email clients:

• Microsoft Outlook Express


• Microsoft Windows Mail


• Microsoft Windows Live Mail


• Mozilla Thunderbird

Unlike MiTeC’s Internet History Browser, Email History Browser comes with a tabbed view. You can see the names of each supported application at the bottom-left of the interface. The highlighted application is your current view. All accounts within that view are able to be seen above that area. All folders are also shown.

MiTeC’s Email History Browser is a very interesting way to search through all of your email accounts. The only problem is that you cannot actually load the body text of your emails in this application, only the headers.

You’ll notice the above screenshot is a little empty. I don’t use Windows Live Mail often, and when I do, it’s for my Windows Live Mail account (@live.com). I believe there is a compatibility issue, with Windows 8, when it comes to loading your @live.com/@hotmail.com address using MiTeC’s Email History Browser. It works fine in every other version of Windows.

MiTeC Internet Messaging History Browser

MiTeC’s IM History Browser may be the most interesting of the bunch, just because of how useful IM history really is. It supports the following clients:

• Skype


• ICQ 7


• Windows Live Messenger


• Yahoo Messenger

With the messengers supported, some may question the usefulness of MiTeC’s IM History Browser. ICQ and Yahoo! are practically dead, MSN is being phased out soon, and AIM isn’t supported. Nonetheless, it gets the job done for these messengers. Each messenger supports every account that you’ve ever logged in from and shows your message history in a chronological, tabbed view.

This application could be greatly improved by supporting Pidgin IM logs, but it’s surely useful if you use multiple messengers individually.

The coolest thing about all of these applications are that they are completely portable and they support a network connection! You can access the history of other PCs on your local network, and that is a huge feature all on its own.

All three of these tools are worth throwing on a flash drive. What do you think of them? Let me know in the comments!

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Make Windows 8 Suck Less With Classic Shell

Make Windows 8 usable for people who think it’s not. Add a start menu to the desktop and tweak the way Explorer and Internet Explorer behave, all thanks to a piece of software called Classic Shell. If you like tweaking your user interface, and miss the options provided by previous versions of Windows, you’ll love this software.

To say Windows 8 is controversial would be an understatement. While many love the new security and speed of Redmond’s latest offering, some wish there was an optional way to avoid the Metro interface – including most of the MakeUseOf staff. Forcing a touch-based interface on a mouse-and-keyboard loving populace probably isn’t the smartest thing Microsoft’s ever done – even if it could help them sell a couple of phones someday.

So I’m glad there are ways to make Windows behave a little more like the operating system we know how to use properly. Classic shell gives you exactly the start menu you prefer, whether that’s the one from Windows 7, XP or even older versions of the OS. It also lets you tweak Windows Explorer, adding a customizable toolbar and letting you make other changes to the classic shell in Windows 8.

The Start Menu

Install Classic Shell and you’ll see it immediately – a start menu! The button will stick out like a sore thumb at first but you can configure it to blend in with Windows 8 quite nicely. Here’s how it looks on my computer:

Once you install Classic Shell, Windows automatically boots to the desktop – nice if you’d rather avoid Metro’s distractions and get right to work.

Do you want to change that, or anything else? Right-click the start menu and you’ll find a “Settings” button. From here you can change the style of start menu you want:

You’ll find a wide variety of options; just be sure to hit the “All Settings” options so you can see all tabs. You can make your start menu work exactly the way you want, so check it out.

Explorer

Many people like the new Windows Explorer, but if you’re not one of them Classic Shell is here for you. With it you can make the file manager behave just the way you remember. When you launch it you’ll see a new toolbar in Explorer. Click the Classic Shell button on it and you can configure things, including what does and doesn’t show up in your toolbar:

Again, you can configure just about anything here. Explore the options and you’ll be blown away.

Conclusion

My wife – a brilliant physicist who is also very computer savvy – recently had cause to replace her computer. The new machine came with Windows 8, with which she was initially frustrated.

“I’m just not sure how I’m supposed to use this,” she said. The Metro apps, which she accurately deemed “Internet stuff”, didn’t seem that useful for most of the things she spends her time doing: crunching data, preparing presentations and taking notes while reading at the same time.

Her plan was to install Windows 7 until I pointed out Classic Shell. It provided the means to get used to Windows 8 without throwing old workflows away completely.

I think Microsoft made a mistake in not making more of their Metro features optional. People love Windows and have workflows worked out using it. Why try to change everything in one swift blow? Classic Shell helps, at least. Install it if you’re feeling the way my wife did.

If you want more help, be sure to check out Chris’ piece on resolving Windows 8 niggles or his piece on making Windows 8 faster. Or, if you want to learn more about Microsoft’s latest operating system, be sure to check out our full, free manual for Windows 8. It goes over all of the new features, teaching you how to use the Metro interface and get the most out of the new configurations.

Thoughts? Leave them below, as always. I’ll be around for the after party.

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