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With the latest release of Google Earth, yes the version number has also changed to 5.0, there are a lot of changes and additions which adds more value and quality to the already superb globe browsing experience Google Earth provides and the most important addition is the ability to go undersea.

Yes the ocean can now be explored with tons of informational media and in 3D as well. From the official Google blog

We were joined at the Academy by many of the dozens of ocean scientists and advocates who helped make this project a reality: friends from National Geographic, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the US Navy, Scripps Oceanography, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to name just a few.

Edit: Update (Found the video from LifeHacker)

Download Google earth from http://earth.google.com which will download Google updater and will update your earth installation to latest one or if you have problem installing through Google updater try downloading Earth installer from http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthWin.exe and update through it.

Save images is a firefox add-on which allows you to save all the images in the opened tabs of your firefox browser at once with the help of few clicks.

Simply install this add-on and a new sub menu “Save Images” will appear in the tools menu and the right click menu of firefox, from there you are given quite a few options to save opened images accordingly. You can

1. Save all images from current tab
2. Save images from the left side or right side tabs of the current tab
3. Save images from all the opened tabs
4. Open all image links or regular links in a single tab or separate tabs. This is particularly handy when say you are browsing a site with the links of images or link of sub pages where there are more images of your favorite celebrity or porn star and you want to save all photos to your hard drive. Just open all the image and sub pages links in a tab and use “Save images” to save all.
5. Set size limit of the images to prevent downloading of unwanted images.
6. And more

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Many a times, I thought how wonderful it would be if there was an option in Firefox to minimize the window to tray icon as in some other applications like Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger, etc. But I forgot it then, thinking it may not be possible to do so.

But I was really happy to know that there is an add-on for tweaking firefox this way. :-) MinimizeToTray add-on for Firefox 3 is an add-on which would help you minimize your browser window to the tray icon. Not only Firefox, it will also help you to do this for Mozilla thunder bird as well.

But it is an experimental plugin and is kept under observation, so you need to have an account in Mozilla before you can install it.

Links: Firefox | MinimizeToTray add-on

One of my friend just asked me how can she create a photo sketch her profile pic at facebook, its really amazed to see the pencil sketch of some of the pictures of your own.

As the pencil sketch are so natural to represent the real beauty of the picture as if its drawn by pencil only and you can impress your friends around on various social networks like orkut, facebook etc.

Today we will tell you 4 free ways to create a pencil sketch online and offline both. Let’s see how can you create a pencil sketch with some free tools available online and offline.

1. FotoSketcher ( Free Offline Sketch Tool )

It is a free utility which allows you to convert any your digital photos into pencil sketch automatically.

Download FotoSketcher

2. Dumpr Sketch Tool ( Free Online Sketch Tool )

Dumpr pencil sketch tool lets you convert any image into pencil sketch, you just need to locate and upload the image.

Link to Dumpr Sketch Tool - http://www.dumpr.net/sketch.php

3. Sketchmyphoto.com ( Free Online Sketch Tool )

It is another free tool on internet which lets you create some amazing pencil sketch of your photos

Link to Sketchmyphoto Sketch tool - http://www.sketchmyphoto.com/

4. Befunky.com ( Free Online Sketch Tool )

It is a cool free service which lets you convert your photos into a cool art work including a pencil sketch too.

Link to Befunky Tool - http://www.befunky.com/

These are all the tools we know as per our knowledge if you know more free tools for doing the same thing please comment at the end of this post we would love to add it as well.

Note: If you know some basics of image editing you may like to do this by yourself with photoshop here is a small and easy tutorial for the same.

Extra Photo SlideShow Free is FREE easy to use software for free photo slideshow creator software which is very properly designed for non experienced users. It is the best free software which lets you create slide show with your photos in three simple steps.

1. Choose Photos

2. Pick the background music

3. Select the target format for the final slideshow

You can add subtitle to each photo of the slideshow and the time interval between two photos and lets you choose the transition effects from all the effects or let it be default option of random transition effects.

You can save the final slideshow in different formats ( AVI, MPEG, WMV, RealMedia )

Extra Photo SlideShow Free supports the following images formats for creating a slideshows: BMP, EMF, GIF, J2K, JPEG, PCX, PNG, RAS, TGA, TIFF, WMF, WMA, MP3, WAV, ADPCM, PCM, GSM, OGG, VI, DivX, Xvid, MPEG, WMV and RealMedia

Note: The only disadvantage of using this program is that after creating the slideshow it will open up a webpage with ads.

Download Extra Photo SlideShow Free

Taking a screenshot can be so quick and short task for you that you don’t want to buy some heavy softwares available like winsnap, snagit etc. Screenshot Taker is the most simplest tool to take a screenshot of the a specific screen area or the complete screen with in single click.

After installing screenshot taker you can either click the first button to choose area of the screen or click the second button to choose the entire screen. This small software is really simple and meant to do screen capturing with any funky or confusing menus and options.

If you are looking for straight forward simple tool for screen capturing and it automatically saves the image as .jpg, how ever it does not support any hot key activation to run the program.

Screenshot Taker tool is the best if you look for a simple utility for capturing full screen or part screen capturing.

Download Screenshot Taker

MP3 cutter is some thing we all require to cut mp3 songs from a specified point to another point, we often need to cut mp3 to create custom ringtones or could be for some other reason for you.

MP3 Cutter Plus is a 100% FREE MP3 cutter that allows you to cut MP3 music files from any point you want. There will be no loss in the quality of the cut file with free.

MP3 cutter is really a great tool if you want to made some custom ring tones out of your songs by cutting the specific part of the song. Its really simple software t use to cut mp3 as you just need to click Mark Start button to select the starting point and Mark End button to select the end point.

How To Cut Any MP3 With In 5 Steps

Start MP3 cutter plus

1. Click Open , browse and locate the mp3 file from which you want cut

2. Click Mark Start button to select the start point.

3. Click Mark End button to select the end point.

4. Click Play Selected button if you want to preview the cut section.

5. Click the Save button to save the final cut file as mp3 again.

This is the most easy and simple to use mp3 cutter to cut mp3 files specially to create custom ringtones.

Download Free MP3 Cutter

In my last company one of the most amazing time pass things I used to do when I don’t have any work was to look for movies, and songs shared on the company local area network. But browsing every computer shared resources for movies, songs could be really tiring if there are large number of computers to search for on your local area network.

LAN Search Pro is a free utility which lets you search across your LAN network, you can specify the file names or file types you are searching for on your LAN network.

If you want to search for all the movies and songs shared across your company network you can simply type in the search term as

*.avi,*.mpg,*.mp3

and press the green play button to start searching.

You can select any of the result in the search, right click on the search result to copy that file to your computer.

By default LAN Search Pro lets you search on the entire network but you can alos filter out which computers or network range it should search through options in LAN Search Pro.

LAN Search Pro is 100% free program, it does not contain any adware, spyware and malware etc. LAN Search Pro is also available in portable version which you can take any where on your pen drive and launch directly from your pen drive.

Download LAN Search Pro | Download LAN Search Pro (Portable Version)

Full Screen Image viewer is a FREE program which integrates itself to firefox and internet explorer context menu’s i.e right click menu in firefox and internet explorer.

After installing full screen image viewer you can view any image in full screen mode just by right clicking on the image and select the image view mode.

The various options for viewing the image are following:

• View Full Screen – Best Fit
• View Full Screen – Cut Fit Bottom Right
• View Full Screen – Cut Fit Equal
• View Full Screen – Cut Fit Top Left
• View Full Screen – Stretch Fit

In order to view the image in full screen you can follow the three easy steps given below.

1. Right click any image in internet explorer or firefox while surfing.
2. Select any of the available screen options
3. After viewing the image in full screen now, you can click on the image in full screen to return to the browser.

So, we recommend you to download full screen image viewer to enhance the image viewing experience while surfing.

Download Full Screen Image Viewer

It is really annoying for free users on rapidshare to download files from rapidshare, as rapidshare does not allow free users to download multiple files.

Rapidshare Download Accelerator (via TechnoSpot.net) allows you to download multiple files form rapidshare for free, without paying money for a premium account.

I have tested this rapidshare downloader with some files it worked in my case when i tried downloading some files simultaneously from rapidshare as a free user.

You can try, but I cannot assure this software will work definitely, even if you are not able to do simultaneous downloads you can at least use it to download files one by one.

Download Rapidshare Download Accelerator