Mozilla Firefox Gets A New Look

A change in user interface of any application is always welcome if done properly. Keeping customer’s convenience in mind and new touch screen operating systems in use, so far many companies have implemented several changes to many of the popular applications. Now it is Firefox’s turn. Mozilla has just streamlined the user interface in Firefox browser. The revamped look of Firefox is quite brilliant and you will definitely love the same. The most often accessed options would be shown as favicon images and you will find many pinned tabs that you commonly use. You will find a toolbar on top, which has a customized set of icons and they will appear on the top left side of the interface. You need to simply press on the horizontal lines icon given there and this will open up the menu.

This browser UI project was called Australis and the new browser could be used on tablets, personal systems as well as phones. Thus, Australis truly gives everyone the best user experience. You will definitely love the curvy tabs on the new web browser and the frame around the web page is also different. The tabs that you are using will be highlighted when the others will not be. The graphical menu is also unique and it is more like an apps grid than the traditional list of options.

The first step of Australis was the regular testing, this was done with the Aurora version, the test proceeded with the beta version of Firefox, and at last, the latest Firefox version was released. Mozilla has worked very hard on the same as they wished to bring a new look to the browser keeping the browsing habits of the users in mind. We all saw this coming because all the browsers have underwent major changes for the touch interface operating systems and Mozilla is following the same.

According to Madhava Enros, leader of Firefox user experience design team, “It's a streamlining and simplification of the default interface, to declutter and better focus on how people use a browser today”.

Now if you have the old interface browser in your system, you need to try the new attractive interface in the new version of Mozilla Firefox. If you have any doubts regarding this, you may contact the Mozilla Firefox Help and support team online. The Mozilla Firefox Help and support team would give the download links for the new version.

How To Remove A Toolbar From Google Chrome

A toolbar is generally a kind of browser add-on that gets installed in your system when you visit that specific website or when you download applications from the internet. These toolbars will help you in easy navigation to the services offered by the toolbar. However, these toolbars will sometimes feel irritating and may need to be removed from your system. Well, given below are some easy instructions that will help you to remove toolbars effectively from the computer.

Removing using Control Panel

Below given are few instructions to remove toolbars from Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers by using the Control Panel option.

From Windows XP

• Click the Windows XP Start menu and select the option called Control Panel. 
• Next, you need to select the option called Uninstall a program that is seen under the option called Programs.
• Double click on the name of the extension that you want to remove from your system.
• From the User Account Control Screen, you need to select the option called Continue. When prompted to remove the extension, you need to select the option Yes.
• When completed, just restart your Chrome browser.

From Windows Vista

• Open the Control Panel window by navigating to the Start menu.
• Select the option Uninstall a program, which is founder under the option Programs.
• The name of the extension that you are trying to remove needs to be double clicked. 
• When prompted to remove the extension, click the button called Yes.
• Finally, restart your Google Chrome browser.

From Windows 7

• Click the Start menu and select the option called Control Panel.
• From the Control Panel window, you need to select the option called Programs and features.
• Find the name of the extension that you want to remove and double click it.
• When prompted, click the button called Yes to confirm the deletion action.
• Conclude the process by restarting the Google Chrome browser.

From Windows 8

• Click the option called Search by swiping from the right side of the Windows 8 screen.
• In the search box, you need to enter Uninstall and from below the Search box, you need to click the category called Settings.
• From the list that is seen on the left side of the screen, you need to click Uninstall a Program.
• Double click the extension name that you want to delete from the dialog box named Programs and Features. Next, click the option called Uninstall.
• After completion, restart your Google Chrome browser to make the changes to take effect.

The above said instructions will help you to remove toolbars from Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers with ease.

TechNet Subscription Service Retires

Microsoft Corporation has announced the retirement of one of its very popular Microsoft support services. TechNet Subscriptions service will end on August 31, 2013. But, customers can purchase new subscriptions till August 31, 2013 and even activate them before September 30, 2013. But, those existing subscribers will of course be able to access program benefits and download products till the expiry of their subscriptions.

Industry experts at Microsoft support services tend to feel that the move by Microsoft to retire TechNet can be largely due to the fact that other people including few software pirates also enjoyed the product keys and other benefits provided by the popular subscription. This means that they got the feeling that that they are indirectly aiding or helping the software pirates in their work. Though this can be a pretty valid reason, there are many things unclear as to why others should suffer because of that. People who have been enjoying these subscriptions are losing the package provided by the subscription.

While TechNet Standard package did cost Unites States Dollars 199, you have to pay Unites States Dollars 599 for a TechNet Professional with Media subscription where you receive software products in DVD format as well. In case of all subscription packages, including e-learning course collections, the things that will definitely help you to update the knowledge, the absence of future subscriptions after August 31, 2013. Additionally, Microsoft also provides useful professional support through various discussion forums with priority and online chat.

The world’s largest software company apparently refused to disclose any further clarification, when InfoQ reached out to its official spokesperson with various questions regarding the above development. This has been the case or approach recently for most things they’re asked to expound on.

As you can infer from the above discussion, TechNet is much cheaper than its full blown Microsoft Developer Network subscription package. So, as an alternative to TechNet, the software-zilla intends to provide free services that will include a new TechNet evaluation center. This new TechNet evaluation center will be offering free evaluation software for limited periods of 90 to 180 days. The software maker is planning to phase out the TechNet service completely by September 30, 2014.

This sure looks unfortunate for subscribers who were enjoying such cheap services. But, the software maker is at least handing out some free evaluation software till 2014, September.

How To Setup Microsoft Outlook For Volusion Email?

Microsoft Outlook does not require any introduction, as it was introduced long back by Microsoft Corporation. From the time it was introduced, it has been widely used and when compared to other email clients, Microsoft Outlook has been offering many new features that assists in sending and receiving email messages and performs other functions. You will find it extremely simple to manage your contacts, tasks, schedule appointments, calendars and other jobs easily. If you wish to have your hosted email account like Volusion to be configured with Microsoft Outlook, you could definitely try the same.

To setup email in Outlook for Volusion account, you need to follow certain instructions, which will help you to setup the Volusion account easily. Volusion email account is normally used to stay connected with vendors, customers and partners and hence if you wish to view them through your Outlook account, follow the instructions given below.

Instructions

• Open Microsoft Outlook and you need to open the email account wizard. From here, you need to select the option to add a new email account.
• To do the same, click on Tools menu and select Account Settings and choose Email and then New. 
• This will show the different email server types of Microsoft out of which you need to select POP3. 
• Under User information, you will find the information to setup email in Outlook and here you need to provide your full name and email address.
• Below Logon Information, you need to provide the complete email address and it can include the User name and password for the Volusion account.
• Now it will show Connecting to your Volusion Email account for the correct incoming/outgoing server information.
• Select More Settings. Below More Settings, choose Outgoing Server and choose My Outgoing Server (SMTP)Requires Authentication and choose Use Same Settings as My Incoming Mail server. 
• Below More Settings, choose Advanced option and the Incoming Server port should be set to 110 and the Outgoing port to 25.
• Inorder to apply the changes made to the new account, select OK.

This information would help you setup the Volusion account in Microsoft Outlook. Setting up an email account is not a tough task, though some may have certain queries. You may contact the Microsoft Outlook support team online, who will clear all your doubts and queries regarding this.

Windows Azure Adds Support For Hadoop And Dropbox

Windows Azure is a platform for cloud computing, developed by software giant Microsoft. It is mainly used for creating, developing and controlling services and applications using a global network of datacenters managed by Microsoft. It supports many programming languages, tools and frameworks which include both Microsoft-specific and third party software.

Windows Azure uses a unique operating system, called Windows Azure, so that it can run the fabric layer which a cloud computing cluster that Microsoft's datacenters hosts. One of the bets advantages of Windows Azure is that services do not crash if one of the servers within the Microsoft datacenters crashes. Microsoft recently announced the release of the new Windows Azure multi-factor authentication for IT professionals and users. This new security capability is available for any application that will be used on the cloud infrastructure. In addition Windows Azure will also get new support for a wide variety of other services which include PhoneGap, DropBox and Hadoop. In a post made by Scott Guthrie, the corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Servers group developers get to connect to HTML5 web-client apps, Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, as well as Windows Phone 7.5 clients, allowing them to use Windows Azure Mobile Services as a backend. He wrote that the new mobile services web client library supports Internet Explorer 8 and “current versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, plus PhoneGap 2.3.0+.”

In addition Windows Azure also supports site and app development using Dropbox to any website. Windows Azure will also be supporting Mercurial repositories, as it plans to set up continuous deployment of websites from the repositories of CodePlex or Bitbucket. Reports also suggest that user interface will see more updates and improvements.

A new service added to Windows Azure called HDInsight will provide users with the capability to deploy, control and use Hadoop clusters that employ Windows Azure.

The user interface employed in Windows Azure is a differentiator for Microsoft. It holds integrity and consistency with the user interface employed by the company. The Amazon web service which still dominates in popularity as a program, used from the command line, can be compared to these latest improvements.

Those who are experiencing any sort of issues with Windows Azure can contact the Windows Support Number for help. Professionals at Windows support number can help you out with all your issues and deploy easy solutions for your problems. Subscribe to Windows Azure and get to use some of its cool new features.