Google Chrome new version 2.0.158.0 is out, with the introduction of faetures like profiles, auto form submittion. To install, you will need to follow this guide here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel. I have, however, found a problem with the tabs management in Chrome in Windows 7. Meh, as software in beta stage, you can’t really expect much. :P

To learn more on getting this release, visit this link: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-chrome-20-pre-beta.html

As for Google Chrome on Mac and Linux, there is a bunch of guys that made it here. Although not official and definitely should not be ued as a main browser, but is definitely a step towards it. If you want to get the first news on Chrome on Mac and Linux, it is the best to subscibe to the official newsletter at here (linux) or here.

In this article today, I am going to show the new features in Windows 7 from Vista. The motivation of this article actually begins with a (real) little story with my friends… (again)

"Dude, wanna check out Windows 7?”
"What’s new there?”
"Oh, the Superbar, it is SO cool!”
"What else?”
"Um… the Superbar!”
"You said that already.”
"Um…. Superbar?”

Because of that, I went home and took a deep look at Windows 7, and found just so many little tweaks from Windows Vista that is much more efficient, convenient and user-friendly. Let’s take a look at them, shall we?

(To download Windows 7, visit this link: http://techcube.net/2009/01/windows-7-beta-is-now-available-for-download/)

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I was very excited when I installed Windows 7, so excited that I even took pictures of it. Below are the pictures form the actual installation process of Build 7000, Beta 1 that you can read and download at here. Excuse my poor photo-taking skills. Those “white” blur spere-looking thing are actually flash lights. It looked realy blurry without it… =)

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So I was still messing with my Windows 7, browsing web, listening to music… wait, what happened to the music? Why is the beginning cut off?

Something wrong with WMP? Let me download another player and try… wait what? The beginning is still cut off?

Let me move to another computer and try… perhaps it is a Windows 7 issue. And WHAT!? It is still that way?!

That was my short adventure with Windows 7 and WMP 12. I took a search on the Microsoft site, and found this article talking about “an update”.

An MP3 file support issue that is fixed in this update

Every time that metadata is edited in an MP3 file that already contains lots of metadata in the file header, some audio at the beginning of the track may be lost permanently. Up to several seconds of audio may be lost.

I am personally pissed off from this. I mean, I understand that it is beta and it has bugs, but nobody would know until they encounter this problem, have a song’s  beginning cut off and try to search for an answer to it. They should have included in one of the Windows Update update so the user doesn’t suffer.

Well, to fix this bug follow this article and download the update package. Your computer needs to restart, and remember, if you are planning to use Windows 7, DO NOT let WMP touch ANY of your songs until you downloaded this update! 32 Bit click here, 64 Bit click here

Other than this bug, everything seems to be fine. I will post some screenshots when I have time =)

Microsoft has officially announced the availbiliy of download of Windows 7  Beta. It is now completely legal to download and install Windows 7. From the download page, the requirements are absolutely impressive, and if I reckon, it is much less than Windows Vista. Good job!

Minimum recommended specs call for:

• 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor
• 1 GB of system memory
• 16 GB of available disk space
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (to enable the Aero theme)
• DVD-R/W Drive
• Internet access (to download the Beta and get updates)

This Beta expires on August 1, 2009, so you still have some time to play with it. Anyway, I am not going to continue and talk about useless stuff, download it at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

Oh, here is a wonderful comic from XKCD talking about Windows 7:

Windows 7 is the next release of Microsoft Windows. Windows 7 is scheduled to be released in January 2010. Microsoft distributed pre-beta Windows 7 build 6801 to PDC 2008 attendees which was held less than a month ago. This post summarizes some of these new features you can expect from this version of Windows.

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