Apple iBooks

iBooks is an e-book application by Apple. iBooks offers amazing way to download and read books. The latest version of iBooks is version 1.2.1. which released on February 9th 2011.

iBooks has some features for users, include feature to change the font and text size displayed, adjust screen brightness from within the application, select and search words throughout the book, new automatic bookmark syncing feature, and pages are turned by tapping or dragging the page. For get the user's library started, each copy of iBooks comes with a free copy of Winnie-the-Pooh, the 1926 book by A. A. Milne.

With iBooks you also can organize your books and PDFs into personal collections, add books in the industry-standard ePub electronic book format to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, add PDF documents to iBooks from Mail, or add them to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint.

To use iBooks, you need iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch (2nd generation), iPod touch (3rd generation), or iPod touch (4th generation), and iOS 4 or later.

Get experience fully illustrated books, from children's picture books to beautifully designed art books with using iBooks from Apple!

Firefox Themes

Firefox allows you to change theme for get your favorite visual appearance of this browser. A theme could simply change the toolbar's background colors, change how buttons look, or make Firefox look like a completely different program. How to change your Firefox theme? We have got the answer.

First, you should know that there are two types of themes available for Firefox: full themes and personas. And here are the steps to install the themes:
Full themes:
- Go to Themes at Addons.Mozilla.org.
- Browse the themes in the list. When you see one you want to install, click on it to see its theme page.
- Click on the Add to Firefox button. The Software Installation window will appear.
- When the Install Now button becomes available, click on it.
- Click Restart Firefox when prompted. Firefox will restart and your new theme will be installed.

Personas
First, install the Personas extension (Personas is built in to Firefox 3.6, so if you are using Firefox 3.6, skip to the Once Personas is installed section.)
- Go to Personas at Addons.Mozilla.org.
- Click on the Add to Firefox button. The Software Installation window will appear.
- When the Install Now button becomes available, click on it.
- Click Restart Firefox when prompted. Firefox will restart and the Personas extension will be installed.
Once Personas is installed:
- Go to the Personas Gallery.
- Move the mouse pointer over one of the themes to preview it.
- When you see a theme you like, click on it to see its theme page.
- Click Wear this Persona to install the new theme.
Notification bar will appear to alert you that a new theme was installed, after you click Wear this Persona.

Here five favorite Firefox themes which you can download and install from Addons.Mozilla.org: NASA Night Launch, Halloween 2.9, PimpZilla 4.01, Newgrounds Classic 2.01, and Ohio State Buckeye Football. Get your favorite theme and apply to your Firefox!

Internet Explorer 9 RC

Internet explorer 9 RC is expected to unveil the Release Candidate version of Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco on February 10. But, today reported that there have been additional changes. Microsoft has released a cheat sheet of additions to IE9 between Beta and RC which lists the two mentioned features and a few dozen more.

Previously, reported that Internet Explorer 9 RC build 9.0.8073.6003 appeared on a number of file sharing sites, shortly before Microsoft is expected to unveil its latest public preview. Microsoft’s release Internet Explorer 9 RC will include a number of new enhancements from the previous public beta build.

Internet Explorer 9 RC will be featured an “ActiveX filter”. The filter will allow users to control what ActiveX elements are displayed on sites they visit. Microsoft will also introduce a new Tracking protection feature in Internet Explorer 9 RC that will allow consumers to address their concerns about being tracked on the web.

Lately, Microsoft has also improved the UI of the browser tabs and buttons in Internet Explorer 9 RC. There is also a reduction of the InPrivate Filtering memory footprint by 5MB, network cache improvements, delayed image decoding for larger files or the option to press Ctrl-Shift-L to load a website from the clipboard right away in the browser.

Internet Explorer 9 RC is expected to include UI tweaks and minor changes to some functions in Internet Explorer. What's your opinion?

Cydia

For Apple users, surely they know Cydia. Cydia is a software application for iOS that is a graphical front end to APT and the dpkg package management system. With Cydia, you can find and download applications and software packages for a jailbroken iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. What are the Cydia favorite apps? check these out!

Cydia is developed by Jay Freeman. He makes Cydia quickly became the most popular package manager after iPhone OS 2.0's release.As of December 2010, Freeman plans to also release a Cydia Store for Mac OS X as an alternative to Apple's Mac App Store.

One of the best of the best Cydia app is installous. Installous is a one-of-a-kind app for iPhone and iPad, it provides unparalleled opportunity to download old apps and apps that the real app store wouldn't allow.

Then, Grooveshark. It's one of the most popular music streaming sites online brings its wares to the iPhone exclusively through jailbreaking. For those who need a primer on Grooveshark, the online service that's totally free for desktop users brings iTunes-like music search to the cloud. Users upload songs to the web server and then you can search through them for practically any song imaginable, even obscure ones.

Besides, installous and Grooveshark, there are several Cydia apps for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad users, such as XBMC, iRealSMS 3.0, iFile/OpenSSH, Wi-Fi Sync, Cylay 4.2, SBSettings, MCleaner, and 3G Unrestrictor.