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		<title>Effortlessly Divide Your Disks with EASEUS [Review]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need to create disk partitions to install multiple operating systems or to isolate certain files? Is the built in Disk Utility in Windows Vista and 7 not working well for you? A completely free product, EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition, can help you with this. Table of Contents About Product Pros and Cons [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you need to create disk partitions to install multiple operating systems or to isolate certain files? Is the built in Disk Utility in Windows Vista and 7 not working well for you? A completely free product, EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition, can help you with this.</p>
<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
<p><a href="#about">About Product</a><br />
<a href="#proscons">Pros and Cons</a><br />
<a href="#rating">Ratings</a><br />
<a href="#full">Full Review</a><br />
<a href="#verdict">Final Verdict</a></p>
<h3 id="about">About Product</h3>
<p><strong>Product Name:</strong> <a href="http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm">EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition</a><br />
<strong>Version Reviewed:</strong> 6.0.1<br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Chengdu Yiwo Tech Development<br />
<strong>Price:</strong> Free (Paid upgrades available)</p>
<p><strong>Supported Operating Systems:</strong> Windows 2000 and newer, 32-bit only<br />
<strong>Tested using:</strong> Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit</p>
<h3 id="proscons">Pros and Cons</h3>
<h4>The Good</h4>
<ul>
<li>Does the main task of creating and managing partitions very well.</li>
<li>All features are very easy to understand and straightforward to use.</li>
<li>Throws in useful features such as Partition Recovery and Disk Copy.</li>
<li>It’s free.</li>
</ul>
<h4>The Bad</h4>
<ul>
<li>Lacks a pleasing looking interface.</li>
<li>Partition Recovery is free version feature limited and there are links to the Bootable CD feature, but is not a free feature.</li>
<li>No 64-bit support in free version.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="rating">Ratings</h3>
<p>All ratings are out of a total possible score of 10 in each category. The final score is calculated using our <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/about/review-weighted-average/">weighted average system</a>.</p>
<div id="feat-odd" class="rating">
<div class="rate">Features:</div>
<div id="excellent" class="review-num">10</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<p>It has many useful partitioning options and throws in a few extra features, like Partition Recovery and Disk Defragmentation.</p>
</div>
<div id="eou-even" class="rating">
<div class="rate">Ease of Use:</div>
<div id="excellent" class="review-num">10</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<p>All features are very straightforward and easy to use.</p>
</div>
<div id="pef-odd" class="rating">
<div class="rate">Performance:</div>
<div id="excellent" class="review-num">9</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<p>The program overall worked very well, with a few slowness here and there. Does the main task of managing partitions very well.</p>
</div>
<div id="use-even" class="rating">
<div class="rate">Usefulness:</div>
<div id="good" class="review-num">8</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<p>Partitioning is very useful for creating data backups as well as installing multiple operating systems, however most users probably wouldn’t have any use for it at all.</p>
</div>
<div id="price-odd" class="rating">
<div class="rate">Price:</div>
<div id="excellent" class="review-num">10</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<p>It’s free. Can’t beat that.</p>
</div>
<div id="app-even" class="rating">
<div class="rate">Appearance:</div>
<div id="poor" class="review-num">4</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<p>Interface looks very old and outdated especially when used on newer operating systems like Windows 7. Could use a makeover.</p>
</div>
<div id="final-score" class="rating">
<div class="finalscore">Final Score:</div>
<div id="final" class="review-num">9.2</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
<h3 id="full">Full Review</h3>
<p>The installation has no junk toolbar offers and is easy and straightforward. Running the program requires elevated administrative privileges. In Windows Vista and higher, right click and select ‘Run as Administrator’.</p>
<div id="attachment_2710" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px;"><img class="size-full wp-image-2710" title="EASEUS Partition Tool" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/EASEUS-Partition-Tool.jpg" alt="EASEUS Partition Tool" width="600" height="461" /></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">EASEUS Partition Master has a relatively simple Windows XP-like interface</p>
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<p>The program is relatively straightforward and easy to use. To create new partitions, simply drag along with the purple borders of the disk drive bar shown at the top of the window. This will create some unallocated space.</p>
<p>To create a new partition, simply click <strong>Create Partition</strong> in the sidebar and choose from the available options including drive letter, how much of the available space to use, and much more. There are a lot more options offered here than there is in Windows Disk Management Utility.</p>
<div id="attachment_2711" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 506px;"><img class="size-full wp-image-2711" title="Partition Creation" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Create-Partition.jpg" alt="Partition Creation" width="496" height="432" /></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Partition Creation Options</p>
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<p>After you’re done, simply hit Apply. Most changes such as creating a new partition will require a computer reboot before the operation starts. After your operating system loads, EASEUS will start before the Windows Logon screen appears. Press any key within a few seconds to abort the operation.</p>
<div id="attachment_2712" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px;"><img class="size-full wp-image-2712" title="EASEUS Master Boot" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/EASEUS-Master-Boot.png" alt="EASEUS Master Boot" width="600" height="440" /></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">EASEUS executes your selected disk operations before your system fully boots up</p>
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<p>After all the operations are complete, EASEUS will automatically reboot your system again.</p>
<p>The entire operation is a lot smoother than my experience with creating disk partitions through Windows Disk Management in the Control Panel.</p>
<p>EASEUS contains useful extra features such as <a href="http://www.partition-tool.com/partition-recovery-wizard/recover-files-home-edition.htm">Partition Recovery</a>, which searches your partitions to attempt to recover data lost due to accidental deletion, partition loss, software crash, malware, etc… The free edition provides 1 GB of recovery.</p>
<div id="attachment_2714" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px;"><img class="size-full wp-image-2714" title="EASEUS Partition Recovery" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/EASEUS-Partition-Recovery.jpg" alt="EASEUS Partition Recovery" width="500" height="344" /></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">EASEUS Partition Recovery Tool to recover lost data</p>
</div>
<p>The <a href="http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/partition-copy.htm">Partition Copy </a> feature allows for the copy and migration of data to unallocated space on a hard drive. This helps protect data loss from unexpected situations, such as a system crash.</p>
<p>Have you ever tried booting up Windows and got an error message saying <strong>Operating System Not Found </strong>or a blank screen when trying to boot up? This is usually caused by the MBR (Master Boot Record) being corrupted. Rather than reinstall the entire operating system, EASEUS can help <a href="http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/rebuild-mbr.htm">rebuild the MBR</a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_2716" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 376px;"><img class="size-full wp-image-2716" title="Rebuild MBR" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Rebuild-MBR.jpg" alt="Rebuild MBR" width="366" height="198" /></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Master Boot Record rebuild options</p>
</div>
<p>EASEUS also features disk defragmentation to reorganize storage on the disk to improve performance. This is a useful extra feature, but unlike utilities like <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2009/08/17/iobit-smart-defrag-is-smart/">Smart Defrag</a>, does not  feature advanced options, but rather just a simple one click defragmentation.</p>
<p>Overall, the application works very well and is quite straightforward to use. It does the main job of managing partitions very well. The interface could use a huge makeover though as the menus look like Windows Classic and the font used for the disk partition listings look very strange combined with the Windows font for the navigation.</p>
<h3 id="verdict">Final Verdict</h3>
<p>EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is an excellent tool to create and manage your disk partitions and it also throws in some useful extra features. It has excellent options and the only thing it is lacking is an attractive interface. Overall, it does its main functions very well and I highly recommend EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition for all your partitioning needs.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2731" title="9.2 Rating - Excellent" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Review-9.2-Rating.png" alt="9.2 Rating - Excellent" width="150" height="84" /></p>
<p>What are your thoughts about <a href="http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm">EASEUS Partition Master</a>? Do you prefer another disk management application? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The non-profit Mozilla has just released the first beta of the next generation of Firefox earlier today. Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 features a brand new user interface, support for multiple new future web technologies including enhanced HTML support, WebSockets, and a more aggressive update schedule. This marks Mozilla&#8217;s first release of their plan for the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The non-profit Mozilla has just released the first beta of the next generation of Firefox earlier today. Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 features a brand new user interface, support for multiple new future web technologies including enhanced HTML support, <a href="http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/websockets-in-firefox/">WebSockets</a>, and a more aggressive update schedule. This marks Mozilla&#8217;s first release of their plan for the future of the world&#8217;s second most popular browser.</p>
<div id="attachment_2688" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2688" title="Firefox 4.0" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Firefox-4.0.jpg" alt="Firefox 4.0" width="500" height="390" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Firefox 4.0 introduces a new UI as well as a line of new features and improvements</p></div>
<p>Unless you are someone like me who&#8217;s been playing around with nightly builds and/or the Strata40 theme, the new theme will take a while to get used to. Tabs are on top in the Windows version, a feature started by Google Chrome, then adapted by Safari 4 beta builds (but removed in the final) and Opera. Mozilla had also followed Opera&#8217;s lead by compacting the classic menu bar into a single Firefox button in the top left corner.</p>
<div id="attachment_2689" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 508px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2689" title="Firefox Button" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Firefox-Button.jpg" alt="Firefox Button" width="498" height="376" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The new Firefox button saves space by compacting the classic menu bar into a single button. The classic menu button can still be toggled through the Customize menu or temporarily shown by using the Alt key.</p></div>
<p>Top tabs will come to Mac and Linux versions when their default themes are updated to support this.</p>
<p>The add-ons interface has received a major overhaul, but according to Mozilla, it will change in the final version, so don&#8217;t get too used to it. The final version will integrate the JetPack SDK, which will allow add-ons to be installed without restarting the browser.</p>
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<p>Other features include improved APIs for WebSockets and HTML history. There is also partial support for CSS transitions.</p>
<p>Windows 7 jumplist support is also included in this release.</p>
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<p>Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 scores 97/100 on the Acid3 Web Standards test. Almost there Mozilla!</p>
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<p>As promised, the Out-of-Process Plugin feature is now available to Mac users.</p>
<p>In security so far, Firefox 4 introduces a small but useful change. CSS &#8220;.visited&#8221; selectors now prevent web sites from checking a user&#8217;s browsing history.</p>
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<p>Want to try Firefox 4.0 Beta for yourself? Please note that this is a beta release and features are subject to change and may not work properly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html">Firefox 4.0 Beta</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b1/releasenotes/">Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Release Notes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/features/">Firefox 4.0 Beta Features</a></p>
<p>What do you think of this first public beta of the next generation of Firefox? Leave your thoughts in the comments.</p>
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		<title>Google Docs vs Microsoft Office Web Apps (First Class Flyer)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to be able to create, edit, and share documents online and then be able to access them from anywhere? Fortunately, there are many great applications out there that allow users to do this. And most of them are completely free, such as Google Docs and Microsoft&#8217;s new Office Web Apps. First [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to be able to create, edit, and share documents online and then be able to access them from anywhere? Fortunately, there are many great applications out there that allow users to do this. And most of them are completely free, such as Google Docs and Microsoft&#8217;s new Office Web Apps.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2667" title="Google Docs vs Office Web" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Docs-vs-Office-Web-Header.jpg" alt="Google Docs vs Office Web" width="635" height="268" /></p>
<h3>First Class Flyer Issue 11</h3>
<p><em><a href="http://www.techairlines.com/reviews/first-class-flyer">First Class Flyer</a> is a weekly series published every Friday comparing  multiple free software or web services and applications.</em></p>
<p>Hello! I&#8217;m Brian, your host for this edition of First Class Flyer. This week, we&#8217;re taking a close look at Google Docs and Microsoft Office Web Apps, two excellent free online document editing tools.</p>
<p>As always, before we begin, let&#8217;s introduce each of our contestants.</p>
<h3>About Our Contestants</h3>
<p><a href="http://docs.google.com"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2668" title="Google Docs" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/docs_logo_sm.gif" alt="Google Docs" width="122" height="30" /></a><a href="http://docs.google.com">Google Docs</a> is a part of Google Apps and offers the creation, editing, collaboration, and sharing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings. It also allows users to upload any file and use Google Docs as free file storage with 1 GB of free storage. This requires a Google Account.</p>
<p><a href="http://office.microsoft.com"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2669" title="Office" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/office_logo.jpg" alt="Office" width="88" height="25" /></a><a href="http://office.live.com">Office Web Apps</a>, the successor of Office Live Workspace, is the new kid in town. It shares storage Windows Live SkyDrive and is an online version of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote and allows the sharing and collaboration of the respective office files. SkyDrive allows users to upload any file with 25 GB of free storage. This requires a Windows Live Account.</p>
<h3>Round 1: Supported File Types</h3>
<p>How many file formats does each service support for editing?</p>
<div id="attachment_2670" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 371px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2670" title="Google Docs Download" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Docs-Download.png" alt="Google Docs Download" width="361" height="193" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Download menu for Google Documents</p></div>
<p>Google Docs supports a wide range of file types.</p>
<p>Documents :</p>
<ul>
<li> Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)</li>
<li>OpenDocument text (.odt)</li>
<li>StarOffice text (.sxw)</li>
<li>Rich text (.rtf)</li>
<li>Plain text (.txt)</li>
<li>HTML (.htm, .html)</li>
</ul>
<p>Presentations:</p>
<ul>
<li> Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps)</li>
</ul>
<p>Spreadsheets:</p>
<ul>
<li> Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx) files</li>
<li>OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods)</li>
<li> Comma-separated values (.csv)</li>
</ul>
<p>PDF files and images can also be converted to text format and made into a Google Document when uploaded.</p>
<p>Office Web Apps can only open, edit, and save Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), and OneNote (.one).</p>
<p><strong>Google Docs:</strong> 5<br />
<strong>Office Web Apps:</strong> 2</p>
<h3>Round 2: Free Storage Space</h3>
<p>Both services allow users to upload any file and use the service as storage.</p>
<p>Google Docs allows users to upload any file with a free storage limit of 1 GB. The max file size is 1024 MB, which would be using up all your storage. Files converted for editing do not count toward the storage space and in order to convert, documents must be no more than 500 KB, presentations must be no more than 10 MB, spreadsheets must be no more than 1 MB, and PDF/images should be no more than 2 MB.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2675" title="Windows Live SkyDrive" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Windows_Live_SkyDrive_logo.png" alt="Windows Live SkyDrive" width="100" height="100" />Office Web Apps shares storage with SkyDrive, which allows users to upload up to 25 GB of files for free. Files can be set to private with friends or just yourself or public to share with the world. The file size limit is 50 MB.</p>
<p><strong>Google Docs:</strong> 1.5 <em>(6.5 total)</em><br />
<strong>Office Web Apps:</strong> 5 <em>(7 total)</em></p>
<h3>Round 3: Sharing and Collaboration</h3>
<p>Both services allow you to share documents with other users with an option to allow others to only view the file or allow them to edit.</p>
<p>Google Docs offers real time collaboration where edits are saved and shown to everyone else instantly.</p>
<div id="attachment_2672" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 334px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2672" title="Google Docs Live Edit" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Docs-Live-Edit.png" alt="Google Docs Live Edit" width="324" height="144" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Docs Live Editing</p></div>
<p>Google Docs also offers integrated group chat in the sidebar. Users can chat with everyone who is editing right from the sidebar without having to leave the page.</p>
<div id="attachment_2673" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 314px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2673" title="Google Docs Chat" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Docs-Chat.png" alt="Google Docs Chat" width="304" height="196" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Docs Integrated Chat</p></div>
<p>Office Web Apps allows sharing the document with others so they can contribute, but unfortunately only allows one user to edit at a time. If someone else is already editing the document, you might be greeted with this message upon opening the document.</p>
<div id="attachment_2674" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 400px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2674" title="Word Web App Another User is Editing" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Word-Web-App-Another-User.png" alt="Word Web App Another User" width="390" height="145" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Another user is editing the document.</p></div>
<p>Both feature revision history and the ability to revert to an older version.</p>
<p><strong>Google Docs:</strong> 5 <em>(11.5 total)</em><br />
<strong>Office Web App:</strong> 1 <em>(8 total)</em></p>
<h3>Round 4: Ease of Use</h3>
<p>Google Docs uses a classic menu bar and toolbars under it.</p>
<div id="attachment_2677" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2677" title="Google Docs Editing" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Docs-Editing.jpg" alt="Google Docs Editing" width="500" height="296" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Docs - Editing</p></div>
<p>On the document listing screen, it is organized in an email inbox like manner with a navigation panel and folders on the left sidebar and the list of files in each folder in the large right panel.</p>
<div id="attachment_2676" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2676" title="Google Docs Interface" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Docs-Interface.jpg" alt="Google Docs Interface" width="500" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Docs &#39;All Items&#39; page</p></div>
<p>The listing page of Office Web Apps uses a Windows Explorer and SkyDrive like folder listing, which is definitely a bit more difficult to use than the way Google Docs does it. Hovering over items would provide some file type specific options.</p>
<div id="attachment_2678" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2678" title="Office File Manager" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Office-Files.jpg" alt="Office File Manager" width="500" height="255" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Office File Manager</p></div>
<p>Office Web Apps uses the Office Ribbon interface including the application menu.</p>
<div id="attachment_2679" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2679" title="PowerPoint Web" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/PowerPoint-Web.jpg" alt="PowerPoint Web" width="500" height="323" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Office Web Apps look very similar to Microsoft Office 2010</p></div>
<p>Both have very easy to use editing toolbars. However, Google Docs takes this round for having a much easier to use file manager.</p>
<p><strong>Google Docs: </strong>5 <em>(16.5 total)</em><br />
<strong>Office Web Apps:</strong> 3.5 <em>(11.5 total)</em></p>
<h3>Round 5: Overall Feature Set</h3>
<p>How do the two compare in features?</p>
<p>Google Docs includes many of the most popular features found in modern word processors including spell check, tables, equations, comments, footnotes, special characters, and much more. In spreadsheets, there is a translation function as well as data validation.</p>
<div id="attachment_2681" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2681" title="Google Word Count" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Word-Count.jpg" alt="Google Word Count" width="400" height="467" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Docs provides detailed Word Count information including the Reading Level</p></div>
<p>Google Docs goes beyond regular documents and even allows for the creation of web forms which can be used to create a web form such as a contact  form or survey and arranges the data in a spreadsheet.</p>
<div id="attachment_2684" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2684" title="Google Docs Forms" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Google-Docs-Forms.jpg" alt="Google Docs Forms" width="500" height="311" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Google Docs has a very easy to use form generator with several question types and form themes</p></div>
<p>Office Web Apps is a greatly slimmed down version of the full Microsoft Office suite. It lacks many features found in the full version like footnotes, comments, find and replace, line spacing, and much more. It contains only the core basic features of each application.</p>
<div id="attachment_2682" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 339px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2682" title="Office Web Ribbon" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Office-Web-Ribbon.jpg" alt="Office Web Ribbon" width="329" height="161" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Similar to the full product, there are item specific ribbon tabs. One of the great things about the Ribbon interface.</p></div>
<p>There is a button to open with the full product (if it is installed), but only works if you are running Internet Explorer and Office 2003 (or higher). If you wish to run another browser, Office 2010 (which includes a browser plugin) must be installed.</p>
<div id="attachment_2683" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 402px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2683" title="Office Web Open Word" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Office-Web-Open-Word.jpg" alt="Office Web Open Word" width="392" height="196" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Users not running Internet Explorer + Office 2003 (or higher) or Office 2010 will be greeted with this message</p></div>
<p>For providing significantly more features, Google Docs takes this round.</p>
<p><strong>Google Docs:</strong> 5 <em>(21.5 total)</em><br />
<strong>Office Web Apps:</strong> 2 <em>(13.5 total)</em></p>
<p>With Office Web Apps trailing by 8 points, it means the winner of the 11th weekly issue of First Class Flyer is&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://docs.google.com"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2668" title="Google Docs" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/docs_logo_sm.gif" alt="Google Docs" width="122" height="30" /></a>Google Docs is an excellent online document editor, both feature rich and easy to use. It&#8217;s optimized for sharing and collaboration with real-time editing, built in chat, revision history, and much more.</p>
<p>Which online document editor do you prefer? Google Docs, Office Web Apps, or another one? Please share it with us in the comments.</p>
<p>This concludes this week&#8217;s issue of <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/reviews/first-class-flyer">First Class Flyer</a>. Be sure to join us next Friday for another comparison!</p>
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		<title>WOT Protection Extends to Safari</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web of Trust (WOT), the popular online security community and site rating add-on, has just announced that their extension for Safari is now officially available, thanks to the new Safari 5 supporting extensions. Due to the gray color scheme of the Safari toolbars, the extension is slightly different than it is on other browsers. When [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mywot.com/">Web of Trust (WOT)</a>, the popular online security community and site rating add-on, has just announced that their extension for <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari">Safari</a> is now <a href="http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/259-attention-safari-users-wot-is-available-for-you-too">officially available</a>, thanks to the new Safari 5 supporting extensions.</p>
<div id="attachment_2655" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 330px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2655" title="Safari WOT Scorecard" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Safari-WOT-Scorecard.jpg" alt="Safari WOT Scorecard" width="320" height="244" /><p class="wp-caption-text">WOT for Safari</p></div>
<p>Due to the gray color scheme of the Safari toolbars, the extension is slightly different than it is on other browsers.</p>
<div id="attachment_2654" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 200px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2654 " title="Safari WOT Red" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Safari-WOT-Red.jpg" alt="Safari WOT Red" width="190" height="158" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The colored icon fades after a few seconds.</p></div>
<p>When you visit a website, the WOT add-on looks up the rating as usual. But instead of showing the colored rating on the toolbar, the rating color shows up on a small box in the corner and fades away after a few seconds. The toolbar button has a check mark for green, and exclamation for red.</p>
<p>The colorblind version, however continues to use its regular colorblind shutter icons on the toolbar.</p>
<div id="attachment_2656" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 309px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2656" title="Safari WOT Colorblind" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Safari-WOT-Colorblind.jpg" alt="Safari WOT Colorblind" width="299" height="166" /><p class="wp-caption-text">WOT Colorblind Version</p></div>
<p>Everything else works the same as browsers, including the search result rating icons, rating scorecards, and warning screens. Unfortunately, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a block feature, which goes beyond just warning the user but rather blocks dangerous pages from loading entirely.</p>
<div id="attachment_2657" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2657" title="Safari WOT Warning" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Safari-WOT-Warning.jpg" alt="Safari WOT Warning" width="500" height="406" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Safari WOT Warning</p></div>
<p>What do you think of the new Safari version of the WOT extension? Leave your thoughts in the comments.</p>
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		<title>YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button for World Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.techairlines.com/2010/06/24/youtube-gets-a-vuvuzela-button-for-world-cup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you someone who can&#8217;t get enough of the sound of swarming insects from the World Cup? YouTube, like its parent company Google, loves pranks and obviously couldn&#8217;t resist. They have added a new Vuvuzela button just for you. The Vuvuzela is a traditional instrument commonly played in South Africa at football (soccer) games, which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you someone who can&#8217;t get enough of the sound of swarming insects from the World Cup? YouTube, like its parent company Google, loves pranks and obviously couldn&#8217;t resist. They have added a new Vuvuzela button just for you.</p>
<div id="attachment_2645" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2645" title="YouTube Vuvuzela" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/YouTube-Vuvuzela.jpg" alt="YouTube Vuvuzela" width="500" height="307" /><p class="wp-caption-text">YouTube&#39;s New Vuvuzela Button</p></div>
<p>The Vuvuzela is a traditional instrument commonly played in South Africa at football (soccer) games, which includes the World Cup 2010, being hosted by South Africa. Fans watching the games have listened to the vuvuzela&#8217;s buzzing for days.</p>
<p>Many found the sound so irritating that many television networks have attempted to filter them out and many guides showed up about how to block the noise from their television and computers. <a href="http://video.techcrunch.com/video/3848650-how-to-really-turn-off-that-damn-vuvuzela-noise" target="_blank">Such a guide exists on VideoCrunch (TechCrunch Video).</a> The noise is not blocked by FIFA despite complaints because of the traditional importance of it.</p>
<p>The button doesn&#8217;t seem to show up on all videos, but most of the videos I&#8217;ve watched so far seem to have them. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s an example (Parisian Love &#8211; Search Stories).</a></p>
<p>What do you think of this fun new addition? Leave your thoughts in the comments.</p>
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		<title>Firefox 3.6.4 ‘Lorentz’ Stops Flash From Crashing the Browser</title>
		<link>http://www.techairlines.com/2010/06/23/firefox-3-6-4-lorentz-stops-flash-from-crashing-the-browser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a month ago, we covered Firefox 3.6.4 Beta. While this may seem like your average minor update with some security, stability, and bug fixes, Firefox 3.6.4 features Lorentz, the highly anticipated OOPP (Out-of-Process-Plugin) feature. This isolates plugins like Flash and Silverlight into a separate process so if they crash, only the plugin goes down [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/"><img class="size-full wp-image-2642 alignright" title="Firefox" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Firefox-logo.png" alt="Firefox" width="195" height="100" /></a>Over a month ago, we covered <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2010/05/06/upcoming-firefox-3-6-4-more-than-a-minor-update-with-lorentz/">Firefox 3.6.4 Beta</a>. While this may seem like your average minor update with some security, stability, and bug fixes, Firefox 3.6.4 features Lorentz, the highly anticipated OOPP (Out-of-Process-Plugin) feature. This isolates plugins like Flash and Silverlight into a separate process so if they crash, only the plugin goes down and the user just needs to refresh the page to restart it without having to drag the entire browser down with it.</p>
<p>This is similar to a feature first introduced with Google Chrome almost two years ago.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 429px"><img title="Firefox Plugin Container" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Firefox-Plugin-Container.png" alt="Firefox Plugin Container" width="419" height="41" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Adobe is running as a separate process.</p></div>
<p>After some delay, this release is finally available to all, but with a little catch. The OOPP feature is currently only available to Windows and Linux users. The non-profit states that such a feature would require major changes to Firefox&#8217;s infrastructure to make it available to Mac OS X. However, they also promise that it will be available in Firefox 4.0, coming later this year.</p>
<div id="attachment_2641" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2641" title="Adobe Flash Crash" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Adobe-Flash-Crash.jpg" alt="Adobe Flash Crash" width="500" height="400" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Adobe Flash Crashed on YouTube but only the plugin goes down.</p></div>
<p>What do you think of this not-so-minor update to Firefox? Leave your thoughts in the comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.4/releasenotes/" target="_blank">Firefox 3.6.4 Release Notes</a></p>
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		<title>WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released</title>
		<link>http://www.techairlines.com/2010/06/17/wordpress-3-0-thelonious-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you use WordPress? We previously reviewed the first public beta of WordPress 3.0 back in April. Today, Automattic has just announced the gold release of WordPress 3.0, with numerous new features, including multi-site, menu editor, custom backgrounds, headers, post types, and much more. Learn more about this new release in the video below as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://wordpress.org"><img src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wordpress.png" alt="WordPress" title="WordPress" width="200" height="50" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2636" /></a>Do you use WordPress? We previously reviewed the <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2010/04/05/whats-new-in-wordpress-3-0-beta-1/">first public beta of WordPress 3.0</a> back in April. Today, Automattic has just announced the gold release of WordPress 3.0, with numerous new features, including multi-site, menu editor, custom backgrounds, headers, post types, and much more.</p>
<p><embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" wmode="transparent" seamlesstabbing="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" overstretch="true" flashvars="guid=BQtfIEY1&amp;width=640&amp;height=360&amp;locksize=no&amp;dynamicseek=false&amp;qc_publisherId=p-18-mFEk4J448M" title="Introducing WordPress 3.0 &quot;Thelonious&quot;"></embed></p>
<p>Learn more about this new release in the video below as well as on our new <a href="http://www.blogairlines.com/2010/06/17/wordpress-3-0-thelonious-is-now-available/">BlogAirlines</a>.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts about this new release? Favorite features? Leave your thoughts in the comments.</p>
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		<title>BlogAirlines is Now Flying!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The previously announced BlogAirlines is now officially in flight! Launched on June 12, 2010, the maiden flight of BlogAirlines took place on June 13, 2010 at 7:50 PM EST. In case you missed it, BlogAirlines focuses on blogging tips, tutorials, themes, resources, and SEO. TechAirlines will no longer be covering these topics and will instead [...]]]></description>
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<p>The previously announced <a href="http://www.blogairlines.com/" target="_blank">BlogAirlines</a> is now officially in flight! Launched on June 12, 2010, the maiden flight of BlogAirlines took place on June 13, 2010 at 7:50 PM EST.</p>
<p>In case you missed it, BlogAirlines focuses on blogging tips, tutorials, themes, resources, and SEO. TechAirlines will no longer be covering these topics and will instead focus on computer tips, tricks, news, and reviews.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techairlines.com" target="_blank">TechAirlines</a>, <a href="http://www.blogairlines.com/" target="_blank">BlogAirlines</a>, and the <a href="http://forums.techairlines.com/" target="_blank">TechAirlines Forums</a> form the TechAirlines Network.</p>
<p>As always, help is always available for both TechAirlines and BlogAirlines on the <a href="http://forums.techairlines.com/" target="_blank">TechAirlines Community Forums</a>. Please leave your feedback for BlogAirlines on the Feedback and Suggestions forum.</p>
<p>Enjoy your flight!</p>
<hr/>Copyright &copy; 2010 <strong><a href="http://www.techairlines.com">TechAirlines</a></strong>. All Rights Reserved.<br/>Blogging tips, website design, and SEO tricks at the newest addition to the TechAirlines family, <a href="http://www.blogairlines.com/?utm_source=techairlines&utm_medium=footer&utm_campaign=feed" target="_blank">BlogAirlines.</a></a>

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		<title>Add a Custom Background to Google Homepage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know Google&#8217;s famous home page. Plain and simple with a white background. Google has announced the addition of wallpapers for the classic home page. Finally, users can customize the classic homepage with their own backgrounds by uploading them, choosing an image from Picasa Web Albums, or an image from Google&#8217;s gallery. To get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all know Google&#8217;s famous home page. Plain and simple with a white background. Google has announced the addition of wallpapers for the classic home page. Finally, users can customize the classic homepage with their own backgrounds by uploading them, choosing an image from Picasa Web Albums, or an image from Google&#8217;s gallery.</p>
<p>To get started, visit the classic Google.com homepage and click on a link tat the bottom left corner that says <strong>Change Background Image</strong> or a link under the search bar that says <strong>Wallpaper the Google homepage</strong>. Currently, signing into your Google Account is required to use this feature.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2624" title="Google Wallpaper" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Google-Wallpaper.png" alt="Google Wallpaper" width="500" height="128" /></p>
<p>You will then be presented with a gallery of images, as well as options to upload your own image or choose one from Picasa.</p>
<div id="attachment_2625" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2625" title="Google Image Selection" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Google-Image-Selection.jpg" alt="Google Image Selection" width="500" height="311" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Change Google&#39;s Homepage Wallpaper</p></div>
<p>After you have chosen your desired image, click Select and Voilá! Links on the page get a white color scheme with text shadows. The Google logo also turns white. The <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2009/12/03/the-fading-google-home-page/">regular fading effect</a> still applies with the background fading in.</p>
<div id="attachment_2626" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2626" title="Google Background - Portland Lighthouse" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Portland-Lighthouse.jpg" alt="Google Background - Portland Lighthouse" width="600" height="396" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Self-taken photo of Portland Lighthouse - Google Background</p></div>
<p>To switch back to the plain white, simply click <strong>Remove Background Image</strong> at the bottom left corner.</p>
<p>What do you think of this new feature? Leave your thoughts in the comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/freeze-frame.html" target="_blank">Freeze Frame!</a> [via <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com" target="_blank">The Official Google Blog</a>]</p>
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		<title>VirtualBox 3.1 – Beginner’s Guide: Review and Giveaway</title>
		<link>http://www.techairlines.com/2010/05/30/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide-review-and-giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 06:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need help getting started with the VirtualBox virtualization software? A new book from Packt Publishing, VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide by Alfonso V. Romero, might be useful to you. I previously wrote up a brief preview of the book and today will be the first ever book review on TechAirlines. At the end of the review, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Need help getting started with the VirtualBox virtualization software? A new book from Packt Publishing, <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide/book?utm_source=techairlines.com&amp;utm_medium=bookrev&amp;utm_content=blog&amp;utm_campaign=mdb_003390">VirtualBox  3.1 Beginner’s Guide</a> by Alfonso V. Romero, might be useful to you.</p>
<p>I previously wrote up a <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2010/05/28/get-started-with-virtualbox-with-the-beginners-guide/">brief preview</a> of the book and today will be the first ever book review on TechAirlines.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2607" title="VirtualBox Book Giveaway" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/VirtualBox-Book-Giveaway.jpg" alt="VirtualBox Book Giveaway" width="494" height="372" /></p>
<p>At the end of the review, you will have the chance to <a href="#giveaway">win a copy</a> of this book to add to your collection.</p>
<h3><strong>What&#8217;s Inside<br />
</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Download and install VirtualBox in a Windows/Linux environment</li>
<li>Create your virtual machine on VirtualBox, using Ubuntu Linux  Desktop/Windows XP as the &#8220;guest&#8221; operating system</li>
<li>Share folders and pass information between the host and the guest  operating systems</li>
<li>Explore the Hardware 3D Acceleration feature available in Windows  and Linux guests</li>
<li>Revert the state of a virtual machine using snapshots</li>
<li>Architect a virtual machine using fixed and dynamically expanding  hard drive images and choose the appropriate hard disk controller</li>
<li>Clone hard disks using the Virtual Media Manager</li>
<li>Connect a virtual machine to the Internet and a local network using  the default NAT mode</li>
<li>Illustrations for using WordPress, Drupal, and File Server virtual  appliances</li>
<li>Set up a headless server and create, manage, and run virtual  machines in that server from a remote PC</li>
</ul>
<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
<p><strong>Chapter 1: </strong>Getting to Work with VirtualBox (<a href="https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/9140_Virtual%20Box_SampleChapter.pdf" target="_blank">Free Sample Chapter</a>)<br />
<strong>Chapter 2: </strong>Creating Your First Virtual Machine: Ubuntu Linux<br />
<strong>Chapter 3: </strong>Creating Your Second Virtual Machine: Windows 7<br />
<strong>Chapter 4: </strong>Installing Guest Additions and Advanced Settings<br />
<strong>Chapter 5: </strong>Storing Data in VirtualBox<br />
<strong>Chapter 6: </strong>Networking with Virtual Machines<br />
<strong>Chapter 7: </strong>Using Virtual Appliances<br />
<strong>Chapter 8: </strong>Managing your Virtual Machines from a Remote Computer</p>
<h3>Book Review</h3>
<p>I found this book a very interesting read. Its goal is to assist users at getting started with deploying and managing a cost-effective virtual environment using the free VirtualBox software and the author does this very well. Rather than having page after page of paragraphs of text, the author provides a step by step guide to do everything complete with clear screenshots for many steps. What&#8217;s really great is that it literally goes through every single step, including pressing &#8216;OK&#8217; buttons.</p>
<div id="attachment_2606" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2606" title="Seamless Windows" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM4655.jpg" alt="Seamless Windows" width="500" height="376" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Chapter 4 - Installing Guest Additions and Advanced Settings: Activating the Seamless Windows feature (p. 128)</p></div>
<p>You don&#8217;t need to familiar with anything, not even how to install VirtualBox. This book teaches you everything.</p>
<p>I enjoyed reading Chapter 8, which covers how to manage virtual machines from a remote computer. I never knew about this and the author does an excellent job walking through all the steps including exactly what every command is and what each command does.</p>
<p>I like how the author occasionally stops and has a section called <strong>What Just Happened?</strong> and summarizes what we have just done in the past few steps. This helps sum up everything and I found this to be extremely useful. The following is the <strong>What Just Happened?</strong> section from Chapter 8 &#8211; p. 261:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>What Just Happened?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s nice to know you can use an alternative GUI for your virtual machine, right? I mean, it would be an excellent alternative if you need to install several virtual machines in one or more host PCs and the users aren&#8217;t familiarized with VirtualBox because they just want to use the virtual machines. You could create a desktop shortcut for each virtual machines so the user could just double-click on the shortcut, and the VBoxSDL interface would pop up with the virtual machine screen. And you wouldn&#8217;t have to worry about the user messing up the virtual machines. How about that?</p></blockquote>
<p>The book is quite easily written and easily understandable. It&#8217;s not boring or too formal, but written in an entertaining and engaging way. Personally, I don&#8217;t enjoy reading tutorials that are very formal. No &#8220;fancy words either&#8221;.</p>
<p>Rather than saying <em>Don&#8217;t unplug anything until the operating system is installed. To install the operating system&#8230;</em>, the author says <em>But wait! Don&#8217;t start unplugging stuff yet! You first need to install the server oprating system, as I&#8217;ll show you in the following subsection</em>&#8230; In my own opinion, the second example is much more interesting and keeps me interested and this is exactly what the author does.</p>
<div id="attachment_2610" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2610" title="Virtual Appliances" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HPIM4656.jpg" alt="Virtual Appliances" width="500" height="376" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Chapter 7 - Using Virtual Appliances: Using the TurnKey WordPress Virtual Appliance (p. 216)</p></div>
<p>Don&#8217;t be fooled by the title. This book covers much more than just the  basics. It covers advanced skills such as remote management as well as  useful tips and tweaks for the guest operating system. For example, Chapter 4 covers not only guest additions but also has a tutorial on enabling the Desktop Cube Compiz effect on the Ubuntu guest system.</p>
<p>The author covers just about every feature that is available in VirtualBox 3.1, from basic virtual machine management to Virtual Applicances such as Turnkey Linux WordPress.</p>
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p><strong>Pros:</strong> Very detailed and easy to understand step by step guides from the basics to advanced tricks, complete with screenshots. Covers just about all features to unlock the full potential of VirtualBox. Engaging and somewhat informal. Extra notes and comments thrown in to help the reader comprehend the steps better.</p>
<p><strong>Cons:</strong> A few typos here and there, such as having a header that says <strong>Time for Action &#8211; using OpenOffice.org</strong> but the tutorial under it is explaining how to install a trial of Microsoft Office 2007 (Chapter 3 &#8211; p. 98).</p>
<p><strong>Verdict:</strong> VirtualBox 3.1 &#8211; Beginner&#8217;s Guide by Alfonso V. Romero is an excellent book for all users of this great free virtualization application, whether you&#8217;re just starting out with virtualization or you&#8217;re an advanced user who wants to dig deeper into the many possibilities of VirtualBox.</p>
<h3 id="giveaway">Giveaway</h3>
<p>Now that you&#8217;ve read the review of this great book, wouldn&#8217;t it be great if you could get a copy of this book to add to your collection? Well, now you can!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide/book?utm_source=techairlines.com&amp;utm_medium=bookrev&amp;utm_content=blog&amp;utm_campaign=mdb_003390" target="_blank">Packt Publishing</a> has generously decided to provide a copy of the e-Book version to not one but <strong>two</strong> lucky TechAirlines flyers.</p>
<p>How many chances does everybody get to win? Well, that depends on how many plane tickets you have. One plane ticket equals one entry. How do you earn plane tickets? Follow the instructions below.</p>
<h4>Leave a Comment</h4>
<p>Simply <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2010/05/30/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide-review-and-giveaway/#respond">leave some kind words in the comments</a> at the bottom of this post and you will receive one plane ticket.</p>
<h4>Tweet About This Giveaway</h4>
<p>Tweet about this giveaway with a link back to this post. You can use our <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=%23GIVEAWAY+%40TechAirlines%3A+%23VirtualBox+3.1+-+Beginner%27s+Guide+from+Packt+Publishing.+-+http%3A%2F%2Ftechairlines.com%2F2604+%23TechAirlines" target="_blank">pre-written tweet</a> or write your own. Make sure a link to this post is provided. It is recommended but not required that you include a mention of @TechAirlines or your tweet might not be seen unless you leave a comment. You will receive one ticket if you tweet about the giveaway.</p>
<blockquote><p>#GIVEAWAY @TechAirlines: #VirtualBox 3.1 &#8211; Beginner&#8217;s Guide from Packt Publishing. &#8211; http://techairlines.com/2604 #TechAirlines</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=%23GIVEAWAY+%40TechAirlines%3A+%23VirtualBox+3.1+-+Beginner%27s+Guide+from+Packt+Publishing.+-+http%3A%2F%2Ftechairlines.com%2F2604+%23TechAirlines" target="_blank">Click here to tweet about this giveaway.</a></p>
<h4>Leave a Comment Below This Review Mentioning Your Twitter Username</h4>
<p>If you have tweeted about this giveaway, <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2010/05/30/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide-review-and-giveaway/#respond">leave a comment</a> mentioning your Twitter username. Doing this will provide you a total of <strong>3</strong> tickets. A comment like the one shown below is fine.</p>
<blockquote><p>My Twitter username is TechAirlines and I have tweeted about this giveaway.</p></blockquote>
<h4>Register for an Account at our Forums</h4>
<p><a href="http://forums.techairlines.com" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2066" title="Forum" src="http://www.techairlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/forum.png" alt="Forum" width="400" height="85" /></a></p>
<p>Register an account on the <a href="http://forums.techairlines.com" target="_blank">TechAirlines forums</a>.</p>
<p>In order to earn a ticket for this, you must leave a comment using the same email address that is associated with your forums account.</p>
<p>Your comment does <strong>not</strong> need to include your forum username. At the end, I will be cross referencing all the email addresses in the comments with the email addresses of registered accounts at the forums.</p>
<p>Registering an account at the forums and leaving a comment using the same email address will provide you with an extra ticket.</p>
<p><em>Posting at the forums is not required for this giveaway (although it might for a future one).</em></p>
<h4>Earn a Maximum of Four Plane Tickets</h4>
<p>If you <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=%23GIVEAWAY+%40TechAirlines%3A+%23VirtualBox+3.1+-+Beginner%27s+Guide+from+Packt+Publishing.+-+http%3A%2F%2Ftechairlines.com%2F2604+%23TechAirlines" target="_blank">tweet about this giveaway</a>, <a href="http://forums.techairlines.com" target="_blank">register for an account at the forums</a>, and <a href="http://www.techairlines.com/2010/05/30/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide-review-and-giveaway/#respond">leave a comment</a> (using your forums email and providing your Twitter username), you will receive <strong>four</strong> plane tickets, which means 4 entries!</p>
<p><strong>Make sure you use a valid email address as I will be notifying winners by email.</strong></p>
<p>At the end, everyone&#8217;s tickets will be thrown into Random.org and the two winners will be chosen and announced.</p>
<p>This contest will end sometime on <strong>June 11, 2010</strong>. Contest is not closed until it is officially announced here, therefore, even if it already is June 11th, if there is no note here, you can still enter.</p>
<p><strong>This contest is now over! Winners are Creastery and Willie Ha! Congratulations to you two and thank you all for participating!<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Good luck to you all!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/virtualbox-3-1-beginners-guide/book?utm_source=techairlines.com&amp;utm_medium=bookrev&amp;utm_content=blog&amp;utm_campaign=mdb_003390" target="_blank">VirtualBox 3.1 &#8211; Beginner&#8217;s Guide</a><br />
<a href="https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/9140_Virtual%20Box_SampleChapter.pdf" target="_blank">Free Sample Chapter</a></p>
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