Google Chrome 11 Standalone Installer

Google Chrome just release their newest stable version Google Chrome 11.
It's been well known for sometimes that besides Firefox, Chrome is becoming the other favorites replacement for IE, specially for those who still haven't use the newest Operating System (OS) from Microsoft, Windows 7. As we all know IE 8 an above work slightly better on Windows 7 OS, at least more stable and last bloated under the new Windows 7 OS after the latest drivers updates from Microsoft.

But for those who still "love the old" Windows XP either due financial reason or either truly because still in love with XP because various reason, what do we have to do against the malicious greed of the giant Microsoft company? Should we give up & give them our money? In the end I believe yes, but from the economical point of view, I personally play the time value of money game against them, and hold the need to upgrade the Operating system as long as possible, in the Internet browser matter, even I couldn't use the latest IE9 not to mention the upcoming IE10 on my old PC with XP system, the generous freeware & open source community provide us with an equal replacement or even better with Internet browser such Mozilla Firefox & Chrome.

Chrome always being a problem with some people because they refuse to expose or to provide the standalone or offline installer for Chrome, luckily I manage to found the direct link for their stand alone installer of the newest Chrome 11, so I would like to share it with everyone who read this blog, here is the link to directly download Chrome11 :

Google Chrome 11 Offline Installer Download

Free Photo Editing/Manipulation Software

About a week ago, I receive email asking is there any free program for photo manipulation or just an photo editing software, but since I've been very busy lately I haven't got a chance to announce the answer in this blog.

Yes, there is free program for photo editing/manipulation, actually a lot. But If I have to make a recommendation, I would suggest Paint.Net or for those more advance kind of users if would recommend the GNU Image Manipulation Program or simply called as GIMP

Paint.Net would be suitable for everyone from the beginners level to those more advance level, or for those who just need the basic on photo editing, cause it was actually build to replace the Microsoft Paint program that every standard windows operating system had. But, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, into a powerful editor with support for layers, blending, transparency, and plugins.

So, Paint.NET has evolve from a simple replacement program for Microsoft Paint into a program that have many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. The down of Paint.NET that it was created for Windows, and has no native support for any other system. And please note, that in order to run this program, you'll need .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 which you can get from the windows update website if you didn't have it install on tour windows operating system (Windows XP users)

On the other-hand, GIMP would be the best free photo editing software to replace those insane expensive photo editing & manipulation software. And the part is, it is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems, including but not limited to Microsoft's Windows, Apple's Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.

As a popular application, GIMP is regularly reviewed. The reviews often examine the fitness of GIMP for use in professional environments; as such GIMP is often cited as a free replacement for Adobe Photoshop.

In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
GIMP's product vision is that GIMP is or will become a free software high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements

Here is some screen shot from both program which I got from various source at the internet, sorry as I said earlier I'm a bit busy lately ;p

GIMP

Paint.Net










Here is the download link for both software :

1. GIMP Download
   
   • From GIMP official website : gimp.org
   • From Softpedia : GIMP at Softpedia
   • From CNET Download.com : GIMP at CNET Download
2. Paint.NET
   
   • From it's official website : Paint.NET
   • From Softpedia : Paint.NET at Softpedia
   • From CNET Download.com : Paint.NET at CNET Download