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I have written about creating bootable USB disk using free software, but it is of no use if the motherboard or BIOS does not support USB booting, if you are stuck in a situation where BIOS does not support booting from USB or CD-ROM, free boot-manager PLoP would be the best solution for the problem, the easy to use boot manager can work with your existing boot-loader and even without the need to install on hard-disk.

PLoP Boot Manager can launch from floppy, CD, network or existing boot manager like LILO, GRUB, Windows boot menu and DOS, once launched you can use PLoP to boot from USB and CD-ROM even if BIOS does not support these options.

Having lots of tabs loaded in Firefox eats substantial amount of system resources and can make things pretty slow and unorganized, the guys at Visibo Limited seems to have developed a perfect solution for the problem, TooManyTabs 0.3.1 - the free Firefox add-on from Visibo allows users to save more then 50 tabs in multiple-rows as idle tabs, just above the real Firefox tabs in unloaded form saving memory and CPU cycles, furthermore the ability to color and create separate rows provides better tab-organization functionality.

Simply Click The Up Arrow For Adding To TooManyTabs Row

At first instance it seemed no better then a Bookmark Manager like Read It Later, but further digging revealed this blog post at developers website, telling how TooManyTabs will try to load the restored tab from disk cache including the tab history and scroll position.

There are numerous free video downloaders and converters for Windows and finding one suitable for your needs is pretty easy, but if you are on Mac you are out of luck as finding a free solution is quite hard, Thanks to our reader EVA, today I will be sharing an easy to use solution for downloading videos from online video sites on your Mac OS X (Tiger & Leopard) computer.

iSkysoft Video Downloader is an free software for Mac allowing users to download FLV video files from popular video sites like YouTube, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, Metacafe, Break, MySpace, Gofish, AOL, Veoh, imeem, Blip.TV and other similar video websites.

Using the software is pretty easy as it automatically sniffs video files played inside Safari and Firefox browsers allowing you to download the full-length videos with ease, the utility is multi-threaded and supports batch downloading options for simultaneous downloads, you can enjoy the downloaded .FLV movie files on your MAC computer using the in-built FLV player, but if you want video conversion feature you will need to upgrade to the PRO version costing $29, However, If you are not willing to spend money and want a free solution, here are two excellent free solutions to convert videos on your Mac computer with ease.

Apple iPhone Firmware 2.2 is out now and if you ignored the do not upgrade warning for jailbroken iPhones, you must be sitting with a bricked phone by now. Sadly, since iPhone firmware update v 2.2 also updates baseband there is no easy way to restore back to firmware v 2.1, However, one of our reader Keith managed to downgrade his iPhone 3G to version 2.1 after updating to 2.2, He was kind enough to send us the full procedure as follows.

For downgrading iPhone Firmware 2.2 To an earlier version you will need to downgrade the baseband and firmware, for this following software are needed:

1. ZiPhone patched by kIREmK (Pls. read this comment).
2. PwnageTool 2.2.
3. Apple iTunes.
4. Firmware IPSW file : 2.1 firmware 3G or 2.1 firmware 2G.

Once you have got all the above softwares, follow the process below: