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Managing Windows services is a painless efforts because the Microsoft tool services.msc does a decent enough job. It provides an interface that is displaying all existing services, their status and enough options to change the status easily. But there is always room for improvement. System administrators for instance would love an option to save different service profiles or save profiles in an xml file to load them on different machines easily." more at ghacks :

A repair/reinstall of Windows XP can be the last resort when you've got a really persistent problem. How awful, then, if this solution causes yet another problem—a breakdown in getting updates. We've got two ways to fix this problem in today's tip. Read the full story here .

Kyle Monson, PC Magazine's Associate Editor and music junkie, shares some of his favorite music websites like seeqpod.com, finetune.com and much more! More at PCMag

Free media file converter FormatFactory is a handy all-in-one utility for taking one kind of audio, video, or picture file and converting it to another. The interface is a dead-simple drag-and-drop affair, and it's meant for running batches of files through converters—FLVs to Windows Media, MPEGs to iPod-friendly video, DVDs to DivX files, etc. You won't get a lot of options for quality control, compression rate, or other tweaks, but for some folks, that's really a benefit. FormatFactory is a free download for Windows systems only. More via Lifehacker

Chrome is Google’s new sleek web browser. Even though it is only a beta version, it is an easy browser to like. With a streamlined design, fast rendering of webpages, ability to create web applications from any website, the list goes on and on. Here’s the list of tutorials that we’ve accumulated on Chrome, to this point: Read the rest of this entry »

Developers and designers are using more and more JavaScript in modern designs. Sometimes this can be a hindrance to the user and take away from the simplicity of the design, and other times it can add greatly to the user’s experience. The key is a) adding the right amount of JavaScript, and b) using the right JavaScript techniques. We have already collected various JavaScript techniques in the past – now it’s time for a new portion of JavaScript. Thanks to the Web’s widespread adoption of JavaScript, JavaScript libraries have sprung up to help make design and development easier. Here are a few of the major JavaScript libraries that developers use: jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, mootools, Dojo. These frameworks have thriving communities whose members have developed countless plug-ins that can greatly add to the JavaScript framework. However, sometimes we need JavaScript solutions that are a little more involved or specific. Here are 75 more handy JavaScript techniques that have made

The Power User's Guide to Google Chrome : "Now that you've been enjoying Google Chrome's headliner features and speed for almost a week now, it's time to dig into the less obvious functionality and options you don't already know about. Become a keyboard shortcut master, take a peek under the hood, and customize its behavior and skin with some of the best shortcuts, bookmarklets, themes, add-ons, and subtle functionality in Google Chrome. More from Lifehacker . What, you don't like Google Chrome? Here, have the power user's guide to Firefox 3 "

Chrome, a Google Browser. It was about time. I’m sure you have heard a lot about Google Chrome already. If you haven’t tried it yet, keep reading because I have tried it for you, and I will summarize everything you should be aware of. Alright, did we really need another browser? Maybe. Google’s approach was to analyze existing technology and then make it better. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? The comic strip that introduces the ideas and technology behind the browser states that developers started from scratch. The point was to create a browser compatible with the internet of today, rather than that of decades ago, when browsers were invented. Again, Google did not re-invent the wheel, but it may be pushing it forward a great deal. via makeuseof

Microsoft has recently released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, an impressive update for a software that stagnated in the past years. Internet Explorer 8 looks more elegant and easier to use, while adding many of the missing features. Microsoft's IE8 is here . More from Google Operating System