With Windows 7 out and about, most Vista users who have upgraded are finally happy. For XP users who decided to make the switch, however, there are some who are slightly overwhelmed with the changes. One of the common gripes that some XP users who’ve upgraded is the new start menu.

If you’re one of those who miss XP’s start menu, don’t worry. There’s a free and easy way to fix that problem. Classic Shell will bring back XP’s start menu to Windows, add a toolbar to Windows Explorer, and bring back the XP look in the folder view. Let’s take a look:

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Firefox 3.5 is finally the most popular web browser beating Internet Explorer 7 and 8 according to the latest numbers from StatCounter.

The results aren’t as clear-cut as you would think though. For Firefox to emerge number one, both of the popular web browser’s share had to be separated into version numbers. This means that technicalities aside, IE is still on top. Confusing? Not really, as the latest numbers prove that more people are switching to the latest version of Firefox.

For Mozilla, things are surely looking up.

With all the versions of Windows throughout the years, there have been quite a lot of improvements to Microsoft’s operating system and yet its file manager still seems to be lacking something. How about tabs?

This may not be important to most casual Windows users but to anyone used to tabbed interfaces from browsers, mail clients, and various software, having a file manager with tabs would be like a gift from Santa.

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When you need some illumination and you don’t have a flashlight with you what do you do? Pull out your wallet of course.

The Credit Card Light Bulb is an LED bulb that’s just as big as your credit card which makes it easy to store in your wallet. Just pop out the bulb-shaped LED and you’ve got some light. Perfect for reading things in dimly lit places or just staying out of the dark.

When you want a faster way to launch your favorite applications you can either use keyboard shortcuts or download one of the free app launchers available on the Web. If neither of those two are fast enough for you, how about a launcher right in your mouse?

MouseExtender is a free program launcher for Windows that lets you launch any application, folder, file, and website, just by clicking your mouse wheel or a combination of any mouse button and a keyboard key.

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As more and more rumors of an Android powered Google Phone emerge there have been some interesting facts discovered that may or may not confirm the rumors.

Google recently confirmed that some employees are testing a new device powered by Android 2.1. If you go to the Android site and browse “Dev Phones”, you’ll see images of two phone models which could very well be the much talked about Google Phone.

If you’re looking for more possible confirmation and rumors, you can follow this conversation on Twitter: #googlephone

Here’s a part of Google’s statement about their new test device:

We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.

So will we have an actual Google Phone sold by the search giant in the near future? We’ll see.

[Via Paul Suarez]