Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 available for download
The first Beta version of Firefox 3.6 has been released by the Mozilla developer community. It is ultimately slated to replace the current Firefox 3.5.x series in next few months. This beta version of Firefox 3.6 is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, with several improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and [...]
About Twitter Lists and how to create & use them
Twitter has recently introduced a new feature “Lists”. This new feature lets you group your Twitter contacts you follow into various lists or groups. If you follow hundreds of people on Twitter, you would be flooded every day with thousands of tweets. It is not possible to look at all these tweets and in [...]
Bing for mobile adds new features, optimized for touch screen, real-time data
Mobile web has to be optimized for use on the small screens of mobile phones. Bing already has m.bing.com that offers an optimized view experience of Internet on mobile phones with resources for local searches, quick answers, and maps. Now, Microsoft has updated the Bing for Mobile browser with new additions such as real-time [...]
MSN Direct GPS Service to be shut down by Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that it is shutting down its MSN Direct GPS service. This service will be available only until January 1, 2012. It may be pointed out that MSN Direct is a service from Microsoft that is integrated into some GPS devices of Garmin and Pioneer; and it uses FM Radio signals to [...]
$711 million damages for sending spam mails!
Facebook has won $711 million in damages against the well-known spammer Sanford Wallace who had accessed accounts of Facebook members without their permission and sent out junk messages. Moreover, Wallace has also been banned from accessing Facebook. This decision was pronounced by Judge Jeremy Fogel of U.S. District Court in Northern California’s San Jose [...]
Comment on any web page with SideWiki in any browser now
About a month back, Google SideWiki was launched as a part of Google Toolbar, to allow you to make or view comments on any web page or any website in Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. However, since Google Toolbar is available only for two browsers, namely, Firefox and Internet Explorer, it was not possible [...]
How to create and use PayPhrase for easy shopping at Amazon.com
Amazon.com has introduced a new PayPhrase system that allows online shoppers to authorize purchases and shipping without entering a username, password and credit card details. With the help of PayPhrase and an associated PIN, the online shoppers would be able to complete the online checkout process on Amazon’s website (or on other online shopping [...]
Multi-lingual Internet : non-Latin characters allowed in domain names
In a historic decision, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow scripts other than Latin in the suffix of domain names. This board meeting took place in Seoul, South Korea’s capital on September 30, 2009. As pointed out by me in an earlier article, it [...]
Easily search using different search engines directly from address bar in Google Chrome
The address bar at the top of the browser window in Google Chrome browser (that is also called Omnibox), can also be used as a search box. You can search any term by entering it in the address bar and then pressing Enter key; and the entered term will be searched using your default [...]
Important keyboard shortcuts in Google Chrome to make your browsing faster
Google Chrome is the fastest browser available today. Its speed of loading the browser application or loading the individual web pages is far better when compared with other browsers. However, you can further improve your speed of interacting with Google Chrome and make your browsing faster by using some simple keyboard shortcuts. While Google [...]