When you open a new tab in Firefox a blank page opens up and same happens with IE and Safari. On the other hand Google when it came out with Chrome replaced that blank page with thumbnails of your most recently and commonly visited websites thus giving you a jump to simply click and go on. Opera on the other hand offers “speed dial” feature with user customizable thumbnails for your favorite websites.

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Have you started to tweet this year? Did you answer the question “What are you doing?” well if you answer is yes then we got a huge list of tools and applications to spice up your twit activity. If you are already a twitter fan then you can use the tools to spice up your twitter actives.

We all know one thing when the twitter came to life we all rejected it but soon we got so much into twitting that now we made their server go “over capacity” couple of times a day.

So now lets get back to the list of twitter tools and widgets that can help and improve your twitter activities and make you twit more. (more…)

So now i know why Google pulled the plug with the good old “Support Firefox Buttons” in Google Adsense account where you could make a dollar by convincing your website visitors to switch to Firefox. But then that ad unit ended with no solid reason. Google must be planning for its upcoming browser Chrome so they simply pulled the plug on “Switch to Firefox” and came up with “Faster Web Browser, Download Google Chrome” which appeared on linked in and i just saw there 300px ad unit on my blog served by Adsense.

Google Advertising Chrome

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Songbird this week finally made its 1.0 release:

What is Song Bird?
Songbird is an opensource music player build on Mozilla technology, VLC Player & SQLite. Purely based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, the same engine that powers Firefox. Like Firefox, Songbird allows for tabbed browsing, themes and addtions of add-ons to customize the extendibility of your media player. So far packed with more then 90 Add Ons you can customize SongBird as you want.

“Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players” according to Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey.

SongBird is currently in its early stages but have a very active development teams, this week they released there 1.0 release, powered with an addition in features, performance according to their blog post

• Drastically Faster Search: Searching in Songbird is now anywhere from 10x faster for small libraries to 1000x for large ones.
• Reduced RAM Usage: There’s a 70% reduction in RAM usage when importing and using large (100,000 track) libraries.
• Faster Media Importing: Importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster.
• Reduced Startup Times: Large library users (10,000 tracks or more) will notice that Songbird startup times are now twice as fast.
• Efficient Scrolling: Scrolling through your library now uses half the amount of CPU.
• Snappier Sorting: Sorting your library is now 3-4x faster, which adds up to significantly smoother browsing when scrolling and filtering.
• Optimized DB Size: We’ve optimized the database in Songbird and reduced its size by, on average, 60%. This leads to a variety of performance improvements throughout the application.
• Fewer Crashers: We’ve worked hard to identify and fix 11 of the most common crashes in Songbird.

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Dot be scared from the title its not a scam. Microsoft Corporation has launched a campaign called “SearchPerks” where you start earning tickets towards exciting prizes whenever you search the Web, oh did i mentione that the lines “whenever you search the web” actually means “whenever you search the web using Microsoft Live Search, on a Microsoft Windows using a Microsoft IE6 or above”.

So whats the fuss about, well SearchPerks is a short lived campaign by Microsoft where they are making an effort to study how the users use the search engine to search the web, sort of lab rat experiment that’s what i get out of it so far. (more…)

The never ending list of passwords, in today’s era is an element of concern, where ever you go around the internet there is a password to get along, facebook, ftp, emails, IM’s all have passwords and our list of passwords keeps on growing. We can’t keep a single password to all application’s neither did OpenId added any benefit to it so now its time to get hold of password managers. A password manager that takes one last password to manage all passwords, lets introduce LastPass.

As the name says “LastPass” a great application to manage your passwords. Every place we go we are expected to log in and with the passing time managing passwords itself is getting a hectic problem it’s difficult to remember passwords from all around the net.

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If you are a web designer or a web developer, the word cross browser testing always come up and the cross browser testing in IE always pop up as IE have multiple versions and according to W3schools in August 2008

• 26% users use Internet Explorer7
• 24% users use Internet Explorer 6
• 0.1% user use Internet Explorer 5
• 43% users use Firefox

For firefox we don’t have much issues cause the browser updates automatically and usually the users are using the new version but for IE the different version is a problem as the those using IE are usually using Windows where browser is the core functionality of the operating system.

How to install different versions of Internet Explorer.

A very handy tool called Internet Explorer Collection offers you the ability to install and use different versions of Internet explorer at the same time.  The package is freeware with a size of 42.4 MB, 44.561.338 bytes, just download the package and you can select the versions of standalone Internet explorer you would like to install, so far they are providing the following versions of Internet Explorer. (more…)

If you are a video site fan and spend allot of time watching online videos or tv shows then we got an essential firefox pluign for you. YouPlayer a video player with playlist similar to winamp inside your browser.

What is youPlayer?

YouPlayer is a firefox Add one that adds a video player right inside your browser. The player has an interface similar to Winamp and support multiple file formats like, mpeg, rm, avi along with video from online video sharing sites like youtube, MetaCafe, MySpace etc. (more…)

With the launch of the beta version of Google’s new browser Chrome, it seems like there are a few features that we might want to add into firefox unlike Chrome we can modify & enhance our browsing experience in firefox by either modifying the setting or using firefox plugins.

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