Is apple getting ready again to shake the word, with iPhone will there be a Macbook touch, will we be free from the keyboards, mouse and will only interact with our computers using the touch screens, will it be accessible for all computer users.

Well the Rumor has started picking up, ‘Mac Daily News‘ reports Apples Secret Product Macbook Touch and Gizmodo says it too ‘Rumor:MacBook Touch coming in Oct‘.

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading Super Drive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.In all honesty, we may have passed this story up, but we’ve heard vague reports from reliable sources that Quanta is busy building a touch product for Apple. This latest information seems seems to compliment what we’ve heard

Source [Mac Daily News] , [GizModo]

Google in a recent development have announced that it has attained the ability to crawl websites made in flash. Previously Adobe presented Google & Yahoo with there SWF libraries so as both the companies could work on it to develop technology that could help there search engines to show results from flash based websites.

Flash or SWF was a glory of its time and gained tremendous attention from user end, it changed the face of the web by giving freedom to develop websites full of interactive media. But the only flaw in the system came to life when search engines were unable to crawl content within a flash website thus causing lack of traffic for website owners.

With this new development of Google being able to crawl thought a flash site new dimension and a new scope for flash based website is about to rise.

According to Google:

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.

• Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
• We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
• While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.

Too many passwords are quite difficult to remeber though if you do but still who wants to type the same user name / password every day so generally a good way is to ask Firefox to save the passwords. But what to do if you really need to know what password you save would you prefer going throught the long password recovery process by all websites or you need some help in there.

Well here is the catch nodoubt its easy to recover passwords but its unsafe as well so firstly. So lets how unsafe they can be. To see which passwords you have saved into Firefox simply go to :
Tools >> options >> security >> Show Password
There you will find the URL’s and usernames of all the sites who’s password you have saved in Firefox now to reveal the password simply click on “Show Passwords” and firefox will show you all the passwords. This is good way of recovering your passwords but very unsecure as well as any one using your computer can easily steal all your passwords and you can’t do anything thing about it. But there is a way.. (more…)

Google released a new beta release of Google RSS reader for mobile. Mobile browsing has gone a long way but iPhone has gone way ahead. It not only Google RSS reader that have been launched for iPhone but previously Google also launched Google Gmail and other mobile apps specially for iPhone. Looks like iPhone is a new industry standard for who’s market share has grown to such a level that companies like Google convert it products specially for iPhone.

The Google RSS Reader for iPhone is in its beta release and thus to access it from you iPhone you would have to use the URL http://www.google.com/reader/i/ as the RSS reader will not automatically direct you to the iPhone reader version if you access it from you iPhone.

This new version is designed to offer many of the same features as the desktop, while making it quick and easy to act on items. If you’ve used list view, then it should be familiar to you. Scan the titles for an item that interests you, tap and it expands in place. Starring, sharing, and keeping unread are done in place, so you never have to leave the list view or refresh the page. We think it’s a very fast way to power through your reading list.

Source: [Google Reader Blog]

Mozilla’s has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 an email application which is more powerful than ever. The new version launched is packed with some of the awesome features.

Enhancement with Mail Management
One of the core enhancement to the thunderbird updated version is the new enhancements to help better manage inbox. Thunderbird has added advanced folder views, you can now view your folders as by favorites, recently viewed or unread messages. You can also creat your own folders and organize them the wan you want. Another exciting thing added by Mozilla is “Message Tagging” it will help you tag messages like to-do, to reply, ignored, you can create as many tags as you want and tags can be combined with search views easy to search & find and managed. Apart from these two Message history navigation has been introduced i.e. you can navigate just like your browser with “Foward” & “back” buttons.

Enhanced Search Facility.
The tagging feature will no doubt help alot in searches as we do remeber tags. This version has also made reasonable improvement to the search features. The quick search  which starts showing messages while you type is one cool thing. You can also save your searches into a folder.

Updates & Safety , Security.
Thunderbird 2 has been updated to provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender, subject and message text for newly arrived messages. Folders provide a pop up summarizing new messages in that folder. Apart from all this Thunderbird has all improved

• Easy Integration of Gmail and other web mail accounts
• Added Phishing Protection
• Auto Blocks for remote images in email
• Updated the Junk mail filter
• Auto Updater to update for security updates
• add ons in Thunderbird can provide functionality to make VOIP calls, listen to music and much more ..
• Add auto message templates like “out to vacations message”

ieSpell - A Spell Check Addon for Internet Explorer 7
Unfortunately the Microsoft team did not think that a spell checker was an essential tool for the browser, Firefox on the other hand have a build-in Spell checker but Internet Explroere does not, so to add that functionality you can install an addon for ieSpell checker.

Add-Ons Source : Download ieSpell

InLine Search  - Search the page for words or paragraphs
While searching around the internet you come up to a page and find out that the keyword you used to find the page is not clearly visible on the page. To do so you can use the find in page facility in IE7 [ctr +F5] but the search facility is not that great. Inline Search is an add-on for Internet Explorer that mimics Firefox’s search behavior, it turns searching into a Web page into a non modal research experience coupled with a search as you type facility.

Add-Ons Source : Download InLine Search for IE7

Download Video’s Via Internet Explorer 7 Add Ons
Download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Grinvi, and many other sites with simply one click. This simple add-on adds a Download Video link to the right click menu panel. Just click on it and a new window will be displayed with the download link. You will be able to download videos to your computer and watch them as many times as you want.

Add-Ons Source : Video Download for IE7

YouTube Video Download
Another add ons to download flv videos from youTube using  “YouTube Grabber for IE7″, simply past the URL of the video into the addons and press Grab and you can download the vide.

Add-Ons Source : YouTube Grabber for IE7

Internet Download Accelerator  Add Ons
Internet Download Accelerator lets you conveniently manage downloads by organizing them in categories with automatic category detection option. The option to listen to/view audio/video files as early as download starts will let you filter out unwanted content immediately.Another feature is the original Active Visual Cart technology which significantly improves your download experience by giving you quick access to the most useful program features without opening the main program window.

Add-Ons Source : Internet Download Accelerator for IE7 

Apple Inc. Today announced the release of Aperture 2 an apple version of photo management / editing software. As innovative as Apple is Aperture claims to be next generation software specifically made for photo editing and management. Some of the key featuers of Aperture are :

• Auto Image Management Tool, just plug-in the memory card and let it manage the images for your by adding tags, meta tags, copyright & caption. You can even add rating to your images, store them at specific locations with the Auto Image Management tools in Aperture. Aperture keeps track of every photo. Organize photos logically in projects, folders, albums, and Smart Albums. If you are photographer who deals with 100’s and 1000’s of pictures every day this is the essential app to manage your photos. I know how imp is rating and tags it quite annoying to search for images when you don’t have them organized.
• After creating a library in Aperture you can review you images side by side, search by keywords, zoom and rest of the standard features
• Aperture has an image adjustment tool build into it just like the rest could not find something extraordinary into it.
• Exporting Images to flickr, publish to Mac Gallery, Create a book for print and order, or you can print with a 16bit printing.

So far apart from the Auto Image Management Tool rest seems quite same old, and cost to the product $199.00 for a new purchase or $99 for an update to the previous one. Keeping that in mind I think I will still stick with the Picasa which is free to use ….

Yahoo Steps up and Announces its support for the OpenID 2.0 Digital Identity Framework for all of its 248 million active registered users worldwide. The move by Yahoo has placed further value to the evoloving framwork and Identity system of OpenID. With the support of OpenID from Yahoo plans to eliminate the need to create separate ID’s an logins at various websites rather with one ID Yahoo users would be able to access any site with the support of OpenID.

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