Hulu has been a favorite way to watch tv online as long as you are in USA or else if you are using back door to watch hulu outside usa .
Thanks to adobe air applications now you can watch videos from hulu right on your desktop. No need to open up a browser and go to the hulu site at all.
Launching a website or in a plan of launching a website, you do have a domain registered but when you tell your friends about it there is boring page posted by your web host. So if you are looking to quickly create a splash page for your website then LaunchSplash comes in handy.
Oh yes Firefox3 broke the Guinness world record, well of course they did it reason being there is no other record to broken so no matter how many downloads they got the Guinness world record was to be made.
So Mozilla Firefox did make a Guinness world record of the most downloaded software within 24hours. The number of downloads went up to 7378216. But there is bit confusion on that as well. If you check on the home page of spreadfirefox on the right top you will find a heading with blue background stating Firefox downloads : 579137807 [check here] & if you look on the world record page with the map of the world you will find downloads : 7378216.[check here]
So which is the actual value & this does put doubts in its authentication as well.
FireFox 3 Review
Apart from that most important promise of the Firefox was fullfilled with the new version, yes Firefox3 is much faster then Firefox2 & Internet Explorer. The new tabs & new windows open really quickly.
The interface is more mature and decent not bad indeed, some hidden and interesting feature have been added one of my favorite is the ability to drag any image from a website to a folder on your desktop no need to use save image as.
The Website ID feature is quite cool and protects from phishing and help authenticate the sites who have purchased certificates for authentication like paypal, ebay. This feature has been added to the Firefox’s new Smart Location bar. The location bar has been the core focus of development, and have integrated three great features to it, one was the website ID click on the favicon on location bar and you can see its ID to verify its authentication. Second you can simple bookmark any site with only one click by clicking the star on the location bar or usding [ctr + d]. Thirdly once you type your address there is a list of recomendation which do have a flaw as it shows the Title of the site and its URL and sometimes its difficult to find the exact URL.
Apart from more on the features can be checked out at Mozilla Firefox3 Features
Ever wondered where actually a website is hosted, what if there are bunch of guys living next door and have tons of equipment could they be your web host. Well thanks to Server IP location now you can locate physical location of your web host or physical location of any website on a Google map and find out where actually is there web server.
This cool tool is made by 81solutions an SEO / Hosting & commerce company. The IP Tool location asks you to enter a website address and the Google map on the page will show you the exact location of where you data center is. So in one way you can find out exactly where it is, you can cross check if the sales guys are lying about there locations or you can just have few minutes of fun and find out most of the web hosting is done in California.
But the real purpose according to the inventors
For SEO purposes it maybe useful to locate servers in the country you wish to serve. For example, if you are targeting the UK market, thus UK search engines then it maybe advantageous to your websites position on the search engine results pages to host your website in the UK. Hosting in your target country may also increase customer satisfaction as webpages will load quicker and have faster response times.
Thought orkut have not opened this channel of customized theme but people have found a way around of changing the themes of the orkut pages. But this change hardly makes any difference, firstly you can change the theme to the one you like but that theme will only be viewable to you only and not your friends.
Still if you want you can change the theme and a get a new look you would need:
If you don’t want to use Mozilla Firefox you can change the orkut theme with Internet Explorer as well just install
Once you have installed the plugins restart you browser, and then either go to [orkutplus] or go to userscripts install the scripts and start enjoying the themes. Though previously orkut experimented by releasing a theme for Holi an Indian holiday for Indian users only so very soon orkut will be officially launching the ability to chose your own theme.
Adobe Labs have released beta version of there upcoming Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks & soundbooth. The beta releases are available for download from the adobe labs page.
So whats new & what we can expect from the upcoming releases
Upcoming Adobe Dreamweaver
The new release of Dreamweaver comes with many exciting surprises some of which my most favorite are :
Upcoming Adobe Fireworks
Fireworks used for rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and faster than ever with the enhanced toolset. Demo your design live for your client, or e-mail an interactive PDF file. This version comes with
For More [http://labs.adobe.com/]
A web designer is always off to look for quality web2.0 icons, and thanks to so many nice people a huge vault of free icons libraries are easily available to download but of course finding them on Google is quite tough as you have to sort a huge list of unwanted results so here we are going to list you top 5 locations to find quality, stylish, web2.0 and of course sexy icons to make your websites look more sexy.
1- IconsFinder
This one is on my top list reason being its easy, not cluttered with ads and offers good quality open source icons to download. Previously iconfinder was known as iconfinder.com but they guy forgot to renew his domain and some one stole it from him so now its( updated - its always iconfinder.net ) iconfinder.net a great resource to find quality free icons.
http://www.iconfinder.net
2- IconLook
IconLook is a sort of clone of Iconfinder but yet another great resource for finding individual icons files, though as compared to iconfinder the iconlook has more libraries of icons thus adding more variety but in some cases the design of the icons are not that exciting as they should be. But still they got a huge library and you can easily find icons that you need using there tagged search engine.
http://www.iconlook.com
3- Iconspedia
As they say “Your source of free icons”, Iconspedia is a huge collection / catalog of free icons to download, they have a well organized collection of icons placed in categories to choose from, you can even download there icons in the form of packs. The icons are new and more of a web2.0, iconspedia has collected icons from the community and submitting icons is quite easy does not require any kind of registration.
The sizes are good and the file format they provide is PNG and ico. All the icons have there licenses listed are are mostly free to download.
http://www.iconspedia.com
4- Icon Archive
IconArchive is a categorized collection of more then 18 000 icons in 656 sets from 155 icon artists. There files are for windows / linux / osx in PNG and .ico file formats. Take care of the used license. You’ll find this information on each icon set page. If you want to use icons commercially, ask the author of the icons you want to use.
http://www.iconarchive.com/
5- FreeIconsWeb
Over 15,000 high quality Free Icons for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems. (Desktop Icons,Windows Icons,Windows XP and Vista Icons,Mac OS X Icons, Linux, PNG Transparent Icons,Gif Icons,Pixels Icons) Some are free and some belong to the company still great libraries of free icons.
http://www.freeiconsweb.com/
Previously
wikipedia of free web2.O icons
After a while i received a notification email from orkut, though thinking the orkut community is dead so the email did get my attention as it stated that a friend of mine poked me! For a moment i though “WHAT” this kind of emails are suppose to come from facebook but to my reconfirmation it was from orkut and it did say that a friend of mine poked me.
So i logged on to orkut to see what really happened and how could some one from orkut poke me! Once i entered the orkut word allot had changed and made me immediately comfortable as there was allot of similarity of what the new orkut had offered with an application that i had been using before. So i decided to write a review on how the orkut has improved and brought in BRAND new services to its social networking site.
1- Support for Applications >
Add applications and customize your profile with music, games, and more! a new feature by Orkut. Facebook allows its users to ad and customize applications along with privacy settings for the applications.
2- Notifications >
Facebook sends notifications when ever actions are taken …… Orkut sends you notifications via eMail, message ….
3- News Feed - Updates from Friends
Now orkut offers updates from friends see which of your friends added new applications, updated there image gallery and with facebook you get all the notices in the form of mini feeds on your landing page.
4- Privacy Features >
Orkut has now introduced privacy settings,that allows you to be as public or private with your information as you wish. With facebook’s privacy you Control who can see your profile and related information.
A new service by Microsoft “search via Microsoft Search engine Live and Microsoft will pay you for it”. Okai its not like that they haven’t gone that desperate yet but Microsoft has launched a new service called Live Search Cash back.
The Microsoft cash back offers users to search products using only Microsoft live to look for cash back deals. Each product will list its price along with the cash back offer on that product. Once you purchase that product Microsoft will add the cash back to you account & once it goes above $5 you can get your money back.
Cash Back deals is common in US stores but i guess Microsoft seems to be the first to bring it along to the web. Microsoft is working hard to put a dominant role on the web where so far Google is the king and this step might help out store owners and users to develop a new stream of business.
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…)
