Archive for November, 2009

Microsoft rivalry with Google has just got bigger with the news of Google Chrome OS. The search giant Google is ready to take on Microsoft (again) with its new operating system. The company showed off its Google Chrome OS, saying that the lower-end PCs which will be included in Netbooks in the second half of 2010. In the past few years we have witnessed a steadily escalating high-stakes war between [...]

Aha.. Finally, firefox mobile gets a new logo! Firefox had a challenge to create a new Mozilla for mobile logo design. They announced the winner of the competition and chose a new logo for Firefox mobile too From the Mozilla blog: “The results from the Mozilla Creative Collective’s “Firefox Goes Mobile” design challenge are in, and I’m happy to announce that the winner [...]

There are many websites which host malwares (unknowingly) but they look like pretty nice and authentic sites in order to trap the visitors. Google Safe Browsing tool is a tool developed by Google which helps you to test a website which you think may not be authentic or has malware hidden in the source codes. In order to check if your site has an suspicious code or malware then, you just need to type [...]

Google has open source the source code of the Google Chrome operating system published, (src.chromium.org). Google announced the availability of source code during a press conference at its headquarters in Mountain View.  The OS developer community can now, participate actively in developing the Chrome OS. One year from now the Google Chrome OS is expected to be available to the public. This operating [...]

In my earlier post, I told you that the beta for Microsoft Outlook was releasing next month and now at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles the beta of Office 2010 was officially made available. This is Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (14.0.4536.1000) and can be downloaded for free at http://microsoft.com/2010/en/. To download the beta registration is required, [...]

I thought Google only bombs people who have miserably failed. But guess not! When you search for ‘Who is failure’, Obama turns out to be on the top list! I don’t think there was any active campaign to linkbomb Obama to the top for these words, so I think this is fallout from the long-standing “miserable failure” googlebomb that was impacting his predecessor, President George W. Bush… Obama [...]

I wrote an article about a month ago, on ‘how to find out when someone removes you from their Facebook friend list’. Now I guess I’ll have to change the title of the page from ‘When someone removes you from their friend list‘ to ‘When someone unfriends you‘ , just coz the dictionary’s publisher, Britain’s Oxford University Press came up with a new word called [...]

Matt Cutts from Google said there are strong chances of Google introducing a new ranking factor into the search result algorithm. The new ranking factor has to do with ‘how fast a site or page loads?’. Matt explained that page speed is a factor in search ad AdWords quality score and there’s currently a strong push to make it a factor in organic ranking algorithm. Keeping 2 things in [...]

Joining hands with wolfram | alpha, Bing is rolling out a new “task-focused” version of its home page. It looks relatively the same as before, but when you mouse over different categories, you will get more search options. For example, if you mouse over “Travel,” you will get links like “find flights”, “find hotels,” and destinations you can conduct your [...]

There is something called as the BOT, which actually plays farmville for you Isn’t that cool? I’ve found one of the best farmville bot tools out there. This farmville autoplayer plants and plows VERY fast – and it works on all the different farm sizes! The Farmville magic tool scans your farm plots automatically, so there is no need to adjust any settings regarding sizes and positions. Continue [...]