All about New Gmail….

Koool so far gmail has been changed as per services and UI when compared to the Gmail a year back.Yesterday they came of with Gmail with different skins and those are really awesome.And couple of days back they introduced Video Chat integration to the gmail,its awesome more here.And through G-lab’s you can integrate calender,mouse gestures and many more things.Lets see what next surprise things they give us. Come on gooog’s

G-Phone released

Update:-Google Phone going to hit india market by December more here.Actually IPhone in US costs $200 and in india they charge Rs31,000 which disappoints most of its lovers.To make a nice strategy entry G Phone should also keep a common man in india lets wait for GPhone.

 

So Google releases its G Phone which is a great news for its much waiting customers.They fix its price $20 less then Apple Iphone i.e $180.HTC is the maker and T-mobile is service provider with Android back by google is the OS maker.GPhone has a mini keyboard and few features as 

• One touch access to: Search, Maps, Gmail, Youtube, Calendar, and Google Talk
• 3.1 mp camera, no video recording
• Expandable up to 8GB etc

You can make order here(for US customers).So when will this comes to India ??? it took IPhone more than a year to come india what about G Phone

Ahaaa google now comming with its own browser…Google Chrome

As other days today to i was going through the Techcrunch and came to know a great news that Google going to introduce its own browser Google Chrome tomorrow.This is a great threat to all other browsers specially i think for IE .

  Just on seeing images my first impression is not that much good as i feel with FireFox.Mostly it seems to be plane not much keys think currently they are coming with basic functionality.They came with some kool features as 

• Super tabs
• Security,sandboxing and  safe browsing
• Speed:webkit and V8(Googles JavaScript Virtual Machine)
• Search and user Experience

all the above features in detailed you can get from here.Well in detailed i will post once i try with it,so wait till tomorrow.

Well recently Microsoft released its IE 8 beta.I am trying to install it(specially to see its new JS debug bar)but facing some difficulties as its asks some other installations,any how i will install it and let you know soon.

Have you tried Snowl addon for FireFox

Today i tried the new add on snowl developed by Mozilla Labs.This add on helps to access and manage your RSS feeds and twitter account through a browser.They also have few nice features support for additional message sources, e.g. Facebook, AIM, Google Talk, etc and many more in there roadmap which can you find here.

Download:-https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8397

How to develop a Web application with in a week..(4 days)

Today morning while going through TechCrunch i findout a intresting news of a web application Matt build in a 4 days at a cost of 10K$ kool!!! by Carsonified a small team from UK. Well its Matt where you can manage you multiple twitter account,so you no need to make multiple logins.

The whole team comrises of 9 people Two developers,One designer / front-end developer,Two bloggers ,One copywriter,Three PR folks. They uses twitter API ,Django,python technology.Thats a great team work…

Guinness World Record Of Most Downloaded Software–Firefox

Being a lover of firefox lets help firefox to set a world record in most downloaded software in a single day.Here is the link for futher details.Well here you can download firefox 3.0 which come out of beta.
Firefox 3.0 is much faster,solves your previous memory leak issue,single click bookmark and few more
nice features.Thinks its a warning signal for other browsers .So lets help firefox to set this record. 

Now every thing is free in Picnik….

Well Today picnik ,an online photo editing tool, all the premium user features for free to all its customers.All ready they join hands with flickr, and now they make entire features available for free which may boost up there user count.They say the following reason to make it free

“We want to make everyone feel like a photo editing superstar. Picnik is already the world’s leading online photo editor, but there are still a lot of people living tragic, gloomy lives believing that powerful photo editing tools cost hundreds of dollars, come in unopenable boxes, and are impossible to use. By offering an ad-supported version of Picnik, we can make much richer, deeper, and ultimately better photo-editing functionality available to more people around the globe: Photo editing awesomeness for everyone.“

Well this makes all other online photo editors to think..

Yahoo rejection letter to Microsoft…

Today yahoo gave its rejection letter to yahoo which is as follows.

YAHOO! BOARD OF DIRECTORS SAYS MICROSOFT’S PROPOSAL SUBSTANTIALLY UNDERVALUES YAHOO!

Sunnyvale, Calif., February 11, 2008 — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft’s unsolicited proposal with Yahoo!’s management team and financial and legal advisors and has unanimously concluded that the proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders.

After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft’s proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo! including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments. The Board of Directors is continually evaluating all of its strategic options in the context of the rapidly evolving industry environment and we remain committed to pursuing initiatives that maximize value for all stockholders.

Goldman, Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers and Moelis & Company are acting as financial advisors to Yahoo!. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is acting as legal advisor to Yahoo!, and Munger Tolles & Olson LLP is acting as counsel to the outside directors of Yahoo!.

Well this is a good thing but will they stay to it for futhere higher bid of Microsoft..?

FireFox 3.0 beta:- it solves your memory leak to great extent.

Yes guys, when i was in FireFox1.5 i faces too much memory leak (500Mb)and browser gets crashes frequently but  in firefox2.0  the problem of  memory leak  is reduce to some extent(it varies 150Mb to 300Mb[when i open gmail account]) and crashing of browser is solved.Now FireFox 3.0 here the problem of memory leak is reduced to further more extent (150 Mb) and they provide more security to you.Fixing more than 11,000 issues in there 3.o beta.Here are few..

More Security

• One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. In later versions, Extended Validation SSL certificate information will be displayed.
• Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. You can test it here (note: our blacklist of malware sites is not yet activated).
• New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. You can test it here.
• New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate.
• Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
• Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
• Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
• Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.

Easier to Use

• Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
• Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
• New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files.
• Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
• Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images.
• Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
• Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
• Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
• Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
• Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in “word-by-word” mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
• Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
• Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
• Integration with Vista: Firefox’s menus now display using Vista’s native theme.
• Integration with the Mac: Firefox now uses the OS X spellchecker and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates.

More Personal

• Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
• Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
• Location bar & auto-complete: type the title or tag of a page in the location bar to quickly find the site you were looking for in your history; favicons, bookmark, and tag indicators help you see where results are coming from.
• Smart Places Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart places folder on your bookmark toolbar.
• Bookmarks and History Organizer: advanced search of your history and bookmarks with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches.
• Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
• Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.

Improved Platform for Developers

• New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
• Native Web page forms: HTML forms on Web pages now have a native look and feel on Mac OS X and Linux (Gnome) desktops.
• Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
• Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
• A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.

Improved Performance

• Reliability: A user’s bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.
• Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works) put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases in Beta 1, and will show further gains in future Beta releases.
• Memory usage: Over 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more. Developers are continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation.

 Further details you can get here..Lets hope Firefox improves further , you can download FireFox 3.0 beta here.

One of my company product won the crunchies award.

Today TechCrunch gave there results of 2007 Crunchies winner , in which one of my company product(not to be disclosed) won the chrunchies award .They give this awards to a good Web2.0 products .For further details you can get here.