 | Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.2 late on Monday. They Recommend that you update your browser ASAP. |
"We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3.6 you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting 'Check for Updates...' from the Help menu," Mozilla's director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner,... |
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 | Google Launched a new tool to alert users when the system detects suspicious activity that might indicate the account has been compromised. | Gmail already displays information at the bottom of the in-box showing the time of the last activity on the account and whether it's still open in another location. But most people don't remember or know that its there.
Google is taking an extra step to tell users about their account if its being... |
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 | Order up! I plan to print a fresh batch of Ego-One / JalokimGraphics T-Shirts. So this is your time to Order and support Ego-One! |
Thanks to the responses both on ego and facebook
I will be reprinting the limited edition T-shirts.
And I'll batch send them along with Sankets shirt from the contest... which due to problems on my side couldn't yet be sent.
In any case the T-shirts are available for purchase via direct order. |
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 | 50 million tweets, countless profiles, a new look on social networking that swept the globe. Twitter blows out 4 candles today! |
Yup you heard it. 21st of March 2006 the first tweet appeared on the twitter beta webpage. Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams started a new trend that quickly took over socializing on the internet.
Just last month twitter smacked 50 million tweets ,but how much more has twitter given us?
social... |
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 | Microsfot IE9 Supporting CSS3, CSS3 Selectors, Namespaces, Colors, Values, Backgrounds & Borders and Fonts, along with increased support for HTML5 and Javascript in performance. |
The Preview of IE9 scored 578/578 on their CSS3 Selectors Test and an improved 55/100 on the Acid 3 test, with further improvements promised before the final... |
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 | Niko, the worlds first twitter and N900 controlled LEGO mindstorms NXT robot. Wow what a mouthful. Check out what it can do. |
The fellows at Nokia PUSH labs have finally showcased their project. Niko is robot built out of LEGO blocks using Mindstorms technology, controlled by an N900.
Niko... |
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 | Advertising is a great source of entertainment especially when creative and talent artists have a go at it. Here is a grand collection of funny advertisements. |  Rowenta - Vacuum Cleaners  Patex - Super Glue |
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 | Quick , fast and on the spot news. A spontaneous and self explanatory header and tasty description to explain more underneath. | This is what the new news column will look like.
There is no great change, we still want awesome articles from you guys, but the top part is going to be shortened, condensed and sweetened ... all conservatives and additional sweeteners included.
Why?
well news these days has... |
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| Firefox is calling it quits on 3.0. The plan to discontinue support for Firefox 3.0 in January, but the browser got a lifespan extension after Firefox 3.6 arrived later than planned. The move reflects a gradual shift toward upgrading browsers more frequently, not just to keep up with new features, but also to free up resources otherwise spent on testing and maintaining older browsers and to reduce security risks associated with them. Google is even more aggressive: its... |
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 | Opera Software has released the final versions of their latest beta Web browsers in time for the CTIA cell phone conference in late March. Opera released it early then some users where expecting. Today Opera turned its Mini 5 beta 2 and Mobile 10 beta into the company's latest stable versions of its mobile Web browsers. If you followed Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 hew closely to the beta versions. They don't receive any new features, though there are some fixed bugs... |
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| In a recent white paper on security in Chrome, Google let it slip that one of the most controversial features it's added to the Chromium source code will be going away after the first program update check. The white paper (PDF) states that the "unique ID," which Google says it introduced to Chrome as a way to keep track of installation success, will be deleted after the program checks for updates for the first time. This means that if you run Chrome immediately... |
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 | Well, it couldn't have been long after Windows 7 was released before mobile versions started coming off the assembly lines. And Microsoft employee, Aaron Woodman did just that. | Microsoft's Aaron Woodman just pulled off a little surprise here at The Engadget Show: he brought out LG's Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! The QWERTY slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world's ever seen, and while the hardware and... |
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 | CSS3 Please!, produced by Paul Irish and Jonathon Neal, aims to simplify the design process by allowing designers to enter one value, and have this instantly synced and normalised for each vendor-specific prefix, with the corresponding code generated automatically. | The tool offers support for border-radius, box-shadow, linear-gradients, rotation, rgba colors and @font-face, with work... |
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| As of March 11th CSS3.info has returned to their old style for their website. This is because users were complaining was that the new design was too dark, lifeless / boring and lacking in fun, spirit and character. | The redesign was to make the site move forward. The reason that the old design was removed, and not simply recoded to make the functional changes required, was in fact due to a number of negative comments.
So there is a couple... |
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| Some of you twitter people may know that Twitter has been getting attacked by malicious links that take your password and email when you click on it. | Twitter is going to be pushing a update here soon that is going to filter links and remove the ones that are bad. With the new filtering service, even if a bad link is already sent out in an e-mail notification and somebody clicks on it, the user will be safe, according to the post.
The filtering... |
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 | We all been there, where there is not many places that won't allow you to upload your big files to a site and allow you to send them to family, friends or even your people at work. | There is now some websites that is free and paid services that make it easy to host these gigantic files and send them to a friend, family member, or business associate.
Below are some websites that all you to share up to 10 GB's or... |
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 | Google has been building its partnership with World Bank and other statistics gatherers to present an array of data in visual form within Google Labs.
Google Public Data Explore went live today. The site takes public data regarding schools, population, crime, and even names to construct charts and graphs that help illustrate trends. | Google is releasing a list of the top search terms that can be answered with public data,... |
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| In an update to the development build of Chrome, Google on Thursday introduced a rough version of the native HTML5 geolocation API. Availbe in Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox has been supporting this since it has came out FireFox 3.5 |
This option is turned off by default. To activate it you need... |
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 | Benjamin Meyer has been busy creating Anigma, an online game designed to showcase some of the functionality in CSS3, particularly CSS3 Transitions and Animations. This is the result of his hard work, a fully functioning jewel game working on css3.
Anigma is really simple where the player has to remove the jewls from their screen and match the color to each other, and progress through multiple levels of varying difficulty. |
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 | One of last week's top stories was Steve Jobs recent visit to offices on the third floor of Wall Street Journal building. Beside the Twitter incident where one WSJ editor posted a tweet from an iPad, Steve Jobs openly attacked Adobe's inert development policy and criticizing Flash to the point that Flash is so bad that nobody should use it. As you'll read a little bit later, it is not that Steve Jobs is completely wrong. However, the reasons for his attack might lie in an old war philosophy. |
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 | Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers.
"We believe a Mac OS X 10.5 minimum will allow us to provide the best experience possible to our users," Mozilla Mac programmer Josh Aas said Tuesday in a mailing list announcement. Firefox is built on a browser engine called Gecko, and the upcoming version 1.9.3 will have technology for Mac OS X... |
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 | Internet Explorer fans can now get a taste of the video elements in HTML5 without having to switch browsers. Through a new in-development plug-in bundled with codecs from Xiph.org, users can activate rudimentary support for OGG-formatted HTML5 video on Windows 32-bit and 64-bit computers.
Did they just say HTML 5 for IE? Is the world going to be alive tomorrow? | |
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 | A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online...
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The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet.
PleaseRobMe extracts information from players who... |
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 | CSS.info has been given a new look. It has been given a more professional brand / design, easier navigation (with the site having long since outgrown its current navigation structure), faster loading times (due to less reliance on images in the layout) and to showcase some of the new functionality offered by CSS3 (including text-shadow, box-shadow and border-radius). |
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| Mozilla has released fixes for five security holes in older versions of Firefox, while a security company has warned of a zero-day flaw in the latest version of the popular browser.
Seems weird to me that they didn't notice it till now when we are already in the newer version. | The five flaws addressed by Mozilla included three the company rated 'critical'. These... |
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 | Research in Motion, manufacturers of the popular BlackBerry smart phone series, have announced plans to launch a new web browser for their phones based on the open source WebKit layout engine, and offered delegates at this weeks Mobile World Congress a sneak peak. |
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 | We all love to RT good and thought provoking tweets that we get from our friends on twitter. Sometimes it is an opinion tweet and sometimes it is a piece of humor or a wonderful quote . There are some useful links from friends that we also retweet occasionally .
While it is good and nice to be doing that , part of the joy of retweets comes from knowing that the tweet is genuine and RTdoes not cause any angst to anyone . So here are a few things that you need... |
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| Windows security software vendor Comodo has added its contribution to the short list of Chromium-based browser remixes that have sprung up in the wake of Google Chrome's success. Best known for its firewall software, Comodo's Chromium browser is called Dragon, and it promises better security features than those available in Google Chrome. It... |
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 | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google is determined not to be left behind by the social-media revolution.
The company wants to take what it does best--organizing Web content by relevancy--and apply it to social media, perhaps the most disorganized segment of the Web. Google Buzz is its most ambitious attempt to do just that, marrying the Gmail Web interface with status updates and media-sharing technology in an attempt to convince the social media addicts of the world... |
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 | Watch out Safari. There's a new browser looking for a spot on the iPhone.
Norway-based Opera announced Wednesday that it will unveil its new Opera Mini 5 browser for the iPhone at next week's 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The developer of the desktop Opera Web browser is touting Opera Mini as faster than Apple's Safari, thanks to its use of compression. Opera said it compresses pages by up to 90 percent before they're sent to the mobile device. | |
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| Last week, Firefox users were warned by Mozilla of two add-ons that had been discovered to contain malware and removed from their add-on Web site. Mozilla backtracked on one those add-ons last night, saying that the company had worked with McAfee and determined that the Sothink Web Video Downloader was malware-free.
The initial estimate of 6,000 affected downloads has also been revised downwards, to 700 downloads. Mac and Linux Firefox users were... |
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 | After a tiring month of contribution and raffle gaining. Treasure hunting and brain smouldering in the quizzes, it is a sad time. Its the time to end an awesome contest and an awesome experience. As of today the 8th of February 2010 I declare the contest is OVER! |
I am certain that we are going to remember this contest for a while ...and just for keep sake we should remember small details from this contest for future quizzes.
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 | Although Apple's iPad has yet to hit the market, the Federal Communications Commission has expressed concern over its potential impact on AT&T's 3G network.
Without naming AT&T, which has secured a carrier deal for the tablet device, Phil Bellaria, director of scenario planning, and John Leibovitz, deputy chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, outlined their concerns in an FCC blog post Monday: | With the iPad pointing to even greater demand... |
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| Mozilla on Friday pulled two programs from its Firefox browser add-on site for containing malware. Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan horse code aimed at Windows users.
In a blog post, Mozilla stated that the Master Filer add-on was able to bypass AMO's security tests. | Mozilla user CatThief discovered the threat, it said. And when Mozilla added two more security... |
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 | In week since Mozilla released the first Firefox browser for mobile phones, we've had a better chance to explore the Web on the Nokia N900. Firefox for Maemo, as it's called, is also available for the N810 Internet Tablet.
We go over some of our observations in the First Look video here, pointing out that extensions, in particular, are the browser's most notable innovation for Firefox mobile. | There are some limitations to the way Firefox... |
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 | Ever wondered how far you can push a linux based mobile operating system like the n900's Maemo 5? Well some have used it to combine 2 seperate technologies. Check this vid.
Duke Nukem 3D on the N900.
played using the wiimote
Looks like having the maemo isn't half bad, even though its got that penguin sitting inside him.
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 | Greasemonkey scripts are an easy way to create single-serving enhancements for Firefox, and now they work natively on Google Chrome, too.
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 | Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS.
On Monday, Glen Murphy, a user interface designer for Google's Chrome browser and the Chrome operating system based on it, pointed to image and video concepts of a Chrome OS-based tablet that... |
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 | Apple's new iPad device looks like it will have some of the same security issues that affect the iPhone, such as weak encryption, a mobile security expert said on Thursday.
For one, if the iPad employs encryption the same way the iPhone does, sensitive personal data, including phone numbers and e-mail addresses, could be retrieved and viewed, says Daniel Hoffman, chief technology... |
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 | Security companies are warning consumers and Web site operators to be wary of iPad related search scams.
"This is just the kind of opportunity fraudsters like to exploit by poisoning search terms,"... |
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 | Google updated its Chrome browser's developer's builds to version 5 for Windows and Mac today, the first time any version of Chrome has reached that milestone. Google was expected to push version 5 out to the public before the end of the month. Unlike the more recent versions of developer's build 4.x, the developer's builds of Chrome 5.x seems to be starting off to a rough start. |
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 | Google has clearly had enough with Internet Explorer 6.
As of March 1, Google will no longer support IE6 on its Google Docs and Google Sites services, it announced Friday. IE users will have to upgrade to at least version 7 if they want to use those products, as "many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as... |
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| Mozilla has been steadily creeping towards it goal of releasing the first Firefox browser for mobile phones. On Friday, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia's Maemo--previously code-named Fennec--arrived.
Firefox for the Maemo 5 platform has a few interesting conceits that set it apart from other mobile browsers, like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Mozilla is banking on the uniqueness of its... |
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| Personally I prefer iSlate ... but the iPad is Official. Apple have officially announced the launch of the Apple ipad. What is it exactly? its a big multimedia , internet focused , mega PDA. Or more commonly known as an iphone on steriods.
Ego-One is officially on the case. Lets see what this bad boy can do... and what it offers
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 | Webkit CSS3 transitions. The future of javascript animation is at risk. The recent CSS3 features include animation. These are called css transitions and they can do pretty much the same animation and movements as any good javascript of jquery effect.
The best part of it all is that all you need to know is CSS3. The worst part ...
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 | Here's a story from the near future. It's been a long day. Finally throwing aside the cares of work, you slump down on your sofa and pick up that shiny new device you bought the other day. Costing the thick end of £1,000, it's Apple's stylish new iPad (iTablet? iSlate?) – a smooth 10in screen with no keyboard, like an iPhone on steroids. You pick it up, turn... |
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 | Don't worry, said Microsoft a few days ago: the zero-day vulnerability that Chinese hackers exploited to infiltrate Google's network only affects Internet Explorer 6 (released in 2000) running on Windows XP (released in 2001).
| The implication being that nobody uses that still, do they? Ed Bott, who has forgotten... |
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 | Google’s Nexus One phone has vivid OLED screen and slim design but lacks Multi-touch. This has left some users frustrated.
But there’s a solution for it. Hack it. J
Steve Kondik, a developer who goes under the nickname Cyanogen, has offered a few files and instructions on code tonexus one add multitouch to the device. He has modified the Android 2.1 operating system running on the Nexus One to enable multi-touch for... |
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 | Google on Friday began rolling out an improved version of its search result highlighting and rich-snippet features. Both improvements bring more visibility to kinds of data that would otherwise require clicking through to the source site. Google now does... |
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| Keith Clark, an independent web developer from the UK, has developed a JavaScript solution to IE’s CSS3 shortcomings in relation to CSS3 selectors. CSS3 selectors became the first W3C module to reach proposed recommendation status back in |
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