Microsoft revealed the upgrade path of Windows 7 operating system
Also Microsfot revealed minimum requirement details
Below is the table showing how windows growing on its requirements from version to version
Mozilla released firefox 4.0 at first glance I felt it exactly looks the way google chrome looks. Below are the few images given in Mozilla wiki. The other feature mentioned in the WIKI is about combo stop/refresh/go button which comes at the end of the address bar.
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First it was mac then IPod and then iPhone. With every new product Apple revolutionized the entire industry. May be now its time to bring Apple Electronic book reader. Existing products like Amazon Kindle, and Sony Digital reader. Recently there was some news about the same. Hope we will soon see a apple e-book reader soon.
I just updated my firefox version from 3.5 to 3.5.1 hope fully this fixes the crashes I am seeing.
Firefox 3.5.1 fixes the following issues:
The suggested solution is creating a new profile. Because while updating firefox to 3.5 there is a possibility of corrupting the existing profiles. If your next question is how create a new firefox profile please read on.
Execute to this command in run box firefox –P.
The command will show you a box like this here you can create a new profile. After creating new profile you can migrate configuration from old profile to new profile.
Today google officially declared that its going to launch and new light weight and open source operating system with the name Chrome OS. First they are targeting this OS for notebooks. The code is going to be available to all in the later part of this year and you can buy a notebook with chrome OS in the second part of 2010. As per the Google official blog, they redesigned and reinvented the OS concepts with this and they are providing minimal functionality and lots of security with this OS. The goal of this OS is just provide a platform to run your machine and connect to internet, everything else you can do it on web. So lets wait and see :)
Good news is that gmail, google docs and calendar are no more betas, today google remove beta tag from the logo. Though we don’t get something new because of this. Just something to feel happy.
Via: Mozilla Labs
There are an immense number of tools that have been created to help web developers. Unfortunately, you might never know this; there’s no central index of these tools. It turns out that keeping up with all the development in this space is really difficult–even for folks like us who have been tracking it every day for years.
As we’ve explored different tools we could create here as part of the Developer Tools Lab, we’ve come to the opinion that in addition to creating new tools, one of the best things we could do is help developers understand the broad universe of tools that already exist and expose some of the fantastic and amazing work that’s being done.
We’re launching today a first step in this direction: an Open Web Tools Directory.
(Note: a modern browser with canvas is required to view this, like Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Chrome 2, or Opera 9).
We went with a “space” theme to emphasize the sheer size of the tool ecosystem (though at the moment we only have a small fraction of the tools available listed). And, frankly, we just couldn’t do another table-based master/detail database application; we wanted a directory that would be fun to use (and perhaps a bit of fun to create as well).
So where do we go from here?
First, we’re putting out a call for folks to tell us about their tools. We’ve prepared a data entry form for you to use to submit a tool; please, help us fill up the directory with the hundreds or thousands of items we’ve missed! Your entries won’t go live immediately, but we’ll review them on a regular basis and get them added.
Second, let us know what features you’d most like in the directory. We’re exploring a few different concepts for how to display the entries in the directory. Here’s one of our ideas to add more detail to what we display about each entry:
We’re also exploring concepts for adding social participation features, like ranking the tools and commenting on them (though we’d like to have a good solution to astroturfing in place before rolling them out).
We also want to make searching the tools better. Right now, the search box at the bottom of the screen searches over all text fields and you can limit the directory to broad categories of tools, like “Debug”-related tools:
Finally, we’d like to make an accessible version of the directory, both for browsers without canvas support and for screen reader support. What should this accessible version be like?
We’re looking forward to evolving the directory and working with the web community to make it a vibrant resource for discovering and tracking the web’s amazing tools universe.
What do you think?
– Ben Galbraith, on behalf of the Developer Tools team
I am a big big fan of firefox and I learned to write add-ons and created few of them. I was very very happy with you and every time you come-up with something new I tried be first in line to have it on my home and office machines. I used to hate IE and mock people who uses it. But after updating my firefox to 3.5, everything changed at the first look I loved you 3.5 as usual but after few hours I realized that I made a huge mistake by upgrading you to 3.5. The only reason you crashed so often and badly that I started feeling like why I am using you anymore. So I choose chrome and at times IE 8 at my work and home instead of you. I hate to say but I am sorry firfox I am leaving you.
I am creating a java swing based application, which categorizes the search results based on the user requirement and input. Check the screenshots below
In the below given screenshot the search string is java and I wanted get the first 200 results from google. In the second panel I have given java.com and sun.com, also selected Only in domain. The meaning of this is I am searching google for java and getting 200 results and want to categorize these results bases on strings given that too only when when the given strings are in domain of the search results.
In the below given screen the search results are categorized based on the string values we have given in the above screen.
This application is still under development and I am hoping to finish it next few weeks and make available to you all. Any suggestions or feedback is most welcome.
Today I have updated my firefox to 3.5 and was very happy with the new look and the page rendering speed. But to my surprise it crashed couple of time when I tried to open some web page embedded java applets. In the recent past I have not had any crashes with the last stable version of firefox. Not sure if these crashes are something to do with my machine or some issues with firefox new version.
Today found this very interesting firefox add-on, which allows you to take the screenshots of the webpage just by clicking on a firefox menu item. Not only that you can also edit the screenshot with in firefox, this is the very good part of this add-on. Below is the sample I have created using this add-on. You can get this add-on by going to http://aviary.com/install/firefox.
Its must have firefox add-on.
Today I have observed that google chrome fails to show some pages in the orkut, its not showing me the details of the users who has subscribed to my communities to approve or reject. Below is the screenshot. Strange that google has not fixed their own websites to make them compatible with chrome.
Looks like its all set to release firefox 3.5 on June 30th. I guess they are just going to remove RC label from the last release candidate. So get ready to update your firefox.
Now google launched a new transliteration bookmarklet which allows users to type in any language. If you have added this bookmarklet to your browser, then you can directly type in telugu, hindi, arabic etc languages directly in the web pages text fields, no need to use any customizaed editors or websites.
If you want to try, go and find how to use this bookmarklet
http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_te.html#StoreFF
Google voice is still beta and access by invitation. You can request for an invitation by going to https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/
Not sure if you know this summer Mozilla foundation invited people to submit concept ideas to redesign the browser tabs. Now the last date of these submissions is done, there are total 120 concepts were submitted and you and me can go and check also we can vote for the concept we like. So go ahead and choose want you want in your future firefox. Then what are you waiting for, go and vote.
The thing I love about Google chrome is, its capability to have a separate process for each tab we open. Simply saying we are starting a new process every time we open a new tab, but still able to manage them all as part of a single window. I heard even IE 8 has the same feature, I tried IE8, but rolled back to IE7 as lots of sites does not support IE 8 yet. Now the news is that even firefox is taking the same path and planning to create a new process for every new tab user opens in a window. This feature is not going to be there in the 3.5 which is due to release in few days(RC2 just got released).
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As a regular user of pidgin and digsby for connecting to yahoo, gtalk and jabber. I am not very impressed with this IM client, but considering its small size and small memory foot print (it takes less than 10 MB, where as pidgin is taking 23 MB. Sorry I digsby you are not in this race), its not that bad either. You can download and try the latest version from FileHippo.
At last Google gave a big boost to Gmail contact list by allowing users to group contacts and easily view and edit contact details. Considering the old contact management process, this is a big boost below is a sample screenshot.
Below is the java code written to remove duplicate items from an array
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
public class Simple {
public static void main(String args[]){
String arrayAsStr="IndianHippy,IndianHippy1,IndianHippy2,IndianHippy1,IndianHippy2,IndianHippy3,IndianHippy";
String str[]=arrayAsStr.split(",");
Arrays.sort(str);
HashSet hs=new HashSet();
for(int i=0;i<str.length;i++)
{
hs.add(str[i]);
}
String arraystr1[]=(String[])hs.toArray(new String[hs.size()]);
String updatedArrayAsStr="";
for(int i=0;i<arraystr1.length;i++)
{
if(updatedArrayAsStr.equals(""))
updatedArrayAsStr=arraystr1[i];
else
updatedArrayAsStr=updatedArrayAsStr+","+arraystr1[i];
}
System.out.println(updatedArrayAsStr);
}
}
This new firefox add-on, which brings Google Indic Transliteration to firefox as toolbar. With this add-on, users can type in different indic languages directly on the toolbar with out any need for going to any website. Also users can use the typed indic text to searching google and use it for any other purpose. Now this add-on is added to mozilla add-on sand box and waiting for reviews. You can download try this add-on the below given add-on collection page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/indianhippy_s
or download from this website http://indianhippy.com/downloads/IndicGoogleTransliteration.xpi.
Your comments and feedback is most welcome :)
I’m seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my 'flash' label, everything about paragliding goes under flying, and they all skip my inbox because that's how I like to stay organized. But when new email arrives I have to switch to the 'flash' label first, then click on paragliding, etc. I wanted a way to see it all at once. So when I heard about Gmail Labs, I started implementing a Labs feature in my 20% time that would help me (and you!) spend less time monitoring important messages that may end up getting filtered away. Starting today, you can try Multiple Inboxes, a Labs experiment which makes it possible to have more than one "inbox" in your default Gmail view.An image is worth a thousand words, so here's what my inbox looks like:
In addition to a quick view of my important labels, I also like to keep all my starred and draft messages in separate panels. After you turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings, you can configure what you want to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings. However you choose to use it, let us know how we can improve the Multiple Inboxes experiment -- all feedback is welcome.
RSSOwl is the best desktop based RSS, ATOM, RDF aggregator I have used, I think its better than thunderbird though its on high side of consuming system resources(Uses around 50- 70 MB of your main memory). Its fast and easy to use with very usful built in browser. You can download this from http://http//www.rssowl.org/
The simple way to do this is to go to google gadget page and follow the steps. It has complete UI based gadget configuration, you just need to place the generated code in your webpage. You can see the source code of IndianHippy fun page for any clarifications.
There are many add-ons available for firefox and thunderbird, but most them are never updated according to the new versions of product releases. If you try to install them you will see version compatibility error. There is a simple way to resolve this compatibility issue. Download the add-on by clicking “save as” in browser context menu, the downloaded file is with xpi file. Open the xpi file using winzip and find install.rdf file(no need to extract the zip file) and open it in any text editor. Search for “{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}” which is firefox id and for thunderbird “{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}” . RDF file is xml file under the id you should see\r\n\r\n<em:minVersion>1.5<//em:minVersion>\r\n<em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>\r\n\r\nChange the maxVersion value to the version you are using. If you are using firefox 3 beta then the maxVersion should be 3.0b3 (remember from firefox three versioning has changed now on its going to x.0 only instead of x.0.0).
What is a profile? Its the place(folder) where firefox stores bookmarks, extensions,history etc. details. On windows OS the default location of profile folder is C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\k450b1oj.default.How to create a new profiles and managing them? Execute the command \\"firefox -P\\" which will show a dialog box to create and manage profiles. After creating profiles we can create icons of these firefox by making target as \\"firefox -P -no-remote\\
Yes, there is no direct option to uninstall windows desktop search, which is competitors for Google desktop search. I installed WDS with curiosity to know if there are any improvements over google’s desktop search, but to my disappointment its not that good. So I tried to uninstall to save some space and indexing cycles, but to my surprise there is no direct way to uninstall it, its not existing in controlpanel-> add or remove programs. I googled and found the below given command and it worked on my XP(SP2). Execute the below given command in a command prompt
Sun introduced the StringBuilder class in J2SE 5.0, which is almost the same as StringBuffer, except it\\''s not thread-safe. Thread safety is usually not necessary with StringBuffer, since it is seldom shared between threads. When Strings are added using the + operator, the compiler in J2SE 5.0 and Java SE 6 will automatically use StringBuilder. If StringBuffer is hard-coded, this optimization will not occur.
Historically, the Internet has been all about connectivity between computers and among people. The World Wide Web opened enormous opportunities and motivations for the injection of content into the Internet, and search engines, such as Google's, provided a way for people to find the right content for their interests. Of course, the Internet continues to develop: new devices will find their way onto the net and new ways to access it will evolve.In the next decade, around 70% of the human population will have fixed or mobile access to the Internet at increasingly high speeds, up to gigabits per second. We can reliably expect that mobile devices will become a major component of the Internet, as will appliances and sensors of all kinds. Many of the things on the Internet, whether mobile or fixed, will know where they are, both geographically and logically. As you enter a hotel room, your mobile will be told its precise location including room number. When you turn your laptop on, it will learn this information as well--either from the mobile or from the room itself. It will be normal for devices, when activated, to discover what other devices are in the neighborhood, so your mobile will discover that it has a high resolution display available in what was once called a television set. If you wish, your mobile will remember where you have been and will keep track of RFID-labeled objects such as your briefcase, car keys and glasses. 'Where are my glasses' you will ask. 'You were last within RFID reach of them while in the living room, your mobile or laptop will say.The Internet will transform the video medium as well. From its largely programmed, scheduled and streamed delivery today, video will become an interactive medium in which the choice of content and advertising will be under consumer control. Product placement will become an opportunity for viewers to click on items of interest in the field of view to learn more about them including but not limited to commercial information. Hyperlinks will associate the racing scene in Star Wars I with the chariot race in Ben Hur. Conventional videoconferencing will be augmented by remotely controlled robots with an ability to move around, focus cameras and microphones, and perhaps even directly interact with the local environment under user control.The Internet will also become more closely integrated with other parts of our daily lives, and it will change them accordingly. Power distribution grids, for example, will become a part of the Internet\\''s information universe. We will be able to track and manage electrical power demand and our automobiles will participate in the generation as well as the consumption of electricity. By sharing information through the Internet about energy-consuming and energy-producing devices and systems, we will be able to make them more efficient.A box of washing machine soap will become part of a service as Internet-enabled washing machines are managed by Web-based services that can configure and activate your washing machine. Scientific measurements and experimental results will be blogged and automatically entered into common data archives to facilitate the distribution, sharing and reproduction of experimental results. One might even imagine that scientific instruments could generate their own data blogs.These are but a few examples of the way in which the Internet will continue to surround and serve us in the future. The flexibility we have seen in the Internet is a consequence of one simple observation: the Internet is essentially a software artifact. As we have learned in the past several decades, software is an endless frontier. There is no limit to what can be programmed. If we can imagine it, there's a good chance it can be programmed. The Internet of the future will be suffused with software, information, data archives, and populated with devices, appliances, and people who are interacting with and through this rich fabric.And Google will be there, helping to make sense of it all, helping to organize and make everything accessible and useful.
I am very happy to announce my website http://www.vividhabharathi.com launch.
“No ideology could be allowed to straitjacket thoughts of an entire nation“
Well said Mr. Prime Minister, thanks for being strong against those mindless commies who think themselves as intellectuals and in the illusion of saving the national interests when they are doing quite opposite. Everywhere in the world communism evolved based on political and social changes, but sadly not in India. Indian communists still believe in the ideology borrowed from other countries and they never been able to derive or define some ideology which suites for India. I never heard a communist proposing a constructive solution to any of the issues they are raising, for that matter no political party does that in India, that's very sad thing but a reality. I reckon any political parties interests should lie with the interests of country and its people. I hope some day we will see a political system in India which thinks and acts positively and constructively. May be too much to expect, but what to do I am a born optimist :)
I believe there is a very thin line between madness and a strong belief. I came to this conclusion after seeing today's events, where BJP/VHP literally stopping the nation by making a big issue about Ram Sethu a water merged structure, which people believe was built by Mr. Ram a king in ancient times and now treated as god in this country and political parties get elected using his name.
In our country every one looks for a conflict to come on to roads, it may be political party or some group of people, we forgot any other meaningful way to resolve conflicts. Every time this thing happens I try to understand and give a rational explanation to myself but so far I never been able to convince myself. Every time such things happen supreme court asks government about the action taken on the political parties or people who made all this mess and caused loss to nation. I don't remember seeing any response or action from government. The funny thing in this whole matter is some parties (left parties) argue that its their right to do so. I wonder what kind people we are having as leaders in this country, I reckon most of them deserve to be treated for mental disorders if they are not to be put in jail.
ఆకాశం రంగులు అద్దుకుంది
చుక్కలన్నీ చందమామలు
రెక్కలు లేని పక్షిని నేను
దిక్కులుమరచి హద్దులు విడిచి
లక్షం అంటు లేకుండా అలా అలా
నిన్నటి గాయం మరచి
రేపటి దిగులు వదలి
ఈ క్షణం నా సొంతమనుకొని
అనుభవిస్తూ అనందిస్తూ
ఎక్కడికో ఏదరికో?
As usual I was spending my weekend watching DVDs, then I suddenly I found this AL Pacino movie "Dog Day Afternoon". I would say this is father (
“The population is divided into vertical compartments of provinces, tribes, clans, casts, and sub-castes. People generally do not vote out across these compartments or across their tribe, caste, or clan boundaries. The existing system creates the illusion of democracy because we do have election; but we forget that elections are but a tool of democracy an end in themselves. The above system always gives power to small elite group comprises of feudal leaders.”
Though the above statement is written by a dictator (Mr. Musharraf) about Pakistan, the same statement is very true for our country. In the 60 years of independence we have been ruled by a family for 35 years (I may have to add 3 more years for Mr.Singh regime) and by a party for 40+ years which the family represents (I may have to say the party represents the 'Gandhi&Nehru' family).
The perfect example is recent UP election verdict, the lady who has just been elected by UP people is a shameless corrupt. The government at center is run by multiple people with conflicting interests. Recently Mr. Singh has issued a statement saying that rich people in the country should restrain from showing their wealth, which may cause revolution in poor. I have a question to Mr. Singh what about the tax payers, they are paying tax with the hope government will do something to improve the lives of non-privileged people by providing opportunities, but more than half of the tax payers money going into pockets of corrupted politicians and officials. I think he should concentrate on spending the tax payers money properly instead of talking like a communist. What if all the tax payers in the country denies to pay tax because the money which they are paying from their hard earned money is going into the pockets of some crooks.
Last night I had asked the same question to myself, first I didn't know the answer later I realized that “I am none other than GOD” hurry! now I know. I don't forgive any one who commits sins against me( this is what exactly my believers[I told you that I am GOD] think and I will send sinners to hell). OK don't be confused I will explain the terms hell and sin.
Hell : You might had never seen it but might had felt it, hell is a constant fear in your mind(brain)(I don't believe in “thinking with heart” or “feeling in heart”, heart is just a organ which pumps blood into your body machine, if you think your heart thinking and feeling you better go for a heart check).
Sin : You say something and you don't really believe or mean what you said. There are many synonyms for sin lie,disloyalty etc are sins.
If you think I am not GOD, I challenge you to prove it. Every day I will post justifications to prove that I am GOD. Watch this space....... :)
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