Epic the new browser from India

Well to start with this is one more mozilla based browser like flock, the difference is that it comes up with some Indianized features like local language typing. Also comes with a side bar built in to allow users to connect to different social networking sites like twitter, facebook and orkut. This browser also boosts of having a inbuilt anivirus mechanism, but not sure how it works, but I guess it good to have feature. At first look I am not very impressed with this browser as I could not find anything unique and useful with this browser but its the first version and it has a long way to go and hopefully evolves into something unique and useful. Below is the list some of the feature of this browser.

• Built-in Antivirus Scanner: Scan downloads automatically. Scan your system manually. Free.
• Malicious Website Warnings: We'll warn you if you're about to visit a website known to host viruses or malware.
• Anti-Phishing Protection: A big, bolded domain so you know if you're at citibank.com or citiphishingsite.com.
• Type in Indian Languages. Easily. Everywhere.
• Blazing Fast.
• Sidebar Applications. 1500+ Apps. All Free.Have more fun. Be more productive. Or both.
• 1500+ Indian Themes and Wallpapers.
• India. Instantly.
  • Latest Film Songs. Live Cricket Scores.News from a Dozen+ Leading Sources.Regional and Hindi Language News. Live TV. Stock Quotes. Events. Videos. Even a Daily Joke.

Microsoft Windows 8 specifications

Looks Microsoft leaked some confidential documents related to windows 8 design and specification. After seeing these specification if really implemented we will be having completely new experience with the Windows 8. I am just putting some screenshots here and you can get all the details from original post.  Also windows 8 comes with IE 9, though the first beta of IE9 is going to be released in Aug 2010.

Google is going launch social platform “me”

There a rumor going around in internet blogs is that Big G is going to launch a new social platform “me”, which uses all the google’s social endeavors like Google voice, Google Buzz, and Google Wave. This new platform could challenge Facebook if rightly planned and used. But the only problem would be how many users of 500 million facebook users want to leave and going this new Google me. May be this too much to ponder on a rumor. Forgot to mention google is also looking for “Head of Social” and the ad reads like this

“This is a new and very strategic position, as Google knows it is late on this front and is appropriately humble about it. In Google's view, conceptually, there are two ways to tackle social, each impacting who may be successful in this senior post: 1) building an innovative offering specifically in this area; or 2) developing the capability and integrating social into Google's existing portfolio.”

Interested may be you want to post your resume to Google :)

Sid in Office cartoon series

The well knows technology site pluGGd( I hope I got the GGs in the name right) launched a cartoon series by Ali Baqri. Sid is a Indian techie and the cartoons are about his work and personal like. I am giving the first cartoon here if you find it interesting please go to http://www.pluggd.in and find a new cartoon every day.

Best Free CMS for your website or Blog

I run this website on wordpress 3.0 using a free theme available on web. I am looking for an alternative free CMS solution for one of my sub-domain to have more control on the pages and give security at the page level. I googled and found couple of them and tired most of them for their ease of installation and ease of use. I liked the way TypoLight works and the features if offers me to design pages and layouts. The best this I liked in this product is modules and site navigation. Also the security it offers at the role level the members belong. Surprisingly it offers very good effects mechanism like accordion element etc.

If you really want a free CMS for your blog/site then TypoLight is the best bet, in every aspect. The one disadvantage is the forums are mostly used by non-English users as this product is mostly used in EMEA and there are not free themes or templates available for this CMS.

Comparing iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS

See the below given chart for comparing the new iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.

This handy chart compares the main features of iPhone 3GS with iPhone 4 that goes on sale later this month.

The only thing they miss out is colors – iPhone 3GS was only available in black while iPhone 4 comes in the both black and white colors.

The chart is from Mahalo but you can also read the official comparison between iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS on apple.com.

Also recently I heard a comment from someone that Steve Jobs creates and sells all these new useless products and make people to feel that with out them they could not live their life. Anyways he is successful and that is all matters.

Also heard what Steve Jobs want his legacy after he dies. Read this interesting article by CNN correspondent.

Don't buy apple iPad wait for Notion Ink's ADAM tablet

If you are impressed with the look and features of Apple's tablet computer and want to buy one. I would suggest you to wait for couple of more months and check the new product called Notion Ink's ADAM tablet, for comparison check the speecs given below.



This table computer is completely developed Hyderabad, India. This device comes with Pixel Qi Transflective liquid crystal display, which is advanced technology to LCD. The best thing is this tablet PC supports Flash 10.Notion Ink is going to price this device models between $350 and $800. What else you want?

Review: Infibeam Pi E-Reader

Wow this is a cool thing to have by every book reader.
pros:
1) Price. At 9999 its the best you can get.
2) Battery life. Once charged it lasts for at least 400 pages.
3) Wight is far less then I expected. It weighs less than a magazine.
4) Easy to operate. A 5 year old kid can operate with out a problem. No learning curve at all.
5) Book marking feature is very great. You can have multiple book marks for every book.
6) Font size changing. When you change the font the page layout changes automatically. On this device there is nothing called scrolling.
Cons:
1) No physical key board. I feel there is a space on the device next to navigation button to give a small key board may not be the QWER one.
2) The search provided is almost useless. Typing using soft key board is almost impossible.
3) The side buttons for bookmarking and font size should be more prominent and easy to use.

My Wishlist for this device:

1) There should be key for zoomin-zoomout as well. To avoid few clicks, which could be very helpful.
2) A physical key board could be a great feature to this device. I think you even have a space to add a small keyboard. Hope this will be added in future. To me search is useless feature, because typing is such painful task.
3) A notepad like utility would be great to add some notes on every book we read. This is only good in case of a keyboard
4) Software upgrades to the existing devices.
5) A small micro USB keyboard for the existing devices and software upgrade for supporting. Something which we can stick in back of the book reader.

Microsoft launches Office 2010

Microsoft launched Office 2010 with lot of new features to get back the users who are now using google docs. Some of the new features are looking good on paper not sure how efficiently they are implemented.
Some of the exciting new features:
- Editing photos in Word
- Using video in PowerPoint
- collaborating on documents and managing e-mail conversations in new ways. Moreover
- users can manipulate documents stored on remote servers from anywhere.
Of all the features the last one looks very good to me. Lets wait and see.

Firefox 4 roadmap

Yes people are already talking about Firefox 4 and its features. As per the Firefox Director Mike Beltzner's blog post, they are concentrating on

Fast: making Firefox super-duper fast

Powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and beyond!),

Empowering: putting users in full control of their browser, data, and Web experience.

ScribeFire for Chrome Available for Alpha Testing

The very first alpha version of ScribeFire for Google Chrome is now available for testing. If you are running Google Chrome and would like to test this bleeding-edge version of ScribeFire, you can install it by clicking on the scribefire-0.1.0.0.crx link here.

After you install ScribeFire for Chrome, you'll see a ScribeFire icon in your toolbar. When clicked, that icon will open a new tab that contains the ScribeFire editor.

You can log bugs by going to this page. Also you can request for some new feature here.

How Google search works?

There is a nice video presentation with sub-titles check this out

How to fix Firefox 3.6 issue with applets?

After upgrading firefox from 3.5.8 to 3.6 we started seeing the issues with opening the applets. The issue is with JDK 6 Update 10. The simplest solution is close all the browser instances and install JDK 6 Update 18. This new install of JDK or JRE will solve the issue with applets in firefox.

Blogger comes up with a blogger template creator

After 10 years in the business Blogger came up with this blogger template creator. You can find the complete details of the this good tool from their official blog.

Home wordpress also comes with something like this. Yes I know there free themes existing with customization possibilities but still designing your own template with out writing a single line of code is always a good thing to have.

Cisco to Make Significant Internet Networking Announcement Tomorrow

Not sure what it going to be but Cisco promised that its going to change the internet industry permanently. The anouncement is going to come on Tuesday, March 9, at 8:00 a.m. (PST). You can get the complete details of this anouncement from the Cisico site

Adobe flash is obsolete technology: Steve Jobs

Apple's Steve Jobs made it very clear not supporting Flash in iPod just like not supporting floppy drive on iMacs. By comparing the Flash with a floppy drive he made it very clear what he thinks of Adobe flash. Also he suggested content publishers to use HTML 5 instead flash and for video he suggested H.264. Looks these are the end for days of Adobe flash. Sad for Adobe, hope would come up with something innovative that is as good a old Flash

Apple iPad Competitor, HP's Windows 7 based slate

Apple iPad competitor from DELL. Its called Mini 5

OpenOffice 3.2 is much better

OpenOffice 3.2 is much better than what I had experienced with the earlier versions of this Open Source Office suite. Version 3.2 is much faster and it almost starts up with in 20 seconds just like MS Office 2003. There are lots and lots of features available and even we can lean and create our own extensions just like in good firefix.

If you get a change don't miss to try this. You can download the latest version from their official site.

http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.2.0/OOo_3.2.0_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe

First YouTube video

First youtube video upload by one of the company founder Jawed Karim