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Mozilla Sets a New World Record

Mozilla’s new browser Firefox 3.0 has been downloaded over 8 million times within 24 hours of its launch. The Mozilla Foundation had encouraged users worldwide to download their latest browser on the Download Day in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. The target of five million downloads was reached earlier on June 18, and with few minutes to go, the eight million mark was reached as well. Read on» » » »

Firefox on a Mission to Set a Guinness World Record

Mozilla Firefox 3 is on the way to set a Guinness World Record to become the most downloaded software in 24 hours.

Download Day 2008

You too can participate. Firefox 3 will soon be launched. All you have to do is to download Firefox 3 within 24 hours. Currently as I write this post, there are 728,067 supporters already who will download FF3 within 24 hours of its launch Read on» » » »

Which is Better - Shorter URLs or Long and Descriptive Ones?

Having shorter URLs to your blog posts has its advantages -

  • Shorter URLs can be used by the print media like newspapers/magazines to link to the online content
  • Readers can quickly share shorter links via email/IM to their friends without worrying about sending incorrect URL due to formatting errors during copy-paste

At the same time, short URLs do not describe the content of the page and hence are not as search engine friendly as longer ones. SEO experts suggest using descriptive URLs. These are useful for search engines but for the readers they may not be easy to use. Long and huge URLs may scare some of your readers.

So how can we provide a page which has the advantage of being SEO friendly at the same time providing ease of use to the readers? Read on» » » »

Gmail sports a new favicon

Did you notice this? Gmail has got a brand new favicon! See the screenshot below -

Gmail's got a brand new favicon

However when you login to Gmail with your Google Account, you still see the old favicon with a red envelope. May be the new one is being rolled out slowly.

Gmail's old favicon

Update: In fact this favicon is as well being used by many other Google Services as well.

Orkut India is Live with New Themes

New Orkut Themes

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Microsoft IE8 Beta 2 Coming Soon

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Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2008, which is between April 1, 2008 and June 30, says Microsoft employee Nick MacKechnie in a blog written and posted yesterday. The beta will be aimed at end-users, whereas beta 1 was aimed at web developers. Read on» » » »

cforms - A Wonderful Forms Plugin by Delicious:Days

I love to connect with my readers in ways they like. I was looking for a contact form that I could readily add to my site so that people can easily get in touch with me. I was previously using a custom contact form written by myself. However, now as I have moved to WordPress, I wanted something that I could handle from within WordPress. Read on» » » »

The Battle of the Browsers

Nicholas C Smith in Internet, Software

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With Internet Explorer 8 now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla’s Firefox or the feature packed Opera web browser. Can history give us a clue to what the future of web browsers/browsing might hold? How did Netscape Navigator go from having a dominant 89.36% market share of all web browsers in 1996 and yet only 3.76% by mid 1999? Read on» » » »

See the future on Google Earth

Google EarthThe future may not be too far. For instance, the India of 2100 and the impact of climate change in the years between now and then, can be seen through a new navigation tool on Google Earth. The tool was added to the global satellite map-based website on Monday. Read on» » » »

Now Use Google to Take Care of Your Health

Google Health (TM)Google recently launched Google Health, a Complete Health Information Service.

Google Health offers an easy way to collect, store, manage, and share your medical records and health information. You can Read on» » » »


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