Browsers

Firefox 3 – What is new ?

June 22, 2008

Firefox 3 was downloaded by more than 8 million users in 24 hours and it might well go down as the most downloaded software in 24 hours ! India’s contribution in the above 8 million was 226K  and US was the highest with 4632K. Talking of new features in FF3, Alex Faaborg, the user experience [...]

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Firefox World Record !

May 30, 2008

Firefox has been the default browser on my PC’s from quite some time now. Firefox for some reason has always been able make its way back every time I try to adopt a different browser ! Flock and Safari were the two browser which gave serious competition to Firefox ! From the past few weeks [...]

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Fluency – Best Admin Theme for WordPress

April 3, 2008

WordPress 2.5 was released some days back and I upgraded to the same with some minor hiccups. There were high expectations from me and everybody with respect to the Admin user interface. I for one was totally disappointed when I found out that the menu items in the interface were taking almost 50% on my [...]

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Windows Live Writer Beta 3

September 10, 2007

Windows Live Writer Beta 3 was released a few days back and this is one tool from Microsoft that deserves a lot of praise. It definitely simplifies the task of writing posts for your blog. Beta 3 has the following new features:     Insert videos using new ‘Insert Video’ dialog Upload images to Picasaweb [...]

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Digg on Safari

July 30, 2007

Every now and then when I get bored with browsing on Firefox, I switch to Safari and the one thing I like in this browser is the rendering of web pages. Each site looks different and nice . Today I was trying to login to Digg and I found that the login form just wouldn’t [...]

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How To: Make your blog mobile browser compatible

July 26, 2007

After launching the Internet browser on my HTC Touch, the first site I opened was of my own blog. The browser almost came to halt while loading the home page. When I loaded other sites such as GMail, Flickr, Google Search one thing I noticed was that all these sites had a page compatible with [...]

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HTC Touch Smartphone

July 24, 2007

HTC Touch, also known as the HTC P3450 is a Windows Mobile 6 powered smartphone designed and manufactured by HTC (A Taiwanese based manufacturer) I heard about HTC Touch Phone from my brother when he returned from Taiwan. When we stopped by a shopping mall we even had a check on the HTC Touch in [...]

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Theme update for the site

July 11, 2007

There are thousands of WordPress themes available out there;every now and then I stumble on amazing themes which I would love to use for my site. The only thing keeping me off from doing this regularly is the effort required in modifying/customizing the theme. I have made another theme change (4th) and this time I [...]

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PortableApps – Alternative to U3

July 3, 2007

In yesterdays post on Sandisk Cruzer Micro, I was mentioning how U3 Smart technology allows you to carry your favorite PC programs on the flash drive. Turns out that U3 is not the only technology available to accomplish this task. There is an open source project called PortableApps using which you could turn any flash [...]

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Sandisk Cruzer Micro

July 2, 2007

I have been planning to buy a USB flash drive from quite some time now. My current 256MB flash drive is of no use in the sense that it runs out of space too quickly. My 30GB iPod could have served as an alternative; however its little bulky to carry around and the “proprietary” cable [...]

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