Google has released the beta version of Google Chorme - a new open source browser. Google Chrome is based on the open source web engine called Webkit, which also powers Safari browser. Some other features of Google Chrome are:
Tabs are independent. Each tab has it’s own location bar, navigation buttons etc. If one tab crashes, [...]
Perspectives is a Firefox 3.0 extension which helps in protecting wireless users from “man-in-the-middle” attack. Perspectives contacts network notaries whenever your browser connects an HTTPS website. This extension also partially resolves the arguments going around the web about the way Firefox 3.0 handles security exceptions.
The extension provides two primary benefits:
If you connect [...]
Mozilla Lab introduced yesterday a addon for Mozilla called Snowl. The purpose of Snowl is to integrate different messaging into the browser. It doesn’t matter where messages originate. It could be RSS feed or forum or social networks or email etc. It allows a search based interface for message retrieval and browser functionality for navigating [...]
Below are the steps to use and sync Google calendar with your Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird email client.
1. Make sure you have your calendar setup in Google and Lightning extension installed in Thunderbird.
2. Install provider for Google Calendar addon from Mozilla. This addon will enable bidirectional access to your Google calendar. To install, you [...]
Mozilla is planning to release Firefox 3.0 at 10.00 a.m. PDT (Pacific time) and attempting to set Guinness world record (maximum number of downloads in 24 hrs).
Update: 10.02 a.m.: PDT. It looks like Mozilla’s site is terribly slow or down due to this. Firefox 3.0 should have been out by now.
I use GMail Manager add-on for Firefox to access my 5 emails I have under Google’s hosted accounts. For some reason, GMail Manager stopped working with hosted accounts for the past couple of weeks. GMail Manager team has released a new version couple of days back with a fix. The GMail Manager 0.5.5 includes the [...]
Google has released Google Email Uploader which is an open source desktop utility to import emails and contacts from Windows desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook. You need to have a Google Apps account in order to get Google Email Uploader to work. It won’t work with regular GMail. This utility works only with Windows [...]
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 today to the public. The link was not working when I tried this morning. It seems to be working now. Here are some of the new features in Internet Explorer 8.
Activities - Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage.
WebSlices - WebSlices is [...]
KDE team has updated their KDE 4.0 window manager. KDE 4.0.2 contains lots of bugfixes and some new features. Here are some of the new features introduced in KDE 4.0.2 (some of the features fixed bugs):
Session switching added to Workspace
Plasma - Option to show only task of the current desktop in the taskbar
Plasma - Open [...]
I’m not sure if Internet Explorer 8 would work properly or not, but the link to Internet Explorer 8 beta doesn’t work. Check the screenshot. Click the image to get a bigger picture.
I went to the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit website under Microsoft.com.
Got this page below after I selected Install Internet Explorer 8 [...]