Google released their first browser: Google Chrome.

Below is a quote from Chrome’s website about their motivation of building a browser - probablly is just a nice invented story, most sure it is marketing behind :-)

At Google, we spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And like all of you, in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends - all using a browser. People are spending an increasing amount of time online, and they’re doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago.

Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.

So today we’re releasing the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome.

Even though it is a beta version it is quite stable and it has some interesting features. Some of them are described below.

continue reading "Google Chrome Review"

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Some people want small/fancy looking phones, others want powerful phones, while others want both. I belong to the second category - I want a powerful phone and I don’t really care about the aspect. If you want a fancy looking or small phone, Toshiba G900 is not for you!

After almost two months of research I finally decided to buy a G900. I needed a new mobile phone but I also wanted some big screen in order to be able to navigate on the Internet without carrying the laptop with me. So what I was searching was:

• Big screen
• Wireless network card
• QWERTY keyboard
• Touch screen
• GSM support

Toshiba Portege G900 has all this and even more but with some costs.

continue reading "Toshiba Portege G900 Review"

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A few days ago a new version of Wordpress, the popular blog publishing system and the one that is behind this blog, was released.

The new 2.6 version brings some exciting new features:

• Word count
• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• Customizable default avatars.
• You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
• Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
• Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
• Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
• You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
• Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
• Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.

Here is a video preview of the new features:

Also, the complete release article can be found here: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/

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Join the community by signing in with an email address on that site and whether you post a comment on this blog or other blog and provide that email your picture will be shown as avatar.

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For those who don’t know, Firefox 3 Final was released today. As any new version of a software product it brings a lot of new, cool and improved features.

The first change that almost any Firefox 2 user will notice is the new graphic interface. This remembers about Internet Explorer 7 GUI at some point :) The icons where redesigned, the back/forward buttons were completely changed, the address bar has new features and more customization is possible.

In my opinion one of the major updates is the Download Manager. Now downloads can be resumed even after you completely close Firefox (if the server supports this feature) - this was a feature I always wanted in Firefox.

The new address bar provides auto completion - when you start typing it displays results from browsing history and bookmarks. The links from bookmarks have a golden start next to them.

Also now it is easier to bookmark a link, just click the white start from its right and the bookmark wizard will appear. Taking about bookmarks, the bookmark manager was redesigned and offers integration with Foxmarks and similar bookmark-backup tools.

Remember when you have tried to zoom a page in Firefox 2 and only the text changed its size? Now when zooming the graphic elements change their size according to the magnification level.

If you think that’s all you are wrong. The addons manager was changed, now you can install some extensions directly from it and offers the possibility to view and enable/disable plugins (adobe acrobat, flash, silverlight, shockwave etc.).

What I’ve told until now are just visual changes. The guys from Mozilla said that the pages load faster, the memory usage was drastically reduced and web standards compatibility was improved  but I cannot confirm this because I’ve been using Firefox 3 for only 8 hours.

Also, I’ve found one bug but I think that it will be fixed soon by Microsoft. Even though I have installed Silverlight, Microsoft’s website cannot find this plugin and asks me to install it. :)

Overall, the new Firefox brings some new cool and useful features and I think that any Firefox 2.x or even Firefox 1.x (are there any? :) ) should update to this new version.

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