Web 2.0 and GYM
Firefox team’s visit to redmond
In august, Firefox development team was invited by Sam Ramji (Director of MS Open source software labs) to visit Microsoft’s Windows Vista Compatibility labs. Mozilla developement team has accepted this invitation after few days and visited the Vista Application Compatibility Labs @ Redmond. Now one must be curious about “What they would have done at Vista [...]
What lies behind "Iam feeling lucky" ?
Have you ever used ? Hmm..No ? But do you know what exactly it does?
I’m Feeling Lucky(tm) button is for all lazy lumps out there. This button takes you directly to the first search result returned by google search engine.
Google says : “The “I’m Feeling Lucky™” button takes you directly to the first web [...]
Zune is here..
The much awaited Zune is out from Microsoft’s blanket now…:-)
Apple are there ? ! Now we got a washington Apple in hand…
Via Microsoft PressPassWireless Zune-to-Zune sharing. Zune lets you spontaneously share selected full-length sample tracks of your favorite songs, homemade recordings, playlists or pictures with friends wirelessly, device to device. You can listen to any [...]
Freedom from Internet Explorer "Find" dialog
The most annoying feature in Internet explorer is the find feature. I hated IE for not making the find feature better since long time. The stupid find dialog of Internet Explorer shows you a classic popup where you need to input your keyword and hit enter, enter, enter until you find the word.
Firefox has made [...]
Windows Live Writer and extended life…
Everyone loves plugins, and I am no different at all. I love most of the plugins when they come for free of cost and make my life more cooler. As of now I am eagerly hunting for few plugins for 2 different applications. Windows Live Writer is one of the most wanted.
Today I found a great [...]
IE 7 Release Candidate 1
A much awaited (???) IE 7 release candidate is now available for download and install from Microsoft’s website.
If you have IE 7 Beta 3 installed on your machine, you must uninstall it before proceeding to RC1. All of your favourites will be restored back offcourse.
There are few things which needs to be checked by developers [...]
Photosynth : Arrange your photos in the “right” order
Have you ever worried on arranging, re-arranging your pics in a proper meaningful order? Or irriated by the way you have to navigate through the photos in a linear sequence?
Here is the solution from Microsoft….Photosynth…
Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a [...]
Kevin Rose breaks on Calacanis
Atlast Kevin Rose, the Digg.com founder breaks on the offer made by Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs, Inc. Calacanis made an open offer to all the top diggers to use the latest re-built netscape.com instead of digg.com.
Kevin Rose has attacked calacanic on the latest diggnation podcast and on his blog throwing some personal commnt warfare at [...]
Sun and Web 2.0
Now don’t look at me with that face expression :-), yes atlast I was able to find some content on Ajax from the “network computer” company…
Enjoy this 10-week Ajax programming Online course from Sang Shin, Sun Microsystems.
http://www.javapassion.com/ajaxcodecamp/
Sysinternals is now part of Microsoft !
Microsoft has aquired the great & famous Winternals (Sysinternals website) and employed the famous kernel specialist Mark Rassinovich as technical fellow in Platform and Services Division. Wooww, this is really a good news for Microsoft itself.
Read more @ mark’s blog