Download Firefox 3 now to help Mozilla set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.

If you are a Firefox fan support this event by downloading now, i have already downloaded mine.

Flock is a social browser built on top of Firefox, if you are a social media junkie you already know this. Now Flock has released a news version Flock 2.0 beta based on Firefox 3.
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CSS is the most important part in modern standard based web design. If you are a professional designer or a blogger, who wants to tweak a weblog template to your needs then CSS is the first thing you want to modify. Here are some of the tools that are useful in the process, of course these tools won’t be like magic boxes for your design but atleast they are useful in one or the other way. 

CSS Layout Generators

YAML Builder: "Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.

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Mikogo is a free software for screen sharing and online meetings. Mikogo also offers Skype extra tool.

Mikogo allows to share your desktop up to 10 participants simultaneously. To start a meeting download the software and create a meeting. Now invite all your participants, you will be notified when the participants join your meeting. When they join they will immediately see your desktop. You can also switch presenters in the meeting, useful if collaborators wants to have a meeting. It also allows to transfer files between users.

Overall the app looks good and quite useful for sharing desktops and online meetings. Other tools which allow you to screen sharing and online meetings are Yakkle and Yugma

Google is developing tools to determine if ISPs are throttling broadband connections. Google is a big supporter of net netrality debate and this is no surprise they are developing these kind of tools to monitor ISPs manipulating the network connections.

“We’re trying to develop tools, software tools…that allow people to detect what’s happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they’re not happy with what they’re getting — that they think certain services are being tampered with,” Google senior policy director Richard Whitt said this morning during a panel discussion at Santa Clara University, an hour south of San Francisco.

Some ISPs based in US are known to do throttling for P2P users, these kind of tools will be useful for customers who wants see what is happening with their connection and how their ISP is behaving. It is not clear when these tools will be available for public. Via Hothardware, Slashdot

Firebug and Yslow are two must have Firefox extensions for developers. As we are nearing Firefox 3 final release date i am hunting all the previous add-ons i used for Firefox 3 compatibility. Today i saw that Firebug people have released an updated version compatible with Firefox 3.

You can download the add-on from Mozilla site, the official Firebug site is currently offline.

Although Firebug is updated Yslow is not yet updated to Firefox 3 RC2, it is still at Firefox 3 beta 5, may be in the next few days we will get Yslow for Firefox 3 final version.

Now you can upload, preview and share PDF files using Google Docs. Editing of the PDF files is not yet there, but you can copy & paste text from them.

This is the most requested feature for Google Docs, PDF support will be liked by most of the Google Docs users as this is the popular format for sharing documents with others.
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SugarSync is a secure online syncing and backup service that launched recently. The synced files can be accessed from web, PC, Mac or a Smart phone. You can sync documents, photos or music and they are accessible everywhere whenever you need it. Although the service is not free, the money you spent on this is worth if you consider the benefits and features it offers. I am testing this service and i am really impressed with the rapid syncing of files between computers.
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