Pushtheweb: Remind your site visitors to upgrade their browsers

Published at July 29, 2008   Filed Under Internet   1 Comment  

PushTheWeb.com is an effort towards a safe and better web browsing experience for users. The site or blog owners can embed the code to their blogs or sites, the code checks the web browser site visitors are using and shows a non-intrusive popup asking them to upgrade their browser. The message shows a reminder if [...]

Flock 2 Beta 2 Released

Published at July 20, 2008   Filed Under Internet   1 Comment  

Flock is a social browser based on Mozilla Firefox engine. Flock 2 beta two released now, this version is based on Firefox 3 and Flock 1 beta 1 is based on Firefox 3 beta.
The new version has all the great features of Firefox 3 and the Flocks social features. If you are already using Flock [...]

Browser’s address bar or Search bar which one you prefer?

Published at July 18, 2008   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

Marshall had a nice post on Readwriteweb where he discusses about people entering URL’s in the search bar rather than in the address bar of the browser.
Google’s search share is growing like a weed, Latest Hitwise search market share data for June shows that users are entering URL’s and domain names with out extensions [...]

Mozilla aims for Guinness World Record on Firefox 3 Download Day

Published at May 29, 2008   Filed Under Firefox   3 Comments  

Mozilla is aiming to set a Guinness World Record on Firefox 3 download day for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.
If you are Firefox user and love the browser you can support the cause by downloading Firefox 3 on download day. The date is not yet fixed but it will be some time [...]

Foxmarks: Bookmark Synchronizer for Firefox

Published at March 19, 2008   Filed Under Firefox   3 Comments  

If you use different computers at home and at work then you might be having hard time in synchronizing your bookmarks across computers. Foxmarks is a useful Firefox extension that synchronizes Firefox bookmarks across computers.
Install the Firefox extension on each computer you use, and then setup your account. Foxmarks automatically syncs your bookmarks between [...]

First Look at Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Published at March 5, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft, Technology   12 Comments  

I downloaded the Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 to see how it works and to test its new features. Install took some time, it scanned all my computer for any malicious software.

Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Published at March 5, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft, Technology   2 Comments  

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 today. The new browser shows many improvements, standards compliance.
New features
Activities: “Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any page.” It works like this, suppose you are on a restaurent web page and wants to see where it is located, this is a form [...]

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 is available for download

Published at November 20, 2007   Filed Under Firefox   4 Comments  

Mozilla has released the Firefox 3.0 beta 1, it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
As Mozilla release notes states it is for testing purposes and aimed at developers, not recommended for normal users.
“Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more [...]