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Firefox 4 feature list finalized; Chrome turns 2 with version 6 released

September 3, 2010

It’s not much of a happy news for Firefox fans that Mozilla has decided to remove atleast one (or more) of the promised features from the final version of Firefox 4 scheduled to be released by the end of this year. Mozilla developers said that in order to meet the deadline, some features planned for [...]

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iPod nano revamped with multi-touch; new iPod shuffle out now

September 2, 2010

In the latest Apple Event, the completely new avatars of iPod nano and iPod shuffle have been announced. The redesigned iPod nano now boasts multi-touch and a super light and sexy square design. The camera has been done away with for good. On the other hand, iPod shuffle is now refurbished with buttons (yes, they’re [...]

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Anti-Facebook project ‘Diaspora*’ coming Sept. 15

September 1, 2010

It’s an established fact that Facebook doesn’t give a **** about your privacy and for all these years it has just gotten bad to worse. That’s when 4 computer science grads from NYU decided to roll up their sleeves to create an anti-Facebook project from scratch. Called ‘Diaspora*‘, the project is actually an open-source, server-less, [...]

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Linux users can now enjoy Google’s Voice and Video Chat

August 30, 2010

If you are a Linux user then you must have been surely annoyed by the unavailability of voice and video chat feature in Gmail. Not anymore. Google has finally introduced the feature for the Linux platform. So, now instead of the ‘System not supported’ error message, you’ll be redirected to the page where you can [...]

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1 Million calls made in just 24 hours using Gmail

August 27, 2010

US users of Gmail are now equipped with a super awesome feature that allows them to call any mobile phone within US and Canada for free (atleast till the end of the year) and at minimal rates in other countries. The service went live yesterday and within 24 hours, 1 million calls were made using [...]

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Firefox 4 Beta 4 out now: Features ‘Panorama’ and ‘Sync’ [VIDEO]

August 26, 2010

Firefox 4 is slowly making its presence more accountable with the latest beta release: Firefox 4 Beta 4. The new iteration has some performance boosts in addition to new features like ‘Panorama’ (formerly known as TabCandy) and native support to ‘Sync’. We have two videos showing each of the these main features. Firefox 4 Native [...]

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Somewhere in Russia: Internet Explorer 9 interface leaked

August 26, 2010

As of now, Microsoft has released 4 ‘platform previews’ of the upcoming browser Internet Explorer 9 that showcased some of the highly anticipated features backed up by super efficient Javascript engine named ‘Chakra’ and latest standards like HTML5 and CSS3. But, until now, major UI elements in those builds were mostly missing. We can suspect [...]

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Quick weather report in Opera Speed Dial

August 22, 2010

Opera was probably the first to embrace (and innovate) the ‘speed dial’ feature that we now see in Google Chrome and Safari, giving you 1-click access to your favorite/most-visited sites. Now there are plenty of ways in which your can spice up Opera ‘Speed Dial’. One such is to add a quick local weather report [...]

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[Solved] Cannot connect to Gmail in Thunderbird 3.1.2 [Troubleshooting]

August 7, 2010

I use Thunderbird as my offline email client and it’s been a really smooth ride since more than a year. But recently I ran an update [3.1.2] and restarted my PC only to find myself not able to connect to Gmail [using IMAP] on Thunderbird 3.1.2. Turns out the issue lies with Google’s servers. They [...]

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