Gmail - Beta No More

From today onwards Google has announced that they are removing beta from logos of several Google Apps services. Which means Google Apps is out of beta. Gmail has been in beta status for 5+ years. Other major Google Apps services which are out of beta status are,

• Google Calendar


• Google Docs


• Google Talk

Upgrade to Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 is out with whole lot of improvements and features.

• Plugin free video/audio/media. (With new HTML Standard support)
• Private browsing (Porn Mode)
• Improved Tabs
• Much faster rendering.

Find out more about Features, Performance, ecurity and Speed Mozilla Firefox.

You can download all new Firefox 3.5 or Just click on Help menu then select Check for Updates to upgrade web browser.

Happy browising!

Time to speed up your web application!

Researchers at Google Cooperation has taken another step to speed up online user experience. Now they are going to speed up web sites. Well not that they got special magic to do it. They try to direct the web developers to do the right thing to speed up web. You can find more information about it on Google Code "speed" project and Official Google Research blog release.

Mozilla Ubiquity

Mozilla Ubiquity is still under heavy development in Mozilla Labs. It is indeed very innovative and user friendly approach to enhance the World Wide Web experience of the users. It allows you to typing things in natural language and it do the rest.

First you need to install Ubiquity add-on. Go to Ubiquity home page and get the Firefox add-on. You have to restart the browser. On Linux you can activate it by pressing, "ALT+SPACE" and on windows "CTRL+SPACE".

You will get a good idea about by watching following video:


Looks like Ubiquity will appear on the next Firefox major release. ;-)

Personalized New Tab Page for Firefox

Google Toolbar 5 Beta is providing "Opera Speed Dial" like user interface for Firefox New Tab Page. "Opera Speed Dial" like user interface is already available on Google Chrome. With Google Toolbar 5 Beta you can get the same functionality plus more configuration opportunities and enhanced services.

Google Search Engine Optimization Made Easy

• Do you why your page rank hing so low?
• Have you ever wanderded how to do correct SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

In last month Google answered lot of those questions by releasing "Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide" which is available in PDF format. If you read that guide you will understand, SEO is not that hard. Just the KISS principle. You just have to keep it simple and tidy too. :-)

• Download Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide by Google

New Google Web Browser - Chrome

The newest service from Google is called "Chrome", it is a web browser with stunning user interface with but not bulky or heavy on resources. Actually nice implementation of KISS principle.

Chrome supports tabs as other web browsers and the other main features are,

• Web application shortcut creation
• Amazing crash control, If one web application crashes it won't affect other tabs.
• And security features such as skipping "History" for certain pages, unsafe/malware/phishing site warnings.
• Instance book marking as in firefox 3 buy cling start icon.
• Can import data from Firefox and Internet Explorer
• Nice download manager
• Web History, Search, suggestions all in one field.
• Opera like speed dial.

Google chrome is based on open source technologies from Firefox and web kit engine. Google chrome is an open source software and based on multiple licenses mainly BSD license. Google Chrome is currently available for Microsoft Windows only.

Links

• Google Chrome Home Page / Download Google Chrome
• Google Chrome Book

YouTube Videos

Story Behind Crome

Ten Features of Chrome