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Amazing Talk..

Microsoft Office Online

Microsoft makes storing and sharing documents online (just like Google Docs). It says 'FREE' in bold, all-caps.

But when I try to access it using my Firefox from Linux, it give me:

To use Microsoft Office Live, your computer must meet one of the following requirements:
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 running on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. You can download Internet Explorer from the Internet Explorer page.
* Mozilla Firefox running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X 10.2.x and later. You can download Firefox from the Firefox download page.

If the suit is web-based, then why is it accessible from Firefox running on Windows and not from Firefox running on Linux? It's the same Firefox, isn't it?

Dear Microsoft, when you say 'online' and 'free', what do you mean by that?

Google wave Preview

Watch it fully.. it's awesome..

TimeTravel to 2001..

In honor of its 10th birthday, Google has brought back their oldest available index. So now you can search the internet of year 2001; And thanks to Internet Archives, you can also explore the older version of those sites.

So, Take a journey back into the past.. to January 2001.
http://www.google.com/search2001.html

Try some interesting queries and find out what these words meant in 2001..
wikipedia
gmail
gtalk
wtc
email
blog
2008
social network
orkut
web 2.0
ubuntu
ipod
xp
youtube
mars mission
.
.
(Also let us know about more such queries in your comments..)

So, Think about it.. पिछले सात सालों में मैंने पाया... .. :)

Google is introducing Google Chrome !

Fasten your seat-belts.. Google is coming up with its very-own open-source web-browser named Google Chrome! Tonight!!


"We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries."
- Says Official Google Blog
    on 1st Sept, 2008


By the time you read this, it could have been released. We expect it to be accessible at http://www.google.com/chrome (which is currently giving 'Error 404')


Read this Great Explanation of the features!


As Blogoscoped summarizes it:

• Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project.This will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.


• The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today. Google also say they’re using a “multi-process design” which they say means “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.” When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager, “placing blame where blame belongs.”


• Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar.
  
  
  


• The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. Called ’omnibox’, Google says it offers search suggestions, top pages you’ve visited, pages you didn’t visit but which are popular amd more. The omnibox (“omni” is a prefix meaning “all”, as in “omniscient” – “all-knowing”) also lets you enter e.g. “digital camera” if the title of the page you visited was “Canon Digital Camera”. Additionally, the omnibox lets you search a website of which it captured the search box; you need to type the site’s name into the address bar, like “amazon”, and then hit the tab key and enter your search keywords.


• As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera. On that page you will see your most visited webpages as 9 screenshot thumbnails. To the side, you will also see a couple of your recent searches and your recently bookmarked pages, as well as recently closed tabs.
  
  
  


• Chrome has a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito” window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.” The latest version of Internet Explorer calls this InPrivate. Google’s use-case for when you might want to use the “incognito” feature is e.g. to keep a surprise gift a secret.


• Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar. Mozilla has a project called Prism that aims to do similar (though doing so may train users into accepting non-URL windows as safe or into ignoring the URL, which could increase the effectiveness of phishing attacks).


• To fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites. Google also promises that whatever runs in a tab is sandboxed so that it won’t affect your machine and can be safely closed. Plugins the user installed may escape this security model, Google admits.

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So.. Happy Chroming..! :)