The next version of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 6, will be officially released on Tuesday, August 16. There are no major UI changes; most of the other changes are under the hood. That’s a welcome upgrade as Firefox 6 is reportedly 20% faster than Firefox 5. Also, while Firefox 6 does offer full screen support, it’s not Lion-native fullscreen support, which is somewhat of a disappointment.
For those of you who don’t want to wait till Tuesday, you can actually download the final release of Firefox 6.0 here from Mozilla’s FTP servers.
What it would be like if inventors like Thomas Edison – who made the first light bulb – or the famous Wright Brothers – who invented the world’s first airplane – had access to the Internet and computer software that they could use to collaborate with their team members just like a modern-day office worker?
The following videos may offer you some hint: Read more…
YouTube has updated their press page and it offers some new statistics around YouTube’s Partner program, mobile growth, monetization and more. Here’s a quick summary of the key new stats:
#1. YouTube users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week. In other words, 60% more content is getting uploaded to YouTube when compared to the previous year.
#2. Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day while YouTube mobile gets over 320M views a day. YouTube’s mobile traffic continues to grow at an impressive rate – up 60% since January this year. I wonder if YouTube has figured out a way to monetize their mobile content.
#3. 150 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook and every minute more than 400 tweets contain YouTube links. Google doesn’t exactly say how many YouTube videos are watched on Facebook. Read more…
The Google Plus social network has kicked into high gear, despite a limited number of available invites over the first few weeks. Starting today it’s even easier for iOS users to share with Circles, follow a Stream or do rapid-fire messaging with a Huddle: the iPhone app for Google+ is now in the US store.
The free app supports the Stream, Circles and Huddle features; it’s just now downloading on our iPhones so we’ll check out the detailed options shortly. Enjoy, Plussians!
A few quick notes: the app is truly iPhone-only, and will not install on the iPod touch or iPad. Some users running the iOS 5 beta report crashes, which is unsurprising but worth mentioning. Also, it’s very difficult to search for the app in the App Store (one would think that the world’s largest search company would know that ‘+’ is a common search modifier and tricky to include in a literal search string); the easiest way to find it, short of the direct link, is to browse the list of all the apps published by Google.
Thanks to MediaKat for the tip.
Update: The app was updated within an hour of release. Fastest update we’ve ever seen. From the app’s description it appears to have been an issue on Apple’s end (ouch!):
We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn’t have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later. If you downloaded within the first 1 hour 40 mins, you may have downloaded the older test version.
Founder of world famous social networking site facebook.com Mark Zuckerberg told that facebook and skype are going to interate together, so that facebook user can use video for chatting and calling directly from Facebook.
It’s a feature that’s been rumored for quite a while. I think definitely this is the awesome thing for users of Facebook.
Facebook is launching a new chat sidebar today. Read more…
“iSteve The Book of Jobs” – The official biography of Steve Jobs is now abailable in Amazon. It is abvilable in hardcover and a Kindle edition which is US$18.00 and US$14.99 respectively. The book iSteve: The Book of Jobs is written by former managing editor of Time magazine Walter Isaacson.
iSteve: The Book of Jobs will be published by Simon & Schuster on March 6, 2012 and is set to be 448 pages. From the Amazon product description: “From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs’ professional and personal life.
According to the press release, Isaacson spent three years interviewing Jobs, his family members, Apple colleagues, and competitors to write this book. He has written biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Kissinger.
The book is sure to be an international bestseller and at the time of this writing is currently ranked #28 in Amazon’s Top 100 books and #1 in three separate categories: Technology, Biography & History, and Business. Source tuaw.com
WWDC was first held in Monterey, California in 1983. This small gathering of developers has blossomed into one of the major annual events for Apple’s extended community of vendors, engineers and enterprise/academic IT management.
In addition to the ‘meat’ of the event (technical sessions covering hundreds of topics for developers, code labs and face time with Apple engineering staff), WWDC has become an opportunity for Apple to announce new versions of Mac OS X, new hardware and new versions of iOS. The event has grown in importance as Apple has eliminated or scaled back its participation in trade shows like Macworld Expo.
Read on for the best of WWDC Past: a funeral for an operating system, a spoof of Steve Jobs and much applause. Read more…
Do you know youtube is now second most popular search engine in the internet after Google search, More then 35 hours of video stuff are uploaded every single minute. Here are some more stat about youtube…
More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded during 2010 and 35 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
The equivalent of 150,000+ full-length movies in theaters each week
More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
YouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languages
YouTube’s demographic is broad: 18-54 years old
YouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010
Searching video in youtube is very easy, as you type anything on youtube there is almost something. Here are some more tricks or syntax for searching you tube… Read more…
Study form Search Engine Watch shows that CTR for first position is 36.40% while it’s shrink by 12.5% for 2nd position and 9.5% for third position in Google Organic Search.
Nepali New Year is approximately 56 years and 8½ months ahead of the Gregorian English calendar. The Nepalese New Year falls in the middle of April.
It is known as “Navavarsha” in Nepal. Nepal has its official Nepali calendar that begins from the first day of the first month Baisakh. This very first day is observed as Nepali New Year which usually falls in the second week of April. People go for picnics, have get-togethers and celebrate the day socializing in various ways as this day is also a national holiday. Read more…
