Archive for September, 2010

Google Instant Provides Faster and Smarter Searches

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Google Instant Provides Faster and Smarter Searches

The world’s number one search engine recently launched a faster and smarter way to perform online searches, Google Instant.

The world’s most popular Internet search engine is about to get much faster and smarter. Google Instant, which officially launched at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, September 8th 2010, is a powerful new search engine enhancement that speeds up the search process. Instead of waiting .12 seconds for your search results to be displayed, the new enhancement now provides instant gratification!
Google Instant

When a user types a few letters into Google’s search box, Google Instant displays immediate search results as you type. It’s as if the search engine is reading your mind or anticipating your query before you type it. There’s no need to hit that pesky “enter” key any longer. An algorithm anticipates what the remainder of the search query may be and displays popular search results as each letter is typed. Results of the predicted query are displayed in the search box in a light grey color. Ads are also included. Users may also be able to search instantly using the browser address bar.

For example, if a user types the letters “tele” into the search box, the algorithm automatically predicts the user is searching for “television.” Search listings and advertisements for television are displayed unless the user types in other letters such as “telephone.”
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Internet Explorer 9 to be released on 15th September

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Internet Explorer 9 to be released on 15th September

September 15 will lay the benchmark for Microsoft as it rolls out the Beta edition of Internet Explorer 9, which is a revamped and much improved version of Internet Explorer 8. It seemed since a few years that Microsoft has neglected the browser domain and concentrated only on its operating systems.

But with Windows 7 faring well, and with the news of its latest version of the browser being launched, it seems that Microsoft is again aiming high by hard selling its web browser.

Now, Internet Explorer 9 will have a new looking revamped interface that promises to be ever more user friendly. Like the latest versions of Chrome or Opera browsers, we may get to see a minimalist view of the toolbar that gives a very clean look. And its not just the looks that Microsoft has worked upon, it’s the speed as well.

Today’s browser market is captured by heavy weights such as Opera, Chrome and Firefox too, apart from Internet Explorer. But they seem to be growing at a more rapid pace, when compared with Internet Explorer, the higher growth proving that people tend to migrate to other browsers for increased speed of browsing.

Microsoft seems to have worked upon its java script engine that makes processing time faster. It also makes use of the graphics hardware in the computers for better performance.
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Apple Releases iOS 4.1

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Apple Releases iOS 4.1

Apple released iOS 4.1 on Wednesday for the iPhone and iPod touch. The update includes several new features such as Game Center, HDR photo capture, HD video upload support and TV show rental support.

iOS 4.1 also fixes several security issues including a flaw that could let an attacker redirect FaceTime calls with a maliciously crafted certificate, and a flaw where maliciously crafted TIFF or GIF images could be used to crash apps or run arbitrary code.

WebKit for iOS received its fair share of security patches related to maliciously crafted SVG files, the handling of text nodes and element focus, fonts, HTTP redirect handling, CSS encounters, JavaScript arrays, and more.
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What Google’s Bouncy-ball Logo Means: “Get a Girlfriend!”

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

What Google’s Bouncy-ball Logo Means: “Get a Girlfriend!”

Doctors say that if you are wondering what’s up with today’s Google homepage, fear not: The answer exists in the Big G.

Made of blue balls. Get it?

“It is code for ‘Welcome to the nerd club, virgins! We brought bagels’.”

So far, Google hasn’t found us deserving to divulge why their homepage is featuring mouse-avoiding balls, saying only that it’s “fast, fun and interactive, just the way we think search should be.”

Clearly, it’ll have something to do with Google’s big nerd-fest tomorrow, where the company’s going to unveil GoogleBalls, which will… um… ah, who gives a sh-t? It’s called GoogleBalls, FFS*.

“The guy/gal whose job it is to come up with the different Google logos is the bomb,” Tweeted yet another a–hole who thinks, ‘Oh my GOD, my current thought is so poignant, I must share it with the universe. “Love seeing it change on occasion – and no, I do NOT live a boring life. ; )”

Others were less than impressed.

“I wouldn’t let one of the blue balls join. Now it spells Coogle. The world is now a better place.”

Source:http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i82078

Mozilla moves into Open Web gaming

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Mozilla moves into Open Web gaming

WEB BROWSER OUTFIT Mozilla has started up a division to develop games that can be played on web browsers.

Mozzarella has labeled it Mozilla Labs Gaming and the cunning plan is to use the technologies that make gaming on the Open Web possible.

According to the website, the Mozilla Foundation is inviting the wider community to play with cool technology and help establish Open Web as the framework behind gaming across all Internet connected devices.

A spokesman said that modern Open Web technologies have stacks of technologies such as open video, audio, WebGL, touch events, device orientation, geo-location, and fast Javascript engines that make it possible to build complex – and not so complex – games on the web.

He said that since these can all run on modern web browsers, the time is ripe for pushing the technology to game developers.

It seems Mozilla thinks games are a good way to keep people using its software. After all apps worked for the Iphone, even though real games on the PC knocked the spots off ones on the Imac.

The spokesman noted that games and game developers are at the forefront of technology, often pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible.

As part of this the open sourcerors at Mozilla are starting an international gaming competition: Game On 2010.

This competition will be open to all developers interested in creating games using the latest in Open Web technologies. More details about this will be forthcoming.

Source:theinquirer.net