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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

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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

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Google Instant Searches the Web As You Type

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Google Instant Searches the Web As You Type

Google has rekindle its love for speedy Web searches with Google Instant, a new version of the search engine that displays results as you type.

When typing a search query with Google Instant, results appear after the first letter is entered, and they update as the user types. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience, said results are actually delivered “before you type,” because Google Instant predicts and automatically completes search terms.

According to Google, a typical searcher spends nine seconds entering a query, and 15 seconds searching for answers. Google hopes to shave two to five seconds per search using Google Instant.

Google claims that Instant won’t considerably slow down Internet connections, because the amount of data delivered for search terms is relatively small, and because the system only sends parts of the page that change when more typing alters a search result. For connections that are already slow, Google Instant automatically turns off, and users can also shut off the service through their user preferences or by clicking the drop down box to the right of the search bar.
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Google boosts Chrome 6 speed into dead heat with leaders

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Google boosts Chrome 6 speed into dead heat with leaders

New version is 17% faster than Chrome 5, 2.5 times faster than Firefox 3.6

Google’s Chrome 6 is 17% faster than the version it replaced, putting it in a virtual dead heat with the speed leaders, Opera and Safari, according to benchmark scores.

When Google celebrated the second anniversary of Chrome’s launch last week, Brian Rakowski, the browser’s director of product management, said: “A lot of things have changed in the last two years [in browsers], but the one thing we’ve learned is that speed matters.”

Tests run by Computerworld support Rakowski’s claim that speed matters: Chrome 6 is Google’s fastest browser ever at rendering JavaScript.

But although Chrome 6 is nearly 17% faster than May’s Chrome 5, it’s still slightly slower than both Opera 10.61 and Safari 5, the No. 1 and No. 2 browsers, respectively.

The speed race is tighter than ever, however; the SunSpider times of Opera, Safari and Chrome are within 12 milliseconds each other.

While that trio was essentially in a photo finish, Mozilla’s Firefox remained out of contention for the title of “Fastest Browser.” Firefox 3.6.9 beat only Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) in the JavaScript trials, and was two-and-a-half times slower than Chrome 6.

Mozilla will have better luck later this year when it ships Firefox 4. The newest preview, Firefox 4 Beta 4, was much more competitive than its production-level cousin: Chrome 6 was only 29% faster than Firefox Beta 4.
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Mozilla: Some Mac Users Will Not Get Firefox 4 Final

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Mozilla: Some Mac Users Will Not Get Firefox 4 Final

Mozilla program manager Mike Beltzner has noted that the next version of Firefox is not supported by PowerPC computers. The update will not offered automatically to users of PPC Macs, going by Beltzner’s post.

In response to a tester’s acknowledgement that Firefox 4.0 beta 4 build 3 was inoperable on old Powerbooks, Mike Beltzner said “This is known.”

“Bugs are on file, and the update will not be offered to PPC users,” he added.

Beltzner went on to elaborate: “I am gathering data on the number of PPC users we have, but the likely outcome is that we will not be supporting PPC for Firefox 4. More on that as I get the data,” he said.

“We do have tests running on PPC, but nobody seems to be looking at them,” Mike concluded.

It is known that two separate technologies in Firefox 4 are standing in the way of a PowerPC build.

One of them is the OOPP isolated plugin system. This prevents browser extensions from slowing down the browser.

Then there is the just-in-time (JIT) compiler for the new JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine. This is supposed to speed up JavaScript compilation.

Neither of the two standards are being tested with PPC machines in mind.

New additions in Firefox 4 Beta 4 (the latest version available for download), include a new feature that gives users a visual overview of all open tabs. This allows users to sort out their tabs by groups.

Used to be called Tab Candy, the function is now referred to as “Firefox Panorama,” according to developer Aza Raskin, who designed the tool.

An experimental API is also included in the new release. It provides more efficient Javascript animations, Mozilla says.

Additionally, the browser now supports the HTML5 video “buffered” property, while Firefox Sync is now included by default.

Firefox 4 Beta 4 is available in 39 languages, and incorporates all the changes from the previous beta. Softpedia readers can download the latest beta and stable versions of the browser using the link below.

Source:news.softpedia.com

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