4 MOST WANTED WEB 2.0 ADD-ONS FOR FIREFOX

4 MOST WANTED WEB 2.0 ADD-ONS FOR FIREFOX

To make your browser and user environment more friendly, Firefox provides you with some add-ons. Below I speak about some add-ons that are considerably most wanted for the Web 2.0 people. Just check them out! :)

Stumble Upon Toolbar

Stumble Upon is one of the most wanted content sharing and social networking websites today. The Stumble Upon toolbar allows you to "stumble" random sites and make them popular if you like them just by clicking the "I like it!" button. You can stumble through videos, photos, news, friends' favorites and even websites. You can share the content or website with your friends using the "Share" button. Other than this you can make a collection of your own favorites, say Stumble Bookmarking, that can be viewed anytime on your Stumble Upon homepage.

DOWNLOAD STUMBLE UPON TOOLBAR FOR FIREFOX

PCSLOW.NET - GET THE BEST OUT OF YOUR PC

PCSLOW.NET - GET THE BEST OUT OF YOUR PC

PC Slow is a weblog or a website rather, that provides you with tips tricks and advice to tweak your PC to get the best of performance. When your PC seems to be working really slow and you are not able to find a reason behind the cause, I would recommend PCSlow.net. It seems to possess a solution for all your system's performance issues.

REMEMBERING THE NUCLEAR MARTYRS: HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI ATTACKS

REMEMBERING THE NUCLEAR MARTYRS: HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI ATTACKS

I dedicate this post to all those who, even though were innocent, still suffer the greatest curse of all times- The victims of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear attacks. It has been more than 6 long decades now when mankind confronted its darkest day following the rage of revenge over the Pearl Harbor attack in the USA- The Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear attacks. Japan faces the curse even today and the suit will continue in future as well.

TECHNICAL ASPECT:

It was on 6^th August, 1945 that the "Little Boy" wrecked havoc in the city of Hiroshima. It was a nuclear bomb weighing 600 kg and could result in a destruction approximately equal to the explosion 17-19 kilotons of TNT. It gained this immense power from the nuclear fission reaction of U₂₃₅- an isotope of Uranium.

FIREFOX 3.5.2 RELEASED!

FIREFOX 3.5.2 RELEASED!

The Mozilla Foundation has now released its latest update of Firefox- 3.5.2. The update has been a consequence of fixing certain security issues and improvements in the user environments. The security issues involve some including extremely high, high, low and very low level vulnerabilities. For a complete detail on the security issues with the previous update please visit: Bug List of Firefox 3.5.1.

With the latest update, the Mozilla Foundation has made made Firefox capable of displaying images with ICC Profile perfectly on all monitors. To download the latest version Firefox click here (direct download link).

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

FIREFOX CROSSES ONE BILLION DOWNLOADS : FACT OR FICTION

I was just going through some Technology news content on Yahoo! and what did I find- Firefox crosses 1 Billion downloads (article indexed from PCWorld). I just wondered how this could ever happen, because it was not more than around a week ago that I posted on Firefox crosses 50 Million downloads mark. It made no sense that the people around the world are now downloading Firefox at a rate greater than a rate at which they were downloading it the were downloading it at the time of its launch. So I tried to figure out the point in it.

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

THE PIRATE BAY NOT LIKELY TO BE SOLD OUT

This post is regarding the torrent-based file sharing giant The Pirate Bay being auctioned at US $ 7.8 Million. Looks like the giant is still surviving the battle of the beasts. The company has suffered a lot of nightmares during the past season. First, it is sued for breaching copyright lawsuits. Then, its founders go to jail for the same. And, after all the mess is up, the company is auctioned to Global Gaming Factor X for US $ 7.8 Million.

But now the scene is turning out to be something different from what it looked like last fortnight. It seems the Global Gaming hasn't got enough funds to work out the deal. Okay, lets take a deeper look into the scene. It all started when Global Gaming hired Wayne Rosso, the former head of Grokster.com (A file-sharing company that was sued for copyright infringement by MGM and 27 other companies) to negotiate with music and other media biggies to get legal license for the website's contents.

Wayne has now quit Global Gaming. In an interview with CNET, Wayne said that the reason he quit Global Gaming was that the company hadn't been open in the necessary manners to him and that the company didn't seem to possess enough funds to takeover Pirate Bay with the bid.

The second issue with the takeover is that Pirate Bay, even after being sued for copyright infringement, still doesn't seem to remove the objectionable content from the website. Hence the consortium of companies that filed the lawsuit against the company, want The Pirate Bay to be shut down.

So, will the company be totally shut down, or will it be back on track with the host of torrents? Possibly not! Will it be seen back in the market for some other legal business? Share your opinions below! :)

FIREFOX 3.5.1 CROSSES THE 50 MILLION DOWNLOADS MARK

FIREFOX 3.5.1 CROSSES THE 50 MILLION DOWNLOADS MARK

It was not past a fortnight that the Mozilla Corporation released the patched version of its latest version of Firefox 3.5 series and today, the company sees a huge 50 Million downloads all over the world. Mozilla Corp. patched Firefox 3.5 to fix some security vulnerabilities in its TraceMonkey JavaScript Engine.

The download statistics of the browser have been placed in a Worldwide Real-Time Firefox Download Statistics web page. The US hosts greatest number of Firefox Downloaders accounting to approximately 20% of the net downloads. Following the United States are Germany, Brazil, France, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, India, Japan, Poland and Italy.

These statistics are a live proof of the fact that Firefox is gaining a lot of authority in the browser world. The open-source project has seen a growth of leaps and bounds in the past years beating the growth rate of IE and other major releases ruling the markets.

AMAZON ACQUIRES ZAPPOS FOR US $ 900 MILLION

AMAZON ACQUIRES ZAPPOS FOR US $ 900 MILLION

Amazon.com, a multimillion enterprise serving online products and services market, is finally up with acquiring an online shoe retailing company Zappos.com. The company has expectantly taken this decision after seeing the exponentially growing turnover of online shoe markets.

Zappos.com is a privately founded company and has a reputation in the markets and among its customers since the past 10 years for its customer royalties such as free shipping and credit card shopping and loads more.

Online shoe markets have seen a growth of a whole of US $ 1 Billion in the past year accounting for US $ 4.3 Billion in 2008 as compared to US $ 3.3 Billion of 2007. And hopefully this is what has affined Amazon towards Zappos.

The current stats say that Amazon has acquired Zappos for 10 Million shares worth US $ 900 Million. The company has also announced an additional $ 40 Million for the employees working at Zappos.

This has been one of the largest transactional decisions in the history of Amazon.com