Is Gmail Faster in Chrome Than IE?

Posted by Prem Godara | 12/25/2008 12:08:00 PM | , , , , | 0 comments »

As we are aware, the Chrome install is very easy. Even when the security features are concerned, Google claims that Chrome is more secure than IE8. Google says that each tab runs in its own “sandbox,” so that if there’s nasty spyware-type software running on one Web site, it has no access to the rest of your computer, or even the other tabs. Google asserts that this is much stronger protection than Internet Explorer 8 gives you, especially in Windows XP.

But when it comes to speed, Google also ensures that its own services run better in Chrome than in other browsers. Is this part of Google’s great conspiracy? If you had noticed, in Gmail website in IE, you’ll see a link at the top that says "Get Faster Gmail" - it’s placed next to your Gmail user name and highlighted in bold red.


As you could expect to see some tips or tricks to make Gmail faster, but surprisingly that link will lead you to page which contains link to download Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. You can also see a phrase in that page, which says that Gmail will be twice as fast in Google Mail supported browsers.

I wonder whether Gmail website is really that fast on Chrome or is this just an indirect promotion of Google Chrome for IE users?


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Get Free CD of IBM Lotus Symphony in India

Posted by Prem Godara | 12/25/2008 11:54:00 AM | , , | 0 comments »

As we know, IBM Lotus Symphony has been selected as the Product of the Year 2008 for Desktop Applications. This was announced few weeks back by CRN, a leading industry publication. The editors at the Test Center for CRN evaluated hundreds of products in 2008 out of which IBM Lotus Symphony was ranked first.

IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, and other documents. It is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. Users can enjoy the easy-to-use interface and online community for templates, tips and support.

IBM Lotus Symphony

Inspite of all these advantages, IBM is now delivering IBM Symphony's CD at your doorstep for free of cost. Openoffice.org being a 142 MB application, with slow internet connections cannot be downloaded efficiently. Hence, IBM is offering the IBM lotus symphony suite CD door delivered for those who live in India.

Residents of India can just fill in this request form and an IBM Lotus Symphony CD will delivered to your place free of cost. Still, it can also be downloaded from IBM website.


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Currently, iPhone is one of the most popular devices on the market and many people buy it and even take photos using it. By seeing this trend, Hewlett-Packard(HP) has announced a new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch and can be downloaded from App Store for free.

This application is called HP iPrint Photo and allows pictures stored on an iPhone to be printed using HP's inkjet printers attached to a Wi-Fi network.

HP iPhone Photo

All you need to do is load up the application in iPhone, view a picture, and tap on it. A few seconds later, it will wirelessly begin printing on your inkjet printer. Images printed with the iPrint application will be of 4 x 6 size.


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Is iPhone Nano, Apple's Next Release?

Posted by Prem Godara | 12/23/2008 11:21:00 PM | , | 0 comments »

Till now we have heard only of iPhone and iPhone Touch Phones, but it seems something new is also coming. iPhone Nano, that's what it is called according to the latest rumors that are going around before this year's Macworld Expo.

The story behind this latest rumor is the listing of ‘iPhone Nano’ silicon cases by a company called XSKN on its website. This company even listed the cases for the iPhone 3G and iPod Nano in advance of the announcement by Apple.

Concept Image of iPhone Nano

Some reliable sources even claims that some people even managed to see the iPhone Nano. So, now the big question which remains is when this will be launched? The Macworld Expo is due next month but since Steve Jobs won't be giving the keynote, that seems unlikely. It's possible that iPhone Nano might be unveiled in a separate event organised by Apple, the way recent product were unveiled.

Let's wait and see!!. In case, you have any news regarding this iPhone Nano, do share with us.


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How to Make Your Blog Mobile Friendly

Posted by Prem Godara | 12/23/2008 12:40:00 AM | , | 0 comments »

In the current trend, almost one in four cell phone users access the Internet on their device and about one in six users does it frequently. This is the reason why mobile web browsing is predicted to become the next predominant Internet platform. Hence making your website Mobile-Friendly is more important.

Listed below are the few tips for designing a Mobile-Friendly Blog,

1. The first point you should consider is the sizing of the screens. The user would like to view the entire content of the page without having to scroll, and would wish to navigate between the various parts of the page and to interact with the UI very naturally. Some famous mobile phones uses resolutions as 128 × 160 pixels, 176 × 220 pixels, 240 × 320 pixels and 320 × 480 pixels where as the blog would be designed for industry-standard screen resolution – 1024×768. Hence you can use a single column design, which will work best across the variety of resolutions. Also you might need to consider touch-screen.

2. Secondly, you should concentrate on traffic and efficiency during page loads. Phones can't handle very large pages with more images etc. Mobile blogs generally display only one post per page which helps keep size down. If you write long posts and use more than three small images per post then look for a mobile blogging platform that can split large pages and resize or strip images. For maximum traffic and usability your site should support thematic consistency.

But the best way I would suggest is to use a service that creates a mobile site from your RSS feed. There are many sites which does this Mowser, FeedM8, Feed 2 Mobile, MoFuse etc.


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Lenovo Thinkpad W700ds Laptop with 2 LCD Screens

Posted by Prem Godara | 12/21/2008 11:03:00 PM | , | 0 comments »

Lenovo has achieved a new milestone in the computing industry by introducing a ThinkPad W700ds laptop that features two LCD screens. This is the first laptop ever that has two LCD screens, a 17-in primary screen and a smaller 10.6-in secondary display panel.

Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds

This ThinkPad laptop used quad-core Intel Core 2 processor and Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics CPU with as many as 128 cores. It also comes with as much as 8GB of DDR3 memory and a pair of hard drive/solid-state drive bays for up to 960GB of storage.

The Thinkpad's secondary screen can be tiled up to 30 degrees and the main screen is rated at 400 nits of brightness. It has dual fans with dual heat-reduction systems and the whole thing measures 16 by 12 inches and is 2.1 inches thick.

It weighs around 11 pounds which is far heavier than the norms and will have a starting price of $3,600, when it goes up for sale in January.


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As we know, the existing Google Webmaster Tools had support for 26 languages but recently, Google extended its language support to 40 by adding support to 14 new languages. The new languages that is supported are Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Filipino, Greek, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Portuguese (Portugal), Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Now the total list of languages that are being supported are itemized below along with their universal code.

Arabic (ar)
Bulgarian (bg)
Catalan (ca)
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-TW)
Simplified Chinese (zh-CN)
Croatian
Czech (cs)
Danish (da)
Dutch (nl)
English (en)
English UK (en-GB)
Filipino (fil)
Finnish (fi)
French (fr)
German (de)
Greek (el)
Hebrew (iw)
Hindi (hi)
Hungarian (hu)
Indonesian (id)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Korean (ko)
Latvian (lv)
Lithuanian (lt)
Norwegian (no)
Polish (pl)
Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR)
Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT)
Romanian (ro)
Russian (ru)
Serbian (sr)
Slovakian (sk)
Slovenian (sl)
Spanish (es)
Swedish (sv)
Thai (th)
Turkish (tr)
Ukrainian (uk)
Vietnamese (vi)


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