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Tablet Wars: Apple iSlate vs Google Tablet
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, iPhone on January 03, 2010
An Apple iSlate vs Google Tablet battle might be about to start. Smarthouse, an Australian publication, reports that HTC is working in collaboration with Google on a Tablet.
Are Google and HTC about to challenge both the iPhone and the Apple tablet, rumored to be called iSlate? HTC are also the company behind Google’s Nexus One SmartPhone (said to be launching on January 5th).
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Google release the Chrome Browser for Mac
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, Web Browsers on December 10, 2009
The wait for Google Chrome for Mac users is finally over. Google has finally released the first official beta release of Google Chrome for Mac. Mac users can Grab’s the beta copy today and experience a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lighting speed. Google Chrome is available for Intel based machines running Mac OS 10.5 or newer – Leopard and Snow Leopard.
What Chrome does bring to Mac is exceptionally fast browser speeds. It also starts up quickly in under 2 seconds flat. Google also implemented some important to make Google Chrome a Unique Modern Browser i.e. Crash Protection. Google Chrome for Mac also offers the “Omnibox” instead of the standard address bar and search bar across the top of your screen. The Omnibox (as the name suggests) is one box that you can use for both searching and entering URLs.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta available for download from MSDN / TechNet
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in microsoft on November 20, 2009
Microsoft has released the much awaited Beta of Office 2010 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. If you are a subscriber, you can log into your account and can access the program in “Applications -> Office 2010” section. Office 2010 Beta is available as only Professional Plus SKU (32 bit and 64 bit variants) while Office Web Apps are available in x64 variant only for self hosting in corporate environments.
Mozilla, Celebrating Five Years of Firefox!
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Web Browsers on November 09, 2009
On November 9, 2004 the Mozilla project, lunched a new experimental web browser “Firefox 1.0”. Within the first four days of launch, more than 1 million people had downloaded a brand new browsing experience. Its aim was to reduce Mozilla’s bloat (if you remember those early days, the Mozilla Suite consisted of a web browser, mail client, news reader, IRC client; it even had a web page creator called Mozilla Composer), and it was an instant hit among users and developers alike.
Find Out What Google Knows About You with Google Dashboard
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google on November 08, 2009
Google released a feature Google Dashboard recently that lets users see and control data that the Web giant has collected about them at a conference in Europe. The service provide have an online summary of a user’s Google files, Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa photos and so on — by collecting pre-existing privacy controls in one place.
Google Chrome 4.0 release with Bookmark Sync
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google on November 05, 2009
After the Firefox’s latest beta, Google has also just released a new beta build of their Chrome web browser. Although still in development, this technology allows Chrome users to sync their browser bookmarks across multiple computers without having to manually recreate them on each machine used.
Google Chrome now has over 30 Million Users
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Google, Web Browsers on November 03, 2009
Google’s Chrome is still on the fourth-place in terms of usage. The Google Official blog disclosed that they have 30 million active users.
Chrome shipped its first public release 14 months ago and has managed to achieve a pretty large number of users in that time.
Why choose Windows 7?
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in Operating Systems on October 20, 2009
Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the latest version of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs and media center PCs.Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, with general retail availability set for October 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of Windows Vista.
Windows 7 is designed for faster and more reliable performance, so your PC just works the way you want it to. With 64-bit support, you can take full advantage of the latest powerful PCs. And great features like HomeGroup, Windows Media Center, and Windows Touch make new things possible.
How to Disable Syntax Highlighting in WordPress 2.8?
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in How To on October 02, 2009
One of WordPress 2.8 new features is syntax highlighted editor for WordPress files. While the idea was exiting, I must admit I didn’t enjoyed using this new editor.
How to Create user-defined RSS feeds in WordPress
Posted by Muhammad Furqan Abid in How To, Tutorials on September 22, 2009
If you need a custom RSS feed, like for example, a feed indexing only somes categories + tags, or if you redirected all WordPress RSS feeds to Feedburner but still want to be able to get a category feed, the solution is to use a page template.
Create a new file and simply paste the following code in this file. After pasting save it with the name “my-custom-feed.php” and save it in your theme directory.
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