If you are looking for a convenient and unobtrusive audio player for your web pages, Yahoo! Media Player provides a lightweight and fast solution for your visitors to listen various audio files without leaving the current page or load Windows Media Player. (more…)
Based on the agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo!, Bing will power the Yahoo! Search for at least the next ten years. The terms of agreement specify that Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10 year license to Yahoo!’s core search technologies, and Microsoft will have the ability to integrate Yahoo! search technologies into its existing web search platforms. According to comScore, this partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo! will determine the apparition of a new serious competitor for Google, even the Google Search giant still dominate 65% of the Internet search engines market. (more…)
Yesterday, we have exclusively published an article regarding the latest update of Google Blog Search service, before Google Official Blog or other news websites. Unfortunately, no one seen the news, except a few minor websites who do not even mentioned a credit link for the article Google Blog Search: Hot Queries And Latest Posts. If you will look at the article time stamp, the date and the hour when it was published indicate that the content of the article is completely original, based on an analysis of the Google Blog Search front end: we have identified the addition of Hot Queries and Latest Posts sections in the right side of the main GUI (Graphical User Interface), knowing that the latest update of the service was made in the autumn of 2008.
According to a recent Google study, the web based applications response speed has a great influence over the user experience and can be analysed in correlation with its current features or new elements that could be added in the future. Therefore, the need for speed is obvious in case of all client or server side software, because an optimized time for the application response to a query will result in a better user experience. In order to provide a starting place for the people who need to know the details of the factors which affects web sites performance and how to implement the best strategies and practices to get the maximum possible web applications speed, a new website intended for developers was deployed on code.google.com/speed.
Among the similar free Internet blogging services, Posterous can be regarded as the most intuitive, simplest and fastest web content publishing platform. There are several reasons to make these considerations about Posterous blogging service: the web pages loading time is optimized such that any page is rendered almost instantly, the content (photos, MP3’s, documents and video) can be published directly from an email, the service does not impose the creation of an account and the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor has the simplest graphical user interface. Now, Posterous provides you the possibility to automatically import an existing blog, made on Blogger, Wordpress,Typepad, Movable Type and Xanga platforms.
Sometimes, Windows Explorer could not offer the entire file management set of features needed when you are on the road. A free and lightweight alternative for Windows Explorer is Snowbird, an easy to use portable file manager. The Snowbird 7.0 distribution archive has just 267 KB, while the executable file still delivers many practical features, like integrated file search, file copy function or mouse gestures.
Photobucket, the popular image hosting and creation web service which contains over 8 billion photos, now has implemented a new feature: Visual Search. Photobucket Visual Search is based on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, Windows Live Services (Windows Live Messenger) and Photobucket’s Open API platform, delivering a more intuitive graphical user interface for millions of users.
The latest release of Macpup Opera Linux distribution, a derivative of Puppy Linux with a graphical user interface similar with Mac OS X GUI, will change the way in which you think about using Linux. From my point of view, Macpup Opera is the fastest Linux distribution as compared with others based on Enlightenment 17 desktop manager. All windows, even the ones corresponding to resource intensive applications and with animation effects and transitions turned on, open before you blink, practically instantaneously.
SPRXmobile company has launched the world’s first mobile Augmented Reality browser, Layar. It is a free software available for mobile phones having Android operating system (T-Mobile G1 and HTC Magic). Layar will allow you to see on the phone screen digital information in real time, displayed on top of the real images transmitted by the mobile device camera. In this way, the user will discover houses for sales, shops and bars or other locations, just through the camera lens.
The first release candidate of Firefox web browser (Firefox RC 1) was just released for testing. It represents the seventh development milestone of the Firefox 3.5 version. This release is considered to be almost stable, therefore is primarily intended for developers and members of the testing community. In addition, one or more of your add-ons installed with the latest stable version of Firefox could not work with Firefox RC 1.
Maybe the web engine of the future, Opera Unite, seems to offer more opportunities than Web 2.0 basic principles. It is built on a simple concept: your computer becomes a web server capable to share files, host chat rooms or websites directly from hard drive, without third party web applications. Opera has broken the ice by taking a step further in the evolution of Internet technology – Opera Unite offers all necessary means to any computer owner to become a source of information. All your computer data published or shared over the Internet with Opera Unite is fully controllable from a simple to use web based interface.
In December 2008 Yahoo! introduced the smarter inbox for Yahoo! Mail, which allows the immediate access to Flickr, Flixster and Xoopit third party applications. Now, Yahoo! Mail provides more tools to simplify the way of performing common tasks like file sharing or sending through email messages, edit or organize photos and send money online. The new Yahoo! Mail apps are: PayPal, Zumo Drive, Picnik, OtherInbox and Photobucket.
Now, with the new Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta 1 browser for Windows Mobile enabled phones, you can surf the Internet even faster than with an advanced 3G mobile device. Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta 1 browser provides a high Internet navigation speed based on Opera Turbo technology and Opera Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which ensures a better browsing performance and lowest loading time for web pages. In this version of the Opera Mobile browser, you will also be able to use Opera Widgets, in order to customize the application according to specific needs.
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