On 18th August 2009 @ 05:33 pm by Arul N S
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Google had retired its “Google Browser Sync for Firefox” long back. It was quite expected with the Chrome coming into the playing field. Google has been constantly updating its browser(at least the developer channel) which is gong to be the basis for its future operating system dreams.
The recent dev build (4.0.201.1) released, has bookmark synchronisation which syncs your browsers bookmarks to Google Docs (read Google Drive) and not Google Bookmarks as one would expect.
So do you want to try the new feature ? First join Google Chrome’s dev channel, which includes a buggier, feature loaded and less polished version of Google Chrome.
Start Chrome with the “–enable-sync” flag. You will find a option in the Tools menu called “Sync my bookmarks…”. Login into your Google Account and the process should start immediately.
The synced bookmarks are placed in Google Docs in “My Folders”. This interface could be a precursor to GDrive which could act as online storage device.
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On 16th July 2008 @ 01:45 pm by Arul N S
- WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” Released
Yesterday, Matt officially announced the release of WordPress 2.6 codenamed “Tyner” to the blogging community. WordPress release codename’s are named after jazz musicians and continuing with the tradition, 2.6 has been named after McCoy Tyner. It contains many new features that makes WordPress a more powerful CMS (Content Management System).
One of the most important features of this release is Version Control System which enables Wiki-like tracking of edits similar to Wikipedia. This would be a very handy feature which enables the users to just undo and go back to a previous version of the post.
Another major feature introduced in this version is display of captions alongside the images. The example can be seen in the WordPress logo displayed in top of this post. [Looks like alignment of captions has an issue. I am not just able to get it aligned]
Theme previews would be loved by any serious WordPress user. It was a long awaited feature. It enables to preview the theme, tweak and correct your mistakes before the whole world sees it.
- Gears : Turbo Charge your WordPress
WordPress uses Gears (previously known as Google Gears), an open source browser extension project started by Google. It is primarily for developers to manage offline storage thus enabling you to get a little extra juice. It maintains a cache or keeps a copy of commonly-used Javascript and CSS files on your computer, which can speed up the loading of some pages by several seconds (they just pop right up!). You can install Gears for Firefox or Internet Explorer, with support for Safari and Opera pending. WP 2.6 only uses the cache concept and the future versions are promised with more features in collaboration with Gears.
Other notable features in this release of WordPress are
- Word Count are displayed in the side bar when writing or editing the posts.
- You can reorder the gallery just by drag and drop.
- Bulk management of plugins. Just enable or disable all plugins in a single click.
- “Press This” bookmarklet which enables you to blog from anywhere just by clicking a boomarklet in your browser.
- More advanced image control enabling easy insertion, resizing. Also shifting from Flash uploader to the classic uploader is easy.
- Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
- A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions. Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
- Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
With all these new features, I decided to jump the bandwagon without having to wait for my Hosting company to update the Fantastico which will help me automatically upgrade my WordPress installation. Now bit Feed is powered by WordPress 2.6
On 13th July 2008 @ 02:17 pm by Arul N S
For those who are bored with their old wallpapers and looking for a hot spicy firefox wallpaper, there are more than 70 wallpaper links at Hongkiat.com. Get your desktop a new look and help to spread the Firefox 3 around.
Visit Hongkiat.com to download the wallpapers
On 17th June 2008 @ 07:30 am by Arul N S
I am yet to download the official release of Gran Paradiso, the Mozilla Foundation‘s developers are already discussing about the next update to Firefox. Going with the tradition of naming Firefox projects with place names, the Firefox 3.1 project is named as Shiretoko after the Japenese National Park in the north eastern tip of the island of Hokkaido, Japan. The word in native tongue means “end of earth”.
Shiretoko is a minor update to the Gran Paradiso which would be running the Gecko 1.9.1 Engine and most of the features that didn’t make in time to the 3 release.
- One of the major feature would be visual Tab switching. For now Ctrl+Tab extension serves the purpose in Gran Paradiso. This feature would be integrated into the browser along with Tab searching and filtering.
- There are lot of features for Tagging which include bulk tagging, tag autocomplete, lightweight tagging UI, Advanced Search UI.
- In the add-ons divison there would be enhanced compatibility checking during upgrades which means we might have to really wait till the developer makes the extension compatible than we doing it ourselves
The entire feature list of this release can be obtained from the Mozilla’s planning center for Firefox 3.1. The nightly builds of alpha release 1 can be obtained from Mozilla’s FTP servers here. It will be installed under the name of Minefield, the codename for Mozilla’s testing builds.
Source : [Mozilla Wiki]
