There were several headlines that kept clinching the 'Breaking News' section of the news channel, this week. some of them were:

• Apollo Mission - 40years Thereafter
  

• Solar Eclipse - Once in a life time experience

• Michael Jackson's Death Truth - Lured in the darkness of conspiracy

• Kargil War - 10 years of Glory and emphatic win over the PAK

• Sach Ka Sammna - A show to unveil the truth from one's personality.

Apollo Mission was undoubtedly a landmark, that helped scientists to understand the surface of Moon , the atmosphere that existed there and many other calculus about moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin were titled 'First Man to step on Moon'. The footage of their landing was once again broadcasted all over the world.

Michael Jackson 's death continues to be a mystery. All the news channels keep bringing in 'Sansani-Kesh Khulasa' regarding his death each day. I wonder how much intimate connection does they have.But it's obvious to say, these news channels have to jus sell their crap in order to grasp TRP for them.

Saach Ka Sammna- Indian clone of 'Moment Of Truth' , a colombian reality show, gained all the lime light. Vinod Kambli's honest answers made the headlines spree. Breakage of Sachin's and Vinods friendship were aired continuously for several days. What has public got to do with their breakage?But i guess the game shows' popularity is soley due to these confessions.

Kargil War '99: A decade after, there are over 25,000 soldiers take charge over the valley to prevent any other intrusion . A full coverage on the soldiers life there is highlighted. How the soldiers back in 1999 faced the intruders, is worth saluting. I too have an intimate connection with the war of Kargil. I was only 10 when one of my friend's father was right up there fighting at Kargil. We all used to anxiously wait for the Warden at the boarding school to give us the updates on the war. Those were the times of encouragement and pride that we had at Sherwood.
I salute the bravery of every soldier at the frontier serving the nation.

Cheers
Rohit

Google Apps

Today while seeking help from a veteran blogger, I came across a new feature that can reduce the load of space from the site. Google Apps is an excellent feature that helps to configure emails. It's basic work is to redirect the mails coming to your personal website or blog to the google server. The main advantage of this feature is that it helps to manage all your mails(of your website) as you normally do with your Gmail account.

It took me lots of time to configure the settings at my blog www.spanser.com, but at the end everything has come out to be successfully done.

Google Apps has two options -A premium and other For free.
I had to choose the later one.
After that i had to make changes in the MX Entry at my cpanel of my site.
The changes that need to be made are all inititated by the Google team. The real worst part is that it takes an hour to update the email settings on google server..

But once it's done all your mailing work becomes eaasy..

Cheers

A Fox on Fire: Firefox 3.5

Do you often wait for few seconds, before your browser displays your request?

How often do you delete your surfing history, so that none gets to know about your activity on net?

Do you download videos and audio through some downloader or other proxy sites?

Well these are some common issues that we face while stumbling with our browser.

Today, Mozilla organization officially released the latest version of Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 , is an open source application i.e. one is free to modify and further develop it . It has come up with many unique and exciting features so as to make websurfing even more enthralling.

Here are some features that I found interesting and would like to share them with you :

1) A1 Speed:

It is the first thing that we all look for prior selecting a web browser for installation. With Firefox2.0 installed, I found a difference in page loading speed improvement in the Firefox3.5 version.Eariler i used to wait for several seconds and now I wait for some milliseconds....

Here is a simple speed test result of the Firefox lastest version with its predecessors.

18,148ms 3,669ms 1,524ms

Which one you see is fastest? Yes, its the 3.5 version.Do check your current browser's page loading speed right away, and compare the results.


It's due the new Javascript engine called Trace Monkey.

2) The multi-tab browsing, recently closed tabs,recently closed windows

Many a times I used to accidentally close the Tabs, so might you have, isn't it ? But now, there is an end to this worry, coz Firefox 3.5 has Recently Closed Tab option that contains all the tabs of the last sessions that were closed, accidentally or due to some system crash.

3)Private Browsing

Ah! sometimes you may want to do some private browsing on the net. In this mode no cookies, web forms, or temporary internet files are stored. Therefore no one gets to know about it. Hey ! but hang on , your Internet Server Provider (ISP), will have the record of your surfing- the urls, time and place, so private browsing doesn't mean proxy or anonymous browsing.

4)Embed Media directly into your HTML page

Firefox 3.5 lets you directly embed audio and video, into your HTML page(prior you would require a flash plug-in to play the media). Firefox v3.5 supports HTML5 audio and Ogg Theora, Vorbis and WAV formats. These may sound as jargon for you so lemme simplify it , these are the audio and video compression formats, and for more details you are free to do some googling !! [:)] Here www.canavasdemos you can try out some applications.I tried an HTML5 based application for painting.It looked ditto same as Paint in Windows, but here is online ,so good for Linux users like me.


Some of the other sleek features are:

5)Inbuilt support for various add-ons and plugins

There are loads of add-ons & plugins available on internet that are all compatible with it and can customize the browser to your needs. I have recently used Read It Later add-on which helps me to mark the links that I can read in my leisure. Some of the others that i have used are iMacro, Tweetbin, etc. They all have made my work extremely easy.

6)Drag any of your tabs, outside the browsers screen to open it in a separate window, and opposite is also true which currently no other browser offers.

7)Location Aware Browsing: Tells your geographical location.


8)Compatible for all platforms whether Mac, Windows Xp, Vista, Windows 7 or Linux(any distro-Red Hat,Debian Ubuntu,Mandriva etc.). For Linux based distros tarball files (.tar.bz2) files are available for download. (Anyone who wants to know about the installation process can see the official site or jus lemme know)



There are numerous other features that have been incorporated by the developers in the latest Firefox v3.5 . It's really worth giving a try to enhance your web experience. So go ahead to install and upgrade your current browser with Firefox 3.5

Cheers...

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