Google Announced Chrome Operating System

While the entertainment industry is still talking about Michael Jackson’s memorial, the tech world is rocked with the latest announcement made by Google:

“…today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”

Google Chrome OS is aimed at people who spend most of their time on the web and will initially be targeted at netbooks. They said that it will be extremely lightweight and fast just like the Chrome web browser, and it will be very secure.

As expected, Google Chrome OS will utilize the Linux kernel with a new windowing system on top of it.

With Google’s plan to release Chrome OS as open source software, should we be happy or sad?

How about you our dear readers? Share with us your thoughts via comment. By the way, you can read the full release announcement HERE (googleblog)

4 Firefox tips

1. Delete visited URL’s

When you drop down the box underneath the address bar, you can see your recent browsing history. But what if you want to remove one URL from that list? May be you’ve been looking at a naughty site and you don’t want your girfriend to know? Or may be you’ve been shopping for your loved one online and you want to keep it a secret? Just drop down the URL box, highlight the URL you want to zap then press the “delete” button on your keyboard. The URL will then be removed from the list.

2. Browse privately

Another solution for the above privacy is private browsing mode of firefox in which Firefox enters a temporary mode so that browsing information is not stored in your computer. To enter private browsing mode, press CTRL + SHIFT + P.

3.Navigate to browser tabs using the keyboard

Instead of using the mouse to click on a tab, why not use the keyboard instead? Pressing CTRL + TAB together will bounce you from tab to tab, starting from the one in the far left and working its way along. Or if you want to go to a specifc tab straight away, you can do that too. CTRL + 2 will take you directly to the second tab from the left. CTRL + 5 will take you to the fifth tab from the left.

4.Grab files off webpages, even protected webpages

Have you ever wanted a picture, file or video off a webpage but you can’t, because it’s been protected? Just right-click on the page, choose “View Page Info” then the “media” tab. Find the file you’re looking for from the list and click on “save”. (note : this doesn’t work for everything but It still works for most pages).

Download Free PDF eBooks at World eBook Fair

The Fourth Annual World eBook Fair has started and you can download 2 million free PDF ebooks from July 4th to August 4th, 2009.

The goal of the World eBook Fair is to provide free access for a month to 2 Million eBooks from Project Gutenberg,The World Public Library, The Internet Archive, eBooks About Everything etc. Browse the huge book collections and find free ebooks to download.

During the rest of the year you can download  selection of  500,000 PDF eBooks by joining the World Public Library at an annual membership of $8.95 per year. So this is a good time to download ebooks for free.

World eBook Fair

Google updates some Apps functions

Google has made a few updates to its various apps services including one that lets users within the organisation share templates with each other.

Google already had a template gallery for Google Docs where people can share templates such as presentation designs and spreadsheets. But now Premier and Education edition users can share templates privately only with other people in the domain. Co-workers can sort, use and rate the templates.

 Apps Gmail users have also gotten an improvement to the Contacts list search function. Now, when Apps users search in Contacts in Gmail, they’ll also receive results from their company’s entire global address list, in addition to people that they’ve added to the list and people they’ve previously e-mailed.

Google also released a user profile API (application programming interface) that lets administrators retrieve and update profile information for all users on the company domain. The tool is aimed at helping administrators maintain a detailed global address list in Google Apps. The API is only available to Google Apps Premier Edition users. 

Other updates to Gmail for business users include new ways to organise labels, which users place on messages to tag them. Users can now hide the labels that are not used frequently to “more ” link. They can do that that by just dragging and dropping to “more” link. Users can now drag the messages into labels and labels onto messages inorder to tag them. Label updates are available to all Gmail users.

Google updates Gmail labels. ( Drag and Drop )

Now you can organise your messages in Gmail on fly. Google has updated Gmail to organise labels, which users place on messages to tag them.
Users can now hide the labels that are not used frequently to “more ” link rather than in the main list. They can do that that by just dragging and dropping the labels to “more” link. Users can now drag the messages into labels and labels onto messages inorder to tag them.

Sun Microsystems Unveils VirtualBox 3.0 With Powerful New Server Virtualization Features

Sun microsystems .Inc has announced the new version of VirtualBox, its high performance and cross-platform visualisation software. VirtualBox 3.0 is capable of running multi-processor virtual machines that can handle heavy weight server-class workloads and deliver enhanced graphics support on desktop-class workloads.
VirtualBox 3.0 is FREE to download and use.
Download link
you can run as many as 32 virtual CPUs.