Articles Archive for September 2008
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Google Chrome is about to complete its first month after launch and it has shown tremendous growth in this short life span.
Statistics may vary on regional basis but the overall market share of Chrome has crossed Opera,Safari and even Internet Explorer.
We can’t say about other websites but our own statistics clearly depict the overwhelming acceptance of Chrome.
However Google Chrome’s Mac version is still unavailable(will probably become available by the end of this year) but Chrome’s extensive usage hasn’t been restricted by this at all.
28.61% of TechPluto’s readership …
Digg out, Events »
The dot com bubble and its consequent burst-out is well known to most of us.We remember it as an event that crashed the US economy to an all time low.
It all started with companies like Netscape,Yahoo! & Excite and ended with dot coms like Pets & Boo.Few of them survived but most of them got their shutters closed after burning millions of dollars with absolute stupidity.
The worst part was the unexpected behaviour of Angels & Venture Capital firms who literally gambled over hundreds of dot coms and invested …
Utility focussed »
It’s the first month of Re-ideated TechPluto and the response has really been encouraging.The last week went great with cluster of events,gizmos and tech news covered by TechPluto.Here is a quick brief-up of the write-ups last week, that our audience loved the most !
Here is the first & second week flashback and here is the third week brief-up of September.
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Date : September 22th, 2008
Title : Microsoft is a ‘Looser’ but still a ‘Winner’ !
“For MS & Apple,it’s more about outshining with ‘branding’ and ‘marketing’ …
Announcements, Utility focussed »
Windows 7, the upcoming version of Windows Operating system from Microsoft is not going to include Windows Calendar, Windows Mail, Windows Movie Maker and Windows Photo Gallery, the built-in applications that were included in the previous version of Windows OS (Windows Vista).
The alternative proposed by Microsoft will be free downloads of newer and advanced versions of the excluded applications, packaged under Windows Live Essentials Suite.
As Microsoft was already having the advanced online counterparts of the mail, photo and movie editing tools (Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery …
blogosphere »
Technorati stats for this year are out…(better elaboration here)
Going by the statistics,top 100 bloggers(or blogging entities) blog 310 posts every month(10+ posts a day).And most of the blogs in Top 100 list on Technorati are Multi-authored blogs to support such a high frequency of blog posts.
Huffingtonpost,Techcrunch,Mashable and many others follow the same rule of muti-authorship to produce huge quantity of posts everyday.
But there is one exceptional blog(which is not even hosted on a dedicated server) that ranks 17 on Technorati but authored by just one blogger.
That …
micro-blogging »
‘Twitter facelift’ is nothing new for those who tweet regularly.
But there are a lot many guys known as”Cameo tweeters” who give a special appearance(by tweeting) on Twitter once in a month or so.
So this brief-up is dedicated to all the ‘Cameo tweeters’ out there to give them a reason for another special appearance at twitter.
Much faster
Heavy ajax usage is probably the best thing that has happened to twitterduring this facelift.The overall system has gone a lot lighter and faster with this implementation.
Tabs on the right
The tabs have …
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If you’re one of those who’ve dumped your old browser for Chrome and you’re also a member of Orkut,a social networking service by Google, then you can notice an alert on your profile page saying…
“Awesome, you’re using Google Chrome! Don’t forget to feed it donuts!”
Quote such as “Feeding donuts to Chrome” should have been properly elaborated for the sake of disambiguation but there is no link associated with this message …
