Parents! here yet another web to share your views

Posted on October 28th, 2006 in General by vinoji

Maya's mum yet another social networking parent share portal. It is simple, still useful for parents like us. Sooner we also have similar plans to change meyshan's Website into a web 2.0 style with add on feature such baby photo contest, baby events, tips and tricks. What is your opinion about that.

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Firefox Vs Internet Explorer

Posted on October 28th, 2006 in General by daya

 

firefox  vs firefox

 

IE 8 or Innovative IE, should be solution to beat Firefox 2.0, with expected new release of Firefox 2.1 and more updates, I don't expect IE would anywhere in near feature beat Firefox, however we should appreciate some of the great improvement in the current interment explorer, but it is all only second to Firefox, expect low memory usage of IE against Firefox memory usage, which IE fairs better.

Every one should be surprised that Firefox—an underdog that originated as a passionate open-source response to lack of innovation throughout the graying years of Internet Explorer 6—has wholly stolen the development momentum (as well as considerable market share) from Microsoft. But it has. Still, Microsoft has the vast majority of the market. Those who purchase a new PC next year will find IE7 on it. That alone will make it the default browser of choice for millions of people by the end of 2007. Depending on whose statistics you believe, 80-something to 90 or so percent of consumers use IE, mostly version 6. Millions of XP users will be downloading the IE7 to replace their very-long-in-the-tooth-patched-to-the-hilt versions of IE6. If you're in that camp but on the fence, let me push you over: Upgrade.

Rest assured that you'll be able continue with a normal Internet existence, browsing, shopping, and searching to your heart's content. (And thanks to the ruckus raised by the Europeans, you even get a choice of search providers at install, setup, and during use—see our sideshow.) You'll even be fairly secure.

So what really stands out about IE7? A few things. First and foremost, the browser has caught up, in a general sense, to the other two leaders as a modern browser. Mostly that means it natively supports ease-of-use features like tabbed browsing, which lets you have multiple Web pages open in one window. You can also save tabs to open them all simultaneously at browser startup or in groupings that open at once. Other niceties include built-in hooks that allow you to access other Microsoft Web services you've subscribed to like Live Messenger. Being modern also means customizable and modular. You'll find quite a few add-ons, too.

The developers made myriad more minor and subtle improvements. Printing improves in a big way. The browser will force a given page, whether portrait or landscape, to fit into a printed page automatically. That alone should cut down on a lot of cut-off pages filling the recycle bin. You can also zoom in on pages merely by clicking a little magnifying glass icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. The typical consumer won't notice many things for designers under the hood, such as improved support for CSS (cascading style sheets), a fundamental underpinning of Web design that continues to plague those who make Web pages (and will actually continue to plague them). And improved integration and support for AJAX (Asynchronoous JavaScript and XML) allows richer, speedier, more interactive Web pages.

IE7 builds in one killer app: RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Predictions come back to haunt you, but I really believe that its presence will introduce the technology to the masses. RSS isn't new—next year marks its first decade, in fact—but only a tiny minority of the Web-browsing public (around five percent) knowingly use it. Thanks to that five percent, though, the masses will find an absolute avalanche of content—and it's content of their own choosing, available and ready to be pushed out to them in a constant stream with the click of an IE7 button. In a nutshell, that's what RSS is and does; it allows people to instantly subscribe to content from Web sites they frequent and have it delivered—for free—as it publishes. The built-in RSS technology for subscribing and displaying RSS content means you don't need to download another app.

That's not to say that the IE7 RSS reader is the best—it's not even close. For that, you'll have to pay for an application called FeedDemon or settle for the free Google Reader, Bloglines, or any number of others that approach FeedDemon's quality.

Inspite all these we at meyshan blog find Fire 2.0 is the next generator killer software, with the constant developing till IE 8 or IE innovative could much would have done in firefox. Firefox well done.If you are not already using Firefox, i would say you are not using Internet itself.

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