Firefox 1.5 to launch this week

Firefox 1.5 to launch this week with marketing blitz

Ars Technicasays that Firefox 1.5 is going to release this week. I got to tell that I haven’t really used Firefox 1.5 beta a lot. I am just happy with my stable Firefox release and I have enough extensions installed to cater to my browsing requirements.

As mentioned in the post on Ars Technica, they are going to launch a marketing campaign and a part of it is there will be home made videos as to why people use Firefox or like Firefox. Is this is the case, I might give it a try as well. It’s been few days since I did a screen cast :).

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Microsoft Developer Blog is open now

OK, created a blog for posting stuff related to Microsoft Dev stuff. Microsoft Developer blog is open on Software And Tools now. If you are subscribed to the main feed, than you will see the posts that are created here, if you are not subscribed to the main feed of this blog site, than here is the link. Vadivel is going to work on this blog. A bit about Vadivel:- "Vadivel Mohanakrishnan hails from Chennai, India and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Applications. He has been in love with programming for more than 6 years. As each day passes, his love and passion for programming grows. Presently, he is a Senior Analyst with Verizon Data Services in Chennai. He has written technical articles and won awards and accolades from various web sites that promote Microsoft technologies. He is honored to have been awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Community Star from Microsoft in the year 2003.Vadivel has been committed to Microsoft technologies from the beginning of his career. Today, he breathes .NET technologies and extols their excellence and applicability. He is all set to break the saying ''familiarity breeds contempt'' with Microsoft Technologies and realize his dream to become a technical evangelist for Microsoft.His favorite hobbies include playing cricket, chess, carom & badminton. His favorite sports personalities include Sachin Tendulkar and Michael Schumacher. He cherishes every moment of his married life with Sailakshmi." copied from ASP Free site. Now, this can be a bit of an older bio of Vadivel, but I am sure he will update it soon here. Vadivel, please free to tell about yourself. To me he seems to be a SQL Guru. He has written articles for Microsoft India and blogs at http://thinkingms.com/vadivel/ & http://vadivel.blogspot.com/. Not sure how he gets all this energy to write for so many places, but he manages it quite well it seems. Good luck with blogging here Vadivel!. I am sure your readers are going to have fun here :). Technorati Tags: , ,

Riya- Alpha invites are out

Riya - Homepage

Riya alpha invitations went out today ( I know because I got it). Mario, this will keep you very busy now! Without wasting a minute, I registered on the alpha site and checked it out. I will be doing the uploading of images this evening. From my collection, I want to upload 4000+ images to Riya (rest I will keep it to myself for now). Just checking the basic stuff, the UI of the site has not changed much, but will know more when I upload my images and check the other options which are not available to me for now.

From Tara's blog, I found that Riya has a fan blog site now which can be found at http://riyafans.wordpress.com , way to go! Riya fan blog should get busier and busier as the day progresses and in the coming weeks.

Just after I registered on the Riya site, I saw few things that I wanted to share. Just after I registered, I really like the bluntness in the initial screen. The screen really makes me aware that I am playing with an alpha release and there is no need to jump up and down if things don't work as expected. Well done! I know I do jump up and down a lot :). I like the way in which it is presented, bold and taggy like. I have never seen this way of presentation before.

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The second screen worth a mention is as below. This is the screen where I can either download the Riya uploaders or get into the system. Looking at the bottom of the screen, there is a small note which lets me know that in the future releases of Riya, people will be individually upload images and would have a drag and drop features. Yes, I want this too :).

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Finally, look at the image below. Riya needs to be trained well to recognise it's own CEO. This ofcourse is not Munjal Shah (CEO of Riya). Photo owner of this picture, where are you?

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SEO Tools

SEO Partner - SEO software, SEO tips and more » two new seo tools!

Two SEO tools are listed on the above mentioned link. One is ‘Spider Viewer’ and the second one is ‘Word Density Analyzer’.

Spider Viewer:– You may often wonder how your site looks to a search engine spider, and while each crawler is slightly different, they all view the site in a similar way, some recognizing a couple more elements than the others. This tool will give you a general idea of how a given page looks without the graphics and fancy effects. Stop words will be colored in grey. These are usually ignored, since they’re used too often. Putting such words in the page title, for example, is a bad idea, since that decreases the weight of your keywords.

Word Density Analyzer:–  This tool will scan your page, and determine the frequency and weight of every word on the page. Stop words, words shorter than 3 letters, and wrds that are used only once will be ignored.

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Ways of Using OneNote on two or more machines

Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog : Using OneNote on two or more machines

Chris Pratley makes an excellent post on using OneNote when you have two or more computers where you want to use OneNote and access the same files. Do read his post as well as the comment made by others users and how they deal with problem of access OneNote notes from multiple computers. I myself am going to give Groove a shot which can be found at www.groove.net .

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Google Click-to-Call

Google Click-to-Call

Although I cannot see Google click to call feature when I put down different strings of words in Google search engine, but Greg Yardley has more details on it. There are also some more informational posts as below:-

Search Engine Watch

InformationWeek

Sitepoint

Most of all the links above have similar informatoin and most of them write about the things from Google Click to Call FAQ.

Could Google click to call mean that I can abuse some companies without letting them see my phone number? As a customer it’s really good for me. Now I can really do a bargain hunting without even spending a penny on phone calls :).

Update:- There are many other link to posts on Memeorandum as well. Check them out.

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Del.icio.us Playtagger- Play the mp3's from your site

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Just read about del.icio.us new feature called ‘playtagger’. It lets you play the mp3 links from your site (it is a player which is flash enabled), which means that you don’t have to embed players in your site or blog anymore.

If you have links to mp3 on your blog/site, than just use the playtagger script (can be found here) and then the script will put a play icon in front of mp3 songs. You also get the facility to tag the mp3 songs to del.icio.us. This is quite good, now we need one such video player

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