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The world’s most popular social bookmarking website, digg.com, has now a completely revamped outlook.The website now includes quite a few new features. An important addition is a personalized news stream, called “My News”. This shows all the news feeds from your friends and the people you are following, something similar to Twitter.
By now the iPad has established itself as a solid IMT (Internet Media Tablet), and ranks at the top of the list in customer satisfaction. Other than just browsing the web, if you use it daily to check your Yahoo! emails too, then let’s just say that the company is kind enough to launch an iPad-optimized website for http://mail.yahoo.com, a.k.a. Yahoo! mail. Thanks to HTML 5, which takes your Yahoo! mail experience (on the iPad) to a whole new level.
The newest beta of the latest Firefox edition, a.k.a version 4, not only features hundreds of bug fixes, but also something a lot of fans were waiting eagerly…the ‘multi-touch’ functionality. In addition to that it also has a JavaScript update that allows faster execution of graphics and animations. A few videos are attached to give you a better understanding about the multi-touch feature.
Whenever garments are made there’s always a waste involved in the form of bits and pieces of cloth. Just think, what it would be like if such an enormous waste could be totally stopped? Designer Siddhartha Upadhyaya has come up with the idea of weaving out the different parts of a clothing [as shown below] instead of cutting them out from a rectangular sheet of fabric and then sewing them together to obtain the desired outfit [shown above].
Generally lights on a building enhance the beauty when darkness sets in, but what if the lights could be manipulated to send a message across? The Dexia Tower in Brussels, Belgium simply does that with its elaborate setting of lights on the facade. The tower has LED bulbs fitted on 4200 windows, the color of which is controlled by computers.The color coded messages range from the next day’s temperature, cloudiness, precipitations and even wind! For warm temperatures [> the monthly average] the colors used are yellow, orange and red, while the cooler counterparts are denoted by cyan, blue and violet, with green being the median.
Facebook.com isn’t the most secured website, and we all know it. The world’s largest social networking website has been accused of having poor security control, a number of times by now. Recently, a German data protection office has taken legal action against the web-based company based in Palo Alto, California. Privacy laws are very strict in Germany, unlike most other countries. Hamburg office for data protection claims that Facebook has been “saving private information of individuals who don’t use the site and haven’t granted it access to their details”.
Firefox, a browser that literally saved the web from a monopoly disaster, is now available in its fourth avatar. Although in Beta 1, version 4.0 is reported to be quite stable. Among its new features the most important is probably the new sleeker look, somewhat similar to Google’s Chrome, only better. It also features a new Add-On Manager, support for WebM format (to let you watch open HD quality video), and a better privacy control.
The big blue has finally decided to go with Firefox and make it the default browser among all its 400,000 employees. Until now Firefox only had a strong presence across most computers at home, but now IBM’s move clearly proves that the browser is simply much more than that. And this means Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is losing market share even at the enterprise-level. As per Bob Sutor, VP of Open source and Linux at the IBM Software Group, “Firefox is enterprise-ready, and we’re ready to adopt it for our enterprise.”
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