Microsoft have officially announced that Internet Explorer 9 Beta will be launched on September 15 at an event in San Francisco. Internet Explorer 9 is a complete revamped edition of the popular browser. According to sources, Internet Explorer 9 will feature a minimalist user interface. Microsoft is not planning to use Metro or Ribbon UI elements in IE9 but instead it will feature a simple User Interface similar to that of Google’s Chrome Browser. Microsoft have revealed the official log of Internet Explorer 9 today.
IE 9 features broader support for HTML5 in through its new script engine. It is expected that Internet Explorer 9 will be a faster Web Browser. Microsoft is planning to enhance tabbed browsing in IE9. Lets see if IE 9 will offer better browser experience for users.
Twitter has launched the official Tweet button to simplify sharing from websites and Blogs. The Tweet button allows publishers to keep the count Twitter shares of a particular link – this feature allows your visitors to quickly guess the popularity of your content. The Tweet button uses Twitter’s URL shortening service T.co . On clicking the Tweet Button, a Tweet box appears with the page title, a short URL of the page and additional space to add your text. Another advantage of the Tweet button is that you have an option to let the user to follow you on Twitter. There are several customization options available for you to customize your Tweet button.
How to add Tweet Button to WordPress Blog
To add the Tweet Button to your self hosted WordPress Blog, go to the Twitter Goodies link: http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton There are several customization options available. Customize your Tweet Button and generate the code. Copy this code and past this into your WordPress ‘single.php’ file.
How to add Tweet Button to Blogger Blog
To add Tweet Button to your Blogger Blog, generate the code and search for the class "post-footer" in the Blogger XML template. Paste the code somewhere near it.
With the popularity of Twitter increasing day by day, the competition among Twitter clients is also getting fierce day by day. As per the statistics the top one is the Twitter website itself. Tweetdeck is the most popular Twitter client. Among mobile twitter clients, UberTwitter comes on top. There are now plenty of choices for Twitter clients. Clientopedia is a site which gathers public Twitter timelines of all Twitter clients and publishes the statistics on a daily basis.
As you can see the most eye candy and feature rich twitter clients comes on top of this list.
Most popular Twitter clients
Data courtesy Clientopedia.com
Domain name registration is getting cheaper day by day, and it is very difficult to get the domain name of your choice in top level domain names. Doman name suggestion tools becomes handy in such situations. You just needs to submit the keyword you like to the domain name suggestion tools, it will come up with available domain names. There are many free domain name suggestion tools available in the Internet. Here we have compiled a list of 5 most popular domain name suggestion tools. Each of these have its own advantages and disadvantages. Try different tools as per your requirements.
This is a nice tool which brings in lots of creativity in the whole process of domain name suggestions. This tool suggests domain names with prefixes, suffixes and colors. Shout Domain suggests domain names based on the keyword you enter. It has several categories in which it suggests domain names.
2.Name Tumbler
This tools asks few questions and generates available domain name based on this.
3.Domains Bot
Just enter the keyword and Domain Bot suggests available domain names and has the option to buy the interested domain right away.
4.Domain Tools
Domain Tools suggests the best alternative domain in .com.,.net, and other Top Level Domains based on your keyword. This tool shows the existing registrant information of already registered domains. You may buy these domains if you are interested.
5. Name Boy
Name Boy takes a combination of keywords and suggests available domains based on that.
With these tools, the process of finding domain names gets a lot more interesting.
Happy news for bloggers using Google’s Blogger as their blogging platform. Google introduces real time web analytics to Blogger. Google Analytics is a very powerful web analytics software. Major advantage of Google Analytics is that it is free. Downside of it is that the updates in Google Analytics is slow. Normally Analytics gets updated once in a day. If your site gets a surge in traffic, you will get to know about it only later.
Blogger blogs get an edge here. Google added real time web analytics feature to Blogger. You will need to access your blog through drafts.blogger.com to get this feature. No installation is required. Blog Stats is an inbuilt feature in Blogger now. Through this tool, basic information about your blog statistics like number of visitors and their countries, details of the browser they are using, most popular posts on your blog, the traffic during various times of the day etc.
Blog Stats is available only for blogs hosted in Blogger and is not available for your own domain blogs using the blogger platform.
A group of MIT researchers are developing a new network topology that could make the Internet 100 times or even 1000 times faster. The new technology is called flow switching. In the current network technology, backhaul internet links carries information in the form of optical signals. These are then converted into electrical signals and are stored in the routers memory for a short period of time (generally milliseconds) to help the router to take routing decision. These electrical signals are then converted back to optical signals for re-transmission. This process consumes more time and energy.
In the new technology called flow switching, the conversion from optical to electrical and then back to optical is avoided. One of the advantages of using optical signals for transmission is that different optical signals loaded with different information can travel over the same fiber. But it becomes difficult when optical signals coming from different directions reach a router simultaneously. Converting these optical signals to electrical signals allows the router to keep them in memory until it can get to them. The wait is just a matter of milliseconds, but there’s no cost-effective way to hold an optical signal still for even milliseconds. In flow switching, dedicated path is utilized thus eliminating the need of storing the information. Optical signals arrives only in one direction and send them off only in one direction.
Once fully implemented, this technology could make the Internet 100 times or even 1000 times faster.
Hosting needs of each website is unique. The Hosting needs of a larger website and a newbie blogger with a WordPress blog are different. A site with lots of streaming media file needs a host with large bandwidth. At the same time WordPress blogs benefits from larger memory. For a new webmaster, a research finding out which websites is hosted by which hosting company would be beneficial. Through this, one can compare the money involved in hosting with different hosts and arrive at an economical and better hosting provider.
There is a cool tool available on the net which can tell which server hosts given website. The tool is whoishostingthis.com Just enter the website address and the tool will display who is the hosting provider of that particular web site.
Latest version of Windows Live Essentials is now released. This includes the most popular blog writing tool, Windows Live Writer. Other software’s included in the free Windows Live Essentials pack are Messenger, Photo Gallery & Movie maker, Family Safety, Live mail and Outlook Connector pack.
Windows Live Essential new release is supported in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. It doesn’t support XP. Windows Live Writer now includes a ribbon interface with contextual tabs and it gels well with latest Office family.
Windows Live Essential suite can be downloaded from explore.live.com
Normally Twitter updates can be updated to Facebook personal pages. But most users find it difficult to update the Facebook pages they own automatically from Twitter or Blog. There is a solution to this problem. Facebook pages can be updated with RSS feeds of your Twitter updates or blog.
How to Update Facebook pages from Twitter
Go to the Facebook page you own and click Edit page. Go to Notes and click edit. Go to notes settings and click Import a Blog. 
In the web URL field enter the RSS feed location of your Twitter account or the RSS feed of your blog and click Start Importing.
You will get a preview of your feed. Once you are happy confirm the settings. To find the RSS feed of your Twitter account, go to your Twitter home page and then on the right hand side of the home page, right click the RSS feed link and select Copy link. This can be pasted to the RSS feed location of your Facebook fan page notes import URL field.
Just like any other online email accounts such as Yahoo and Hotmail, Gmail accounts can also be hacked. The impact of Google account being hacked can be huge if you transact online using your Google account. It can cause you lose of money if the Google account is linked with Google Adsense or own domains and bank accounts.
Here are some tips to protect your Google account from hackers.
- Always update your alternate email address and set this address as the secondary address to the Gmail account. It is advisable to check emails in the secondary address using a desktop email client.
- Associate your mobile phone number to the Gmail account. When someone tries to hack your Gmail account, you will receive an SMS alert.
- Choose a strong security question and answer which cannot be guessed easily. Google will let you reset your password using the security question.
- Choose a strong password and change it at least twice in an year. The password should contain upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters.
- Do not share your password with anyone.
- If you access Gmail using WiFi, make sure that it is accessed through https. Go to Gmail settings and set ‘Browser Connection’ to ‘Always use https’
- Once in a while check the IP addresses from where your Gmail account is accessed. It can be found on the bottom of the Gmail window.
- Make a note of the date the Gmail account was opened and other Google services such as Orkut, Blogger, Adsense etc. It is required in the recovery process.
- Do not respond to messages requesting your user name and password
- In the unfortunate event that your Google account is hacked, fill out this form for recovering your Google account
Microsoft have officially announced that Internet Explorer 9 Beta will be launched on September 15 at an event in San Francisco. Internet Explorer 9 is a complete revamped edition of the popular browser. According to sources, Internet Explorer 9 will feature a minimalist user interface. Microsoft is not planning to use Metro or Ribbon UI elements in IE9 but instead it will feature a simple User Interface similar to that of Google’s Chrome Browser. Microsoft have revealed the official log of Internet Explorer 9 today.
