Internet Explorer 9 Has Arrived

Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to mark the launch of the open beta for Internet Explorer 9, a web browser the company promises will “beautify the web.”The IE9 beta launches today here at the Design Concourse Center in San Francisco with a major gala that includes hundreds of developers, journalists and Microsoft employees, as well as a live band playing on pedestals in the lobby.
“The browser is a stage. It is the backdrop of the web,” said Corporate Vice President of Internet Explorer Dean Hachamovitch.

Microsoft says that IE9 is a reinvention of the browser. It not only includes greater HTML5 and web standard compliance, but also the ability to turn any website into an application on the Windows taskbar. Thee websites are pinned to the taskbar, providing users with a one-click option to a their favorite websites. It also includes Windows 7’s jump lists; any website that supports them will provide a quick menu to its most popular webpages.

The focus of IE9 is on the “regular consumer,” which may irk those of us who generally have more than 10 or 20 tabs open at any given time. Tabs appear on the right side of the address bar, decreasing the amount of real-estate for tabs. To help decrease tab overload, they are grouped based on different websites within the taskbar.

Perhaps IE9’s biggest selling point is hardware acceleration. The company has used four developer previews to show off the speed of IE9 compared to its competitors. IE9 harnesses the PC’s hardware to accelerate graphics, videos and text. The result is that IE9 is able to render heavy graphic interfaces far better than even Chrome or Firefox.
The IE9 beta is available for download today on the Beautify the Web site Microsoft has launched as part of its promotional campaign. We have had access to the IE9 beta for a while now and will be posting our thoughts and reviews soon. In the meantime, let us know whether you believe Microsoftcan get back into the browser game with IE9.

Gmail Priority Inbox: Well, Email overload? Try Priority Inb

Google has added a new feature to Gmail. That is ‘Priority Inbox’ which finds the important message and sort them for you. This new features analyze your mail and prioritize according to figuring out which sender’s emails you read and reply the most. This great feature is definitely help those who has thousand of messages to choose what is more important for them. The Priority emails will be pushed to the top of a user’s inbox – while others will drop to the bottom.



This Priority Inbox feature – will split the inbox into three sections: ‘Important and unread’, ‘Starred’ and ‘Everything Else’. Well, once you enable this feature you can see the “Priority Inbox”.



There is also a settings tab for the Priority Inbox added to Gmail’s settings allowing you to configure the filtering feature as shown in the image bellow.



Google said in a statement: ‘As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important’. Well, the Emails in your Priority Inbox are filtered and sorted based on what Gmail determines are most important to you based on – you send and read emails.

Apple App Store Passes 250000 iPhone Apps Milestone!

Apple has passes 250,000, a quarter million milestone in iOS based applications. Well, Yes! This reports has been marked on this Friday. According to 148Apps.biz, and Apple’s (AAPL) U.S. site this has been really cross this milestones actually. There are more than 50,000 developers are working on these applications. These are the only iOS based application reports, if we count inactive apps too then it will definitely cross 300,000 number. Well, you can see the graph shown bellow which shows the rapid rate at which the App Store is growing.

Hotmail for iPhone: Supports Push Mail and Sync – coming on

In an interview with CNET, Microsoft has conformed that they are going to introduce the hotmail app for iPhone users which will support push mail via ActiveSync. Microsoft manager Dharmesh Mehtasaid – this new feature will be released on Monday. Well, the AcriveSync supports POP or IMAP connection. When the mail arrives on Hotmail it will notify and displays mails on the phone and respectively when you read mails from your phone, it will be marked as read on Hotmail and vice versa.

This will likely work on all iDevices which support exchange feature. The new Exchange AtiveSync sync Windows Live contacts, Windows Live calendar and on some devices tasks as well as email. And Yes! it’s the first time that you can sync calendar and contacts with a device without needing a separate sync app.

Microsoft Office 15 (Office 2014) Screenshots Leaked

As just four months after Office 2010 was released, The Office 15 / Office 2014 is of course the next major iteration of Microsoft’s productivity suite, and the successor of Office 2010, which was built using the codename Office 14. A Russian website Wzor is offering actual proof that the software giant indeed started the development process of Office 2010’s successor.

Wzor also noted that there is some new application development referred as “Microsoft Limestone Application Integration” or simply Microsoft Lime. Now no other details are available as of follows. But till the time the Screenshot has been leaked (As shown above).

Download TinyUmbrella 4.02.04: to save SHSH Blobs for iOS 4.0.2 and iOS 3.2.2

Recently, iPhone Dev Team has released an updated version of TinyUmbrella to support iOS 4.0.2 iPhone 4, 3GS and 3G and iOS 3.2.2 iPad firmware. TinyUmbrella allows iPhone owners to save SHSH blobs which allows them to downgrade their iDevice’s firmware to previous versions. It is very important to save your firmware’s SHSH blobs first because Apple is stop signing the older firmware once, it has released the new firmware. So if you don’t save SHSH blobs, then you can’t restore the old firmware again or downgrade on your device.

Guidelines to save SHSH blobs on your iPhone or iPad using TinyUmbrella 4.02.4:

1. Download TinyUmbrella from bellow and Execute the file.
2. Connect your iPhone/iPad to the PC
3. When connected, simply press Save My SHSH button

Download Links:

• Windows TinyUmbrella
• Mac TinyUmbrella
• Linux TinyUmbrella

Download TinyUmbrella using the following links and save SHSH Blobs for iOS 4.0.2 today itself. [via]

Official StumbleUpon App Released for iPhone and Android [Download]

On Thursday, StumbleUpon has announced its App for Android and iPhone smartphones in his Blog. This App takes the StumbleUpon experience on mobile, letting you to discover and rate random Web pages recommended to you by others. It works,  to click on a ‘stumble’ button that takes you to a random page where you can rate web pages with thumbs up or thumbs down buttons. Well, it’s not totally random though, as you are led to more websites, you can adjust settings to stumble on to categories of sites you have more interest in.

StumbleUpon Description

StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds the best of web, recommended just for you. Every time you click Stumble!, It’ll show you sites that have been selected uniquely for you based on your preferences and recommendations from millions of other users who share your passions and interests.

As quoted from the official StumbleUpon blog:

You’ve asked and we’re thrilled to deliver! For as long as we can remember, StumbleUpon users have been asking us to bring the stumbling experience to iPhones and Android* phones. Our engineers have been working hard to build an app with a simple yet functional interface and the same addictive and personalized stumbling experience you’re used to on your computer. We’ve been testing the app for weeks and can’t put down our phones – it’s THAT fun!

Now you can download the official StumbleUpon app for your iPhone and Android phone and log in with your StumbleUpon Username and Password. After log in, all your StumbleUpon preferences will be automatically loaded on your phone. So,

Download StumbleUpon App from here. [via]

Gmail Voice and Video Chat Now Available on Linux

About 2 years ago, Google launched voice and video chat feature within Gmail, allowing many people to have live, face-to-face conversations with their friends. But unfortunately the Linux users had not get chance to use this features. But after a long time wait Google has announced voice and video chat for Linux. Now users can head over to gmail.com/videochat, to download the plug-in and start yakking away.

Hopefully Google doesn’t neglect the Linux community too often, especially since it took nearly two years for this feature to arrive but what ever, now the linux platform also supports voice and video chat feature.

NOTE: Gmail Voice and Video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu or other Debian based distributions only. and the RPM package is expected to come soon.

Laptop Evolution A History of Portable Computing

Laptop Evolution A History of Portable Computing

1981: The Osborne 1 

1982: The Compaq Portable 




1982: The Grid Compass 1100 




1983: The Epson HX-20 




1989: The Poqet PC 




1991: The Apple PowerBook 100 




1992: The IBM ThinkPad 700C 




1994: The Apple PowerBook 500 




1995: The IBM ThinkPad 701



1999: The Apple iBook 3G 



2005: The Lenovo X41 Tablet 



2007: The Asus Eee PC 4G 



2007: The OLPC XO Laptop 



2010: The Apple iPad 

Microsoft and ARM reach chip deal

Microsoft has entered into a lisenceing deal with ARM that can make the software behemoth pull off an ‘Apple‘ act in future. ARM chipsets are almost the universal deity of mobile or embedded systems and the latest agreement will enable Microsoft to design their own chips based on the ARM architecture, a la Apple.

Both Microsoft and Arm Holdings have collaborated for years in the fields of software and devices, particularly in the mobile, consumer, and embedded product segments. Now with the software giant holding the license to design their own Arm-based microarchitectures, we can certainly expect smart devices coming from Microsoft in future.

Speaking of the deal, executive vice president Ian Drew of marketing at Arm said, “We have licensed our architecture and our instruction set to Microsoft. This type of license allows you to design your own microarchitecture.”

With this, Microsoft joined a select group of companies – Qualcomm, Marvell Technology and Infineon Technologies that have similar licensing agreements that enable them to design their own Arm-based microarchitectures.

“As an architectural licensee, Microsoft wants to go public about adding itself to that short list,” said Drew.

ARM happens to be one of the most high profile chip designers in the world, with almost everything from the Apple’s iPhone and iPad to high-tech toys and handheld calculators having an ARM chip at their core. It might be mentioned here that the Snapdragon processors from Qualcomm go on to power the Dell Streak tablet and Google’s Nexus One range of smartphones.

In Microsoft’s case, the deal could mean Window Phone 7 Series based slates and tablets having an ARM chip. Then the Windows Embedded Compact may also be provided with ARM derived technology in the future. Microsoft will perhaps also like to port complete Windows versions on to ARM in the LongARM project, something that isn’t possible at this moment. And then, who knows? Microsoft may even be planning to have ARM powering their next gen Xbox consoles.

So! Exciting times ahead as we await the launch of some smart products from Microsoft.

Intel Core i7-970 Processor Gone Official

Intel official announced a new six-core processor, this is a microchip Core i7-970, which is made using 32-nanometermanufacturing process, it involves the installation of a socket LGA 1366, the microchip has a L2 cache size 1.5 MB, L3 = 12 MB and support technologies Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading.

In the model range of Intel processors for the desktop segment of the microchip Core i7-970 will occupy the second position after the well-known to us Core i7-980X. Intel Core i7-970 can be purchased in the U.S., Japan and European countries at a price of $ 885.