Almost every feature rich website nowadays have at-least a little bit of Adobe’s love or have Flash software. Its latest 10 beta release gets even better with GPU acceleration for H.264 video and multi-touch support and tones of bug fixes. Unfortunately the graphics powered HD acceleration is only for the Windows platform. Now come on Adobe almost all the latest Mac or Linux are capable of playing Youtube’s upcoming 1080p  videos without breaking a sweat. But all platforms will support multi-touch, hopefully it won’t be bugged with lag problems.

Besides Flash, Adobe has also updated their Air apps platform to 2.0 with lots of added features like USB access, better handling of networking and ability to open up files or link using its native application and a better and faster WebKit browser. Both Flash 10.1 prerelease and AIR 2.0 beta are available as free downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.

In less than two weeks Mozzilla is back with yet another beta Firefox 3.6 beta 2. But don’t panic , the update this includes a mammoth 190 bug fixes over beta 1, with addition performance boost and support for oneclick themes. If you still reluctant to test the latest beta, Firefox 3.5.5 is the latest build but for those who have already jumped into the murky waters of beta testing Firefox 3.6 beta 2 seems to a worthy upgrade.

Firefox 3.6 beta 2 is available for download for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Of-course its free.

As you would already know Twitter is one of most popular microblogging web application over the internet. ChromedBird is a twitter client for your Chrome browser. It hides itself inside a little birdie button until you check your stream or want to post an update. ChromedBird displays the last 5 tweets in your stream and allows you to post updates well that’s about it. If you post links your links are shortened using bit.ly . ChromeBird is a very early build so expect it to be buggy.

You can find the ChromedBird .crx over at ChromeExtensions. This extensions is only meant for the latest dev builds of Chrome 4.0+.

Youtube feels fairly restricted with it 1GB upload limit, but as of now Youtube will offer your with 2GB of space to upload your videos as well  as directly link to an high definition video.

To share a link to the HD version of your video, simply add “&hd=1″  to the end of the URL and will play in HD as soon as someone plays it. Besides that you could also embedded, simply click the customize button to the right of the embed box on the video page, some options should appear, click on “play in HD”. Now you embed code will play HD videos at (853×505) resolutions for maximum viewing pleasure.

The world’s number one social networking site, as the name goes is sure bound to have millions of photos. And if you are one of the Facebook freaks and love to look at the pics of your friends, this Firefox extension might come in handy.

Lets say, you and your friends had a blast at some amusement park or the other. And each one of them clicks pics and upload it on Facebook. If its a huge gang, then loads of photos will be uploaded. You could download these pics, say one by one or the whole album at a click by using FacePAD.

FacePAD is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to download albums from Facebook  at one go. Its pretty simple to use. Just right click the image on the Facebook and click ‘Download with FacePAD’ to start downloading images. 

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I usually discover a new site everyday or atleast every week and then bookmark it. The problem is that there are too many now and I don’t want to miss out any of the latest happenings on any one of them. Enter Samfind.

Samfind segregates the websites on the basis of categories i.e you can categorize the websites you added. These categories are in turn added to the Mozilla Firefox toolbar which makes it easier for you to navigate to. The most visited website is shown first followed by others. 

Samfind also supports RSS. It gives you the power of reading the newsfeed without actually going to the website yourself. 

Its simple as a whole but gives a lot to the user. Samfind is still in the beta stage, so you need to log in before you can start using it. Just register at Samfind.com for a free account. 

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I think I heard an ejaculation that ran as ‘wtf’. Its true, Oosah is offering a 1 Tera Byte of free online storage space. And thats not the border, it has the interface of the latest with support of the major social sites like Facebook, youtube, picassa and Flickr.

When its free, I somewhat always have the hunch that there is a scheme behind it. Here, there is no exception but they don’t really look like schemes to me unless if you were pirate. Oosah doesn’t allow users to upload video files exceeding 200 MB or image files exceeding 50 MB and MP3 files exceeding 9MB are also not allowed. 

On the whole I would advice Oosah for a typical media files freak. For example, I got tons of vintage movies and gigabytes of old and new music, its obvious that I should select Oosah for its support and huge space. 

Some of the main features are you can create folders with sub-folders, drag and drop files, upload files in any format etc. in fact, some features make it look like a virtual desktop. The ‘Create playlist’ for the media files and gallery for your selected images etc. make it look like any ordinary desktop. Password protect feature is also available.

Sharing is one of the main features Oosah can boast upon – Email, RSS, linking/embedding, SMS, podcasting, downloading-burning to CD/DVD and local high resolution photo printing. Oosah as of now hasn’t said anything about the type of content you can upload, but just to be on the safer side, google its privacy policy.

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Google Chrome just released just 30 minutes back i guess( while i was writing). Actually I was holly shit when Google announced that they where making there own open source browse, considering Google has been supporting Firefox for quite a while now.

Google Chrome is based on the WebKit engine and by the initial 5 minutes with the browser, its pretty awesome considering it just a beta. Good thing is that the browser runs separate processes per TAB to ensure security and stability. This way if one of the tab crashes accidentally, it won’t influence your work in other tabs. While running multiple tabs each tab was consuming about 6 to 10mb depending on the website content, flashier websites tend to consume more ram.

And the built-in privacy mode like IE8 (InPrivate), called Incognito, can be bought up by pressing the shortcut, CTRL+SHIFT+N makes a sandbox tab, where you could checkout sites which requires cookies and other unwanted stuffs, without having to expose any personal credentials. Hope Google keeps updating there browsers with good features (last time i checked out, Gtalk doesn’t have conference calls).

Now that browser is made public, please head over to the link below and check for yourself.

http://www.google.com/chrome

Today’s instant messenging softwares are fighting each other for the most number of users. Among them is the clean looking Google Talk. A good competitor and with this trick it might prompt all the users of Mozilla Firefox to reconsider their other instant messenging services.

Here is how you do it

♦ Click Bookmarks on your Mozilla Firefox browser. Then point at Organize Bookmarks and select New Bookmark from the menu.

♦ Enter the following link in the location textbox and click Load this bookmark in the sidebar. Click Add.

http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/client?fid=gtalk0&relay=http://www.google.com

♦ Well, that was pretty much the main process. The next time you open the Mozilla Firefox browser, a sidebar with Google Talk will open. Here is how it looks:

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For those of you who don’t know what Drop.io is, it is a service that allows sharing of documents and files. With its simple interface and image-scaled uploads, its become popular with heavy file sharers. Now the company has decided to offer drag & drop uploads on Mozilla Firefox that will make things easier and faster.

How do you do that?

Create a ‘drop’ area at drop.io. Select the file from your desktop or any webpage and drag it to an existing drop.io drop area. The file will get uploaded or if it is small, it will get converted for an easy one click access.

What if you are lazy on just creating a drop area? Simple, just drag and drop the file on the red dot of the status bar. This saves time but when I tested it, I had some trouble with huge files. Images are a tad easy when it comes to this method.

Anyway, any file that you drag & drop can be bookmarked. Drop.io also supports Linux & ubuntu. Drop.io also announced that they are working on drag & drop based on RSS and twitter feeds. Lets just wait and see how it is received.

NOTE: Drop.io requires Apple Quicktime plugin.

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