Firefox 3 Dowload Count hits 8Million Plus

The Download day set by Mozilla worked well with download count hitting more than 8million users worldwide.The exact number is being scrutinized and to be believed would be more than 10Million.

The nation with the most downloads was the United States, with 3,288,217 downloads, UK came in second at 393,211 downloads, followed by China with 228,370 downloads.While India alone had 139,097 downloads(I'm being a part of it).

At their busiest the servers were handling more than 9,000 downloads per minute. Within five hours the number of downloads for Version 3.0 exceeded the 1.6 million set by Firefox 2.0 in October 2006.

However DV Labs/Tipping Point reported a flaw that potentially lets an attacker take over a PC if a user clicks on a booby-trapped link.

Download Firefox3: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday

Description of New Features: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/

Be a part in setting a Guinness World Record

Join in mission to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.Take a pledge to download Firefox 3 on Download day and be a part in World record.

Firefox 3 , the new improved browser with many new features is slated for release in late June.
Download Firefox 3 on the release day which will be informed later by Firefox team.

Take pledge here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/pledge

ChaCha Search Engine

ChaCha...though sounds weird, is a website which offers a free 24x7 mobile answer services for people on the go.(i don't think this works in INDIA)

ChaCha launched its beta version on April 1 2008 and works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device with normal SMS and voice capability to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes.
Users can call 1-800-2-CHACHA and ask a question after the prompt. The question will then be transcribed into an SMS query. The answer then will be received by the caller in a text message.

Have a look at www.chacha.com

Microsoft demos Windows 7

The world's largest software giant Microsoft is coming with new OS Windows 7 the successor of Windows Vista that doesn't impress many. It includes multi-touch features as an alternative to mouse and enhancing the user interaction.

The new OS is slated for release in 2010 and comes in both 32bit and 64bit versions.

A server variant, codenamed Windows Server 7, is also under development.

A touch-screen interface will allow users to enlarge and shrink photos, trace routes on maps, paint pictures or even play the piano.



"The way you interact with the system will change dramatically" said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Well that looks like Microsoft is confident of Windows 7 after a debacle of Windows Vista.

Notepad++

After a long silence i'm back with something interesting..Notepad++.I found this when i was going through some site found intresting and thought of sharing with you.

Notepad++ is a source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. It supports syntax highlighting for ASP, Ada, ASCII art, Assembly, C, C#, C++, Caml, CSS, FORTRAN, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Unix Shell Script, Smalltalk, SQL, VB/VBScript, XML etc..




Website:http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Copy Protection to CDs

This is special...Adding copy protection to CDs,which helps in protecting from discs being copied.By this any person will be able to run the CD but he will not be able to copy the content onto his PC.
To do

1)Download and install Clone CD from www.slysoft.com and CCD-lock from http://cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_3.shtml

2)Burn the CD in normal way , after completion run Clone CD and make an image of the disc by clicking on 'Read to image' button.Then click on 'Data CD' in the following screen and to create an image click on the 'Next' button.


3)After creating an image of the data on the disc , run CCD-Lock.
Click on 'Open file folder' option to laod the image file(.ccd) that has been created with Clone CD.
Open the image and CCD-lock will scan it.Press the 'Program settings' button on the top and choose the kind of protection for data.

4)Then,click on the 'lock-it' button to intialize the protection process.
Run CloneCD and burn the newly created locked image to another blank CD.

That's it -the data will be protected.

Do You Know?

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with
Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?

9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international
cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?

15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country
(other than Vatican )?

17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?

Here Are the Answers! :

1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax ..

2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports

4. Satellite Television Asian Region

5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India

6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen

7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is Indian
's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)

9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

11. South Korea ..

12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)

13. Geoffrey Boycott

14. John Traicos

15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..

17. Polo.