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Here comes another good software from Google – Google Web Browser ! After installed and have a run, outstanding ! It feels really smooth and light.

After the installation, it let you choose where to import your data such as IE, Firefox etc. It works preatty much the same as FIrefox but lighter and slimmer. The interface is clean and neat which gives more space for web content.

However, Google chrome does not support plugin (soon perhaps). If you like plugins might as well still stay with Firefox until plugins feature is supported in Chrome.

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WordPress 2.6 RC1 has been released. I have upgraded my blog to RC1 and everything works well. Cant wait for the full releases.

Download here and changes:

• Media uploader and gallery improvements
• Image caption and image editing fixes
• Press This fixes
• Ability to toggle between the flash uploader and a regular browser uploader
• Notification bubble on the Plugins menu when plugin updates are available

WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 now available for download after second week of the Beta releases.

New in Beta 2:

• Insert image and edit image fixes
• SSL fixes
• i18n fixes
• Lots of new inline documentation
• Improved tag auto-suggest
• TinyMCE 3.1.1 with Opera 9.5 and Safari fixes, proper align = center removal, and improved embeds support
• jQuery UI 1.5.1

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Yeah, another new beta releases of WordPress. Some of the new features pretty impressive like the Theme preview, you can now preview the theme without activate it first ! Post Revisioning, what a great function to get everything logged and you can view them anytime and reverse any changes you have made. Again, this is still in beta version, use as your own risks .

Download here and features as follows:

• Post Revisioning
• A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
• Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
• A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
• Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
• Built-in word counting in the post editor
• The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
• XML-RPC API for changing blog options
• Better SSL support for the Admin
• Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
• The ability to relocate your content directory
• The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
• Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
• Customizable default avatars
• Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
• Check box range selection with shift-click
• TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
• jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
• jQuery UI 1.5
• Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Google Talk, Labs Edition is another version of google talk with additional features such as group chat, google calendar and Orkut notifications. If you use web googletalk before, you notice it can transform or rotate your smillies to a nice looking one. Previously this feature is not supported in the normal googletalk client, now the labs edition will have this feature included. However, in the Labs Edition, voice chat and file transfer is not included grrrrr.

If you are google calendar users and rely heavily on it for notifications, google talk labs edition is for you. You can customize how it notifies you and even snoop it. Yes, just like how you snoop your morning alarm clock.

Firefox 3 beta 5 is available for download now. In general, Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform. You may ask what is Gecko ? Gecko is an open source, free web browser layout which used in all other Mozilla’s software such as Firefox, Thunderbird and the old Netscape browser. Gecko is one of the most popular layout engine beside Trident which was used in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Firefox 3 will be built on the latest version of Genko and comes with tons of improvements compared to Firefox 2. Check the followings features quoted from mozilla.org:

• Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
• Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.
• Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatabilty and stability.
• Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.

You can see a new design on the navigation panel: – Neat and new back and forward button. – Notice the address bar drop down list displays more information. There is a complete and long release notes available if you want to read it. You can download the beta releases here, just choose your language and you are on your way. Bear in mind this is a beta release, it may not stable and contains bugs and security issues.