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Mozilla Plugin Check Lets Firefox users to Keep Plugins Up to Date

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Mozilla has announced the launch of Plugin check webpage intended to check for insecure and outdated plugins of Firefox.At present this tool can check only 15 plugins (do not confuse with Add-ons).This also warns the user when they are not up-to-date and need to be updated.

Right now the Plugin-Check page can only be accessed through Firefox but in future Mozilla is willing to extend this to all browsers.

Mozilla Plugin Check Page

Before this, only Add-ons were being checked for update leaving plugins as such.This lead to emergence of various attacks through those vulnerable outdated plugins, hence it became a primary concern for Mozilla team to identify such plugins.

Firefox 3.6 Beta is set to be launched on the next Wednesday.According to Mozilla team,Firefox 3.6 will warn users when they visit any web site that needs to run on an outdated plug-in.

Disable Ads in FeedDemon Reader In Easy Steps

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FeedDemon the most popular desktop RSS reader has many good features to boast of but from the time since it became Ad-Supported (from the version 2.8) free RSS reader, ads have started rolling on the left corner of the client .The user has to purchase a serial to completely remove those ads which are annoying at times.

FeedDemon Deck Ad Before Blocking

If you are looking for a way to at least stop those ads too keep rolling in your FeedDemon, here’s a workaround:

FeedDemon uses Deck Network Ads which runs through the server northmay.com, so all we need to do is to deny access to northmay.com from your computer.This can be done in many ways, though the much simpler trick would be to add the following URLs in the ‘Restricted Sites’ option in Internet Options that are present under settings in Internet explorer

(This works since FeedDemon uses IE to connect to the internet)

URL:

*.northmay.com

The result would like this:

FeedDemon Deck Ad After Blocking

Let me know if anyone is facing problems with this or also do post a comment here, if anyone has a far better idea than this, your suggestions are welcome.

Alternative: As mentioned earlier. FeedDemon has come up with these ads only from Version 2.8, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get FeedDemon stable version 2.7.

Final Word:As,  Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon says this software needs support from people and Techrena urges all FeedDemon lovers to do the same and without that support we may not see our favorite reader anymore..

Gmail Emerges As No.1 Email Service in India

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Google’s Gmail has probably officially took the honour for their outstanding features provided to the users allowing Gmail to takeover it’s rival Yahoo mail as the top email service provider site in India.

According to an online audience measurement and analytics organization ViziSense, Gmail has managed to get 18.2 million users in India to use its services at a growth rate of 2.82 % in September 2009 and 6.63 % in the previous month August 2009.

The classic Yahoo mail India, which continued to stay at No.1 till the last month had to settle with No #2 position with a negative growth of -7.69 % and with 16.8 million users approximately.

Gmail overtake Yahoo mail India

Yahoo Mail which dominated as the most popular email service in India is loosing ground to Gmail .But for the big internet company which has recently launched ‘It’s You’ campaign in India to attract more users, this news may not be so encouraging .

Probably it’s time for us to say- “Wake Up Yahoo !! ” 🙂

Download Google Chrome 4.0.206.1 Beta

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Google Chrome has been updated to version 4.0.206.1 (Beta) with fixing some minor issues with earlier versions (You can find more about the issues that are being fixed here ).

google-chrome 4.0.206.1 Beta

The installation latest version of size 11.2 MB was released on September 5, 2009.

You can find the download page for Google Chrome 4.0.206.1 here:

Download (Google Chrome 4.0.206.1 Dev / 3.0.195.6 Beta / 2.0.172.43 Stable / 1.0.154.65 Stable)

Previous Versions:Google Chrome 2.0.172.2 Beta

Yahoo’s Twitter Clone ‘Meme’ Now In English

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Yahoo which made it’s official entry into ‘Microblogging’ platform a while ago by launching Yahoo Meme in Portuguese. Now Yahoo has targeted the English users worldwide by launching English version of ‘Yahoo Meme’.

The following are the excerpts from Meme’s ABOUT page.

What is Meme?

“Meme is where you share everything you find that’s interesting”.

What does Meme mean?

A “meme” is commonly known in the web as some kind of content that spreads fast and draws everyone’s attention.

Yahoo Meme English Launch_Techrena

Yahoo Meme isn’t a twitter clone exactly but has similar features like following users and even ranking for the most popular content posted by the users.Meme allows users to share web content that they feel interesting, including text, photos, videos, music.

But the service isn’t open to all as it is still in ‘Alpha Version’, however interested users can drop-in their emails to get notified when the service comes available to them.

TIME’s 50 Best Websites 2009: Flickr at top, Twitter overtakes Google

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TIME 50 Best Websites of 2009: Flickr tops, Google @ 11

TIME magazine has released the 50 websites most liked by the netizens.

It’s the photo sharing community site Flickr which sits @ 1, and the most recent innovative websites Twitter and  Wolfram|Alpha also enjoy positions 6 and 13, while Search Engine giant Google stays @ 11. Check out the list of  top 20 of “TIME 50 Best Websites of 2009 list” below.

flickr @ Time 50 websites
Leading the Way: Flickr tops the Top 50 List

TOP 20 Websites List >>

1.  Flickr
2.  California Coastline
3.  Delicious
4.  Metafilter
5.  popurls
6.  Twitter
7.  Skype
8.  Boing Boing
9.  Academic Earth
10. OpenTable
11. Google
12. YouTube
13. Wolfram|Alpha
14. Hulu
15. Vimeo
16. Fora TV
17. Craiglook
18. Shop Goodwill
19. Amazon
20. Kayak

For full list, please visit this Time.com’s page

Gmail’s New Option ‘Email a Task List’

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Gmail has recently added a new option to the Tasks inside Gmail that lets you email your tasks to your friends 🙂

This option is available inside the ‘Actions’ menu of  ‘Tasks’.(Check out the screen shot below)

Email a Task List gmail

If you click on it, new window will be opened (Mail composing mode) with your tasks being included in the message body.

Google Now Lets You Recover Password Through SMS

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Some times we go so mad that we even forget our account password :), no one is exception.

google account password recovery Then we have to go through the difficult tasks of verifying our DOB, or secret security questions etc.

Google thought about it, and has added a new option which allows users to recover their Google account password through SMS [Text Message].

How to Enable This Feature?

Just sign into your Google account and as shown in the above screen shot, click on ‘Change Password Recovery Options’.Just enter your mobile number in the required filed to avail this feature.

account password recovery

[image:Official Gmail Blog Post]

Adsense now allows you to change font size of ad units

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Google Adsense in a recent program update, has announced the introduction of new option that lets users to change the size of the fonts in ad units, which was previously available only to premium Adsense publishers.

Change Font size Adsense

The above picture which has been taken from Adsense Blog Post(Link) shows how this new option looks like.You can select any font size ranging from Small to Large.To see this options navigate to My Account>>and open Ad Display Preferences.

More Experimenting:

Adsense team has announced that the default ad font which is now ‘Small’ for all the publishers will soon be changed to ‘Medium’ .

We’ve heard from some of you that the current font size can be too small, and our testing also showed that slightly larger font sizes improved performance.

Techrena wants to hear from the Adsense publishers who have implemented this.Do comment about this new Adsense here.

Microsoft’s Bing is Buzzing on Internet

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Microsoft’s new search engine Bing (Yes, Live search is gone and Bing is here instead).Microsoft’s efforts to bring this ‘Bing’ [http://www.bing.com/]are paying off as of now.Reports are out already that suggest that Bing has overtaken Yahoo as the second preferred search engine in the U.S.

Bing has been set as the default search engine on Internet Explorer 6. bing logoBing is also censoring search results for the searches like ‘sex’ on the search engine.

Microsoft has also started publicizing Bing among mobile phones users worldwide by releasing mobile ring tones called ‘BingTones’.

Has Microsoft delivered something up to Google? Primary tests show that Bing even though may not be a Google spoiler, but definitely a much better product from Microsoft.

Bing is changing it’s background picture daily so that users don’t feel bored.

Reports confirming that Bing has been well received by the internet users worldwide reached even Google which is set to review Microsoft’s new search engine tomorrow.

Good start ,Microsoft!!

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