The embedded video gives a full overview of Tab Candy:

Tab Candy gives Firefox something like Apple’s Expose feature mixed with their Spaces feature. For those who don’t use a Mac, it’s the OS’s feature that allows you to zoom out and get a bird’s-eye-view of all your windows (in Tab Candy’s case it’s tabs) that are open which you can interact with by clicking, dragging, etc.

While Tab Candy is an interesting feature, one has to wonder how much resources this will require for the final build. Still, it’s an interesting take on tabbing. One that I hope won’t be killed by an errant lawsuit.

You can get Firefox 4 with Tab Candy from a very early nightly right here.

Important: This is still in alpha so expect bugs, resource hogging, unstability, etc.

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If you’re on a mobile device, the obvious advantage is that you’ll now be able to view videos on the browser you’re using instead of the built-in player.

Anyone viewing a site using the new embed code can watch them using Flash or an HTML5 player, depending on their viewing environment and preferences. A notable warning though is in instances when HTML5 isn’t supported (e.g. using the HTML5 player for videos with ads), the default Flash player is used.

The new code looks something like below:

<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width=""600" height="361"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

The result?

Do note that if you try this with your wordpress blog, the Rich Tech Editor will eat up your code so try it with the HTML editor.

source Youtube API

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Firefox 4 Beta 1 is available Linux, Mac and Windows systems today.  Mozilla hasn’t indicated when the RC or final build will be released.  For now, we can play with the Beta until a new version comes along.

You can download Firefox 4 beta 1 using this llink

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Opera 10.60 includes the following features:

• Integrated Web Search – Search the Web directly from the address field by simply typing in search term.
• Opera Link – Keep the data backed up and synchronized with phones and other computers.
• Opera Turbo – Speed up browsing on slow connections by compressing webpages before downloading them.
• Sophisticated tabs- See open webpages easily with visual tabs or use private tabs to protect privacy.
• Add-ons – Enhance browser functionality with Opera Widgets and Opera Unite or select a new skin.
• Mouse gesture – Perform common browser actions easily with quick movements of mouse.
• Speed dial – Access favorite webpages instantly with a single click.
• Zoom – View webpages at a comfortable size with a best-in-class zoom.
• Content blocking – Control view of webpages by easily removing annoying images, animations and content.

More information and changelog at the Opera 10.60 release notes.

Download Opera 10.60 for Windows – Opera_1060_en_Setup.exe
Download Opera 10.60 for Mac OS X – Opera_10.60_Setup.dmg

Opera 10.60 for Linux x86-64, Linux PowerPC, Linux i386, FreeBSD i386 and FreeBSD AMD64 is also available in Debian package, RPM package tar.gz or tar.bz2 from opera.com.

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In response and approval of the ICANN’s decision, the ICM Registry, said .xxx would make it easier to filter out inappropriate content.

The decision came as a surprise and brings to an end a long campaign by ICM to win approval.  As a result, there’s an enthusiastic blog post about ICANN’s decision (guess they’re excited about the new registrations and their fees).

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN for short ), the organization that controls top-level domain names, says that the next step will be talks with ICM to ensure that there’s sufficient demand from the adult industry to justify it’s creation.  On the plus side, the ICM noted, it will be easier to filter out inappropriate content.

Part of the reason why the decision to approve .xxx was opposition from BOTH porn businesses and anti-porn crusaders have opposed .XXX. The stand of anti-porn crusaders is quite obvious, as people are uncomfortable with any official acknowledgment of sexually explicit content online. For those in the porn industry, there are worries that it will segregate adult sites and ruin their SEO.

Regardless of opposition, ICANN is expected to make a formal announcement on its decision on Friday.

problem that

ICM has said it expected the first .xxx domains to go live in early 2011. It said it had more than 110,000 pre-reservations for .xxx domains.

It’s been a lengthy legal battle, with both sides throwing and th

What’s surprising is that BOTH porn businesses and anti-porn crusaders have opposed .XXX. The stand of anti-porn crusaders is quite obvious, as people are uncomfortable with any official acknowledgment of sexually explicit content online. For those in the porn industry, there are worries that it will segregate adult sites and ruin their SEO.

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If you want to check if your hardware is supported by this release, you can check the release notes, which include Nvidia’s GeForce and Ion lines, AMD’s Radeon HDs, Intel integrated GPUs in 4-series and newer chipsets, and Broadcom Crystal HD video decoders.

If you’re ready to download the new flash plugin, just head over to get.adobe.com/flashplayer page.

Or if you don’t want to deal with Adobe’s download manager, you can get Flash 10.1 via .msi or .exe installers available on their repository right here.

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Purposely because according to a bug report on chromium Google Code page issued by a user who noted the change, a coder had responded that the removal of the http:// is a feature not a bug. Surprising that the company being described here isn’t Apple huh? The reaction of the community was expectedly negative.

If you’re wondering how this works, here’s a screenshot of a before (when you type an address with http://) and after (when you press enter)

Now one possible issue that could arise from the removal of http:// is interaction with applications sending their URLs to Chrome, an example would be your clipboard sending a copied URL to chrome. Google assures however, that they are addressing the issue to prevent “breakage” of this interaction. As of now though, several users have been complaining about a complete breakage of the standard clipboard functionality .

No word from the camp of other browsers if they will be willing to or at least thinking of following suit. I for one however really find it weird to see an address bar without the http:// on it.

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One of the great things about Wibiya is that it’s platform agnostic. The least bit of control necessary to install it is access to your site’s HTML template. The Wibiya Toolbar can be installed on wordpress, blogger, typepad, drupal, joomla, ning, vBulletin, and even in your custom website as well.

Wibiya BOASTS and PROMISES the following:

Boost your blog / website with rich and interactive features.

• No coding needed
• Add it in two minutes
• Totally free!

Let’s see if they’re true to their words.

Looking at the photo (and the updated screenshot if you click the link on it), the Wibiya Toolbar seems packed with a lot of features. Here’s a rundown of what it does for you and your site:

• Search – Although you’d probably wouldn’t want that if you’re using Google’s Custom Search Engine
• Translation – via Wibiya’s App (and via Google translate)
• Latest posts
• Random posts
• Live notifications
• Real time users – displays real time stats of your site’s visitors
• Subscription tools (RSS, email)
• Custom Navigation
• Sharing tools – your favorite social networking site is PROBABLY included here
• Facebook fanpage and community
• Twitter integration
• Photo gallery
• Youtube channel

So feature-wise, yes, Wibiya will help you boost your blog and spur activity. If not the subscription options, then the social networking features will probably do the trick so the toolbar passes this one. Of course, the toolbar’s usefulness isn’t limited to just making your site popular. The Wibiya toolbar also gives you quite a bit of information about your traffic and site activity right on your dashboard. Of course it won’t replace your favorite analytics software, the stats mentioned only involves every activity that’s included with the Wibiya toolbar. Lacking, but useful nonetheless.

Now if you feel that the layout simply doesn’t suit your suit’s theme, you can change it with a simple click (ok, maybe I took a lot out of that since you still have to login, Choose Edit Toolbar then Edit Themes. Upon clicking, you’ll be given the option to change your toolbar’s theme and the favicon that it carries. You can try out the colors/themes without changing the live version of your toolbar as Wibiya provides a handy preview at the bottom. Once you’re happy with your changes, simply click Update and the changes will go live instantly.

Now, so you’ve decided to register and install a toolbar on your site. Does it keep it’s promise of being able to add it in just a couple of minutes? Surprisingly, yes. Registration is a snap, just provide the necessary details and you’re added to their list of users. After that, you can customize your toolbar by choosing a theme and picking the applications it carries. And then finally, you can install the script on your site. Now note that there are several ways to install the toolbar. You can use the preferred method for the platform you’re going to install it (WordPress, blogger, etc) or you can simply edit your site’s theme, add the javascript code generated for your site and paste it just before the </body> tag.

Simple isn’t it?

And last but not the least, the Wibiya Toolbar is absolutely free. There’s no pro version so you’re getting all the features everyone else is getting and that’s not a bad deal considering there’s very little effort involved in adding it, not to mention the potential benefits (note that I stress on the word potential ). If you’re looking for something to boost your traffic other than plain SEO, try it.

If you have comments, thoughts or suggestions about the Wibiya Toolbar, post it in the comments and let’s discuss .

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Compare Japan’s $.27/MBps speed to the Philippine’s $23/MBps and you get the very clear picture. Aside from arguably the best data plans in the world, there’s no bandwidth caps (unlimited upload / download) nor throttling involved and there’s wifi everywhere.

*sigh*

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Once installed, you can enable the multiple login feature is by selecting the “Open in a New Identity Profile” option from the right click menu. This will open a new browser window (not a tab) and from there you can login to the very same site (say… gmail) without logging out of your other account. Useful isn’t it?

You can download mutlifox form the official mozilla repository which is right here.



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