June 16, 2008
The third major release of the browser that ended Microsoft Internet Explorer’s monopoly is almost here. Mozilla Firefox 3 will ship on Tuesday the 17th. To mark the occasion, the non-profit behind this open-source browser hopes to set a new world record — most downloads of a program in a 24-hour span — on that day.


Like a lot of programs these days, however, Firefox 3 has been available for months already in pre-release form — first as an alpha last summer, then a beta starting last winter and, for the last several weeks, in “release candidate” builds. The arrival of the “finished” version may be a formality for many people
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Posted by sarojlakra
June 14, 2008
Five major areas of MySpace will receive a major redesign and feature upgrade: navigation, profile editor, search, and MySpaceTV player. MySpace says it’s hoping to improve usability and introduce more engaging features to build community.

MySpace introduced a number of packaged themes
some time ago that users could apply to their profiles, and a completely redesigned profile editor coming next week expands on these themes and emphasizes editing them instead of starting from scratch.
These new themes should certainly help new users create profiles that aren’t such a direct insult to the eye, but color us skeptical about the possibility that entrenched users will clean up their HTML act anytime soon.
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Posted by sarojlakra
June 13, 2008
As the Internet grows in popularity,choosing the right connection for accessing it is becoming a very important decision at many nonprofits. While modems still provide many smaller nonprofits with their crawling connection, DSL, cable, ISDN, and T1 are introducing many organizations to the joys of high-speed access.

When you read an ad that says: “Our Connection Provides You With an Amazing and Unbelievable 10 Megs Per Second Download Speed,” you should be amazed, but maybe not as much as you think. Some time back, a quick marketing person decided that Internet connection speed would be better described in bits, not the bytes usually used to describe disk size and RAM space. So that “unbelievable” 10 MegaBITS per second is actually about 1.25 megaBYTES per second. This article, not to confuse things further, will continue to discuss Internet speed in bits per second. So, don’t jump out of your skin the next time you read about another “unbelievable” download speed. Simply divide by 8.
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