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Facebook has introduce new Facebook Profile interface that is called Facebook Timeline. After some experience, now this feature can be used start from December 15, 2011. Facebook will send invitation to all member to change their profile interface to Facebook Timeline. If don't get the invitation then you can visit this site to switch your Facebook Profile into Timeline.
Mozilla has been released Firefox 8 in this end of this year. It is Mozilla''s fifth major release in 2011. After releasing Firefox 4 in March, Mozilla adopted a rapid release schedule similar to what Google employs with its Chrome browser. Probably this is the last version of Firefox in this year. What is the news feature on Firefox 8?
Microsoft has released its Windows 8 Developer Preview operating system, for PCs and tablets, to the public that you can download and try by free. Yes it's true you can download this version absolutely free to play around with Windows 8. This release is pre beta version of Windows 8. Microsof has released this to be used by developers who are looking to make apps for the desktop and tablet OS. But the fact everyone can download this version.
Mozilla released Mozilla Thunderbird 5 based on the Mozilla Gecko 5 engine. The new Thunderbird delivers a faster and safer email experience. It comes with a handful of new features such as drag and drop enabled interface, improved add-on manager and account creating wizard and several fixes. The most apparent change you shall notice is definitely the better, minimal and more modern interface. The Add-on manager, Trouble shooting page and many bug fixes!
Google provides two new themes for Gmail is Preview and Preview (Dense). The new interface has minimal look and brings s lighter and cleaner look to your Gmail inbox. This theme is suitable for user who like simple design or interface for Gmail account.
It's not the default just yet, so to turn it on:
Google Picasa Web Albums is online photo and video storage which offers 1 GB of free storage. With the introduction of Google+ Picasa is now offering unlimited photo hosting for all of its users. There are several condition to get unlimited storage. It's different between normally Google users or Google+ users.
Here the condition according to Google Picasa Help
Just one month after released of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft then released a preview of Internet Explorer 10. The main focus is HTML5, a next-level programming language for the Internet That Is Quickly Becoming the industry standard. The next version of Internet Explorer has supported the CSS3 Multi-column layout, CSS3 Layout Grid, Layout CSS3 Box Flexible, CDD 3D Transforms, gradients CSS3 support and more.
Opera has released Opera 11.10 final version with some new features and improvements. Opera 11.10 includes an updated version of Presto rendering engine (Presto/2.8.131), offering Google WebP image format support as well as CSS gradients and other web standards support. The new Speed Dial allows users to have an unlimited number of sites while 'logo finder' zooms into the specific part of the web page instead of displaying the overall view.
Flock, the social web browser will be discontinued on April 26th, 2011. The company already suggests users to download an alternative web browser, such as: Firefox or Google Chrome.
TechKing has posted the history of web browser in picture. Watching the picture you will see how popular Netscape before Internet Explorer launch. The interesting thing is about Opera web browser that has static grow from first version until the last version. Although Opera popularity is not grow but I believe that Opera has fanatic users.
