Internet

Chrome is now #3

Jun 29th

Yup… Google Chrome is now the 3rd most used browser in US…. pushing ahead of Safari and leaving it in 4th place. Internet Explorer and Firefox is still way ahead and it’ll take Chrome sometime to catch up with them if it ever will… considering Microsoft has finally woke up to the Browsers thing and is paying lot of attention in making Internet Explorer right and Firefox is getting more faster, sleeker and minimal looks which everyone is into these days.

And Google Chrome is getting Unified menu too making its minimal looks, well…. more minimal.

It looks cool doesn’t it? It makes things more simpler. This Unified menu is currently available in Google Chrome dev builds. you can enable this feature by adding a command-line flag to the desktop shortcut: –new-wrench-menu.

Opera already uses an unified menu that replaces the menu bar, while Firefox 4 will include a single menu button. The unified menu takes up less space, it’s less complex and it reduces clutter.

"The general purpose of the menubar is to contain all of the things that you want your program to do but you can’t cram into the main UI. So the menubar generally ends up with a lot of stuff that isn’t used very often, if at all, and yet is reproduced on every window and takes up a significant amount of real estate. It also has the tendency to become a dumping ground for new or hardly used features. Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menubar has been systematically removed from Windows applications built by Microsoft and other vendors. It has been replaced with alternatives like the Windows Explorer contextual strip or the Ribbon found in Office 2007," explains Mozilla’s wiki.

Browser, Chrome, Firefox 4

gmail on iPad has got new compose interface

Jun 21st

Posted by vinitneo in Internet

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gmail for iPad has got new compose mail interface in which now instead of splitting the screen between your inbox and the compose view, you get a big full screen compose window with the rest of the background dimmed out so that the rest of the text won’t be distracting. To try out Gmail on the iPad, just go to gmail.com in Safari. Currently the new interface is only available in US English, support for other languages will be added later.

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In April 2009, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iOS and Android. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application’s underlying code which allows us to more rapidly develop and release new features that users have been asking for, as explained in our first post. We’d like to introduce The Iterative Web App, a series where we will continue to release features for Gmail for mobile.

I have to say – only iOS (you know what I mean) and android are the only platforms which are getting these cool new updates. How long will Symbian users have to wail to get these kind of updates, or I should ask – Will Symbian ever get these updates?

[via Google Mobile Blog]

Android, gmail, iPad

Grooveshark is fast becoming my favourite music streaming service

Jun 13th

Posted by vinitneo in Infotainment

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Grooveshark is fast becoming my favorite music streaming service… it is the only service that is internationally available, I wanted to try Spotify cause it had created a lot of buzz, it has a cool desktop app and it also has a symbian app but unfortunately it is not available in India and a lot of other places. Then there is last.fm which gets you similar songs but not the songs of the artist you want to listen.

Grooveshark is great for music discovery, well not exactly like last.fm but still with it you can listen to the most popular songs which are currently in the charts and the songs which were recently released. And Grooveshark lets you listen to the song you want to listen not the similar songs of the song you want to listen. How exactly is this helpful – I won’t have to regret after buying an album. With Grooveshark I can listen to the album I’m interested in and buy the songs that I like individually. What if Grooveshark doesn’t have the song you like? well….upload it.

Then there is Grooveshark Radio This radio feature is a Recommendation engine. The recommendations come from Grooveshark’s own users and artists, and you can Smile or Frown songs as they’re played. Not only do the suggestions get better as you go, but you never have to sit through music you don’t like.

If you are always online, you don’t have to buy any music ever again… it’s all in Grooveshark and you can listen all your music anytime from anywhere. [AND IT’S ALL FREE]. The only drawback in Grooveshark is that it doesn’t have offline support …. the offline feature might be introduced later and VIP would get.

What is VIP?