Popular Microblogging Platform Tumblr Introduces Hash Tags and Facebook Integration

20 August 2009

Tumblr today has made an announcement that it will start featuring hashtags on its micro-blogging platform. Hashtags are not new to the internet, we saw it being made popular by social networking site Twitter and the photo sharing site Flickr. The Tumblr Staff blog noted that hashtags are introduced “due to the overwhelming volume of [...]

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ReTweet support coming to Twitter!

14 August 2009

Big news from twitter this week is that ReTweeting is in the works. Currently under development, the new feature will be available in a few weeks, possibly to the developers first then becoming available to the wider twitter population. This definitely is a good news as it will get rid of the old way of [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 (Namoroka) – Tab preview is back!!

11 August 2009

Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 codenamed (Namoroka) is an early build of the next version of Firefox. Its alpha version so its build for developers and testers. The news in this release is that tab preview is back. Tab preview is not stranger to Firefox testers. Having being added, removed before version 3.5 was launched and [...]

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Vertical Tab for Firefox to Save Your Screen Estate

5 August 2009

Do you feel that most websites on the internet are not using the entire computer monitor? Especially when you have a widescreen monitor or laptop with widescreen display.  So how do you utilise this extra space you have on either side of your screen?

Well the answer is simple, by using a vertical tab display. Have [...]

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Short Update

3 August 2009

Alright. So changes are coming along fine to make sure the blog runs smoothly.
The main change you guys probably will notice is the speed. This is because I have recently moved over to a much better host with a better uptime record than my previous hosting service.
Other changes:

Increased site font so post are more [...]

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Firefox surpasses one billion downloads

3 August 2009

Big news this week was that Firefox has just passed a major milestone in its quest to have the largest market share for browsers. As of now from the Firefox twitter counter, we see that the download is now 1,002,578,410.
The exact twit was
1,002,578,410 downloads at 17.7 per second on 2009-08-02 13:21 UTC
I cant believe I [...]

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Student fined $675,000 for sharing 30 songs

2 August 2009

Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student from Boston who pleaded guilty to downloading 30 songs back in 2004 through Kazaa was fined a total of $675,000. The court ordered the graduate student to pay $22,500 for each of the 30 songs. This without a doubt will be big booster for the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of [...]

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