Recently, Firefox has placed the initial Windows theme based mockups for Firefox 4.0 in its wiki page. As we have a look at the mockup, it looks like Google Chrome. I think the simple design of Google Chrome has greatly influenced the Firefox development team.

In the proposed design, the rarely called out actions like menu bar, home icon and status bar are removed which gives a clean and clear look for the browser ( as desired by user). The combo Stop/Refresh/Go button is the brilliant idea. By removing all the undesirable options, the actual web space is increased.

It proposes two primary designs: tabs-on-bottom (as in current firefox) and tabs-on-top (which resemble Google Chrome). The tabs-on-top version hides the title bar which has less importance among the net users. Anyway it is better to offer both the designs with an option for users to choose between the two as some users may need to have tabs in close proximity while others need to access the menu items quickly.

It has summarized the pros and cons of the two designs in its wiki as:

Positives:
- Save Vertical Space
- Efficiency/Remove Visual Complexity – Right now the tabs have to be connected to something. So we are adding an extra visual element for them to connect to.
- Shorter Mouse Distance to Page Controls

Negatives:
- Breaks Consistency/Familiarity – Moving things that confuse existing users.
- Title is MIA – With the space removed from the titlebar you only get the truncated version in the tab.
- Longer Mouse Distance to Tabs – Takes longer to mouse to a tab.
- Lost Space – Sandwiched in between the application icon and the window widgets you lose some space.

As a Firefox lover, I am looking forward for the release of Firefox 4.0 with a brand new design and exciting features.

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Agriya Infoway, a Chennai-based web development company announces the release of the new add-on module called ‘Facebook connect’ for  the Anova software which is a knowledge sharing script that lets you start your own answering site.

The Facebook connect module is a boon for webmasters. By offering this great module the Anova team is taking their script to the next level. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites, which is accessed by millions of users daily. By integrating Facebook with an answering site, you can surely increase the rate of users visiting the answering site. Once the Anova application is integrated with Facebook, anyone can access the Anova site using their Facebook account.

Also it lets users to show their favourite questions asked, answered and points won on their wall on Facebook. Now anyone visiting their profile can get to know about the Anova site. This stands as a much better medium of advertising the Anova site to other Facebook users.

“The Facebook add-on module is the perfect complement for Anova users” said, Aravind Kumar, The Managing Director of Agriya Infoway, “Our goal is to deliver the best resource to our clients by updating products with new exciting features. We are confident that the new version will satisfy all our clients’ needs.”

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Webmaster tools are the great gifts from Google for webmasters. It helps them to analyze their website for promoting it in the right manner. In order to help webmasters manage their site easily, the team of Google webmaster tools has just released an update on Webmaster Tools. For every update they have code names, this time they named their current update “Summer Shine”.

Google webmaster tools were updated with four new features. Here is the summary of the new features of Google webmaster tools.

Search your domains

Once you login to Google’s webmaster tools, the site selector will list all verified sites that you own and allows you to search for them quickly and easily. Remember only the verified sites will be listed and available here.

Block Non-home page site links

This feature will enable you to block non-home page site links in the Google search engine results page. For instance, if you have links in the site’s interior pages such as news, latest additions, music, photography, movies etc and and you want to block the display of the specific page’s site link like www.example.com/photography, you can do it with this feature.

URL removal requests of your site

In the updated version, if any webmaster has removed your site URL, you can get the URL removal request and revoke it easily. In the past, if your site URL had been removed by them by mistake, it will be difficult to undo the request.

Improved navigation on the home page

Google has modified its homepage to make users identify the sites that have been verified and the sites that have not been verified.

Lets hope the “summer shine” updates will be useful for webmasters. Let’s celebrate this by updating the new version.

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One of the most used tools technology has provided us with is the concept of search engines. Business people, writers, teachers, students, and people from all facets use search engines. The most used and popular software is that of Google but one of the latest products emerged is that of Sig.ma.

This software is a tool to explore and leverage the Web of Data. At any time, information in Sigma is likely to come from multiple, unrelated Web sites – potentially any web site that embeds information in RDF, RDFa or Microformats .

Normally what search engines do is to provide any kind of information related to the data typed in which results in a lot of unwanted information being provided. The user then needs to clear the unnecessary material and select the data which is useful. In the case of sigma, it puts together a series of related inputs regarding that particular query and puts it to together as a single data sample and presents it. It currently uses mostly Yahoo! BOSS and Sindice. It primarily is used to put together that collection of data fragments (which they call a ’sigma’) into a permanent URL. This in turn can then sent around or embedded as an iframe in another web page.

One of the major disadvantages of software like this is the fact that more time is spent to remove unnecessary data that the user is not interested in. So when the user requests a specific piece of data he spends a lot of time cutting and editing the irrelevant material. And moreover, one would definitely not be interested in squandering his time clearing up another person’s messy material when he needs some information from a search engine. Sig.ma on the other hand, emerged for the sole purpose to enable people to actually obtain the information they were looking for than for just publishing papers about potential Utopian scenarios. So in that regard sig.ma was created with a lot of potential, and definitely will play an integral role in the technology of search engines by providing efficient semantic information mashup.

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It is no wonder that many people love to travel. Most younger travelers look for fun and adventure in their travels so they prefer visiting strange and exotic places. People who are above the age of 50 and 70, on the other hand, look for a more pleasant and enjoyable trip.

We all live on this big planet. Traveling to different countries provides tremendous opportunities to learn various cultures, about history of the counties that you wish to visit, etc. Traveling not only enables us learn new things, but also helps us widen our knowledge and refresh our minds.

If you want to make your trip more exciting and challenging, you need to plan a successful tour and select interesting places. There is a lot of fun possible if you have reliable information about your holiday destinations. Remember an unplanned trip will make your trip very disorganised and ruins all the fun.

The Internet will make your job like searching for information about specific destinations, various hotels, shopping centers etc easier than before. No matter where you are you can just use the internet and get the desired information within a few minutes.

Searching numerous travelling sites to seek travel guide is quite difficult as it will take lots of time. Also you need to be careful while selecting travel companies to access a travel guide as some of them may give you incorrect information about places that you want to visit so it will navigate you in the wrong direction.It is better to create a clear cut medium to find out useful and accurate information about the popular destinations to enjoy your vacation.

Anova, a knowledge sharing script helps you look for the right information regarding all the places to visit apart from the regular ones. It can provide useful information about various hotels, famous restaurants, shopping centers, routes, food, sightseeing places, rental charges of hotels, weather condition of certain places and much more. Also you can share your traveling experiences, traveling tips with other travel lovers.

Visit www.anova.tv for more details.

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The goal of this article is to help people who want to increase their website page rank. In this guide I would like to highlight the importance of a title tag and how to make it good. Before we take a brief look at its importance and its creation, just pay attention to know what it is.

A title tag is an HTML code that describes specific web page content which will appear at the top part of the users’ browser windows and the search engine result page. It helps search engines determine your web pages and increase your page rank (if your title tag description is good while it is relevant to your webpage content).

Titles are one of the most important things as it assists users find the web pages through a World Wide Web search engine. The title tag is very similar to the title of a book; it helps visitors know the theme of your website so you need to construct a good title tag that catches your reader’s eyes.

Here are the important notes that you need to keep in your mind before creating a title tag

• Google usually reads about 90 characters of your Title Tag so a Title Tag of about 80-90 characters are enough.
• Incorporate important keywords in your title tag but avoid using keywords repeatedly because the density of your keywords does not matter in your Title Tag.
• Create your title tag without any grammatical mistake.
• The sequence of your keyword phrases in the title tag is very important. Using your most important keyword phrases towards the beginning of the Title Tag will help you get your title at the top of the search engine result page.
• Avoid using the same title tag for each page. Every webpage must have a unique title tag.

It is no secret that the title tag is one of the main factors when it comes to increase your page ranks. Changing your title tag will hurt your rankings because the search engine will take time to reflect rankings for your new titles. So if you are currently ranking well with your page title, don’t take any risk by changing your title tag to improve your rankings.

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“Right specifications, right time, right price”, “First time is the right time”, “Customer satisfaction”. These are several catch phrases that go with every business in any industry. Just as it is important that a company’s financial policies, marketing strategies, and not to mention its products are well designed and established, it is also imperative for the company to lay down clear quality assurance steps and follow them.

As we have all observed, a lot of the industries are still reeling under the disastrous blow of recession which has hit a large sector of the industries worldwide. It is at this stage that the decisions a company makes, establishes it as a large successful multinational company or an organization that is satisfied with remaining at the middle level without ambition for further growth. How much of its quality is the company willing to compromise on? Does your company go the extra mile to ensure complete and efficient customer satisfaction and implement structured processes for all your services? In short does every individual who buys your product feel the worth of his money? If we have established all of the above then it is time to shut down all forms of quality assurance as they play no role!

The next question what is quality assurance and how can we establish efficient quality control systems?

Quality in short refers to the products or services made as per the customers’ requirements to establish customer satisfaction while Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product’s suitability for its intended purpose. Quality assurance can be carried out in numerous ways. For instance customer surveys usually give a majority of the inputs. Identifying regular customers and then getting in touch with them regarding the quality of services provided usually gives a fair idea of where you stand in your services. The regular customer will be able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your business properly. The level of service provided to your customers can also be inspected by calling your own customer care helpline! Audios and video recordings can also substantiate the research project for your quality assurance.

Quality assurance, as we have seen, is the biggest pillar of any business. It is the main aspect of any business that should not be ignored or compromised on as it defines the level of success of your business. It is on these lines that Agriya runs its services and processes on. Agriya as a company prides itself on the depth of the knowledge in all its products and quality services of its technicians.

In all the products launched such as Rayzz, iSocial, Mugshot and Kootali stepwise planning has been undertaken to provide good quality. With our helpful support technicians on standby to assist you in any way, in depth knowledge center and customization options, even Rayzz Video is the perfect solution to start your own video sharing website. Not to mention , Agriya’s readymade social network software called Kootali contains all the features you would expect in a professional social network package, friends, albums, sending messages, groups, events and more! All in all, Agriya’s systems and its mantra in quality goes hand in hand with all its services to make sure you have an enjoyable and high ‘quality’ experience!

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It’s important to make your users stick on to your site for extending the life of your site, so feed them with new features frequently. We will help you achieve this easily by releasing necessary features regularly. In the new version, Markit, a social bookmarking script flares with six new features namely Digg and Delicious Imports, Post through mails, Bookmark spy, Advanced search and Featured user list.

A good and appealing website can be considered a potent online identity of a company. Even though your Markit site is well designed, your site users may be bored when they see your site often. So you can impress your users by redesigning your site and giving a fresh look to it. You don’t need to hire a professional web designer to design your Markit site. We will help you by offering a bunch of high quality templates.

In this economic situation, spending your money from your pocket is quite difficult. We understand your problem and have come up with a price reduction for a limited period. Don’t delay because we will always do the right thing for our customers!So make use of this excellent opportunity and save up on your cash.

“We love to do creative things in the web marketing world. This time, our Markit team has come up with excellent new features to help our customers stay ahead of their competitors. Also we have made a price reduction on Markit for a limited time. It will surely help our customers save up on cash in the present economic scenario” said Ms. Sheerin, the Vice President of Agriya.

Visit www.markit.me to find out more.

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Many webmasters are engaged with WordPress to establish their business by taking advantage of using the blogging software. Although there are number of benefits to be realized by using WordPress, some entrepreneurs are facing serious issues like security vulnerability. In order to make sure its users have the most secure platform available WordPress has released a new version 2.8.2 security patch.

This new version will help webmasters to get rid of an XSS vulnerability that was identified by a site admin. The XSS vulnerability will allow hackers to access the admin page by inserting certain code in a form. The previous version of WordPress 2.8.1 was released just two weeks ago.

Anyone running WordPress 2.8 or 2.8.1 can upgrade to this latest version right away. The latest major version is faster than ever. Don’t delay! WordPress 2.8.2 is available for download here. Development on 2.9 is already underway, with a bunch of feature list. Hope the WordPress team will release it soon.

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Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 on 30th June 2009, and claimed that it contains more improved features than the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use. On July 9, Firefox user “zbyte” submitted an error report to Mozilla’s bug tracking system. According to the report, the browser crashes when text is typed into an input box in the site apport.ru instead of fetching the search result.

It is found that the security flaw lies in the Firefox’s Just-In-Time (JIT) Javascript compiler. Due to the vulnerability, the JIT compiler could become corrupt when a user lands on a tainted web page and paves way for an attacker to insert a malicious code on the user’s computer.

Initially, Firefox advised its users to turn off Javascript or use Noscript add-on. Another simple solution was to set “javascript.options.jit.content” to false in the configuration page which can be opened by typing about:config in the address bar.

Finally, Mozilla has come up with a permanent solution by releasing a new version of Firefox 3.5.1 which fixes the critical security vulnerability. Just upgrade your browser to the newer version to safeguard it from Javascript vulnerability. Don’t forget to enable your Javascript after updating your browser to the 3.5.1 version. Another issue that was making Firefox take a long time to load some Windows systems was fixed in the new version.

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