WordPress has released a new version 2.8.2 to download
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.
Attention .yu domain users: Three simple steps to have your site online even after domain transfer
ICANN which oversees a number of Internet-related tasks, has resolved that .yu TLD assigned to Yugoslavia will operate temporarily under the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names, operators of the new .rs domain registry, during transition until its eventual abolition on or before 30 September 2009. This allows a two-year transition period for existing .yu names to be transferred either to .me (which is to be delegated to the Government of Montenegro) or to .rs (for Serbian domains).
Then any content you are hosting on a .yu domain will no longer be online. In order to have your site live, Google has given some recommendations to make sure that your site content is indexed by them.1. Retain back-links:
While transferring your site from .yu to .me or .rs domains, all links pointing to .yu will be dead. In order to save your site’s back-links, contact webmasters of sites linking to you and ask them to update their links to your new sites. Signup with Google webmaster tools and check the links to your site to get the list of sites linking to you.
2. Prevent broken links:
When you are moving the site content from the old to new site, check your internal links and update those links to reflect changes to prevent broken links.
3. Move the site to a new domain in advance
Don’t delay the process of transferring the site to a new domain. It is better to move a single directory or sub-domain and test the results before moving the site completely. Remember that 301 direction on your old domain will not work after September 30. An additional tip from Google is that during site transfer you can test how Google crawls and indexes your new site at its new location by submitting a site map through Google webmaster tools.
Google Voice: a new way to imply your voice!
Did you think that Google was already everywhere? You were wrong! After Google map, Google search and a lot of others web services, Google succeeds today in opening Google Voice, a new service to phones. In fact, Google voice already existed with the purchase of GrandCentral in 2007. Its goal was “one phone number for all your phones, for life”. However, it apparently didn’t really work.But now Google bought one million numbers and seems to be ready to launch this new project. All the official sites of Google announce this service and propose some invitation to be the first to have a number. But be careful, this service is reserved for American people and has to be tested by a closed user group.
However, phoning by internet, what’s new? We can already use MSN or Skype for free. With Google Voice, users can unify all your routing home, office and other numbers and call abroad for amazingly cheap price (but local call has always the same price since you always use a phone network). However, thanks to a technological performance, Google succeeded in converting voicemail into text mail which can be read or heard later, whichever is useful to find information. They can transfer their call on one of the telephones. The more awaited feature however, is free SMS.
To summarize, Google Voice doesn’t propose a very new novelty but its advantage is to gather together all these features in one free service.
A new search tool from Google’s labs
Google has recently released a new tool known as “Google Squared”. It extracts data that you are looking for and shows results in an online spreadsheet-format. The square structures the unstructured data on the web. If you are curious about which mobile phones are the best, all you have to do is simply type “mobile” in the search box of Google squared and click the “square it’ button. It will return information in a spreadsheet format with names, images, description, weight, memory etc in columns and rows.
You can customize squares as per your desire. Remember common attributes for an item can be listed as columns in a square. You can delete the attributes that you don’t care about. If you want to expand your initial square you can use the add rows and add columns search boxes to see suggestions for other items and attributes that you can add to your square. You can also type your own items and attributes that you have in mind.
You can also save your square and share it with your friends. If you are signed into your Google account, you can save a particular squared search, then get back to it later, and share it with your friends by simply copying the URL from the address bar of the square that you have created and send it to them.
Like the Google square, a computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha has came into the internet world. It is designed to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable to everyone. With Wolfram Alpha, you can calculate how many calories a man can burn if he swims for 30 minutes. The difference between the two is that Wolfram Alpha is simply based on its own database, while Google Squared gathers data from the entire web.
Bing, an alternative search engine for net worms
Every successful corporation has a responsibility to use its resources and influences to create new things for people. Bing is the latest attempt by Microsoft to gain popularity in the search market. Bing, is a new Internet search engine designed to navigate the web and find online information easily.
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. There are hundreds of new features on Microsoft’s Bing. A few of the interesting features include:
Bing will provide useful links and information related to your search. For instance, if you search information about a black berry, Bing will provide links to reviews on the item and give you complete details about the particular product as well. This feature will reduce a user’s clicks to find specific information.
Going into search engines, typing something in, and searching items is very difficult nowadays. Bing facilitates people to save favorite sites while they are searching information. It helps them to save their time by saving their favorite stuff and accessing them at anytime.
Microsoft maintains partnerships with different online services like airlines, hotels and holiday resorts. If you are searching for flight information, Bing can offer specific information like flight deals, reviews etc.
Bing will Auto-Suggest the search queries. For instance, if you’re looking for “Obama” then it will auto-suggest some additional queries like his biography, information on his speeches, quotes, facts and so on.
Bing can also provide videos and images about an item in the search results page.
Microsoft is currently holding a third-place behind Google and Yahoo Inc. it hopes that Bing will play a big role to reach a good position in the search market. Microsoft is trying to pull people away from Google and Yahoo.
Firefox fluxes Wolfram Alpha with the search engine giant Google
Wolfram Alpha, a computational engine offers a single search result instead of thousands of web pages as offered by Google. If Alpha offers the right answer, then it will be the best way to gather data on the net. If it is not the right answer, then the search may end up in vain and user will have to go for another search engine which most commonly is Google.
Even with Google, people might not get desired results on the first page; they have to explore the thousands of search results to get the answer. Both have pros and corns, so Firefox has come up with the brilliant idea of blending Google and Wolfram Alpha, through its new add-on “Wolfram Alpha Google”. Just imagine how useful it will be for surfers to have both kinds of search results on the same page.
The downside of the add-on is that it can clip off the bottom of the Wolfram Alpha results when the search result of Alpha is longer. This can be overcome by setting Google to show 20 or more search results per page. Also the add-on comes with a quick link called ‘Open Wolfram Alpha in New tab’ which allows surfers to view the Alpha results in a different browser tab so that they don’t miss out on any important information.
This plug-in facilitates Google surfers to get the best of both worlds. It is also an ideal solution for comparing the results between these two engines. This add-on is still experimental; you need to be registered with Mozilla’s add-on to be able to instal it in your browser.
Most powerful Firefox add-ons for SEO
Firefox has become popular among net browsers due to its attractive features including tabbed browsing, spell checker, live bookmarking, an integrated download manager, keyboard shortcuts, and an integrated search system that uses the user’s desired search engine.Firefox offers thousands of add-ons that provide users the capability to customize Firefox according to their requirements. Here, we have compiled add-ons that help webmasters in search engine optimization.
Twitterfox
Twitter is one of the social media used by SEO experts to share their activities like recently posted articles, press releases, recent updates on products, with millions of people around the world. Twitterfox add-on will place a small icon near Firefox’s bottom tab. It will notify you when your friends update their status in Twitter, and also offers a text field to update your status. Thus you can follow up on tweets and update your twitter status without logging in to Twitter.SearchStatus
SearchStatus is specially designed for Search Engine Marketers (SEMs) to provide extensive search related information like Google PageRank , Compete.com ranking , Alexa popularity ranking, Alexa incoming ranking, Linkscape mozrank, backlinks etc, of a visiting site. From this information, SEM can get a balanced view of a site efficacy. Analyzing a website or blog is so easy with SearchStatus.Firebug
It is a Firefox extension that includes web development tools such as editor, debugger, error console, command line and inspectors for debugging. With FireBug, you can edit, debug and monitor CSS, HTML, Java Script, and Ajax live in any web page conveniently. It is the ultimate editing tool for webmasters to find errors in Javascript, XML and CSS, and rectify them.IEview
As IE is used by more than 60% of internet users, it is a must for web masters to check how well their website works on IE. IEview is a simple Firefox extension that opens a current page or a selected link in IE with a single right-click, to check how their design works on IE without leaving Firefox. This add-on is useful for cross-browser testing.Colorzilla
Colorzilla is a color picker tool which is useful in choosing colors for advertisement headers or web design. It integrates a number of color-related analysis tools with your browser to get the exact hexadecimal code of colors. On placing your cursor on any specific pixel, the Eyedropper feature of colorzilla will display the RGB numbers, hexadecimal code, X-Y axis location and CSS properties of that pixel. Color plays a major role in attracting visitors. If you find attractive colors on any site, you can get its color code and use it in your site’s CSS design.English Dictionary
A website should convey messages clearly without any errors. A website filled with misspelled words, will definitely lose its power among visitors. English Dictionary is a very useful add-on that checks for spelling of English words. This add-on will facilitate your work by checking spelling and grammar as you write texts.
What is Wolfram Alpha? Is it a ‘Google Killer’?
British scientist Stephen Wolfram, inventor of Mathemetica, will unveil his latest creation Wolfram Alpha on May 15, 2009. Alpha is a computational knowledge engine, and it uses built-in models of different domains that represent real-world knowledge, for computing the answers to factual questions.
It understands and then computes answers for questions using the built-in domain knowledge models without searching for answers in a big database. It provides textual results along with graphs, charts and other graphical elements necessary for the search query. For instance, if the query is “current American economy”, Alpha will offer numeric details along with comparison graphs. This will help almost everyone understand finance better.
Dr. Wolfram gave a demonstration of Alpha at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. During the demonstration, Wolfram typed in the question ‘What is the GPD of France divided by Italy?’ Alpha gave the correct answer supported with graphs and other statistics.
Dr. Wolfram said at the demonstration, “Our goal is to make expert knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Like interacting with an expert, it will understand what you’re talking about, do the computation, and then present you with the results.”
Wolfram is different from Google. Two things can be compared only when they are comparable. Google is a search engine while Wolfram is a computational knowledge engine. However, Alpha will be rival for Wikipedia and other reference materials. Instead of searching tons of books and finding answers to any factual questions, users can just open Alpha and obtain answers.
Stephen describes Wolfram Alpha – “It will raise the level of scientific things that the average person can do. People will find that the world is more predictable than they might have expected. Just as running Google is like having a reference librarian to help you, running Wolfram Alpha will be like having a house scientist to consult for you.”
Lip reading computers to distinguish languages, hit the market
Scientists from University of East Anglia (UEA) have created multi lingual lip-reading computers that can recognize what language you speak by tracking face and lip movements. It will be useful for deaf people, law enforcement agencies and those who are in a noisy environment. Though computers that can read lips are nothing new, this is the first time computers have been taught to recognize different languages.
At the University’s School of Computing Sciences, researchers developed the ground braking technology by statistically modeling the lip motions of 23 bilingual and trilingual speakers. So if an individual speaks any language, the lip reading computers can identify the language with “very high accuracy.”
It can identify the following languages: English, French, German, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Polish, and Russian.
So how does it recognize different languages? When you speak different languages, you use different mouth shapes in different sequences. For example, computer vision will recognize the French language from “lip rounding” movement and Arabic language from “tongue movement”.
Google chrome Vs Internet Explorer 8
Google Chrome (web kit based web browser) and Internet Explorer 8 are recently released web browsers by the giants Google and Microsoft. Chrome and IE 8 both deliver a strong platform for reliable running of multiple web apps in a tabbed format in answer to the web’s evolving needs.
Do we really need more browsers? Yes, because it can add more value for users and help them drive innovation on the web. This article gives some information about the latest browsers.
Google chrome beta web browser:
Advantage: Nice look and feel, fast, tabbed browsing, advanced security.
Security: Google promises that the Chrome is extremely secure. There’s a privacy mode called “Incognito” in Chrome. It allows you to secure the Pages whatever you view in the main window by not displaying in your browser history or search history, and it won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window.
Usability: It has a single box for Search, history and address bar.
It facilitates tabbed browsing. Tabs are positioned at the top of the window. This will make the navigation faster and easier. Apart from this, Chrome displays 9 most visited web sites and sites most often searched on the home page.
Performance: Chrome uses a new JavaScript engine called V8 for faster performance.
It is much faster at showing Web pages than the most widely used browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
Drawbacks: Its major drawback is poor performance, particularly when users open multiple web pages.
Internet Explorer 8 beta:
Advantage: Tremendous browser leader in full functionality.
Security: It has a great option called InPrivate browsing for extra secure when browsing the web. It helps to prevent your browsing history, temporary Internet files, form data, cookies when you’re using someone else’s computer or using a public computer.
Usability: It facilitates search suggestions. As user searches for a keyword, relevant images and text is displayed which allows user to get single-click access to the web page without having to leave the Search box.
Tabs in IE8 have been improved to provide a good platform for easy browsing experience. Here tabs are automatically grouped together using color codes belonging to the same site.
It has a nifty feature called Web Slices. It facilitates to add just a portion of a web page (like sports scores, weather report) to your favorites and keep updated by clicking on the slice
Performance: Accelerators enables you to access directly from the webpage in the context of what you are doing, letting you bookmark, email, map and more with a simple selection.
Drawbacks: Its biggest drawback is designed strictly to industrial standards, and web sites that use deprecated HTML or designed with reduced functionality.
Here is the comparison chart for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8.
Google chrome
Internet Explorer 8
Website
Operating system
Microsoft Windows (XP and Vista)
Microsoft Windows
Vista, XP SP2 and 3, Server 2003 SP2, Server 200860MB
x86 (32-/64-bit)
43 languages
English, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
Cost
Free download
Free download
Bottom Line
Google Chrome represents a fresh take on browser design. Its fully isolated, multiprocess architecture should prove more robust than IE 8′s, while its clean UI and lack of legacy baggage – plus some innovative JavaScript tuning – should help it gain a strong fan base. What remains to be seen is how Google will exploit its technical advantages for its own applications without alienating customers who have standardized on other browser platforms.
Internet Explorer 8 takes Microsoft’s creaking browser architecture and injects it with some much needed life. The sturdier, multiprocess design means that most crashes will be isolated to a single tab, while the new “porn mode” and quick-access tools (Accelerators, Web Slices) make browsing more efficient. IE 8′s hefty system requirements could slow adoption until Windows 7 debuts late next year.
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