Firefox latest beta version : 4.0 Beta1

I've installed the version 4.0 Beta1 of Firefox. Haven't went through any review of firefox 4.0 beta1 before I installed it
Here is a screen shot of the application. Please note that if you need a stable version, stick on to  the current version (3.6.6 is the current stable version of firefox).

As a first impression it is the new clean UI, the loaders and the option to give feed back that welcomes us. 

Will try to post more on it when I start using it more.

Change the background picture of your google search

Saw the background image feature of google search? if not try that.

Yes, the google web back ground can be changed.. I've done that..

If you are wondering hoew to change the web search background use the link on the left bottom.

New building for Infopark; Athulya opened by Chief Minister

Infopark's new building, Athulya was inaugarated by Mr. V. S. Achuthanandan, the cheif minister of Kerala, India on last day. This Information Technology Park(Info Park) is the second initiative of Kerala Government in the field of Information Technology after technopark, Trivandrum, and already houses some of the big names in the industry. The chief minister also opened the 2.4 KM infopark express high way, that links the technology park to the sea port airport road.

Situated on 7.1 acres of land in Infopark SEZ, Athulya has a total built-up area of 5.5 lakh square feet and can house a software development block (with an area of 3.5 lakh square feet), a cafeteria building (with an area of 0.50 lakh square feet), and multi-level car parking facility (300 cars). With a total seating capacity of 4000, Athulya will have a total of 10 elevators (8 for the software development blocks and 2 for the cafeteria). With an average floor plate size of 50000 sq. ft. Athulya also boasts of facilities such as incubation centers; training rooms; direct four-lane connectivity road ...etc.
More info on the facility of athulya in infopark can be found out in Kerala Information technology's blog.. in the function a mention on the smartcity issue also came up.

image courtesy : The Hindu

Technology updates

Here are some quick technology updates in this technical blog..

1. Google updated google interface.. But wait, its for the ipad. - and the change - full view of the compose window with no distraction with messages in the side showing the inbox

- Source: craig wilkinson(he is an SE with google mobile) in his post in google mobile blog

2. Mobile devices will be spotted with adobes latest release on Flash player (version 10.1 for mobile)

3. A couple of months back IRCTC released a beta version of their portal irctc.co.in. make sure that you try it (A little buggy for me though) the search is easy with all the available classes showing and even the print out of the ticket is neat. - wish to try? use the flashing beta banner on the top left of the site.

4. Black berry have a small set back with standard chartered bank replacing it's black berry devices with (so called) more advanced tools called iphone.


Off beat: Processor/ Chip giant AMD have started marketing its 12 core processors widely. A cute little ad appeared in Economic times with a kid holding weight and asking what is overloading!
An attractive and full page one!


Update: How did I missed the wordpress 3.0 ?

"Technical Blogs" - The keyword in Google.

It's been ages since i quit with the promotional activities of Beautifulminds.in. Last day when I checked with the data of the site I found that the word Technical blogs is attracting many a number of visitors to the site and when checked with Google India, I found that it is appearing in the first page. To rank in a key word like this wasn't something I expected.. Still its a good feeling that the word "Technical blogs" started generating more hits. From now on I will try to include more contents on the technical category (at least have to justify the search!).

India's W3C dreams. - W3C opens it's Office in India

The inventor of WWW(World Wide Web or W3), Tim Berners-Lee found the W3C, and now have offices in different countries and regions hosted by a neutral organisation.

World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) have opened its office in New Delhi on 6th of May 2010. Under the supervision of TDIL Programme(Technology Development for Indian Language), this effort will inject a new life in to the veins of usage of local language in Indian Cyber-space.

Cochin Edition of The Hindu, has an article on this, published on May 8th.