When you own a computer , except all the computer game junkies and programmers most of us open up a browser ,surf internet, use MS office suites , email , listen songs or download pictures.

Since google had integrated its own application suite in the web, there was very little use of an Operating system. So why can’t a browser like Firefox(Chrome was not out then)not be installed  on Linux and sold to customers.

So on browser you surf internet , upload and share pictures. For work you can use google office suite which works very well within browser . So you do not need a full fledge OS.  A lightweight linux can be used and you save your $100 which you pay for OS.

And this I was saying before Chrome(Google’s browser ) was released.

Today google has announced they are launching Google Chrome Operating System in second half of 2010.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

Read it here in google blog

Currently they are targeting net book , but no reason why it cannot be upgraded for laptops in coming years.

There is a lot of business learning from this piece of news and with what Microsoft has been doing for years. We will cover that in next post.

What are the new features in Spring 3.0?

1. The Spring Framework is now based on Java 5, and Java 6 is fully supported.

2. The entire framework code has been revised to take advantage of Java 5 features like generics, varargs and other language improvements.  The code is still compatible with older versions of Java

3. Spring Expression Language – Spring has introduced an expression language which is similar to Unified EL in its syntax but offers significantly more features

The following is an example of how the Expression Language can be used to configure some properties of a database setup

<bean class=“mycompany.RewardsTestDatabase”> <property name=“databaseName” value=“#{systemProperties.databaseName}”/> <property name=“keyGenerator” value=“#{strategyBean.databaseKeyGenerator}”/> </bean>

4. Some core features from the JavaConfig project have been added to the Spring Framework now. This means that the following annotations are now directly supported:

5. Additional annotations such as @CookieValue and @RequestHeaders have been added

6. Early support for asynchronous method invocations through the use of the new @Async annotation (or EJB 3.1’s @Asynchronous annotation).

7. The most exciting new feature for the Web Tier is the support for building RESTful web services and web applications

8. Object to XML mapping functionality (OXM) from the Spring Web Services project has been moved to the core Spring Framework now

9. Extended support for meta-annotations: Spring’s @Scope and @Transactional annotations, as well as specialized stereotypes such as @Service and @Controller, can be applied as meta-annotations on custom annotations now. for eg

Source :  Spring 3.0 documentation

I did a little research and found that this is nothing but a scam (was’nt surprised) . The only thing which google offers is google adsense and nothing like fast cash.

Please do not fall for it and waste your time and money . There is no short cut to success.

Some of the new themes are Ocean Blue, Birds of Prey, Travels to the Edge, and Deserts. These themes allow you to enjoy the world’s wonders from the comfort of your iGoogle page.

Go ahead and update your iGoogle homepage with these new themes.

The iPhone 3.0 is a major update and has many long requested features like the  cut, copy and paste, push notifications, MMS and modem tethering and landscape keyboard.

Some of the other good improvements is the support for YouTube accounts, iTunes Store account creation on the device,  direct song, movie, TV show and audiobook purchases via WiFi and these are just some of them.

Some of the other features are the spotlight search which enable to search all of your contacts, emails, calendars and everything in your iPod. The shake to shuffle feature, where all you do is give the iPhone a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.

It also allows you to automatically connect to the WiFi network. There are also some features , like stereo Bluetooth or MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) that lets you send images, audio, video and locations to other cellphone users, are not possible on the first-generation iPhone and iPod touch devices due to hardware constraints.

The U.S users should be aware that updating their devices wont yet allow them to enjoy MMS and modem tethering until AT&T enables these capabilities on its cellular network

A good news for International users is that iPhone OS 3.0 is in 34 languages and supports 40 keyboard layouts. These long awaited features will definitely bring a lot of smiles to the Apple users. To update your device just log on to iTunes 8 and then click on “Check for Update”and then download and install the update.

Go ahead, upgrade and enjoy these features…

Nokia, has taken its first small step towards it. They have  invented a prototype of a cell phone that recharges itself. It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power.

Traditionally wireless power systems are specifically designed with a transmitter and receiver in mind. The wireless waves  from the TV, radio and other mobile phone systems bounces around and most of it is wasted, absorbed or scattered .

Nokia’s prototype cell phone is designed to pick up all these waves and uses the collected electromagnetic energy to create electrical current, then uses that to recharge the phone’s battery. A huge range of frequencies can be utilized by the system.

The electromagnetic energy , would be enough to keep a cell phone from dying out completely .  Currently Nokia is able to harvest just 5 milliwatts from the air, they intend to increase it to 20 milliwatts first and then to 50 milliwatts. This would be enough to keep the phone alive during an active call, but it can slowly recharge the cell phone battery when it is in standby mode.

Nokia hopes to commercialize this technology in the next five years..

We all are definitely  looking forward to it

The idea  behind the Collection Feature was to create a group of useful add -on’s that fit together. For example you can have a collection of all the websites that you use to connect to your friends, like maybe Facebook, Twitter, Orkut in one collection.

The Collections are a community feature , so you can create your own.  The  collections can be updated , so you can continue to add useful add-ons as you find them if they fit within a Collection. As a creator of the collection you can add a comment about each add – on.

There is also a provision where you can flag a collection as your favorite and then even get an RSS feed update when that particular collection changes.

Well in the end i would like to add that this is another great idea from Mozilla..

Something similar happened last night when facebook opened its vanity url to public. It took 3 minutes to reach 200,000 user names  and till date 3 million user names have been claimed.

Oh my god!! Looks like techies did not sleep through the night.

I could not get mine but most of the popular urls were gone within no time. This was nothing less than the gold rush of last century. It has been a tiring day for all.

But that was a great move facebook. And they handled the  traffic very well.

Mafia wars on Facebook has several cool things . It is a simple text based, number crunch game, that puts in a Mafia with all your friends who play Mafia wars .  You have three categories to choose from
> Mogul,
> Fearless
> Maniac.

Maniac seems good as it recovers energy faster.

The player starts out by doing jobs, with energy, for cash and moves up to buying properties for sustained income. The player then uses this income to buy bigger and better weapons from the inventory screen, which then can give them the upper hand in multiplayer fights.

As the player does more jobs, they earn experience that allows them to go up levels. As a player goes up in levels, they gain more profile points which allows them to become stronger, and to better fight rival Mafia groups.

Its extremely interesting and keeps you hooked  .Well from now on Logging onto Facebook would be great fun each day:) Go on get hooked onto the game….

In the year 1995, it began as a hobby for the Mikkelsons and has now grown into Internet’s most trusted authorities, and a full time profession for the Mikkelsons.

It has been estimated that about 6.2 million people visit Snopes each month. The New York times recently put snopes on  its short list of essentials that every computer user must know about.

Just heard a rumour ????log on and confirm it..