Browser Market Share – November 2010

According to Net Applications, IE decreased its market share in November by 0.74%. Firefox losses 0.07% and chrome gains 0.76%.Safari gained 0.19%. Chrome continues to eat away at IE’s and firefox share. Total market share of microsoft internet explore is 58.44%, firefox 22.76%,chrome 9.26% and safari 5.55%.

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Google acquires Phonetic Arts and Widevine

Phonetic Arts is a speech synthesis company based in Cambridge, England.Google said “Phonetic Arts’ team of  researchers and engineers work at the cutting edge of speech synthesis, delivering technology that generates natural computer speech from small samples of recorded voice”

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Widevine is an on-demand video service known for its multiplatform DRM and video optimization.

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How to avoid the Thumbs.db File in Windows XP

To avoid the Thumbs.db file

Open My Computer or any folder and then click tools menu.
select Folder options.. and click view tab.
Check the Do not cache thumbnails check box in the advances setting section.
Press the OK button.

Note: Thumbs.db is a system file and it is generated automatically When you view the folder in Thumbnail or Filmstrip view.

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NoScript – Firefox add-on

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NoScript is free and open source Firefox add-on that provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers.It allows JavaScript, Java and Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS protection available in a browser.
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ColorZilla -Firefox add-on

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ColorZilla is a free Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite add-on. It helps web developers and graphic designers with color related tasks such as get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program,Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page,choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.
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PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software

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PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software is a free browser extension for viewing and creating Web-based PDF files. It removes the pain you can experience when you encounter PDF files online, reducing browser crashes, speeding up the display of a PDF’s content, and letting you convert any (unsecured) Web page into a high-quality PDF that’s great for archiving, printing and sharing.Some of its features include View PDF online,Convert Web pages to PDF,View PDF as HTML,Control PDF files in Firefox,available in 19 languages.
It is also available for IE,safari and chrome.
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Flashgot – Firefox add-on

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FlashGot is the free add-on for Firefox which downloads all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers. It supports almost all major download manager such as BitComet, Download Accelerator Plus,DownloadStudio, Free Download Manager,HiDownload,Internet Download Manager, JDownloader,Mass Downloader and Orbit for windows and Aria,Axel, cURL,FatRat,GNOME Gwget, KDE KGet,Uget for linux and Folx,iGetter,Leech, Speed Download for mac os x.
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Fire FTP – Firefox add-on

FireFTP is a free,cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. It is one of the most useful add-on for web developers. Some of its features are SSL/TLS/SFTP support, Keep directories in sync while navigating,20 languages, UTF8 Character Set Support, Automatic reconnect and resuming of tranfers, Search and Filtering, Integrity Checks of transfers (XMD5, XSHA1), Generate hashes of files (MD5, various SHA’s), Drag & Drop, File Compression: Using MODE Z, Proxy, FXP and IPv6 support.

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