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One of the world’s first single-domain blog network has launched – NextPlug.in.

I am the founder of NextPlug.in and will also be blogging at TechPlug.in which is a part of the newly launched network.

We are also looking for more bloggers so that we can expand the network. So if you have read the About Us page of NextPlug.in and think that you can also blog like the way we do, just mail us and we’ll get back to you asap.

So please visit the site and let us know what you think about it.

Cheers!

We just found this brilliant video in the videos section of the Creative Commons website and couldn’t resist sharing it with our reader. This video basically demonstrates how CC works.

So what do you think about the video and do you use CC on your blog or website?

How Google Chrome stores passwords.

At one time, it was tough to cover your tracks after visiting some, uh, questionable sites, but now it’s getting easier than ever. According to Mozilla, Firefox is joining Safari, Internet Explorer 8, and Google Chrome in providing its users with a “private mode” that will not collect any of your browsing history or cookies in the upcoming release of Firefox 3.1.

read more | digg story

Nokia recently launched a new research project called The Morph Concept device which would be a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre of UK.

The Morph concept technology carries numerous interesting features for future mobile devices:
1. Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live.
2. Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving.
3. Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension.
4. Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge.
5. Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices.

In addition to the advances above, the integrated electronics would cost less and include more functionality in a much smaller space, even as interfaces are simplified and usability is enhanced.

You can watch a video of the Morph Concept which would give you a picture of what exactly they want the future of Mobile phones to be:

Your Views
So what do you think, is this the future of mobile phones or will it just remain as a vision, a dream, a concept?

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When Larry Page and Sergy Brin, two geek graduates of Stanford University, started a search engine called BackRub, they had no idea it would go on to become Google, the world’s biggest search engine, and would land them in Forbes’s richest peoples’ list. And now the search engine has completed 10 years of reigning supreme in the virtual world of Internet. On Sep 7 1998, Page and Brin erased the phrase “lack of information” forever for anyone who owns a computer and an Internet connection.Ranked number one in India and the US as the most visited website and settling for the second spot globally right after Yahoo!, Google has rushed towards its success considering the company is just a baby with only 10 years of experience to boast about.

But it makes up for it more than enough in its revenue sector. Only last year Google reportedly earned $16.5 billions.

From only 10,000 search requests in 1998, it is said that Google handles 235 million searches in a normal day in 2008. But this is one query on which there is “no information” on Google.

Only last week, Google decided to extend its tentacles and launched a brand new web browser, Chrome, which is causing ripples across the net community already.

For some, Google has become synonymous with any Internet search or query. And as for students, who trust nothing except Google to complete their assignments, it is like a second teacher.

“The best thing about Google is that it is fast and easy. It sorts out things in the order you want them and makes searching for advanced topics very simple. Plus for students like me, who need complex diagrams, Google’s image search option is really helpful,” says Jyoti, a zoology student of Delhi University’s Hans Raj College.

And if you are still in doubt, just “Google” it!

From incognito browsing and the streamlined download manager to URL highlighting and improved search, let’s take a look at how you can bring some of Google Chrome‘s best features to Firefox.

read more | digg story

Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox add-on that lets you change the appearance and functionality of almost any page on the web. Most people don’t know how to write Javascript, though, so we end up using the Greasemonkey scripts developed by other people who do. There are lots and lots of scripts that have been written and they are fun, useful and easy to run.

read more | digg story

Everybody is talking about about the new browser by Google – Google Chrome. What do you think – Is Google Chrome browser good for everybody (net users, developers, etc) as a whole?

From a normal net user’s point of view:
Yay! We’ll have another interesting browser that we can choose. This browser add up the browser war competition which would force the competitors to make something even better. Good for us I guess!

From a developer’s point of view:
Isn’t Google trying to become the largest monopoly of web(ospeher)? You need Internet Explorer anyway since microsoft sites won’t work best on others; Firefox, known as the best browser in world; Opera, known as the best for mobiles and NOW, Google Chrome, to run Google products better?

Google has told that they have made a new coding structure for their browser unlike the rest of the browsers. Does this mean we will loose standardization? Wouldn’t this add to all the developers’ headache of making a different plugin for the browser which obviously would have millions of users because of the brand name? You decide.

Your view!
We want to see what our readers think about the browser. Vote on and if you want to give us a reason, comment here!

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UPDATE: Google Chrome has been launched. You can download it here.

Google Blogoscoped has published a lengthly cartoon that provides the first public details about Google Chrome. The browser is an open source browser based on WebKit and powered by Google Gears.

The Google Chrome project has already undergone a substantial period of development with engineers working to create a product that is secure, user friendly, fast, stable, safe, and easily testable.

A few special feature which the browser will have:

• The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8
• Google Chrome will use special tabs. Instead of traditional tabs, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window instead of putting it below the address bar like FireFox.
• The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features. The new feature which they introduced on the Google Homepage a few days ago.
• As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera.
• Chrome has a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito” window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.”
• Web apps can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and toolbar.
• To fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is “constantly” downloading lists of harmful sites.

Google has posted on their official blog that they will be launching the Google Chrome’s beta version tomorrow in over a 100 countries.

You can read the official comics of the browser here.

UPDATE: Google Chrome got its very own Wikipedia article so quickly!
UPDATE: What does John Lilly, Mozilla CEO, have to say about Google Chrome?