Google Toolbar distributed with Adobe's products

Yesterday, Adobe entered into a multi-year agreement with Google to offer Google Toolbar with various Adobe’s products. Presently, Google Toolbar is offered with Macromedia Shockwave Player and will be added into various products in the future. Press release can be found on the Adobe’s site HERE.

Yesterday itself I have downloaded Shockwave Player into my Firefox browser, but it has offered "Yahoo Toolbar".

New browser -- Opera 9 has been launched

According to the press release on Opera’s webiste…Opera 9, its newest browser for PCs, has been launched in 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux, and other platforms yesterday. It includes the new features like built-in BitTorrent software– popular file distribution technology, “widgets” – tiny useful web programs that you can run right on the desktop, add your favorite search engine, site preferences, improved rich text editing, content blocker, and thumbnail preview. Opera claims that it maintains the highest security and speed what Opera fans are expecting.

Opera 9’s full feature list can be found HERE.

It is available for download HERE.

What’s your comment…….you like Firefox or Opera ?....just post you opinion in “Comments”.

Creative launches new mp3 player - Zen V Plus

Creative has launched a new mp3 player today named as Zen V Plus – an mp3, photo, and video player with built-in FM radio.

According to it’s press release today on their web site, the ZEN V Plus includes all of the following features:

“• The smooth contours and tiny size of the ZEN V Plus enable it to fit naturally in your fingertips or to tuck away easily in a small pocket or purse. Available in glossy black or white with fun color accents of orange, green or blue, the ZEN V Plus looks as great as it feels.

• Special coating on the entire player to help prevent scratching.

• Vibrant 1.5-inch OLED screen for stunning video, photos and album art.

• Music Subcription Support - from major services such as Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Urge, Napster To Go and Rhapsody To Go, support for Audible audio books and pay-per-download services including Soundbuzz.

• Built-in FM radio with 32 station presets.

• A voice recorder for capturing notes or lectures.

• Syncs with Microsoft Outlook - includes a built-in organizer with Calendar, Contacts and Tasks.

• Direct CD Recording - with line-in connection and a Sync Track button to separate different songs recorded from an entire CD.

• Incorporates the most popular “ZEN Patent” user interface - for intuitively accessing music, photos, video and color menus and displaying album art.”

Zen V Plus will be available in August and costs $329, $269, and $199 respectively for 4, 2, and 1 GB models. Complete description goes HERE.

I like it's appearence and cool screen...do you?

Feeling bored with casual browsing?

Sometimes, I feel bored with browsing the same thing for everyday. Do you? Just browse the following sites and let me know if you feel the same still.

Google Earth
Google Earth is a powerful software, which combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

Download Google Earth and try to point out your home, school, college, or your relatives’ houses. It will be very fun and you can watch how your city looks from a bird view. Download Google Earth here.

Yahoo Answers
“What is Yahoo! Answers? It’s the place to ask questions and get real answers from real people. It’s fun and educational because you get to ask questions on any topic—from the serious to the not so serious. You can also help people out by answering others' questions. It’s all about sharing—what you know and what you want to know—so don’t keep those questions and answers to yourself...jump in and start sharing!”

It works with Yahoo! ID. Check out the categories where you are expert and try to answer the questions. If you have any questions or wants an opinion from people throughout the world, just ask a question and see what others think about it. Sure, you will be addicted.

Google Answers
Same as Yahoo! Answers, but here answers will be from the Google Answers Researchers who are experts in various fields and carefully screened by the Google. It is a paid service. Browsing through the previously answered questions will be helpful to know lot of things that we don’t know. Just browse the categories you are interested in and see questions and answers. Really, you will get lot of knowledge and you will be surprised to see the way Google Answers Researcher solves it.

Blogger
Have you every gone though the variety of people’s blogs? It will be very interesting. Some of them are knowledgeable, informative, and some of them studded with poetry, thoughts, and real incidents…..just take a look and let me know what do you feel in Comments.

Go to the home page of Blogger at http://blogger.com where you will see the recently updated blogs list scrolling. Click one and it will be opened in a new window along with a Blogger bar showing on the top of the site. After completion of the reading or if you don’t like the blog, then just press the “Next Blog” on the Blogger bar and it will load another randomly selected blog. It is sure that it will take all the boredom away from you.

Stock.XCHNG
Stock.XCHNG is a repository of royalty-free photographs. The site has approximately 200,000 quality stock photos and growing. If you need a wallpaper for your desktop, image for your blog or web site, or you are a photographer looking for inspiration, this is the best site.

Just check it out and download the photos as much as you like, it is royalty-free.

First Computer Hacking Course in University

University of Abertay, Dundee is going to launch Britain's first degree course in computer hacking where the students can learn government-accredited "ethical hacker" course. As per the Times Online, students will learn how to crack the most sophisticated security systems with the chief aim of advising organizations on how to protect their networks.

The course will begin in September. During the selection and thorughout the course, the students will be monitored, so that they don't use the skills in a wrong way.

Complete article can be found on Times Online here.

Google launches online photo album service -- Picasa Web Albums

Today, Google announced on their official weblog that they are launching a new service of online photo albums, which is free, called Picasa Web Albums. Picasa, Google's free desktop photo management software, now comes embedded with the feature to publish the albums online on PicasaWeb. Once the photos are published, any one can see the photos organized in albums and can see the thumbnails. On PicasaWeb, people can easily organize their photos and can make comments and share with whomever they want. With the help of Picasa, one can not only publish the album online, but also can download the online albums into the Picasa.

Picasa Web Albums comes with 250 MB free space, which accommodates approximately 1,000 photos and there is an option to upgrade where with a fee of $25.00 per year, users can get 6 GB of storage where approximately 25,000 photos can be stored.

Now Picasa Web Albums is available only by invitation and one can get it here.