There is big announcement for all WordPress lovers. Finally, WordPress 3.0 beta is launched for which we all were waiting since long time.
WordPress 3.0 is having much better features than earlier version , with merger of WordPress and WordPress MU (multi-user). Here are few other features of WordPress 3.0 :
New Default theme
Custom Background Image support
Changing your own Username & Password
Custom post types
Easily manage multiple blogs via single Dashboard
There are many more features which makes WordPress 3.0 worth installing. You can read more about WordPress 3.0 from it’s official page.
Do let us know what’s your insight about WordPress 3.0 and is it better to install the beta version of WordPress 3.0 ?
After all the security issues around Google Chrome after about 8 months of its launch and the critical vulnerabilities it had stirred up, Google Chrome finally claims to have come out stronger. Today, Google announced the new version of its Chrome browser that is said to be faster, safer and less prone to bugs.
Well, that’s yet to be seen…
The existing Chrome users need not worry about updating to the new version. The browser will automatically update within a span of next 3 weeks.
For those who are new and wish to download the new version right away, can get the updates directly from the Google chrome website.
New & Improved
Some 300 stability bugs have been fixed by Google’s Chrome engineers, so hopefully, the Chrome browser will crash less.
Some enhanced security features have been added to Chrome making it difficult for any malicious program entering on the users hard drive.
The interactive web pages will run even faster now, even when the users have lots of tabs open.
Features
Improved New Tab Page: The users can now remove the thumbnails from the New Tab page by hiding whatever they wish to from the Most Visited section.
Full Screen Mode: Now the users can hide the title bar and the rest of the browser window by hitting F11 or selecting the option in the Tools menu and get a full screen view.
Form Autofill: Form autofill will show information the users have previously entered into the same form fields automatically. If at any point the user wants to clear out the information, that’s easy to do from the Tools menu.
Hopefully, this would help solve all the security problems Google Chrome had been facing in the recent past. It’s time to wait, watch and keep our fingers crossed!
I am not a chat junkie, neither I have lots of free hours to spend daily on various social networking sites. But when it comes to staying in touch with friend, I prefer Facebook and their new chat interface is making me love Facebook more and more.
Here are my reasons…
Group Visibility
Facebook was allowing you to create and manage groups of friends from sometime. Now these same groups are integrated into chat feature. You can set your visibility settings for each group individually.
You can also select which friend-lists will appear by clicking on “Friend Lists”. One step ahead you can mark yourself online/offline for any group (friend list) by clicking on a small icon present next to each friend-list name. (see screenshot)
I had already grouped all Facebook contacts into different groups and now all I did was set myself invisible for all unwanted contact in one go! 😉
New Options
Chat features now has many new options. Some of them deserves immediate attention.
“Show Only Names in Online Friends” – If you have may long friend-list then their display pic thumbnail may make you scroll a lot! Use this option and you will get compact list with names only. This will hide your friends pics and their status updates displayed below their name.
“Keep Online Friends Window Open” – This keeps your online friend list window always open. I find this option very cool for wide screen monitors. Facebook have center aligned fix width design which leaves lots of whitespace on both sides. So keeping online friends window open just uses that whitespace!
Other reasons!
I have few more reasons to love Facebook chat! Some of them are as follows…
Browser Based – Facebook chat is browser based! Which makes it accessible from most platforms. Now this has nothing to do with me being a Mac user. I can use Facebook chat/Google Talk from Mac using Adium desktop app but I prefer accessing these things from browsers.
Light Weight – I like its overall interface which is very quick to load. Unlike Meebo or other web-based chat apps, Facebook chat eats up very less bandwidth.
Popup Version – I have bookmarked popup version chat URL and I use it more frequently. This reminds me Yahoo’s web-based chat engine in old days. Here is the link – http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
Things I still want to change!
First thing they should fix is “history feature”. Google talk changed my habit of taking notes from chat sessions. If I need some link my friend gave me over a chat I directly go to Gmail chat history and find it out there. Now with Facebook, I find myself in problem sometime and then have to send an email like “dude I lost that kool link about blah…blah app u gave to me over chat. plz send it again!”
As of now you can mark yourself online or offline only. I want ability to stay invisible at group-level as well.
Overall this new version of Facebook chat is way better than others! I personally find it best!
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