Mozilla today announced winners of its Extend Firefox 3 contest after reviewing over 100 extensions.

One of the grand prize winner of Best New Extensions is Pencil by Dương Thành An, which adds GUI prototyping and diagramming to Firefox using the Firefox’s SVG support for rendering and scripting.

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Intel has unveiled the new USB technology called USB 3.0. It is far superior than the current USB 2.0. USB 3.0 has 10 times the bandwidth of existing USB 2.0 connections. It is expected to hit the markets in 2009 or 2010. The transfer speed of USB 3.0 is really jaw dropping, which is about 4.8Gbit/s that is 614MByte/s. The time required for data transfers will be reduced dramatically, for example transferring a movie of 30 GB will take around 74 seconds( 1 min 14 sec) in USB 3.0 whereas it will take around 17 to 18 minutes with USB 2.0.

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Secure Computing, a company providing enterprise security solutions has published a report on Internet threats for the second quarter of 2008. According to the report, USA tops the list of spam sending countries accounting for 16.5% of the spam while Russia is second on list with around 8% contribution.

These top 10 countries account for 55% of global spam. Besides US and Russia, India, Korea, Argentina, Germany were also on the top spam sender’s list.

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“Notepad, a very simple built-in text editor in Windows. We can create, edit and save text files with its help.” This is what most of us think about this hidden master that can perform many roles in addition to just being a simple text editor.

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Portable Applications are the softwares that can be run directly from a portable device without requiring installation. These are quite useful if you travel a lot and need your softwares with you all the time. You can keep portable versions of your favorite softwares all the time with you on a USB drive and they can be run from any computer with a USB port.

Moreover, the greatest benefit of using portable applications is that none of the settings, history, data is kept on the host computer as everything is stored on the portable device.

We have compiled a list of 10 essential portable applications for your USB drive that will work on any Windows system.

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Yahoo Buzz, the Digg like social content rating website from Yahoo is now open to all. Earlier, this service was available to only selected 400 publishers. Now anyone can submit a story on Yahoo Buzz and if it gets featured on front page of Yahoo Buzz, it could drive enormous amount of Traffic to the publisher just like Digg.

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“TODDL3R is parenting” this is what the search engine claims to be, and yes it is. Now the parents can very easily find anything that is concerned with babies which can be from baby food to baby name or from a baby shower to baby sitter. Parents can share their stories with others, they can ask questions, get answers etc. The homepage of the website is also very interesting, (more…)

Google Talk is  one such IM client that has a minimalist interface which focuses on the basic function of IM i.e. chatting. As compared to other IM clients like Yahoo Messenger, its interface is quite simple.

But here are 5 tweaks that’ll let you get maximum out of your Google Talk client and achieve some of the functions, you might not have thought it could perform.

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Whether you are a blogger, a software company employ or play any other role, a good health makes everyone feel good. Sometimes it happens that we have a bit of ailment but we keep on ignoring a visit to the doctor, possible reasons being one of these : too laziness to leave for doctor’s place, fear of heavy charges’ payment to doctor , ignorance about the symptom etc.. But thanks to technology that has brought ailment detector to our homes.

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Facebook has dethroned Myspace to become worlds top social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in the month of June, according to the web tracking firm ComScore. Of 132 million 63% are outside North America which represents the huge international growth of Facebook.Facebook has an annual growth rate of 153% v/s Myspace’s 3%.

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