Play Snake game on Youtube

Here is a small easteregg for Youtube. You can play popular snake game on videos just by pressing UP and LEFT arrow keys togeather

and you can play snake game like this

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Epic - The Indian style of Browsing

Epic is a free web browser based on Firefox that is currently available only for Windows operating system. Epic is the India’s first web browser that provides its users with a free Anti Virus and you can be sure that the version will be updated.
Epic In Short:

the first-ever web browser for India

the world's only sidebar apps browser

the world's only antivirus browser

Features:

1. Epic’s built is based on Mozilla platform and open source software technology.
2. The main feature of Epic is its Sidebar. It has got many apps/widgets in it. 
3. In Epic the user can simultaneously access the apps in the Sidebar while browsing his favorite sites.
4. With the help of Epic, the user can browse the files in My Computer, listen to the Latest Soundtracks, check the News updates, Live Cricket Scores, search for Jobs, Type in any Indic Languages, change the Themes and Wallpapers and more. 
5. The main features of Epic are: Maximum Security, Malicious Website Warnings, Anti-Publishing Protection, Fast Browsing and Downloads and many more. 
6.  Users can directly type in Indian languages with the built-in widget provided in the side bar.
7. Built in Word Processor "Epic Write"
8. 1500+ Indian Themes and Wallpapers. 
9. Latest Film Songs. Live Cricket Scores. News from a Dozen+ Leading Sources. Regional and Hindi Language News. Live TV. Stock Quotes. Events. Videos. Even a Daily Joke.
10. Directly access your gmail,yahoo from sidebar.(Mobile version of the page will be displayed so you wont get all the features like chat,buzz etc if you access from side bar... but it will be handy if you want to just check or send any new mails.) and you can even access social networking sites like twitter, Facebook.

Check out More Features of EPIC

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YOUTUBE goes beyond HD

World's most popular most video streaming website YOUTUBE started supporting full HD videos just 8-9 months back. and now it is taking a step further to support videos upto 4K resolution (ie. 4096x3112 resolution)
What is 4K resolution.??
To illustrate the power of 4K, please check out the videos in this playlist; each one was created by a filmmaker with access to a 4K camera. (Be warned: watching videos in 4K, even on YouTube, will require ultra-fast high-speed broadband connections).
To view any video in a source resolution greater than 1080p, select "Original" in the video quality pulldown menu:

You usually find 4K resolution videos in the movie theaters, that utilize a 25-feet wide display to exhibit the huge resolution.

According to YouTube engineer, Ramesh Sarukkai,

“…we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4K. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet; IMAX movies are projected through two 2k resolution projectors.”

More information about 4K resolution videos in wikipedia.

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Firefox 4: Beta

Mozilla recently released the first beta version of Firefox 4,The new Firefox offers  improved security and better page rendering, and it also supports WebM, Google's new open video standard project.

New MENU Style.
In Windows Vista or Windows 7, one of the first thing to notice is that the menus have moved to a single orange Firefox button on the upper-left side.(This feature is not available on Mac , Linux, and Windows XP )
The stop and reload functions are also merged into one button on the far left. Users of any operating system will see this new feature.

Tabs on Top.

Like Google Chrome, Firefox 4 beta now has the browser tabs pointing upward by default 

DOWNLOAD FIREFOX 4 Beta  (Keep in mind that Firefox 4 is in Beta, and you may have to encounter a few unexpected bugs and crashes.)

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"Free Recharge" Scam on Orkut

Alert if you're looking for a free recharge code on Orkut. Scammers are tricking Orkut users into pasting malicious JavaScript code in their browser's address bar, with the promise of receiving a free recharge code for their mobile phones. Users who fall for the scam end up with their Google login credentials stolen.
It all starts with users receiving a link on Orkut that takes them to a website displaying a big banner that reads: "Recharge your mobile here!" According to information presented on this page, the user will receive a free recharge code in their Orkut scrapbook if they copy and paste some JavaScript code into the address bar.

Doing so will force the browser to access a shortened URL. "That triggers a big page of javascript code located at orkutaddict(dot)net/freerecharge/dpd(dot)js. At this point, the path branches off depending on whether you’re logged into Orkut or not," 
If you're not login to your Google account or Okrut, you'll see a JavaScript alert instructing to log in to Orkut account in order to receive the promised free code that recharges their call credit. After closing this alert, you'll be taken to a phishing page displaying a fake Google Account sign-in form. And you'll loose your Google/Orkut account details at this point. Such type of Orkut scan is popular in India.
Dont Click on any such  links in orkut few examples are shown below.

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GoogleCL for Linux

Manage your Google Applications from the Command Line(Terminal).
With GoogleCL installed, you'll be able to do a bunch of tasks from uploading a full folder of folders to Picasa, editing your Google Docs to uploading videos on YouTube straight from your Terminal.
Get it Here

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Remove ads on Facebook

Facebook users using Firefox web browser can use this hack script for Greasemonkey add-on to remove annoying ads in Facebook. Of course, it’s possible to use specialized ad blocker such as AdBlock Plus,but some prefer this because it uses very small amount of your system resources.

Install Greasemonkey
Then install this Script Remove All Facebook Ads

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Opera 10.60 beta

The latest version of browser from Opera have been released, with speed improvements and better HTML5 compliance.
Company claims that they has made the browser 50 percent faster than the previous version.
The beta also adds support for many HTML5 features. These include support for the next-generation video and audio codec WebM, geolocation compatibility, Web Workers and App Cache.
The features of Opera 10.60 can be read here.

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DownThemAll

DownThemAll is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser.

DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400%, it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time and, last but not least, it's fully integrated into your favorite browser!

Add DownThemAll to Firefox
For more information see Features page.

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Orkut Chrome Extension to quickly receive new Scrap/Update

Google recently launched Chrome extension to that allows you to receive orkut updates and scrap notifications.The orkut chrome extension allows you to receive orkut updates and scrap notifications.The popup menu allows you to quickly jump to a friends' page, search on orkut, visit your home/scrap/photos pages and share sites on orkut. More features, coming soon!
Click here to add this extension , Please not that this extension will work only in Google chrome.
When you install this extension you need to enable this extension by clicking on Setting > Extension and click enable link , once you do that you will start receiving notification of every scrap and update in your chrome Browser.

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GOOGLE closing off support for IE6

This has not been the greatest start to the year for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.Days after news of the latest security flaw in Internet Explorer, Google is phasing out support for IE6 for two of its Google Apps products, Docs and Sites.
For both the consumer and enterprise versions of Google Docs and Sites, the only browsers that will be fully compatible are Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+, Mozilla Firefox 3.0+, Google Chrome 4.0+ and Safari 3.0+. The phase out will take place beginning March 1. While you’ll still be able to access Docs and Sites from IE6, you will have restricted functionality and many features won’t work, making the applications for the most part useless. We hear that Google will be phasing out IE6 support for the remainder of Google’s major products, including Gmail and Calendar, over the coming year. This isn’t Google’s first move to phases out IE6 functionality for its products. Last July, the search giant began phasing out YouTube support for the Microsoft browser. For users of IE6, the online video site began pointing to ‘modern’ browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.5 as alternatives. A similar prompt will now take place on Docs and Sites for users who are browsing from IE6. 

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YOUTUBE introducing HTML5 Supported Videos

 YouTube launched a simple demo of an HTML5-based video player.
HTML5 is a new web standard that is gaining popularity rapidly and adds many new features to your web experience. Most notably for YouTube users, HTML5 includes support for video and audio playback. This means that users with an HTML5 compatible browser, and support for the proper audio and video codecs can watch a video without needing to download a browser plugin.
 Support for HTML5 is an early experiment, and there are some limitations. HTML5 on YouTube doesn't support videos with ads, captions, or annotations and it requires a browser that supports both the video tag and h.264 encoded video (currently that means Chrome, Safari, and ChromeFrame on Internet Explorer). We will be expanding the capabilities of the player in the future, so get ready for new and improved versions in the months to come.
To try it out, go to the HTML5 page via TestTube or visit this page and join the experiment. This will enable HTML5 video for your browser, provided that it's one of the browsers mentioned above and fits in with the parameters we already referenced. (If you've opted in to other experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player.) You can also enable Feather watch (visit http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta) along with HTML5 video for an even simpler, faster YouTube experience.

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IPad does not support Adobe FLASH

One of the disappointing (if unsurprising) part of Apple’s launch of its iPad tablet computer was the absence of Flash, Adobe’s technology for web video and other media.

It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers.  And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.
If you want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- you'll be out of luck.

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Firefox 3.6 - New Features

Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest version of its popular browser.it includes a number of under-the-hood improvements, and a handful of changes that you might discover as you use it.

Plug-in Check for Better Security

Firefox 3.6 can now detect whether any of your installed browser plug-ins (Flash, etc...) are out of date. This is importaant because Cybercriminals often use bugs in outdated versions of  some plugins--particularly Flash and QuickTime--to attack your PC

Full-Screen Video

You can now watch certain types of videos in full screen with Firefox 3.6. If the video is in the Oog Vorbis format, you can right-click the video and select an option to see it in full-screen.
The downside to this feature, of course, is that it only works with certain videos,

Under the Hood

Firefox 3.5 was a good deal faster than earlier Firefox versions. Mozilla claims that Firefox 3.6 is even faster, with improvements to JavaScript performance in particular, which should result in faster load times for Web pages and Web apps. Firefox also improves support for some of the latest Web design technologies, which should make it easier for designers to create better, more attractive sites.

Skins Come to Firefox

Firefox Personas. Personas are basically interface skins that you can apply with one click, and they're actually pretty similar to the skins available for the Google Chrome browser. Mozilla has a gallery of personas at getpersonas.com that features over 35,000 designs to choose from.

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Microsoft knows about zero-day flaw in September

A critical security vulnerability that hackers used to breach Google, Adobe and other large U.S. companies was disclosed to Microsoft last September, not last week as previously believed.
The software giant had intended to release a patch for the flaw in February, five months after learning about it, but had to speed up that plan and release it this week in the wake of news that Google and others had been hacked through the flaw.

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Patch for zero-day flaw in Microsoft IE

A critical zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer was exploited as part of the attack on Google and other companies, according to both Microsoft and McAfee.
The flaw allows for a Web-based attack against IE 6 SP 1 on Windows 2000, along with IE 7 and 8 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. According to Microsoft's security advisory, the company has only seen active attacks against IE 6 so far.
The invalid pointer reference flaw allows for remote code execution, according to Microsoft, which means that viewing a malicious Web site could allow an attacker to execute any command on a vulnerable computer. Typically that would mean installing a Trojan or other malicious software. According to the bulletin, IE's Protected Mode on Vista and later versions of Windows mitigates the threat, which could also be leveraged by a banner ad.
According to Microsoft, “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.”

 Detailed Information available in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 (Published: January 21, 2010 and rated as Critical)

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Firefox 3.7 changed to 4.0

Mozilla has dropped the schedule of Firefox 3.7 and will release Firefox 4.0 instead of firefox 3.7 after Firefox 3.6. So Firefox 4.0 will come most probably at the end of this year or early 2011. Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka. Development for this version started on December 1, 2008 and it is planned for release in early 2010. This release will use the new Gecko 1.9.2 rendering engine.Firefox 4.0 has been tentatively scheduled to use the Gecko 1.9.4 rendering engine and will offer a new user interface and multi-touch gesture support.

According to Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox.

Rather than add features to Firefox only in once- or twice-a-year upgrades, Mozilla will quietly insert some functionality via its regular security updates, which appear every four to six weeks. That means Firefox 3.7, which was slated for a second quarter release, has been dropped from the development schedule. We learned an awful lot about what slows down our schedule, and that will help us plan future releases.

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Firefox updated to 3.5.7

The Mozilla Foundation has updated its Firefox browser to version 3.5.7. This is meant to make the software a more stable as well as a safer platform. In this regard the recently released Firefox 3.5.7 update fixes several stability issues and several security issues. To be more precise, it fixes a total of 7 security issues – 3 of which have been given the rating of critical.
The 3 critical security issues that Firefox 3.5.7 addresses are:
MFSA 2009-67
MFSA 2009-66
MFSA 2009-65
If you are already using firefox click Help -> Check for updates to manually update the browser.
For others Firefox 3.5.7 download location is available here.

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What If Microsoft Developed Twitter

• Every tweet would be a maximum of 140 characters, but would need to download a 2Mb message, containing various XML markups and a ton of security services.
• Add to that encryption for privacy concerns, authentication, server signatures, etc.
• Oh, and it will require Silverlight, .NET, ActiveX, and Internet Explorer 8 to read, of course.
• They would have come up with a new SDK technology once a year
• You would have to sign an lengthy  EULA for each tweet you send out
• You know, saying that the tweet you send is up to you, no one else is responsible for it, even if it kills your machine, or the machine of the people receiving it.
• You would have to get used to “the blue tweet of death”

• You couldn’t use Twitter on your Mac
• The twitter URL would have been like 

            " http://www.twitter.com/askdjfha;sdkjfh@#$@#$,msdfasdf.asp/read "

• Each upgrade (and many of the weekly security patches) would reset all your options to the defaults.
• Your screen would go black and a window would pop up asking if you’re really really sure you want to send each and every message. “No really, are you sure?”
• You’d be able to buy Twitter Pro which allows for 280 characters

This post has been modified from the original posts which is available here. and here

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Alternative Web Browsers for WINDOWS

Firefox : The fastest and most reliable browser for windows
Google Chrome :It is just what a browser should do & stripped it down to web essentials
Safari  providing the most enjoyable way to experience the Internet.
Microsoft Labs PIVOT: Its nothing but an Internet browser which works on the basis of Internet Explorer 8(only IE 8 and vista or windows7) with the new attractive looks and cool features.
Opera Opera’s newest Web browser introduces a new technology platform, Opera Unite, allowing you to stream music or share files, photos and more, right from the browser.
Flock – Flock is a social browser that integrates with web services for blogging, photo sharing, and bookmark sharing.
ShenzBrowser – This is a customized browser for individual use.
JonDoFox Browser – Try it for private & secure browsing.
PhaseOut – PhaseOut adds functionality to your current Internet Explorer version.
Crazy Browser – It is an easy-to-use fast browser.
Smart Bro – Smart Bro is a tabbed browser, similar to Internet Explorer, but with many new features.
Bitty Browser – Bitty Browser helps you keep track of your favorite Web stuff by enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites
Amaya – Amaya is a Web editor/browser, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web.
Midori – Midori is a lightweight web browser.
Sleipnir – Sleipnir is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure to suit your individual needs.
SRWare. Looks exactly like Google. But without the feedback.
Arora light-weight browser.
cometbird   its xerox of firefox n faster than firefox,,

Kid Rocket
Maxthon
Avant 
Lunascape
Slim Browser
Sea Monkey
Prism
Deepnet Explorer
K-Meleon
Browse 3D
xb Browser

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