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10″ Motorola Tablet Coming with Gingerbread

10″ Motorola Tablet Coming with GingerbreadPosted by Owaeis On October - 31 - 2010Get Latest updates from us via Twitter | Facebook | RSS | EmailMotorola Android TabletTablets are hot these days. After iPad’s success, tablets are appearing from every corner. First Samsung Galaxy tab, then RIM’s PlayBook and now it’s Motorola’s turn.The Street TV cites an analyst Ashuk Kumar to report that Motorola is going to unveil an Android 2.3 Gingerbread based tablet this November. The tablet will have a 10 inch touch screen among other usuals.Provided Smsung’s Galaxy S success, we have Galaxy Tab in hands so why not a Motorola Tablet when Motorola has made huge sales with its Droid series phones? Seems very much natural. But a Gingerbread tablet as soon as November 2010? I can’t believe that. Well, I assume that Motorola might announce the device in November with a 2011 release date.No other specs of the device are known yet. We are not quite sure if this is really going to come out or not but let’s hope for good.

Motorola Droid X and Droid 2

Motorola Droid X and Droid 2: The Droid X and Droid 2 are the two Android based phone that has finally given Motorola the profit the deserved. Motorola had a $109 million profit the third fiscal quarter of the year. Revenues have hit $4.9 billion, which is up by 13 percent from Q3 of 2009. Motorola's gamble with Google’s Android operating system has paid them off really well in the third quarter.Motorola had a good profit in its Q3 of 2010. The profit is 13 percent from the Q3 of 2009. Motorola had a $109 million profit its third fiscal quarter of the year. Revenues collected this quarter is $4.9 billion. Motorola is paid well with the Google’s Android operating system. The profit this time is $12 million more than earned in the year-ago quarter.The revenues for the phone maker have hit $4.9 billion, and are up 13 percent from last year. The stocks of Motorola rose to $8.71 from the previous close of $8.09. Sanjay Jha, Motorola co-CEO, said in a statement that the mobile device segment sales have topped $2 billion, which is up 20 percent from last year and have reached profitability for the first time in three years. The sales have lead to 3.8 million Motorola Smartphone shipped, which include both Droid X and Droid 2.Jha said, "Droid X continues to sell extremely well, and we have had several other successful smartphone launches globally, including the Droid 2, the Ming series in China." It was just a few short years ago, when Motorola was beaten by Samsung, Apple's iPhone and others in the mobile phone market. The inclusion of Android platform is a strategic decision to influence the open-source.Motorola had launched Motorola Droid on Verizon Wireless' network in November 2009. Since then there has been a steady climb in the sales. The company released the Motorola Droid X and later its sequel Droid 2. The Droid X had followed the Sprint HTC Evo 4G and offered a 4.3-inch screen; the Droid 2 offered a faster Droid with much better slide out QWERTY keyboard.Motorola has the biggest best coming up in the fourth quarter, with the launch of the Droid Pro on Verizon's network. The Droid Pro is designed for the enterprises and is based on the Android 2.2. It includes a remote wipe of device, SD card and a complex password support.In spite of Motorola's absolute success, analysts for the Jefferies and Co. consider that Motorola's reliance on Android might be an competitive disadvantage, since Samsung, HTC and others are ready to "tap into the same ecosystem." Moreover, they have said that the development and manufacturing of Motorola still remains at the compassion of Android's release schedule.

Motorola Droid 2 discontinued at Best Buy, two Droid 2 Globals on the way?

Motorola Droid 2 discontinued at Best Buy, two Droid 2 Globals on the way? Do you like this story?It appears that the end of the original Motorola Droid 2 is just about here, a lifespan that lasted a whole two months. So if you really want one, and I’m not sure why you would with what’s on the horizon, you probably want to head out and grab it as soon as possible.That’s right San Francisco; Best Buy has discontinued the Droid 2. In-store displays are being removed and the store’s inventory shows it as being discontinued.Don’t believe me?Check out that internal photo courtesy of Droid-Life.You know what this means right? The release of the Motorola Droid 2 World Edition aka Droid 2 Global is just around the corner. Same deal with the Motorola Droid Pro. In fact, rumor has it that both phones could be out with a bunch of other Verizon devices on November 11th.And if you are still not convinced that the Droid 2 Global exists, Engadget got their hands on a rebate form that shows not only the Droid Pro but two versions of the Droid 2 Global which has led to some speculation that there is going to be a camera-less version for your covert business folks out there.And hey, guess what?The Samsung Continuum is there too, further proof that the ‘Nexus Two’ won’t be the device that’s revealed by Samsung on November 8th

Will HP, Dell, Sony answer 11-inch MacBook Air? | Nanotech

After new arrival 11 inch macbook air,Will HP, Dell, Sony answer 11-inch MacBook Air? Neither Dell nor Hewlett-Packard nor Sony have laptops that compete directly with the 2.3-pound, 11.6-inch MacBook Air. Is this a new market segment that those three laptop leaders and others will have to address?Sony has the Vaio Y series, but that hardly compares with the 11.6-inch MacBook Air.Sony has the Vaio Y series, but that hardly compares to the 11.6-inch MacBook Air.(Credit: Sony)Apple has a knack for creating new markets, the iPad being the most recent example. Though not as groundbreaking or broadly market-defining as the iPad, the smaller Air is clearly unique: wrapped in aluminum, while considerably lighter than a typical 3-pound 11.6-inch laptop. And it packs higher-end silicon--and better performance--than Netbooks. (I spent some time in three different Apple Stores in the Los Angeles area right after the new Airs were announced, and from what I saw, the 11.6-inch MBA elicited the most oohs and aahs--hands down.)I would submit that the Air has wedged itself (pun intended) into an elite sub-2.5-pound laptop segment where little direct competition currently exists. There are hordes of 10-inch class Netbooks out there. But, again, a $350 Windows 7-based Netbook is a very different class of laptop. Then there are products like Dell's 11.6-inch Inspiron M101z. But that is a low-end plastic Netbook-class product.2010 MacBook Air2010 MacBook Air(Credit: Apple)Lenovo--though not listed up top--warrants an honorable mention with its IdeaPad U160 11.6-inch laptop, which has the screen measurements to match the 11.6-inch Air but is about a pound heavier and for all intents and purposes is a fairly conventional Intel Core i series-based laptop that's been squeezed into a tight form factor. And Acer has the 11.6-inch TimeLineX series, but this is three pounds and really not in the same class as the Air.

Apple sues Motorola: A look at the complaints | Wireless - CNET News

Apple sues Motorola: A look at the complaints Apple has sued Motorola over multitouch patents in two separate lawsuits.The complaints, first reported by Patently Apple, were filed Oct. 29 and cover six patents. In the first complaint, the main document is only 9 pages, but one exhibit--patent 7,479,949--is broken into two parts and weighs in at a whopping 362 pages. Motorola on Oct. 6 sued Apple for patent infringement.Read more of "Apple sues Motorola: A look at the complaints" at ZD Net.

Apple iPhone Leapfrogs RIM BlackBerry in Smartphone Rankings

Apple iPhone Leapfrogs RIM BlackBerry in Smartphone Rankings on this Enterprise Mobility story.iPhone 4 sales launched Apple over RIM and into the top-5 list of handset vendors during the third quarter. Smartphones are now a major factor in the overall handset market.Rate This Article:Poor BestE-mail Print PDF VersionApple, Research In Motion and Android phone producers such as Samsung put in strong performances during a third quarter that showed smartphone sales to be very much dictating the global handset market. The handset market also seems to be rewarding phone vendors that are constantly innovating and producing the strongest possible portfolio of smartphones. The launch of the iPhone 4 helped Apple, according to Oct. 28 reports from research firms IDC and Strategy Analytics, join the list of top-five performers for the first time. Apple, such as competitor RIM, only contributes smartphones to the handheld market, and both vendors posted highest-growth rates among the top five vendors during the quarter. “The mobile phone makers that are delivering popular smartphone models are among the fastest-growing firms,” Kevin Restivo, an IDC senior research analyst, said in a statement. “Vendors that aren’t developing a strong portfolio of smartphones will be challenged to maintain and grow market share in the future.”

UK MPs question Google over Street View data breaches

UK MPs question Google over Street View data breachesGoogle Street View car in Amsterdam Google grabbed wi-fi data to help with location-based servicesMPs have accused Google of deliberately collecting wi-fi data for commercial gain.It is another twist to events kicked off by the search giant collecting of millions of pieces of sensitive information via its Street View cars.Discovery of the data triggered investigations around the globe.Google has always maintained that the data was collected in error because of code being mistakenly included in the Street View software.The code was created by a Google engineer as part of a wider project to map wi-fi hotspots but should never have found its way into Street View cars, the search giant said.Google's head of PR told the BBC's Today programme this week that there was code incorporated into Street View which was intended to map wi-fi hotspots in order to improve Google's location-based services.

More details on Nexus Two surface

More details on Nexus Two surface new details have surfaced on the rumored Samsung Nexus Two, which AndroidandMe has compiled.Samsung has sent out invitations for a major event on November 8th, when they are expected to unveil the device.The device will be the first to run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it may be the first to have native video chat available through an updated Google Talk app.Furthermore, the phone will run on a 1.2GHz processor, feature a 4-inch AMOLED (or Super-AMOLED) display, a 5MP camera with autofocus and HD video recording, a 1.3MP front-side camera, 512MB RAM, 16GB internal memory and support for multiple carriers, likely AT&T and T-Mobile.With those specifications, the Nexus Two will likely became the top Android phone in the market, and a worthy successor to the powerful, but failed Nexus One.

Samsung SGH-a187 GoPhone - blue (AT&T)

score represents a weighted average of product reviews from websites and publications around the world. The score is generated when there are reviews from two or more sources, and is based on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest possible rating.

The Samsung SGH-A187 has all the necessities of a text messaging phone. Although the occasional keyboard inconsistencies are frustrating, it's a solid choice for a good price.
The good:
The Samsung SGH-A187 has an attractive design, a variety of e-mail and instant messaging options, and a 16GB microSD card slot.
The bad:
The keys on the Samsung SGH-A187's keyboard occasionally stick, and the navigation toggle could be thicker.
Specifications:
AT&T, GSM, Up to 360 min, With digital player / digital camera / FM radio, 3.14 oz, 1.3 megapixels, 2 in
The bottom line:
The Samsung SGH-A187 has all the necessities of a text messaging phone. Although the occasional keyboard inconsistencies are frustrating, it's a solid choice for a good price. Samsung SGH-a187 GoPhone - blue (AT&T) - Prepaid/Pay As You Go
Part Number:
Samsung
4960335
General
Product Type Cellular phone With digital player / digital camera / FM radio
Service Provider AT&T
Bundled Service GoPhone
Width 2.28 in
Depth 0.47 in
Height 4.33 in
Weight 3.14 oz
Body Color Blue
Cellular
Technology GSM
Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband)
Phone Design Candy bar
Vibrating Alert Yes
Polyphonic Ringer Yes
Call Timer Yes
Conference Call Capability Yes
Voice Recorder Yes
Caller ID Yes
Speakerphone Yes
Wireless Interface Bluetooth
Additional Features Software updates FOTA (Firmware Over The Air), Intelligent typing (T9)
Communicator Features
User Memory 32 MB
Messaging & Data Services
Short Messaging Service (SMS) Yes
Messaging Services Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger Service (AIM), Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger)
Mobile Email Yes
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Yes
EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates For Global Evolution) Yes
Internet Browser Yes
Messaging / Data Features Text messages, Picture messages, Instant messages, E-Mail
Ring Tones
Ring Tone Formats MP3
Digital Camera
Sensor Resolution 1.3 megapixels
Digital Zoom 4
Features Video recording
Organizer
Alarm Clock Yes
Calendar Yes
Reminder Yes
Additional Timer Functions Stopwatch
Display
Type LCD display
Display Resolution 176 x 220 pixels
Diagonal Size 2 in
Color Support Color
Color Depth 18-bit (262000 Colors)
Digital Player (Recorder)
Supported Digital Audio Standards MP3
Miscellaneous
Included Accessories Battery, desktop charger, SIM card
Specific absorption rate (SAR) 0.73 W/Kg
Power
Type Power adapter
Battery
Capacity 800 mAh
Talk Time Up to 360 min
Standby Time Up to 12.5 days

7 Keys to a Successful Design Project

There is a lot that goes into the process of designing and developing a website successfully for a client. In order for the project to be truly successful, it must accomplish much more than simply an attractive design. In this article we’ll take a look at 7 keys that must be present for the designer and client to create a site that achieves the desired results for the business.

1. A Realistic Timeline

Designing and developing an effective website takes time. Most designers understand this, but some clients assume that the process can easily be done faster without considering the impact.
It’s not uncommon for a designer to be contacted by a potential client who has an unrealistic deadline. At this time the designer can either make promises that they may not be able to live up to in order to land the job, or the designer can explain to the client why the deadline is unrealistic, what steps will be rushed with this deadline, and what the consequences may be. In many cases the client will be more flexible with their projected time frame if they understand the long-term ramifications of rushing through the project.

2. Proper Client Intake

Custom web design services address the specific needs of each client and their customers/visitors. No designer is going to know the client’s business as well as they do, so it is important to have an effective intake process that gathers sufficient information to help the designer to understand the particular situation of the client. Jumping right into the design process is a temptation for both the designer and the client, but doing so typically cuts out some important steps in the process.
Think of the intake process of getting to know the client much like setting a proper foundation before building a house. All future efforts will be made stronger with a proper intake process, and without one, anything that is built will be unstable.
Each designer will have a different process for getting started with the client, and it may even vary from one project to another. What’s important is that the designer and client take the time to get on the same page and start the project on a solid foundation.

3. Client Involvement

Some (but not all) clients will want to tell the designer the basics of what they want and then step away from the process. A successful project will include involvement from the client at the early stages of the project, as well as throughout the project for feedback. From my experience hands-on clients are actually easier to work with because you know what they want and what they are thinking throughout the process. It’s difficult to create a website that truly represents the clients and serves their business well without much involvement from them.
If you’re in communication with a potential client and they seem like they seem like they don’t have much interest in being involved in the process, take the time to explain to them why you will need their input and how it can affect the end result.

4. User Focus

An effective website focuses on meeting the needs of users. The designer can create something that’s visual appealing and something that the client likes, but if it doesn’t focus on the users and meeting their needs it will ultimately not be successful.
During the intake process the designer needs to make an effort to get a good understanding of the users of the website and the target market of the client. Without knowing who you are building the site for, what they want and how the behave, it’s impossible to create a user-focused website.

5. Specific Feedback from Client

In order for a project to be successful it will need to satisfy the client, however, getting specific and helpful feedback isn’t always easy. Some clients tend to give very general feedback without pointing out specific details of what they like and what they don’t like. With vague or general feedback it’s very difficult for the designer to know why they don’t like something, or what can be changed to please the client.
When you’re dealing with clients that only provide general feedback, take the time to ask questions that will lead to answers that are more specific. Explain to them that in order to come up with something that they like you will need to understand the details of what they do not like.

6. Implementation of Feedback

Once the designer has some specific feedback from the client, that now needs to be applied productively. Using the feedback that has been gathered, the designer needs to make changes that will lead to an end product that the client is happy with. Getting specific, helpful feedback and implementing it effectively will result in fewer revisions and changes that need to be made.

7. Effective Testing

Before any website is launched to the public there should be some testing involved. This includes browser testing, usability testing, and simply checking for errors and mistakes. Ideally the designer will have an established process for testing, but the client, and even users, should be involved if possible.

What’s Your Experience?

From your experience, what are the most significant keys to a successful design project?

250GB XBox Slim released in India

The new 250GB Xbox 360 has Kinect, built-in Wi-Fi, Kinect Port and HDMI port. More importantly, it's in India, and costs 20 grand!

250 GB XBox 360: Specs

Max Resolution: 1920 x 1080
5.1 channel surround
Touch Sensitive Buttons
Wi-Fi - Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi for fast, easy connection to your friends and entertainment on Xbox LIVE.
250GB internal swappable hard drive,
Kinect port
Five USB ports,
Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
Backward Compatible
3.2GHz Xenon PPC microprocessors
500MHz ATI built Xenos GPU
Bigger heatsink for quieter operations
Wi-fi for downloading games and multimedia content

The Xbox 360 Slim can ordered online

Ashim Mathur, Director Marketing, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd., said, "The new 250 GB Xbox 360 console will bring about a paradigm shift in the way gaming is perceived in India as it comes prepared for the future."

He further added, "With this new Xbox 360 launch, we are enabling our customers with the best connected experience making gaming more entertaining and interactive. With more storage space one can store many more blockbuster games on the console itself and can also connect with others on Xbox LIVE, the world's largest gaming social network."

Perfect Worklife: Learn to say NO

Learning to say NO does not mean saying NO or refusing to the working conditions and obligations listed in your job description or I’m not talking about saying no to working within your job description or objecting to things every time at home or in your work place.
However, you must learn to say NO to unnecessary extra responsibilities that you are bound to both in office as well as at home. If you are one of those who tend to say a YES to everything at most times and then take all the work and overload yourself, continue reading:
• Postpone or Delay‐ If you are given an unnecessary task by somebody, say that you will get to them in a short while or whenever you want to. Now check your to do list and your daily diary. You must use this duration to think and take a decision so as to whether you want to do this task and say yes or simply refuse.
• Practice saying NO‐ If your answer to taking a particular task is NO, practice by saying NO till you get into a habit, provided you really want to say it. Say it at every possible opportunity you find, everytime somebody tries to burden you with some unnecessary job and take undue advantage of your humility.
Remember, you do not need to say sorry or be apologetic to them. Do not justify your reasons for not taking up that job. Just get over with it by saying that you do not have time for it. Relax, it is okay to be blunt. Do not think that you are being rude.

Death toll from Indonesian tsunami tops 400

MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia – An official says the death toll from a tsunami off western Indonesia has risen to more than 400 with about 300 people still missing in the remote islands hardest-hit..

Agus Prayitno, of the West Sumatra provincial disaster management agency, said Thursday the number was climbing as search and rescue teams reached villages on islands slammed by the monster waves.

He raised the official toll by 15 to 408. Another 303 people are still missing.

Rescuers fear the numbers could climb higher, saying many of the missing may have been swept away to sea.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia (AP) — In a hospital on a remote Indonesian island ravaged by this week's tsunami, a 2-month-old boy orphaned by the big wave and found in a storm drain lay in a humidified crib, his lungs filled with fluid and cuts on his face.

"We need doctors, specialists," nurse Anputra said, as the baby blinked sleepliy.

Dozens of wounded people lay on mats on the floor nearby, rain water dripping onto them from holes in the ceiling. Plastic ropes were strung between rafters and IV cords hung from them.

The death toll from the 10-foot-high (three-meter-high) tsunami that slammed into islands off western Indonesia rose to 370 on Friday as officials found more bodies, although hundreds of people remained missing. Harmensyah, head of the West Sumatra provincial disaster management center, said rescue teams "believe many, many of the bodies were swept to sea."

Along with the 33 people killed by a volcano that erupted Tuesday more than 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) to the east in central Java, the number of dead from the twin disasters has now reached 426.

After a lull that allowed mourners to hold a mass burial for victims, Mount Merapi started rumbling again Thursday with three small eruptions and three others early Friday — easing pressure and possibly making another big eruption less likely. There were no reports of new injuries or damage.

The catastrophes struck within 24 hours in different parts of the seismically active country, severely testing Indonesia's emergency response network.

Aid workers trickling into the remote region found giant chunks of coral and rocks in places where homes once stood. Huge swaths of land were submerged. Swollen corpses dotted roads and beaches.

Inside the tiny hospital on Pagai Utara — one of the four main islands in the Mentawai chain located between Sumatra and the Indian Ocean — 35-year-old Sarifinus cradled his 5-year-old, Dimas, who screamed as medical staff tended to his broken arm.

The man described how, when the towering wall of water came, he grabbed his two other young sons and ran toward the mountain. The wave tore both from his arms and sucked them away.

Sarifinus and his wife, Martina, who sat staring blankly in a corner of the hospital, found Dimas alive after the waters receded.

Around 100 survivors packed into a nearby, makeshift medical center.

Some still wept for lost loved ones as they lay on straw mats or sat on the floor, waiting for medics to treat injuries such as cuts and broken limbs. Outside, some rescuers wore face masks as they wrapped corpses in black body bags.

A young woman named Adek sobbed uncontrollably as she tried to talk about her year-old baby who was washed away. "Oh, don't ask me again," she said, wiping her tears and turning away.

One of the hardest hit areas with 65 dead was the village of Pro Rogat, on Pagai Seatandug island.

Villagers there huddled under tarps in the rain and told how many people who had fled to the hills were now too afraid to return home.

Mud and palm fronds covered the body of the village's 60-year-old pastor, Simorangkir. He lay on the ground, partially zipped into a body bag. Police and relatives took turns pushing a shovel into the sodden dirt next to him for his grave.

His 28-year-old grandson, Rio, traveled by boat to Pro Rogat from his home on a nearby island to check on his relatives after the quake and tsunami. He said he was picking through the wreckage when someone cried out that he had found a body.

Rio walked over and saw the face of his dead grandfather, partially buried under several toppled palm trees, looking back at him.

"Everybody here is so sad," Rio said, as relatives prepared to lay his grandfather in the grave.

At the Mount Merapi volcano, hot clouds of ash spewed from the mountain at 6:10 a.m., 8:40 a.m. and 11:19 Friday, according to Subandriyo, a senior government volcanologist.

The activity appeared to be easing pressure behind a lava dome that has formed in the crater, said Safari Dwiyono, a scientist who has been monitoring Merapi for 15 years.

"If the energy continues to release little by little like this, it reduces the chances of having a bigger, powerful eruption," he said.

Residents from Kinahrejo, Ngrangkah, and Kaliadem — villages that were devastated in Tuesday's blast — crammed into refugee camps. Officials brought cows, buffalo and goats down the mountain so that villagers wouldn't try to go home to check on their livestock.

Thousands attended a mass burial for 26 of the victims six miles (10 kilometers) from the base of the volcano. Family and friends wept and hugged one another as the bodies were lowered into the grave in rows.

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Associated Press writers Achmad Ibrahim in the Mentawai islands, Slamet Riyadi at Mount Merapi and Irwan Firdaus in Jakarta contributed to this report.

Saudi prince backs moving planned NYC mosque

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Saudi prince who has aided the imam spearheading a proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero is appealing for another site not associated with the "wound" of the Sept. 11 attacks, a report said Thursday.
In interview excerpts published by the Dubai-based Arabian Business magazine, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was quoted as saying that moving the planned mosque, health club and cultural center would respect the memory of those killed in the 2001 attacks and allow American Muslims to choose a more suitable location.
The comments are reportedly the prince's first public views on the dispute, which has stirred street protests and fiery debates between religious and political leaders over America's freedom of worship versus the lingering anger over the 9/11 attacks.
Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Foundation has contributed to the group run by New York's Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, but said he has given no funds to the planned center.
Prince Alwaleed urged the backers of the proposed Islamic center not to "agitate the wound by saying, 'We need to put the mosque next to the 9/11 site.'"
"Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York," the prince was quoted as saying by the magazine, which said the full interview will be published Sunday. "The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.'"
Prince Alwaleed, who chairs a Saudi investment company that has major stakes in international giants News Corp. and Citigroup, also said Muslims in New York should consider a more "dignified" location than the proposed site in lower Manhattan.
"It can't be next to a bar or a strip club, or in a neighborhood that is not really refined and good. The impression I have is that this mosque is just being inserted and squeezed over there," he said.
The Manhattan real estate developer who controls the site of the planned center and is leading the effort to build it declined to comment.
Rauf said in a written statement that the project would go forward as planned.
"While we respect the points of view of other interested observers, we plan to build the community center in this location because we have been part of Lower Manhattan for decades and we want to better serve the needs of our neighbors of all faith traditions," he said.
As envisioned, the center would indeed sit next to a tavern, about 2 1/2 blocks from the reconstructed World Trade Center. Other landmarks within a few blocks include City Hall, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Woolworth Building, once the nation's tallest.
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Online:
http://www.arabianbusiness.com.

Samsung's 3rd-quarter net profit rises 17 percent

SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. said net profit rose 17 percent in the third quarter to a record high amid strength in its semiconductor and mobile phone businesses.

Samsung, the world's largest manufacture of computer memory chips and flat screen TVs, earned 4.46 trillion won ($3.97 billion) in the three months ended Sept. 30, the company said Friday in a regulatory filing and statement. It had net profit of 3.81 trillion won the year before.

The result was Samsung's third straight record net profit performance. The company said in the statement that its semiconductor business recorded record sales of 10.66 trillion won during the quarter.

Sales of mobile phone handsets rose 19 percent from the same period last year to 71.4 million units, Samsung said. The company attributed the performance to the launch of the Galaxy S and Wave smartphones.

Samsung said overall third-quarter sales rose 12 percent to 40.23 trillion won, also a record and the first time the company has seen revenues surpass the 40 trillion won mark. The result compares with sales of 35.89 trillion won last year.

"In the third quarter, Samsung faced a challenging business environment including declining demand for PCs and TVs, along with a continued economic slowdown in developed markets such as the U.S. and Europe," Robert Yi, vice president and head of investor relations, said in a statement.

"Despite this, we achieved strong revenue growth and profitability, which was built upon our cost competitiveness in memory semiconductors and increased sales of cutting-edge products such as our latest smartphones," Yi added.

On the operating level — seen as a direct indicator of business performance before taxes, dividends, asset sales and other items figured into net profit or loss — Samsung reported a profit of 4.86 trillion won in the third quarter, or 15 percent higher than the year before.

Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung is a major force in the global electronics industry. Besides dominating in memory chips and TVs, the company is also the world's largest manufacturer of large-sized liquid crystal displays and ranks No. 2 in mobile phones behind Nokia Corp. of Finland.

Shares in Samsung, which released earnings about 25 minutes after the start of trading, fell 1.8 percent to 750,000 won approximately an hour later. The stock price surged 77 percent in 2009.

Microsoft beats Street, knocks down Apple worry

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp beat Wall Street's expectations with a 51 percent jump in quarterly profit, as higher sales of its flagship Windows and Office software knocked down fears Apple Inc's iPad would take a bite out of its main business.

Its shares, down 14 percent this year, rose 3 percent in after-hours trading. Despite doubling sales and profit in the last eight years, Microsoft's stock has largely languished at the same level, as investors worry about its ability to counter new rivals such as Google Inc or adapt to new ways of computing.

The quarterly profit growth was helped by the launch of the latest blockbuster Halo video game, but exaggerated by the deferral of some Windows revenue in the year-ago quarter and flattered by comparison to last year, when the economy was only just emerging from the downturn.

Microsoft's Windows 7 has sold a record-breaking 240 million copies since its launch a year ago and its Office suite of applications, which debuted this spring, is off to a strong start.

"The reports of the death of Windows and Office are premature -- the company is still a cash flow machine," said Colin Gillis, an analyst at BGC Financial. "People are buying about $10 billion worth of Windows and Office this quarter. The twin engines of Microsoft are still firing."

Between them, the Windows and Office units accounted for more than 60 percent of sales and more than 80 percent of profit, factoring out nonoperating losses.

Wall Street generally expects Windows and Office sales to track sales of PCs, suggesting growth of about 7 percent in the current quarter.

ONLINE LOSSES

Microsoft's online services division, which contains the Bing search engine and MSN portal, was the weakest point in the company's quarter, with its loss widening 17 percent to $560 million. The unit, which is investing heavily in an attempt to catch up with search advertising leader Google and now powers Yahoo Inc Web searches, has lost $6 billion in the last five years.

"I hate to nit-pick too much, but we'd always like to see the online services business do even more than it does," said Andrew Miedler, an analyst at Edward Jones, pointing out that revenue growth at the unit was slow despite a broad-based recovery in ad spending.

"We'd like to see even more great things out of the online division because Microsoft needs another pillar down the road, and online ads is a market that's big enough."

Microsoft was overtaken by archrival Apple as the most valuable tech company in May, and Apple hasn't looked back since as customers flock to buy its polished phones and tablets.

But the company had not seen any adverse effect on sales of computers running Windows due to Apple's popular iPad tablet device, which is close to selling 8 million units, said Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein.

"We haven't seen that at all," said Klein. "Analysts who have done research on it, largely think this (the tablet market) is additive to PC markets as opposed to instead of PCs."

BEATS THE STREET

The world's largest software company posted a fiscal first-quarter profit of $5.4 billion, or 62 cents per share, up from $3.6 billion, or 40 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. That beat Wall Street's average forecast of 55 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Sales rose 25 percent to $16.2 billion, ahead of analysts' $15.8 billion average forecast.

Klein said companies were continuing to buy new computers, maintaining the recovery in tech spending, but consumers were not so strong.

"We feel very good about the business refresh," said Klein. "On the consumer side, it probably was a little bit less than people had anticipated, but it was still growth."

In the latest quarter, Microsoft's Office unit was the biggest engine, contributing $3.4 billion of profit. The Windows unit was the next most profitable with $3.3 billion.

The server and tools unit, which sells the software and services behind Internet-based computing and data storage -- so-called "cloud computing" -- contributed $1.6 billion in profit.

Microsoft's entertainment and devices unit, which sells the popular Xbox and less successful phone software, reported $382 million in profit, helped by Halo game sales. Figures from this unit are expected to improve this quarter, as Microsoft's new phone software and its Kinect motion-controller for Xbox go on sale in the United States next month.

As it accepts that it will likely not recapture its go-go growth of the 1990s, Microsoft has recently adopted a keen focus on cost control and profit margins. It cut 5,800 jobs last year and recently told its remaining 89,000 employees they will have to contribute to their healthcare costs for the first time in 2013.

Microsoft stuck to its forecast of $26.9 billion to $27.3 billion in operating expenses this fiscal year.

"The company is sticking to its new-found religion on expenses," said Kim Caughey Forrest, senior analyst at Fort Pitt Capital. "It used to be 'Let's throw everything at it and not care how much it costs.' That's great if you're growing gangbusters, but now we're seeing growth with margins and that's what we want to see as investors."

(Additional reporting by Liana Baker in New York and Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Editing by Richard Chang and Andre Grenon)

Facebook lets friends share online memories

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook on Thursday launched Friendship Pages at which online pals can stroll virtual memory lanes that chronicle what they have shared at the world's top online social networking service.
The pages contain public comments and "Wall" posts between pairs of Facebook friends; pictures in which both are identified; events they indicated they would attend together, and other joint activities memorialized at the service.
"When it's between two people who share a lot, the page really starts to reflect their friendship," Facebook software engineer Wayne Kao wrote in a blog post announcing the feature he played a key role in creating.
"The best part is the human side of these pages," he continued. "They can bring back memories, conversations and times spent together."
Others will only be able to view the nostalgia pages with the permission of those featured, according to Kao.

FTC Ends Street View Feud With Google After Winning Privacy Concessions

Evans-Machida? Man this is old

After much hullabaloo, Google and the Federal Trade Commission have kissed and made up. This, only a few days after Google admitted to “accidentally” collecting people’s private data with its Street View cars. Google had promised, in so many words, that it would never do that (collect people’s private data) again, a promise that satisfied the FTC. And, scene.
Google says it will delete any and all data “as soon as possible,” which, I guess, is a victory for the common good.
It will also now require a “privacy design document” for all of its projects. That is, sort of a privacy guidebook to follow to ensure that the project, whatever it is, doesn’t stomp all over its users’ privacy.

Dennis, Tell Us How You Really Feel About Facebook

Ever wonder what the inspiration was for the Facebook Friends icon, the one with the outline of two people side-by-side? Neither have I. But now that Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley put up this side-by-side comparison of images on his Tumblog

, I will never be able to look at the outline of the woman friend’s bob haircut again without thinking of Darth Vader’s helmet.
It’s just a funny photoshopped juxtapostion with the caption, “I’m sure this is where the Facebook ‘Friends’ icon came from.” I don’t want to psychoanalyze Crowley too much on this. He simply reblogged something he found amusing from someone else’s Tumblog. (That is what you do on Tumblr. It’s like retweeting). But you have to wonder if he doesn’t feel a little bit like the Luke Skywalker friend.

Before closing Foursquare’s last $20 million round, he was talking to Facebook (and others) about a possible acquisition instead. The deal never happened, and Facebook went on to launch its own rival geo-location product, Facebook Places. Interestingly, Foursquare was present at that launch., but Crowley definitely has mixed feelings about Facebook. Sort of like Luke did about Darth Vader.

How the New MacBook Air, Slate Define Apple and HP

This might seem like a weird comparison and perhaps it is, but if you think about Apple's new MacBook Air and HP's Slate, these high-profile products say a lot about how Apple and HP approach their markets. Both likely will make it into business, the first likely over the objections of IT organizations that haven’t yet blessed the Mac, and the second in planned adoption in markets like real estate and health care. One product will likely sell very well, the other not so much and both are overshadowed by the iPad.

Halloween Candy, Free Tools, Dirt Run

My left ankle had been hurting since last Saturday’s “feel good” run so I took a couple of extra days off until the pain subsided. On Thursday morning I was finally able to do another run. But first I had to do a little bit of shopping and planned on running from the last store I went to. Ralph’s grocery store had a sale on Halloween candy so I stopped there first. I bought three bags of fun sized (single bite) Snickers. Those used to come in 16 ounce bags, then 12 ounces, but now they’ve been downsized to 11.3 ounces and still costs the same. My next stop was at Harbor Freight Tools to collect a free set of screwdrivers from a promotional coupon they had in the newspaper. No other purchase was required. Having done those first two things, I was now ready for the third one: running.

Starting from the Harbor Freight Tools store (where incidentally, I injured my right calf a few weeks ago as mentioned in this post: A Little Bit Up, A Lot More Down ), I headed east toward the San Gabriel River bike path. I haven’t run on that bike path in so many years although I rode my bike there a couple of times this past summer. When I got there, I went north and immediately noticed that the dirt path beside the asphalt bike path was relatively smooth and hard packed. So I continued running on the dirt instead which felt more forgiving to my ankles. If it was too rocky, I wouldn’t have done it for fear of twisting my already tender joints. On my way back, I noticed a sign saying Lakewood Nature Walk, so I entered the area and it was a dirt pathway underneath electricity transmission towers,

with a lot of trees in between. I don’t know how far it went because I had to turn around and head back to my car to finish my one hour run. Not running enough certainly makes running harder because muscles and lungs lose some conditioning, so the last ten minutes of the run felt hard. Nevertheless, it was a nice experience running on dirt which I never liked before and by the time I finished the slow and easy workout, I had another “feel good” run in the bag.

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New MacBook Air Doesn’t Come With Adobe Flash

Jobs’ attempt to rush the Flash Castle have just taken another step. New Apple MacBook Air laptops (the ones announced at the Back to the Mac event recently) are coming with one thing missing – the Adobe Flash plugin for web browsers. While previous Mac OS X computers came with the Flash plugin, it’s noticeably absent from the new Airs. Think they just forgot?

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Last Week's Sights and Sounds in Life

October 17^th to 23^rd, 2010

When I got home from work last week, I saw a man who was using one of those motorized scooter wheelchairs and he was dumpster diving. How physically disabled can he be when he can climb up, bend and reach over a dumpster to look for recyclable cans?

I called my mom on her birthday last week and it just occurred to me afterwards that we communicated mostly in Tagalog. Well, I grew up speaking Tagalog at home instead of our native Tausug dialect, that’s why. My mom was chattier than usual and we talked for more than an hour.

I must be getting old. I can’t understand text messages anymore especially the ones from the Philippines which come with a mix of English, Tagalog, and a slew of other dialects. And in shorthand to boot.

What feels good to me nowadays? When you can no longer take things for granted, you appreciate them more when you can have or do them. That’s why I savor every run I can do these days. Unfortunately I don’t have a Long Beach Marathon story to tell this year because I didn’t participate in it. As I mentioned previously, this was the first time I missed the race since 1999 so I can’t say that I partied like its 1999.

Yay! I got all my rewards for this year from Healthyroads.com for doing something I already do every day - exercising. A pedometer and weight training stretch band for signing up, a water bottle after working out for 12 days, a workout towel after 36 days, and lastly for this year, a t-shirt for finishing 72 workouts. The website doesn’t say if they are going to have another cycle of rewards next year.

After watching a movie with a convertible in it, I remembered that I used to drive one - a Volkswagen Rabbit Cabriolet which I had from 1984 to 1998. I remember driving on the freeway in downtown L.A. during the Olympics with my stereo blasting Olympics music from that year. The car was finally donated to charity in 2000 and I saw it one day on the 710 freeway. I thought it looked familiar and when I saw the license plate, it confirmed my sighting that it was indeed my old car.

Last Friday morning I wasn’t in a Spinning class and I had no Spinning DVD. What I did was a self-propelled workout on the spinning bike consisting of a 10 minute warm up, then 40 minutes of 1 minute pickups, stand ups, and recoveries, plus a 5 minute cool down to finish. It’s a workout I used to do on the turbo trainer a long time ago. It helps to break it down to 1 minute segments of variable intensities.

Regarding recently fired Juan Williams’ comment about him getting nervous when he sees people wearing Muslim dress on planes, did he really think that suicide bombers would wear something so conspicuous as to potentially arouse suspicion, not to mention racial profiling? I would think a suicide bomber would dress so he/she would blend in with the crowd.

On my way home from work Sunday morning (please forgive me, this was the 24^th of October), I stopped by a gas station to buy my lotto ticket for the coming week. As I stepped out of the store, I espied a woman in a very short dress with nice long legs just outside the door. With a quick glance, I noticed the sharp features of the “woman” and it turned out that it was a man in drag. As I drove away I saw him “fixing” himself, you know, rearranging whatever he had stuffed in the chest area and also readjusting whatever he was hiding in his nether regions. It was indeed a bit of a shock to see a transvestite so early in the morning.

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Sights and Sounds of Last Week's Runs

October 17th to 23rd, 2010

I used to joke that when it rains, we could run outside with an umbrella. Last Sunday morning, October 17^th, while my friends were doing the Long Beach Marathon or half, I was on my way to a store and I actually saw a woman bedecked in her sweats and Ipod, running in the rain with an umbrella! Too bad I was driving or I would have taken her picture. She coordinated her short strides and arm swings very well to be able to stay under the umbrella. Well during Tuesday afternoon’s rain, although I was tempted to follow that woman’s example, I opted for the treadmill instead. It was a choice bundling up and running outdoors in the rain, or doing it shirtless on the treadmill. Running in the light rain would have been more fun but running with minimal accoutrements indoors was good too.

After having a crummy and sluggish run last Thursday, I felt the need to wipe the bad taste from my mouth and go out for a feel good run on Saturday morning, light rain or not. How to do it? Just keep it simple and slow was the plan. Out the door I went without a GPS watch so I didn’t have to worry about pace or distance. Using my trusty old Timex, I aimed for 45 minutes to an hour of steady state running. Plugged in my ears was my radio tuned to the weekly top 40. Light rain? No problem. Put on a light nylon jacket , leave the eyeglasses at home, and wander about aimlessly half-blind. Half an hour into the run, the radio battery died and I was left listening to the heavy flopping of my stride. Go down one street, then another. Running short of distance on the way back? Just go down another street while calculating how far to go before turning back home to make it an hour. How far did I run and what pace did I go? Heck if I know and I didn’t care. The bad taste was gone and I had my feel good run. I had to take a cold shower afterwards, not for therapeutic purposes but because the water heater was on the fritz again. I got through it, felt refreshed and was ready to face work later that day.

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Review Apple MacBook Air 13" MC503LL/A Notebook

The new Apple MacBook Air 13" MC503LL/A Notebook Airs are available in two flavors the 13.3" model which is the same size as the prior models and the newest size - the 11.6" version. Some say that this smaller model makes that version Apple's equivalent of a, gulp - a netbook; however its full sized keyboard, NVIDIA GPU and Core 2 Duo CPU make an argument against that suggestion.

Which is Better ? HP Slate 500 vs. MacBook Air

This week both Apple and HP made new computing platforms available. Both the MacBook Air and the HP Slate had been the subject of months of rumors and speculation, and now they're both here. A business professional in the market for a portable computing device could conceivably consider either, so let's look at how they compare.

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25 Most Wanted Firefox Plugins for Bloggers

Firefox is the first love of more than 90% bloggers but not just for some common reasons like it’s fast, it looks cool, it’s error free and bla bla bla… etc, but Firefox is the much convenient browser ever and at the mean time it has got some decent blogging solutions for bloggers, in the shape of add-ons or plugins. Mozialla, the developer company has got some very useful and productive Firefox plugins in it’s store that adds more sense to blogging. While compiling these blogging plugins to my list, I was wondering just one thing, “shit, I wish I could have came across these plugins earlier!”. And I sincerely wish not to here these lines from any other blogger, so here is my list of top 30 Firefox plugins for blogging that bloggers should not miss.

1. easyComment : Most of us know that commenting on other blogs increase our exposure, influences PR and gets incoming traffic. easyComment makes commenting on other blogs easier by automatically filling the Name, Email and URL field. You can set different profiles and different values (if you have got more than one blog or identity) and click on the easyComment link from status bar to save your time and post comments faster.

2. SEO Link Analysis : This Firefox plugin enriches your blogging experience by customizing Google Webmaster and Yahoo! Site Explorer. It customizes the provided link data in Google Webmasters Tools & Yahoo! Site Explorer interface by displaying the Google PageRank of the linked web pages, anchor text user, nofollow links etc. This plugin is in it’s experimental mode, but pretty good to understand blog SEO factors.

3. FeedBurner Subscribers : FeedBurber Subscribers monitors your blog readers and displays the report to track your RSS activities. It monitors the number of RSS subscribers with the number of hits to your RSS feed. It’s pretty useful since you don’t need to login to your FeedBurner account and can monitor everything just from your browser.

4. Screen grab to Wordpress : Most of the times bloggers need screenshots of various screen activities, web pages or similar stuffs to attach in the posts. Commonly we capture the image using different tools or by using keyboard, customize it and then upload via Wordpress image upload feature. Screen grab to Wordpress Firefox plugin eliminates all those steps by simply allowing users to save screenshots and uploading them to Wordpress blogs directly.

5. OnlyWire : This Firefox add-on submits content to over 30 social networking sites with just one mouse click. Instead of submitting your contents manually, use this plugin to submit your posts to top 30 social networking sites at once. After installing OnlyWire add-on for Firefox, you will enjoy a seamless experience while submitting contents as it bypasses captcha verification methods during submission in sites like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon etc.

6. MySpace Blog Editor : This is going to be more useful for you if you are blogging on MySpace. The MySpace blog editor plugin allows MySpace bloggers to post directly to their blogs from within Firefox interface. The posts you publish from Firefox automatically gets published on your blog while you can also save notes (drafts), use drag and drop features to copy images, text from web pages, format text and images and much more.

7. Share Buttons : This Firefox add-on makes your job easier by adding social media buttons like of Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Email, Reditt, StumbeUpon etc to your blog posts. The sharing buttons appear only when you have published the posts and the sharing button icons look really bold and sexy. It supports various blogging platforms such as Blogger, WordPress.com, self hosted WordPress blogs while the plugin author promises to bring the support for other platforms soon.

8. User Agent Switcher : Your blog readers might visit your blog using different platforms such as web based browser, mobile phone, iPhone etc while the prime reader of your blog known as search robots use their own developed platform. You need to be sure that your blog is being loaded perfectly to all of them. Using User Agent Switcher plugin, you can adds menu and a toolbar button from where you can switch the user agents of the browser.

9. Save Complete : Save Complete is an advanced solution to save web pages flawlessly. Since most sites are using CSS stylesheet files to format web pages, Firefox’s built-in web page saving feature becomes less effective, as it doesn’t support stylesheets. This extension eliminates this drawback and saves thecomplete web page, including all images, stylesheets, flash, javascript files easily.

10. Feedly : Feedly creates a magazine style interface to display subscribed RSS feeds. You can import your favorite RSS feeds from Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes, your bookmarks and organize them into tabs or categories. You can configure the appearance by selecting either title only, title and summary, image grid, video grid or entire content while you can filter the most relevant/popular contents, share articles on social media sites, sync with Google Reader or across multiple computers, use keyboard shortcuts and rich integration with Mozilla Ubiquity and more.

11. Clipmarks : Clipmarks plugin allows bloggers to link to specific files instead of linking to entire web pages. Using Clipmarks, you can share selected files or specific part of a web page on Twitter or Facebook, save them on Clipmarks.com, post them directly to your blog, email them to friends, print them easily.

12. Google Global : Google Global add-on helps bloggers by categorizing the organic and paid Google search results. It displays the paid and organic results as they appear in different cities, regions, IP address, ZIP code, different language search pages etc. It also opens all results from countries, cities and regions in multiple tabs for easy comparison while you can filter your searches by using custom advanced saved searches.

13. Better Google Analytics : Better Google Analytics is a must have Firefox plugin for bloggers as it adds more functionality to your Analytics account by integrating several GreaseMonkey scripts. Using this plugin you can enjoy auto-login to your Analytics account, add search box to keyword reports, export Analytics reports as CSV to Google Docs, full screen reports on Analytics homepage, perform Google Insights searches on keywords inGoogle Analytics reports and more.

14. KGen : KGen is a smart plugin that pulls out all words of a page and finds the major keywords based on their weight in the page, making it easier for you to optimize your pages, know your competitor secrets etc. You can also choose keywords and tag them while submitting your contents to social networks or fill meta-keywords of your web pages. This is also helpful in generating tag cloud for your blog.

15. Blog This in Windows Live Writer : It’s an extension of Windows Live Writer tool that helps users in opening a new Windows Live Writer blog post pre-populated with the contents and title of any web page to blog either the whole page (not recommended at all) or just selected snippets. This really helps to blog something quickly, that you find interesting on the web. Once you have written the post, you can publish them to Windows Live, WordPress, Blogger, Live Journal, TypePad, and many more with just one click.

16. MeasureIt : It’s one of the plugins that will come in your help every other moment. It allows users to draw a ruler across any web page to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels. It’s very useful to measure the width, length of a table, iframe, flash game or something like that. It creates horizontal and vertical center guidelines and allows to measure using different units and multiple measurements at once.

17. Zemanta : Zemanta expands the author’s blog dashboard with relevant images, links, articles, tags to encourages bloggers to refer to other similar contents just to improve the quality of the article. It collects news from Wikipedia, IMDB, CrunchBase, MusicBrainz, videos from YouTube, 5min, images from Getty, Flickr, Wikipedia,news from BBC and CNN and over 10,000 blogs while it supports Wodpress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, Ning, Drupal, LiveJournal, Tumblr and email platforms such as Gmail and Yahoo! mail.

18. NoDoFollow : As the name says, this plugin helps you in recognizing the NoFollow links on a web page. This is very essential to find the web pages that do not give credit to the posted links, so that you can think of any other DoFollow we pages. NoFollow links ads no value to the pointed URL and hence this Firefox plugin helps you to create more DoFollow link juice by recognizing them.

19. IE View : Bloggers are generally concerned about the way their blog loads on different web browsers. Since Internet Explorer is the dumbest browser ever and the bitter truth is that even today IE is the most used browser, you might want to see if Internet Explorer displays your page correctly. Lets say you have opened a web page in Fireox, using IE View plugin you can load that page in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to always load in IE. Useful for incompatible pages, or cross-browser testing.

20. OneClick Installer for Wordpress : OneClick is a dedicated extension for Wordpress blogs that allows users to install wordpress themes or plugins from the context menu of Firefox browser. However, you need to install a plugin (OneClick plugin) in your Wordpress blog first to support this Firefox add-on. This smart add-on automatically detects theme and plugin files and adds a upload option in the right click context menu.

21. Screen Grab with Online Upload : Screen Grab Online Upload add-on not only allows users to save screenshots of web pages but also uploads it to a free image hosting website so that you can share the link of your captured screenshot instantly. You can capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection or any particular frame and once you do it, the screenshot gets uploaded to Imagebam.com website.

22. ScribeFire Blog Editor : ScribeFire is a Firefox extension that integrates a powerful blog editor with the most popular web browser from where you can write new posts, make edits and publish them easily on your blog. It allows bloggers to drag and drop formatted text, take instant notes, upload images, and post them to various blogging platforms including Blogger, Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress blogs.

23. Firebug : Firebug is a complete web application tool that gets integrated with Firefox to allow users to easily edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript codes live in web pages. It features some very advanced features and allows users to inspect and edit HTML, tweak CSS to perfection, visualize CSS metrics, monitor network activity, debug and profile JavaScript, find errors quickly, explore the DOM, execute JavaScript on the fly, logging for JavaScript and more.

24. ScrapBook : ScrapBook extension for Firefox allows users to save web pages fast and easily with proper lightness, accuracy and multi-language support. It can not only save web pages, save web page snippets, save websites, organize and manage the saved pages collections as the way you manage bookmarks, perform full text search and filter search collections quickly, edit collected web pages, text/HTML editing feature like Opera’s Notes and more.

25. GreaseMonkey : GreaseMonkey is one of the most popular Fire extensions ever that allows users not only to customize the look of a web page but also the default functions. There are hundreds of free scripts available to customize and make the web pages the way you want. Bloggers will find this helpful in customizing a site with the way they want so that they can get the most out of things in a short span of time.

26. SearchStatus : Google PR, Alexa rank, Compete ranking are few of the important aspects for any blogger. This plugin displays all important informations that a blogger needs to maintain his/her best at blogging. SearchStatus Firefox add-on displays Google pagerank, Alexa rank, Compete rank, SEOmoz, Linkscape, mozRank along with other blogging metrics such as fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and other SEO tools.

How to charge up to 80 USB Gadgets at once?

I wish I would have 80 USB powered gadgets. Man the person who came up with this gadget is such a show-off! *jealous

You might not have exactly 80 USB devices to charge at once, but it would be nice to have some free spaces for your friends to charge their USB devices. With 80 USB ports, you will be able to charge all your USB devices all at once without taking over all your computer’s USB ports. Designed without a body cover, so maybe Thanko’s 80 Ports USB Charger Board is a gadget for the labs or workstations. But remember, it doesn’t work as a USB hub for connectivity.

Mega Wifi Booster

Shot glass with a straw?

This is the antenna that increases your home computer network’s wireless speed and reliability in areas of weak signal strength. Its patented, spatially-diverse design is optimized to receive signals in all polarizations–a spherical signal pattern–capturing weak signals that lesser antennas drop, resulting in better reception, especially beneficial for streaming video.

It attaches to an existing wireless router (not included), replacing an existsing antenna without the need for software installation or reconfiguration. Its flexible gooseneck positions the antenna in an upright position for optimal signal reception

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