The latest build of Chromium OS has some additions which make it more attractive than what it last year. THE Good news is that you can try Chrome OS Web apps and Features within theChrome browser on your PC. NOTE: You need a Chrome Dev Channel installation.

How to Try Chrome OS Apps, Features in Chrome Browser

Step 1. To begin with,  add these command line switches to your Chrome shortcut, .. Read Further »

Since long, Google wanted you to set iGoogle as your homepage. No wonder, iGoogle gives you a number of useful widgets from email to social apps but most of the time you prefer sticking with blank Homepages.

When Google started with iGoogle, one of the first companies to design AJAXy widgets was LabPixies. Over the years, Google worked closely together on a variety of projects, including the launch of a number of global OpenSocial based gadgets. And finally, .. Read Further »

Silverlight 4 Update is now available bringing a large number of new features to the table: Out-of-browser execution, HTML support, localization, rich text features, and more.

Silverlight 4 now lets developers write apps that access your webcam, microphone, and even provide local recording features out of the box. Flash has supported them for years, but Adobe is now seeing downfall thanks to Apple.

Google has taken the next step  to make Web Applications Robust, it has released a Web application security scanner called Skipfish. The free (and Open Source) scanner is designed to work within a variety of existing Web application frameworks and is built with an emphasis on speed and low false-positives, as per Google. SkipFish is based on C and is fast scanner that can easily achieve 2000 requests per second on LAN networks and 500+ requests against fast Internet targets, with minimal CPU usage. Unlike, other web-application security frameworks, its easy to use and supports .. Read Further »

The credit of Twitter’s popularity goes to the intuitive desktop clients like TweetDeck, Seesmic, etc which make users experience unique. But Twitter is planning to change the trend, and would endorse a new web-interface that could change the Horizon.

Twitter will soon release new set of features that .. Read Further »

It was predicted long back that RIA (Rich internet Applications) no longer needs Flash’s domination. AJAX/ JQuery, HTML 5, CSS will together form the best army against the closed Flash (which can’t be open sourced).

Though few predict that HTML5 would kill Flash, it’s more evident that HTML5 will innovate new web applications co-existing with .. Read Further »

From practical apps like Google Wave, Gmail (mobile), we’ve seen that minimal client caching can be a good idea for most web applications. However, faster internet fades away half of the value. But for the mobile, the growing contender of the internet, it still makes a lot of sense.

Till now, the most popular method for local storage had been limited potential HTTP cookies or Google Gears for a few. All Cookies can do is key-value pairs of strings that are stored locally in a text file of 4KB max. We definitely need a .. Read Further »

Google’s attempt # 3973 to speedup the web.

With launch of Google chrome Extensions, Google has punched in a new extension to help web developers speed up the performance of webapps: Speed Tracer. For those of you who use GWT (Google Web Toolkit), this tool is a bliss.

Using this tool developers can identify problems in their web apps at a detailed level. Tracer exposes a  ”sluggishness graph” that shows how the app is doing w.r.t UI, network, processing performance. It accurately identifies the bottlenecks that  make the web user experience less delightful.

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