Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source software including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren't web pages but web applications. Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface.
Sandboxing
Every tab in Chrome is sandboxed, so that a tab can display contents of a web page and accept user input, but it will not be able to read the user's desktop or personal files. Google say they have "taken the existing process boundary- and made it into a jail". There is an exception to this rule; browser plugins such as Adobe Flash Player do not run within the boundaries of the tab jail, and so users will still be vulnerable to cross-browser exploits based on plugins, until plugins have been updated to work with the new Chrome security. Google has also developed a new phishing blacklist, which will be built into Chrome, as well as made available via a separate public API.
Privacy
Google announces a so-called incognito mode claiming that it "lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn’t record any of your activity". No features of this, and no implications of the default mode with respect to Google's database are given.
Speed
Speed improvements are a primary design goal.
Multiprocessing
The Gears team were considering a multithreaded browser (noting that a problem with existing web browser implementations was that they are inherently single-threaded) and Chrome implemented this concept with a multiprocessing architecture. A separate process is allocated to each task (eg tabs, plugins), as is the case with modern operating systems. This prevents tasks from interfering with each other which is good for both security and stability; an attacker successfully gaining access to one application does not give them access to all and failure in one application results in a "Sad Tab" screen of death.
This strategy exacts a fixed per-process cost up front but results in less memory bloat overall as fragmentation is confined to each process and no longer results in further memory allocations. To complement this, Chrome will also feature a process manager which will allow the user to see how much memory and CPU each tab is using, as well as kill unresponsive tabs.
More Features
Chrome has added some commonly used plugin-specific features of other browsers into the default package, such as an Incognito tab mode, where no logs of the user activity are stored, and all cookies from the session are discarded. As a part of Chrome's V8 JavaScript virtual machine, pop-up JavaScript windows will not be shown by default, and will instead appear as a small bar at the bottom of the interface until the user wishes to display or hide the window.
Chrome will include support for web applications running alongside other local applications on the computer. Tabs can be put in a web-app mode, where the omnibar and controls will be hidden with the goal of allowing the user to use the web-app without the browser "in the way".
Rendering Engine
Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine on advice from the Gears team because it is simple, memory efficient, useful on embedded devices and easy to learn for new developers.
Tabs
While all of the major tabbed web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox) have been designed with the window as the primary container, Chrome will put tabs first (similar to Opera). The most immediate way this will show is in the user interface: tabs will be at the top of the window, instead of below the controls, as in the other major tabbed browsers. In Chrome, each tab will be an individual process, and each will have its own browser controls and address bar (dubbed omnibox), a design that adds stability to the browser. If one tab fails only one process dies; the browser can still be used as normal with the exception of the dead tab.
Chrome will also implement a New Tab Page which shows the nine most visited pages in thumbnails, along with the most searched on sites, most recently bookmarked sites, and most recently closed tabs, upon opening a new tab, similar to Opera's "Speed Dial" page.
By the way, you can try this new browser by downloading at its site.
In the world of Search Engine Optimization, Ranking plays such a vital part, that it is crucial to understand how it works if you want to achieve the highest rankings for your own websites.
There are many different facets to ranking, and it is important to remember that different search engines use different ranking methods, however, lets just focus our attention on Google's page ranking system.
Google's PageRank technology is in fact the very heart of the Google algorithm, and because it determines page ranking based on popularity, it can be likened to a giant electronic voting system. Using that terminology, It stands to reason that the page with the most votes achieves the highest PageRank on a scale of 0-10.
However, it is not just about attaining the most votes. Notice how Google explains PageRank voting:"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B..."
It appears then, that not all "votes" are viewed in the same way. A page that already has many votes will carry more weight than one that only has a few.
"Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance."
So PageRank is determined not just by link quantity, but also by link source importance. So in order to increase your PageRank, you need to get as many links as possible from other websites into yours, especially sites with the higher PageRanks, as they can have an amazing impact on your rank. For example, just one link from a PR10 page would normally be enough to increase your websites rank to PR8, but to get to that same rank from a PR3 page would probably require somewhere in the region of about 350,000 links.
The way PageRank functions across the entire web is by means of a logarithmic pattern, where there are very few pages with a PR10 (PageRank 10, the highest you can get), but hundreds of thousands with a PR0 (the lowest). In order for the average to stay at 1, any increase in the PR of one page is offset by a very small reduction in the PR of every other page.
However, there other factors involved as well, such as the location of keywords on your web page. Now you may wonder what the relevance is regarding where your keywords are placed, does it really matter? With Google's PageRank, it does.
It would appear that the higher the particular keyword appears on the page, the higher the ranking, and this applies to your title tag as well. For example, if you had a website that sells laptops, which would be one of your keywords, but you didn't use the word "laptops" in your title tag, then your ranking would be lower than a website that did. This is because keyword placement is a fundamental aspect to search engine optimization and is something that Google's PageRank analyzes.
The frequency of keywords also plays a factor in PageRank. A page about laptops which uses that word 5 or 6 times, may receive a higher ranking than if you used that word only 2 or 3 times. Of course one must be carefully not to overdo it as that could be viewed as keyword stuffing, resulting in your ranking dropping like a tank falling from the sky, or worse, being banned altogether.
By Steven Chappell.
If you are a blogger, you might agree that Digg is a good source of traffic for your blog. Digg is a community-based popularity website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication as the main attractions.
Like posting blogs post to other social bookmarking site such as Furl, posting your blog contents to Digg is a must if you want to get your blog well-known. That will make your blog visibility in the blogospehere better in addition of raising the chance of gathering back links from other blogs. It might as well bring more subscribers to your blog if you're concern about it. Do you know that many high traffic sites get their main traffic from social bookmarking websites?
Strategy of Digg-Traffic :
- Post only latest content that have never appeared in Digg before. Ask your friend to digg the news and leave the comment. A good strategy is to subscribe to news feed of some tech-related industry websites and get the latest info faster than your competitors. Write it as blog entry and post the url to Digg. (Don't forget to include the source where you got the news from). Story that is old oftenly did well as the fresh one.
- If you're creative, write something that is unique or offer some services from your site as a part of traffic luring strategy. People usually do not want to read what they have known. From my experience, I can conclude that if you write a good post people will naturally spread them to those social-bookmarking sites by themselves. Place the Digg-submitting button (html codes) in each of your blog post. People also like to read list (like what I've been doing with this article) so make a list for a tutorial post.
- Now, this is the basic trick we should master. Use a catchy title like we always seen in a computer or gossip magazine but make sure that you don't overdo it. Otherwise, Digg folks will consider you're spamming the Digg site. Since Digg users are tech enthusiast that eager to read new articles in their free time, if you can write something that can benefit them such as a personal development article. If you don't have valuable information, don't post your link. It's like a taboo for the community.
- Make sure that your web hosting is Digg-proof. Traffic from Digg.com can last for few days and that may make your site's bandwidth boosts from little to hundred thousands of megabyte per day! A good webhostings that are believed to withstand heavy traffic from Digg.com are Dreamhost and HostGator. If you are using dedicated server it would be find. If you are using free webhosting instead, your site might as well disabled by the provider (my firend's case). So bought at least a shared server for your blog in preparing for the high traffic effect.
- Be patient as sometimes a story will take several months to go to the front page. Have many friends at the Digg community so that they can help to your post. Spike the vote liked community is a no-no. This may get you banned from Digg as that is considered cheating. Just be consistent. If you have wrote a good article why not post the story to Digg each time you got something new to be shared. Don't put payperclick ads in your blog before the story came to the front page since Digg folks did not like to vote for website that has ads within it. Got the trick?
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Would you like to communicate more with your blog's visitors? Now, Google has launched a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. Google call it "chatback" because instead of you doing all the talking on your blog, your visitors can talk back to you. Sure, they could leave comments, but those are public and hard to use for a real conversation. With chatback, it's a real instant message session.
To use chatback, you must have a Google Talk account, but your visitors don't have to! They don't even need to have an email address, or to have ever used instant messaging.
When they visit your blog, they'll see a badge like the one on the below showing your online status (available, busy, offline) and, if you're available, they can just click and start chatting. Chatback uses the web-based Google Talk Gadget so your visitors don't need to download anything. It opens in a new window so they can keep chatting with you even if they browse to other pages.
Of course, chatback isn't just for blogs. You can use it on any web page that you can add HTML content to. To get started, visit the chatback start page. Then just copy the provided HTML snippet to your web site. Visitors will then see a badge on your site indicating your availability, and can click to start a chat with you. If there's a time when you don't want to be distracted, just set your online status to "busy" and visitors won't be able to chat with you until you change your status back to "available."
Welcome to the world's largest file search engine!
If you have ever searched for, sent or received any files online, you've probably heard of RapidShare - the world's premium site for uploading files. Literally millions of files are uploaded to RapidShare every day; from photos and movies, to music albums, to software packages. But there is only one one problem... RapidShare doesn't allow you to search their files. So if you are looking for something specific, you don't know where to go.
And here's the solution!
Mayoko will locate RapidShare file links on the Web and allows you to search for them. Your only task is to enter your keywords, such as movie title, actress name, song or album title, and so on. Our software will browse through the Web looking for RapidShare links with your keywords in the title or description, and will present you a comprehensive list with results.
The whole RapidShare world - at your fingertips...
This software allows you to search the 3.5 Petabytes (yes, that's 3,500,000,000,000,000 bytes!) of files that are stored on RapidShare servers. From now on, whatever file you want to find, you'll get it there.
Download Mayoko v1.11 at Here.
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over Internet Explorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows.
This will be the LAST beta release before FireFox 3 "Gran Paradiso" officially launches. Extensions from FireFox 2 are not compatible at this point of time, this pre-beta release is strictly for testing purposes only, but still works great.
You can download this version for free at Here (Windows), Here (Linux) and Here (Mac).
Everyone loves it when lots of traffic comes through their website. In fact, many do whatever they can to achieve that traffic in hopes that someone will find what is on their site interesting and will make a purchase from the site. That’s the idea, right? Of course it is, but it is a fact that traffic of all types may not be very beneficial if it isn’t targeted traffic. However, there are ways in which traffic is brought to sites and two of these are DOS Attack and Digg Traffic. There are actual differences between the two as far as how they bring traffic to websites. Let’s just say that one is more vicious than the other.
DOS Attack
Dos Attack makes the web server beg for mercy because it is flooded with traffic that can actually be considered useless. There are different kinds of DOS Attacks such as Teardrop and Ping of Death. What these do is exploit the limitations of the TCP/IP protocols. However, there are software fixes that administrators administer to their systems to reduce the damage that is done by DOS Attacks. But just like computer viruses, there are always new attacks being created by hackers.
What these attacks do is keep the website from functioning properly and usually target large sites such as those of banks and credit card sites. The Teardrop attack sends IP fragments with huge payloads that are overlapping to the machine that they are targeting. Many operating systems are vulnerable to this type of attack and can crash the entire system.
There is also an attack called the Smurf Attack in which it floods the internet by sending packets of information to be sent to the computer hosts on a certain network. This is one of those methods in which it appears a website is receiving a lot of traffic, but none of the traffic is legitimate. SYN Flood is another that floods the servers to appear as legitimate traffic.
Digg Traffic
Digg is actually a legitimate way to generate traffic to websites. It is community-based and uses articles to gain traffic. It combines blogging, social bookmarking, and syndication with editorial control by the users. Websites and news stories are submitted by the users and a user-based ranking system is used to promote the website. It can happen that the web server is not prepared to manage that high incoming traffic and ultimately crashes the site for a short time.
However, Digg has met some controversy because it is said the users have entirely too much control over the content. There are even users who have been accused of operating what is called a “Bury Brigade” in which users mark articles as SPAM, which can bury these legitimate stories under the ones that users want to promote, whether they are legitimate or not.
The differences
The differences are rather clean in that DOS attacks are a way in which hackers maliciously flood systems with fake traffic and can actually disable use of a website. It is not a legitimate way to gain traffic, whereas Digg is a legitimate method. However, even Digg has met its controversy in which traffic can be directed away from legitimate articles due to “Bury Brigades,” which can hinder one’s ability to promote through Digg’s system. Yet as with any system on the internet, there are always ways to compromise its original intent and Digg is not an exception. DOS Attacks, on the other hand, still do what they are intended to do and that is to maliciously attack the web.
By: Amy Nutt
This web page monitoring software makes following hundreds of web sites and blogs as simple and fast as checking your e-mail. It will visit web sites for you, as often as you like, and notify you when it finds a change. Stop wasting time in your browser - never visit an unchanged site again!
Highlights:
- Monitors web sites, blogs and text files for changes
- Improves your productivity by working silently and unattended
- Notifies you of changes by popup, sound and/or email (NEW)
- Shows pages with changes highlighted in the internal browser
- Checks web pages for changes as often as you like
- Dynamic content like page counters and dates can be ignored
- Easily imports your existing bookmarks
- No limit in number of web pages monitored
- No monthly fees - buy once and you own it
- Never miss important news again - be the first to know
Just drag a URL to the Drop Window to quickly add the URL to UpdatePatrol. Works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and other web browsers.
More info and features can be found on UpdatePatrol's site. And you can try it by downloading at Here.
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PHPMaker is a powerful automation tool that can generate a full set of PHP quickly from MySQL database. Using PHPMaker, you can instantly create Web sites that allow users to view, edit, search, add and delete records on the Web.
PHPMaker is designed for high flexibility, numerous options enable you to generate PHP applications that best suits your needs. The generated codes are clean, straightforward and easy-to-customize.
The PHP scripts can be run on both Windows or Linux/Unix servers. PHPMaker can save you tons of time and is suitable for both beginners and experienced develpers alike.
Highlights:
- All scripts linked up properly
- Optional PHP list, add/copy, view, edit, delete, multi-update and search pages for each table/view. (See Table Setup) Customizable table display order.
- Optional Inline-Add, Inline-Copy, Inline-Delete, Inline-Edit right in the List page
- Optional confirmation page before insering or updating record
- Pagers in List/View page
- Fully customizable View and Edit format for each field. (See Field Setup) Customizable field display order.
- Client-side JavaScript validation
- Optional search features (Quick, ExtendedQuick and Advanced) with search result highlight
- Optional User ID and User Level Advanced Security to protect data from unauthorized access. (See Security Settings) Supports Parent User ID and Dynamic User Levels.
- Complete user registration system with optional user activation
- Optional HTML settings. Charset, font, CSS, HTML colors, HTML table settings with preview. (See HTML Settings)
- Multiple Master/Detail pages
- Various PHP options. Charset, locale, default date formats, etc . (See PHP Settings)
- Saving and restoring project from Project File
- Synchronize project settings with changes in database.
- Creates virtual directory in IIS automatically
- CSS stylesheet integration
More features and info can be found on its site. Btw you can try it by downloading at here.
