Adobe air applications are gaining popularity by the day and its R is intended to be a versatile runtime environment, as it allows existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to construct a more traditional desktop-like program. Adobe positions it as a browser-less runtime for rich Internet applications that can be deployed onto the desktop, rather than a fully-fledged application framework. The differences between each deployment paradigm provides both advantages and disadvantages. For example, a rich internet application deployed in a browser does not require installation, while one deployed with AIR requires the application be packaged, digitally signed, and installed to the user’s local file system. However, this provides access to local storage and file systems, while browser-deployed applications are more limited in where and how data can be accessed and stored.^[7] In most cases, rich internet applications store users’ data on their own servers, but the ability to consume and work with data on a user’s local file system allows for greater flexibility.

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I just found something interesting which I would like to share. Now with the help of lab gmail created a feature to change your default font. I would like to send my emails in Trebuchet format. I used to select the font every time I send the email.

Select your lab feature enable “Default text styling” after that change your font style in the general tab of settings.

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Rapid deployment of web applications never became so much easier with the development of the symphony framework aimed at reducing repetitive codes. Compatible with propel and doctrine symphony has helped programmers immensely to create and maintain applications. One setback however was the availability of easy to master tools of Symfony making the job of understanding and deploying Symfony based applications a bit tedious and time consuming.

However and endeavor towards this by Packt Publishing House which has brought out the book Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development authored by Tim Bowler and Wojciech Bancer. Both of them renowned scholars in their field has come together to author this book which is easy for the novice to master and a guide for the hardcore programmer. The style of writing is pretty straight forward and simple which should please anybody who would want to be led in to the world of Symfony.

The book divided into 10 chapters covers enough ground for one to have a  firm grip on the inner working of Symfony. All the chapters in the book has been augmented with the help of sufficient code and flowcharts to give the readers a sense of tasks they are dealing with.  Overall it’s a great buy well charted well spaced book which should be easy for the novice as well as a guide for the geek. The most important beauty of this book is it can be used for amateur and also for professionals. Please check the sample chapter of Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development for a better understanding of how the book is paced. You can purchase Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development from packthub.

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Google docs has become more and more popular among large and small scale enterprises .presentations, spread sheets and documents are all useful considering the fact they are free and can be shared on-line. If one wants he can also download the doc onto his desktop. there was a problem that is one could download only one file a ta time. Google Docs recently upgraded that feature and one could convert, zip and download all the files at one go. The new features are conviniently avaialbleat the homepage. One clicks it select the advanced more options and download. The number of file formats that one can use is plenty.

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Students are increasingly making use of the computer for educational purposes and one cannot do with out a computer during their colleges years. A few Firefox addons that would make the life os students much better.
These include
1.Taboo.
This helps to save the multiple tabs that one has opened for later usage. The exact location of the tab is also saved along with it.

2.Firefox Environment Backup Extension
This helps to save a lot of information like your password, sessions and other details.theseare saved in .xpi fileswhch means they can beused on other computers as well.

3.Reminder Fox
Reminder Fox helps you to remind things and it also coantins a simple todo list applciation. The remaiiders can be invoked anytime and it can automatically sent you remainders.

4.Leechblock
this addon helps you to block all thsoe unwanted sites.

5.Trailfire
This addon helps you comment on various sites and also helps you to create trails of information.

6.Juice
Juice is an intelligent addon which helps to search for informations semantically.

7.Delicious helps you to save your bookmarks and share it with others. You can also import your links to other computers.

8. Wired Marker helps you to highlight texts on web pages using various colours.

9.Zotero is used to collect and arrange research articles.

10.Firecal is a simple calculator which can be used by all.

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Google Wave is available only to a select number of users but that has not stopped the excitemnet surrounding goolge Wave. People are all eagerly waiting for a wave invite. The first Firefox addon for wave is very simple it notifies when a new wavelet has arrived .The user needs to supply a wave user name .This is much similar to the Gmail notifier . The plug in is compatible with Firefox 3.x.x but not version 3.7a1pre.

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The add-ons basket of Firefox is increasing day by day. While some are useful and oozes class certain other add-ons lack what it takes to be featured on blogs and in twitter conversations. Juice on the other hand deserves a lot of blog space tweets and fan pages.  Juice is an add-on that opens as a side bar once installed on Firefox.

Its cute and packs in a lot of punch. The add on features the ability to drag and drop images as well as videos, group them , sort them and download them all in one place. Well for all those Facebook addicts there is even a Facebook integration . Isn’t that juicy?. The better part of the add-on is a feature called magic . All one needs to do is drag and drop any text or image and the add-on will find relevant information associated with that particular piece of data .

This can be used for data mining.  The search option features Twitter, Google , Bing and Yahoo to mine for relevant information . Overall a great juicy add-on for bloggers, students and any information lover who would love to get more…..

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In these times of recession many companies faced with rising costs and are trying to scale down their expenditure on hardware and valuable real estate in terms of office space. So many articles have been written regarding  cloud computing and how scalable it is and how dynamic is the architecture. Most of these tech babbles cannot be comprehended by many. Starting tommorrow we will analyse cloud computing in detail and how we stand to gain from this fast emerging technology being embraced by all.

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One of the worlds most popular socail networking site has come out with a lighter version of Facebook called facebook lite. Facebook is a massive site hogging valuable bandwidth due to the innumerable applications on it. The new Facebook is lite and is moving in the direction of Twitter displaying many features of Facebook. Facebook claims that the reason for issuing a lighter version is to bypass the bandwidth problems faced in many countries. The new site is easier to navigate and at the same times faster and there aren’t many distractions.
The features are more twitter like and many believe that people will use lite more than the original apparently due to its ease of use.
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Opera 10.0 is finally out and they have built on existing features rather than bring in new ones. Opera has been the pioneer when it comes to new features having introduced the tabbed concept much earlier than anyone else. However the tweaks include a thumbnail view of all the tabs.
As more and more tabs are opened the size of the thumbnails get decreased dynamically. One can also pull them to one side of the screen which looks good on a wide monitor.

The search bar can be now enhanced by pulling the edge on the left.  the mail feature has been greatly improved and is a suitable replacement for Outlook. The new Opera is fast with a faster rendering of the javascript page and other added features making it a worthy alternative to other web browsers.

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