The new features are pretty much handy and are introduced taking up in mind the need of the contemporary users. Most of them are a mere change in name of features. Some new features include changes like recovery of tabs tabs and sessions that have been closed accidentally or if they are closed due to crashing of the process, similar to what Firefox and Opera already have. The search function now offers an auto suggestion feature, similar to Firefox but can also show images within the search, provided it’s supported by the search engine. As a user types in the address bar, a list of suggestions drops down with relevant web sites from the browsing history, Favorites and RSS feeds, with the browser searching both URLs and page titles. Particularly this incremental test search feature was long overdue.

IE8 offers IN-PRIVATE browsing which prevents browser cookies, history and form data from being saved just like Opera which already has this option. Google’s Chrome too comes with this very feature. Mozilla’s add-ons were the driving forces towards IE‘s Accelerators. IE8 also supports caret browsing, yet another feature Firefox comes bundled with! The list goes on..

The expectations are high and IE8 is already creating a stir in the air, let’s have a quick review about the enhancements and add-ons featured within the new browser.

Web Slices:

With the help of web slice, user can subscribe to a portion of a Web page. It helps you to keep a record of your favorite websites, blogs and even web pages. When you add a web slice, IE8 will automatically integrate it into the Favorites Bar and you can check them later on with a single mouse click!

When some new information is available, the Web Slice gets highlighted. A click on the Web Slice in the Favorites bar provides relevant information. Digg, MSN Headlines, StumbleUpon, Ebay, etc web slices are currently available to install.

Accelerators are a group of functions which are deployed as contextual menu options that can quickly access applications or Web services from any Web page. Users can install from a wide variety of Accelerators from the Internet Explorer 8 Activity Gallery or through any Web site that advertises them. Accelerators make it easier to copy information from one Web page to another. Currently there are a variety of Accelerators available including: Find on Facebook, Define on Encarta, Find on Ebay, Yahoo Local Maps, et al.

Developer:

IE8 is especially designed to help developers and designers to prepare sites for it. The feature rich Developer’s tool offer enhanced support to view and edit the website’s source code , research, troubleshoot and resolve HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript-related problems.

This is a guest post by Praval who is a freelance writer/blogger and works for Uswaretech, a Django Consulting shop as Web Evangelist and Online Marketer.

For uploading files online and sharing them, first you need to create an account with SugarSync. Once you activate the account, download the SugarSync Manager for Windows or for Mac (in Beta). Install the application on you PC and then login to SugarSync with your details. You can select the name of your PC and then synchronize with your account.

Once this is done, you can start adding files to your online account. To do this click on “Add/Edit Sync Folders” button and then click Add. Select the files and folders you wish you upload to your account and then click OK and the selected files will be uploaded.

Whenever you make any changes to the files uploaded, then it automatically gets synchronized if you are online and SugarSync is installed on your PC. The updating process was very quick, the moment I clicked save after modifying the file, it was updated in my online account.

Another great feature of SugarSync is that it creates a folder named “Magic Briefcase” in your documents folder. The feature of this folder is that, if you save or add any files to this folder it will be uploaded automatically to your online account.

You can also access the files through browser using the url provided. The url provided will be signupname.sugarsync.com, where signupname is the name you used for registration with SugarSync. You can upload files and view Magic briefcase through web browser.

You can also access your files from an internet enabled Smartphone or you can directly type the url m.sugarsync.com to access files from mobile phone.

Pricing Details:

Initially you can sign up for free account which gives you 10GB of space for 45 days, after that you need to chose a paid plan. Paid plans starts from 10GB of storage to 250GB. the basic plan with 10GB online storage can be purchased for 24.99$ yearly fees. You can sign up for an account from here.

Life Rocks 2.0 SugarSync accounts Giveaway:

SugarSync has offered three 30GB account for one year each worth $49.99 free for our readers. You can be one of the 3 lucky people to get the free account. The procedure is as follows;

1.Sign up for SugarSync free account.

2. Leave a comment on this blog stating what you plan to do with this free account and how you are going to use it in case you win it.

3. Make sure that you comment on this blog using the same email ID which you used for signing up with SugarSync.

4. I’ll announce the 3 winners who makes the best and compelling comment and their accounts will be converted to 30GB one year subscription.

The contest will run for one week and winners will be announced on May 26th and dont forget to Subscribe to this blog for the updates.

NB: Feed Readers, sorry for the double posting, the first article disappeared mysteriously from the blog.

Update: The Winners of this Giveaway are Harris, Chris and Pavan Kumar. Their accounts will be updated to free 30 GB account.

Combining price and features, K810i is a great phone, although the camera is 3.2MP, the photo quality is in par with 5MP cameras. If video recording is your priority, the choice would be Viewty or N82.

If you like to add in any personal experiences, do share it in comments.

1 USD =39 INR (approx)

Currently Soashable supports only MSN, AIM and Yahoo and also has less features compared to Meebo and other services. Soashable also does not support file transfers and chat rooms.

I tried out Soashable and it definitely looks promising especially when you can edit their code to suit your purpose.

Soashable (Project code)

Source

Dropbox is different from other services in many aspects;

• Dropbox supports version control so that even if someone modifies the file you share, you get a copy of original file. Dropbox maintains versions of each changes made.
• If you delete a file from your Dropbox folder, you can view it online and bring those files back with a couple of clicks
• View the contents of your Dropbox folder online.
• 5GB of free online storage
• Faster way of sharing files.

How does Dropbox work?

First of all you need to download and install the software from Dropbox website (invite required, please leave comment if you want to try out Dropbox). After installation, it will create a folder in your documents called “My Dropbox”. Now sync your PC with the website and your account. Once this is done, all the folders created online are available in “My Dropbox”. If you need to create a folder, do it the normal way we create folder in Windows. The newly created folders are synchronised with the folders online. Adding files is much more easier, all you need is to copy the file to the folder in your system. Dropbox synchronises and uploads the files online.

When you want to share a file, all you need is to add the files to the shared folder in your PC, the files will be updated in all your friends dropbox automatically. Isn’t it simple? No need to login to any website and download it. You can also see which folders are shared with the icon on the folders.

How to Share folder?

Well this is again simple process, click on the small arrow icon to the side of folders and select share.

Enter the email address and sent the invite to the person whom you want to share files.

Currently Dropbox is by invite only and in case you like to try out Dropbox, do leave a comment and we’ll be glad to sent you invites. Dropbox seems to be best service for sharing and storing files online and looks promising. So what are you waiting for, leave a comment and try out Dropbox.

Thanks to Ashish for the invite.

Note: I have closed the comments section as Dropbox invites are finished.

You can activate your Gmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts in Flock and Flock lets you easily share webpages, images and articles with a simple click-to-compose share function.

By popular demand Picasa photo service has been added to the available services in Flock 1.1. Upload up to 1,000 photos at one time to Picasa and view them. Flock is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Download Flock 1.1

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You can also check out this article on Flock.

First looks shows that there are few alignment issues on my blog, but these are only few when compared to totally messed up designs on few popular websites.

Few clicks on the links and I soon got this error message. This is the same message of Send Error Report in XP.

Soon after closing IE, it quickly restored the open tabs and gave a message that tabs have been restored. Well this is a new feature added to IE8- Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR). I feel Microsoft seems to be testing this feature as my IE8 was crashing frequently in Vista (I have downloaded the Vista version).

There is an Emulate IE7 mode if you want to go back to IE7, this is good since some websites are not properly aligned in IE8. Since this is a beta version, there are lots of errors bound to happen.

Did you try the new IE8? Share your experiences.

1. SnapFish: Snapfish is HP’s online photo printing and sharing site, which has recently come to India. Snapfish has gained popularity globally and offers ‘Click-print-share’ service in India. The site offers ordering prints, sharing photos and other promos like free album You can also create personalized photo calendar as well as T-shirts.

2. Zoomin: Zoomin allows you to upload, share and print your digital photos. Zoomin allows to create personalised calendars, cards, books and also photo mugs. The site supports importing of photos from Flickr as well as Picasa. As a promotional offer, Zoomin allows free 15 prints free and all you need to pay for shipping.

3. Itasveer: Itasveer is one of the best Indian sites offering online photo printing. Itasveer has good colour reproduction and print quality. Itasveer has a doodlepad by which you can create custom designs and print your photos on mugs or T-shirts with custom captions and text.

4. Picsquare: Picsqaure offers unlimited storage for your images, 10 free trial prints and free album for 30 plus prints. This site also offers Flickr and Picasa integration. You can create photo mousepad, greeting card and much more.

5. Mera Snap: Mera Snap is another online photo printing site which offers good quality prints with options like photo frames and writing pads.

Comparison of online photo printing

Verdict: For photo printing Zoomin is currently the best service and for custom gifts or large poster prints Itasveer is currently the best Indian site for photo printing.

NB: This comparison is for Indian sites offering online photo printing.

Nokia 5310 has a 2inch big screen which supports 16 milion colors. The keypads are also well placed and easy to use. 5310 features a 2MP camera at the back panel. Another thing to note is that this phone features a 3.5mm standard headphone jack.

On the peformacnce side, 5310 features a 32 MB RAM. The music player is simple and basic, but because of the presence of dedicated audio chip, the sound quality is good. It also has a 5 band equalizer, stereo widening and FM radio. The speakar has good volume and has deep bass and clear vocals. The phone supports microSD cards upto 4GB. The phone uses Symbian 40 series 3rd edition. Apart from these it also has bluetooth with A2DP support.

The phone also supports EDGE browsing and speed is pretty average. Transfer of files with USB is not much fast. The 2.0 MP camera has nothing much to boast of, it lacks flash and auto focus. The battery life is also a drawback of 5310 which is just an average performer.

Verdict: The sleek design and build makes it a good phone for music, but the if your preference is both music and camera, then this phone disappoints. Overall its a good phone formusic lovers considering its price.

Rating: 7.5/10
Price: Rs 9800/- (1USD= 39Rs)

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