BlogDay 2011

Every year 31st August is special day for many... Its 5th BlogDay today. As their website explains it very well, I am Copy-Pasting some paras:

What is BlogDay?

BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.
With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. This way, all blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.

What will happen on BlogDay?

one long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new Blogs, preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers.

So without further ado, Here is this years list:

Google Voice Search

With Google, The innovation is always at Godspeed. Google announced on its official blog yesterday, the availability of Google voice search for Desktop users. until now it was limited to Mobile devices.

As this Release Article better explains,

Introducing
Voice Search
Now on your computer

Linux Mint 11 - Katya Review

For famous Linux distribution - Linux Mint, version 11 code-named "Katya" has been released on May 26th 2011. Finally after hefty 864MB downloading, I finally gave it a spin.

"Tab Candy" - New feature in Firefox 4

Without a doubt “Web browser” is most speedy developing software ever. New features are being added everyday and one such feature is “Tab Candy” introduced in upcoming version of popular browser Firefox 4. Before exploring the subject let us know what scenario lead to its necessity.

We often find ourselves reading articles, Checking emails, Social Networking, Downloading etc. all in several tabs open in one browser window. Its fine up-to 8 to 10 tabs but when it gets more, the problem arises. To tackle this situation “Tab Candy” was proposed.

Tab Candy is basically tab grouping. You put Email tabs into one bunch, Facebook-Orkut-what-not into second, News–Reader into third and so on. Make them as you wish.


To see it in action is even more fascinating, just press Tab candy button and you zoom out with thumbnails of all tabs. Pick similar tabs and drag them outside boundary to form another group.

Click on any tab to zoom in and viola! Only tabs from that group are shown. Feel like someone is buzzing you, zoom out and select Social-Networking group, only tabs in that group will be shown.


Thus it is very much similar to Desktop-switching concept used in Linux where many windows are open at a time but they can grouped and one group shown at a time. This certainly keeps us on track without irrelevant things.

Whats more, you can setup a layout with groups at predefined position and thus resulting into something like this

The future?

Tab Candy project is further developed to enable tab-group sharing, so that I Click-Click-Click at home, reach the office, Click-Click-Click and session is restored. Search feature is also being added to interface.

See it in motion @ http://bit.ly/9d3xFi

Working with 100+ tabs easily-effectively-efficiently(read that again) is the “Whats next” of browser.