Microsoft SilverLight 4 Beta Client for FaceBook

Microsoft makes available for Windows and Mac OS X client that Facebook takes advantage of Silverlight technology. In this case, it is 4 with Silverlight beta is not yet public. Developers, or more curious, however, may be obtainable via this page.

It will allow the Silverlight client 4 beta access to its Facebook data (wall, messages, notifications …). The result then obtained is quite aesthetic. Tim Heuer, who works on Silverlight on behalf of Microsoft, has released some screenshots, and stressed that it is particularly possible to take pictures from a webcam.

Opera 10 Beta 3 available for download.

For this third beta version of Opera 10, the Norwegian Opera Software publisher indicates its focus on performance and stability. A performance that does not necessarily measure the speed JavaScript, Opera 10 beta 3 posting on the SunSpider test results lower than Firefox 3.5, Safari 4.0 and Google Chrome. Opera 10 is not the best on this benchmark, but after all the advance as Microsoft, JavaScript speed is not everything, especially Internet Explorer 8 is much more down to that level …

About Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Design

After the ideas around the design of Firefox 3.7, Mozilla issues on the wiki outline the user interface of Firefox 4.0 on Windows. Confirmation of inspiration found with Google Chrome.

The menu bar seems to promise to be replaced by two buttons and tools to the right of the address bar. Mozilla calls for comments and stressed the importance of a tab bar at the top of the browser and the lack of a title bar with a gain of vertical space, the removal of visual complexity. Negative points with users who might be a little disturbed by these changes, the titles of web pages which do not fit completely, but truncated in the tabs.

Yahoo! Home page new look

We all have heard that Yahoo is working on new design/look for their website home page; and now here is our first chance to have a first look at how is it gone look like. As you may see from screenshots below the goal of Yahoo was to bring “My Yahoo” features at their home page. Now you are in full control of what kind of Content, Apps, News, Websites you want to see on their website home page.

New Google Maps Feature: geolocation!

Google Maps now includes a geolocation, like Yahoo and its flagship service Flickr. The service provides online mapping with a single click on a button to know its position with more or less precision, as we would do its smartphone with Google Maps for mobile. It is for this technology on the W3C into Chrome and the recent Firefox 3.5, whereas Internet Explorer and Safari are compatible via the Google Gears extension.

Firefox Namoroka: How much Firefox 3.5 will be better?

Now that Release Candidate 1 of Firefox 3.5 is available, the final version is far off, even if it requires the arrival of a RC2 and perhaps even a RC3. For this version of the browser Mozilla change a large number of items under the hood. Namoroka, the future version, should be more resistant to crashes due to plug-ins and be available in 64-bit for Mac OS X.

Next week we will find out prices of Windows 7!

Windows 7 has largely unveiled since January, when the public beta has appeared. Its appearance, its features or its inner workings were explained in large part, often by the development team itself on the official blog of the system. For several weeks that the Release Candidate is available, Windows 7 is in its last line, only a major unknown: pricing.

Microsoft will disable AutoRun on Windows for USB devices

To insert a CD-ROM, DVD or another type of media, the AutoRun feature of Windows allows the automatic start of programs (offered in a window to run automatically), thus avoiding the user to visit the explorer to manually launch an executable. Convenient, this feature has proved to be problematic in recent times involved in the spread of the famous worm Conficker. A spread is always difficult to understand because Microsoft offers a patch dedicated since October 2008.

Google fix high security bugs in Chrome!

Google Chrome in its stable version 1.0 is affected by a security bug with an index of severity was announced “high”. To fill a stamped version 1.0.154.59 Web browser is available for download (or upgrade) for Windows users. \

Reported on 8 April 2009, the bug in question can be exploited in the context of an attack type universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) requiring no interaction from the user being targeted.

VLC Media Player 1.0 is comming, whats new?

Formerly for users wishing to stream video over a network, VLC media player has become one of the players the most popular and boasts almost 50 million downloads over the last six months. Become decidedly more affordable since the advent of branch 0.9, VLC is on the verge of a new direction by moving to version 1.0.