Google will open its wondrous widget  Google Wave service up to the public beginning on Sept 30.Come that day, Google will begin pushing out 100,000 Google Wave invites to those who signed up over on the official Google Wave page. Google did not say how invitations would be handled.

Google launched Google Wave at its Google IO conference at the end of May, but so far the Web giant has restricted the service to 6,000 or so developers.
Google Wave is a unique hybrid of email, chat, and a blog, and some expect it to eventually replace some of Google’s other applications.
Google is currently working on the “speed, stability, and usability of Google Wave” .

Here’s a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.

It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client.

Google Wave has a lot of innovative features,  few are listed below:

• Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.
• Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.
• Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves.
• Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared.
• Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.
• Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.
• Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.
• Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.

Bing, as we know, is slowly increasing their user base. You have experienced richness of Bing homepage due to background image which gets changed daily, and contains information about the place in the image .Bing also loads hotspots for images in blocks which describes story for that image.

Bing is engineered in such a way that background image,Bing logo,hotspots and explore pane which contains Images ,videos,Shopping,News,Maps and Travel  loads in stages which may not slow down your searching in Bing.

you can turn off the background images on Bing to help faster your search in Bing,so that Bing will be with Plain background

To turn off Background Image in Bing

click  http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

To turn on background images for Bing or to Show daily images for the Bing.

click  http://www.bing.com/?rb=1

The free iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update includes some great new features, as well as all the features from previous updates. iPhone OS 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games  and more. If you’ve never updated before, now is the perfect time.

iPhone OS 3.0 requires iTunes 8.2 so you will have to first updrade your iTunes to 8.2 to download the latest iPhone OS.

Following is the list of Top Ten new Features of iPhone OS 3.0

1) Cut, Copy & Paste
Quickly and easily cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.

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iSuppli has revealed the new iPhone 3GS Bill of Materials and some interesting changes in the parts and suppliers.

“The entry-level, 16Gbyte version of Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 3G S carries a BOM cost of $172.46 and a manufacturing expense of $6.50, for a total of $178.96,” said Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst, teardown services, for iSuppli. “This is slightly higher than iSuppli’s estimate of $174.33 for the original 8Gbyte iPhone 3G based on pricing in July 2008. Although the retail price of the 16Gbyte iPhone 3G S is $199, the same as for the 8Gbyte version of the original iPhone 3G, the actual price of the phone paid by the service provider is considerably higher, reflecting the common wireless industry practice of subsidizing the upfront cost of a mobile phone and then making a profit on subscriptions.”

Source: iSuppli

In Windows Xp,

GO TO Start Menu –> Control Panel
Select- Add Remove Programs.
On the click of “Set Program Access and Defaults” you will probably see that you are using a “Custom” configuration.

Click on custom to see what is set for your “Choose your default Web browser” setting.

Select “Internet Explorer” and then click OK.
Now it should work…
You may  reboot after setting  to be sure.

Apple’s unveiled a new iPhone today at WWDC, the iPhone 3G S — the “S” stands for speed.

Most powerful iPhone yet,  iPhone 3GS features video recording, Voice Control, up to 32GB of storage, and more.

Although it looks almost exactly like the 3G, it’s much, much faster — some tasks are almost five times faster.

Contract price is set at $199 for 16GB and $299 for 32 GB when it goes for sale and current iPhone 3G will remain available at new price of $99.

Microsoft Corp is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for PCs that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc.

A Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday that the world’s biggest software maker is now testing an early version of the product with its own employees and that it will “soon” make a trial version available via its website.

Shares of Symantec and McAfee, the top two makers of security software, tumbled in November after Microsoft disclosed plans to launch the service as investors worried that they will lose sales to the free product.

Microsoft has said that it will only include basic features for fighting viruses, which would likely make it comparable to the least-expensive products sold by Symantec and McAfee.

Their top selling products are security suites that come with features include encryption, firewalls, password protection, parental controls and data backup.

Here is the list of 25 Hot Female Web designers , showcasing a collection of Female designers who are hot at web design and had great websites.

Link:  http://www.leemunroe.com/hot-female-web-designers-2/

Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breeches in the system.It does that by automatically enabling a feature called User Account Control (UAC) .It is biggest irritation in Windows Vista , especially for the people that do a lot of tweaking (like me) .

Note: Disabling UAC will lead to a less secure system, so be warned.

Following is the steps to Disable User Account control(UAC) in Windows Vista

1) Launch MSCONFIG by from the Run menu.Go to the Run Command and type MSCONFIG

2) Click on the Tools tab. Scroll down till you find “Disable UAC”. Select “Disable UAC”

3) Press the Launch button.

4) A Command window will open. When the command is done, you can close the Command window.

5) Close MSCONFIG and your’e done. You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.

In case if you want re-enable User Account Control you can follow the above steps by selecting the “Enable UAC” and Clicking the Launch Button.

Google, already the king of Internet search, rolled out an experimental new search product on Wednesday called “Google Squared.”

The product is still pretty raw right now, but think of it sort of like Google’s short-term answer to the  Wolfram Alpha’s structured search—with results displayed in a spreadsheet format of sorts.

Google Squared does not provide a list of links to Web pages, like with a traditional Google search, but presents information derived from a query in a spreadsheet-like grid called a “square.”

Users of squared can then build, modify and refine their “square” through further Web searches.

“Unlike a normal search engine, Google Squared doesn’t find webpages about your topic — instead, it automatically fetches and organizes facts from across the Internet,” Google said in a preview of the product last month.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Google said Google Squared could be useful when a user needs to make multiple searches to find the information they want.

“It essentially searches the Web to find the types of facts you might be interested in, extracts them and presents them in a meaningful way,” Google said.

“If your square isn’t perfect at the beginning, it’s easy to work with Google Squared to get a better answer,” Google added.

The Mountain View, California-based Internet search giant cautioned that Google Squared remains experimental and the technology behind it “is by no means perfect.”