Google’s Theme Gallery for Chrome has gone live with 29 official themes & the Google Chrome themes website is now live .
Installing them is easier, just pick the one you like and click on the “Apply theme” button. The theme will download and in the download manager at the bottom of the Chrome browser window, simply select “open.”
After you have the new theme installed, you’ll see an option to return to the default theme. If you close that, you can revert in the Preferences area, under “Personal Stuff.”

The theme of the browser will be instantly changed after the download without having to restart it. Google Chrome does not come with a theme manager yet.
The only way to uninstall themes is to enter chrome://extensions/ in the address bar of the web browser. This internal page displays all installed Google Chrome themes with the option to uninstall them.

For the below html code snippet ,we can retreive the selected(checked) checkbox values into an javascript array for further processing.

<div>
<input type="checkbox" name="list_group" value="one" />
<input type="checkbox" name="list_group" value="two" />
<input type="checkbox" name="list_group" value="three" />
<input type="checkbox" name="list_group" value="four" />
<input type="checkbox" name="list_group" value="five" />
</div>


jQuery code to be used on onready or onclick event.

var values = new Array();
$.each($("input[@name='list_group']:checked"), function() {
values.push($(this).val());
});


Auto login feature in Windows XP allows to start your computer and use the account that you establish to automatically log on.

Enabling auto logon makes your computer more convenient to use, but can pose a security risk.

skype engineers have been working with Freetalk on a super-secret project for quite a few months . The challenge was to produce a super – wideband audio headset for everyone, everywhere.
It’s now ready for public consumption – a plug-and-play super-wideband audio headset which gives you great quality Skype calls. It’s lightweight and folds flat so youcan throw it in your bag with your laptop.

The Everyman headset has an attractive, sturdy plastic design. It’s very adjustable –the headband adjusts to the size of your head and the flexible boom mic easily adjuststo the right place in front of your mouth. The mic folds up out of the way when you don’t need it, and the earpieces fold inward when you aren’t wearing the headset,taking up less space for travel and storage.

The headset connects to your computer via USB. In addition to the USB connection, the headset also has a regular 3.5 mm headphone jack, giving you extra flexibility to use the headset with your MP3 player or other device when you’re away from yourcomputer.

The FREETALK Everyman is a  Lightweight, comfortable, great-sounding but perhaps the best part is the price.
The Everyman is available in the Skype Shop for £18.51 in the UK, €19,88 in continental Europe and $22.88 in the US.

It’s great value and available now from the Skype Shop.

For detailed specifications and a comprehensive review:
Read Andrew’s post on the Skype Gear blog.

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

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.