Today an update was released to Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 via Microsoft update.This update offers a new build that is an upgrade to earlier Silverlight 2 builds. This update is included in current Silverlight installers. If your computer does not have Silverlight installed, the installer will be offered to you by Microsoft Update or by Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
This update improves stability, media streaming, and the auto-update component. This update also improves support for Mozilla Firefox 3.
An updated version of silverlight 2 beta 2 containing this update can be downloaded from here- http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0
More info about this update can be found here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955011
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Google Lively is a free, browser-based virtual environment with tight integration to social networks like MySpace, Facebook and OpenSocial, as well as Google gadgets like Picasa and YouTube. Unlike some previous integration’s of virtual worlds and social networks, Lively helps users’ friends lists, feeds, and logins to tie directly to the social network. Google’s platform will run in a browser, differentiating it from client-centric worlds like Second Life and can be embedded in a Web site.
There isn’t any currency used in Lively, so users will be able to add objects from Lively’s catalog to their rooms free of charge. With all these features and more rolling out later, Lively is likely to give Second Life and other popular virtual worlds a run for their money. Like most Google products, Lively is free.
While some have compared Lively to Second Life, the better comparison is with IMVU. The core of Lively content are avatars, rooms and catalog. This is true for IMVU as well, though IMVU offers home pages, groups, forums and more. In particular, Lively chose the IMVU-like metaphor of the virtual “room” instead of a sprawling virtual world or land like Second Life. However, Lively is currently a free offering, while IMVU charges for each accessory used and Second Life charges a flat fee, with the basic version provided free.
The minimum hardware requirement for running Lively is, Pentium III 800 MHz System with 512 MB RAM, a 32 MB 3D graphics card such as GeForce 2 or above and a broadband connection. Currently, Lively only runs in IE and Firefox on Windows XP and Vista machines, though the company has said that a Mac OS X client is a priority for the future.
Source- RTTNews
http://www.lively.com
In what has now become a tradition, the Internet Explorer team sent a "Congratulations on Shipping!" cake to the Mozilla Foundation headquarters for shipping Mozilla Firefox 3.0. As you might be able to see in the picture, the ring around the Internet Explorer "e" is actually three-dimensional and it’s certainly more fancy than the cake they previously sent Mozilla for shipping Firefox 2.
Source: Ryan Paul at Ars Technica
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Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
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Link: Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
Today Mozilla has released the much awaited Firefox 3 RC1. According to the Mozilla this version of Firefox would become the final version of Firefox 3 if no more bugs are found in it.
Overall this version of Firefox is very much improved,much faster but still they have to work more on it to compare with the new Opera 9.5
You can download the English version here to download other versions visit here
More info will be posted when official announcement would be made about it.
A Web measurement firm today blamed a massive online marketing campaign aimed only at Internet Explorer (IE) users for skewing its April data, which said Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari had lost significant amounts of market share.
The company, Net Applications of Aliso Viejo, Calif., has posted revised data on its Web site that shows Firefox and Safari still dropping in share, but by much smaller increments.
An "extremely large" marketing campaign among a small number of sites that targeted only users of IE was responsible for the aberrant numbers, said Vince Vizzaccaro, the executive vice president of marketing at Net Applications.
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A new Microsoft Online Services demo featuring Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, Office Communications Online, and Exchange Hosted Services. This demo showcases our communication and collaboration services and can be viewed using both Internet Explorer and FireFox. The demo is available at www.microsoft.com/online on the learn pages.
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you, making Live Maps more useful than ever. Even better — it’s just plain fun!
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Windows Internet Explorer 7, or Firefox 2.0
250 MB or more hard disk space
A 1 GHz processor (2.8 GHz or faster recommended)
256 MB of system memory (1 GB recommended)
32 MB video card (256 MB recommended) that supports Microsoft DirectX 9
A high speed or broadband Internet connection
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Ankur Mittal | July 17, 2008
