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Gmail has released a very good feature for all its google mail users. 

Gmail has finally added a very useful security feature: tracking open sessions. If you log in to Gmail from more than one computer and you forget to sign out, you’ll be able to see the list of locations where your account can still be accessed. 

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Seems we’re sitting atop an Internet bomb. Count 1,272 days from now, and the world is going to run out of Internet addresses, according to IANS. 

Over 85 percent of available addresses are already allocated with the rest to run out by 2011; predicts the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). We’re not talking addresses that you randomly type into your respective browser/s, rather numerical Internet Protocol (IP) addresses basic to what we call the Internet.

The bone of contention: the current IP system (IPv4), originally introduced in 1981 with space for just four-billion addresses, is ill-equipped to support the burgeoning Internet. Since its inception the addresses provided for have been all but gobbled up. But the Internet continues to grow in leaps and bounds and so do the addresses ; the irony being there’s no room for all of it.

The perceived digital doomsday is somewhat like global warming; you can’t see it happening but it affects you alright. With the Internet running out of addresses, speeds will drop, newer services will become dearer - worse still, unavailable.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (the international community in charge of smooth operation and evolution of the Internet) claims it is prepared for the onslaught — with the successor of IPv4 named IPv6. Hell, we’ve been hearing about this one for more than a decade now! Which brings us back to where we started: what happens after 1,272 days.  

IPv6 has to be the Solution and the time has really come to put it forward. 

Flash website developers can breathe a sigh of relief this morning - a collaboration between Adobe, Google and Yahoo! will make it easier for the two search engines to index Flash files (SWF).

Until now, search engine web crawlers have had lots of trouble accurately indexing text and links that appear in Flash files. For years this roadblock has been the cause of many headaches for web designers, website owners and online marketers alike. (Not to mention searchers who may be missing out on valuable content.) But the bottle of ibuprofen may be going back in the medicine cabinet.

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Firefox download record was previously non-existent

Last month’s release of Firefox 3 marked the latest iteration of the second most popular browser behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. To mark the occasion, the Firefox 3 team looked to set a world record for the number of downloads in a day.

Firefox 3 was a shoe-in to set the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in a day since the record didn’t previously exist. The record was made official today with Guinness certifying that Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,002,530 times in the first 24 hours of its launch. That number weeds out all duplicate downloads and automated downloads.

Even though Firefox 3 holds the record for most downloads in a day, it still holds a fraction of the browser market that number one Internet Explorer has. According to The Wall Street Journal Firefox held 19.03% of the browser market in June while Internet Explorer captured 73% of the total browser market.

Firefox and other browsers are gaining ground on Microsoft– albeit slowly. According to The Wall Street Journal, Internet Explorer lost about half a percentage point of market share per month for the last 12 months.

Mozilla announced its record setting attempt with much pomp and fanfare on June 17 and to commemorate the occasion the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft even sent over a cake.

PDA-phones make life easier by combining the mobile organisational features of a personal digital assistant with the connectivity of a mobile phone.

Although it varies from model to model, input is generally through a QWERTY keypad or a touchscreen and stylus combo, either of which allows you to effortlessly write or type messages. Business users are usually attracted to push e-mail capabilities of PDA-phones, where new inbox messages are transferred directly to the mobile device. To set up push e-mail, a Microsoft Exchange or BlackBerry Enterprise Server is usually required, although personal and other third-party solutions are available through network carriers.

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Susan Hogg, co-founder and managing partner of the Richmond, Va.-based strategic branding and design firm Circle S Studio, recently spent three days at the Kingsmill Resort & Spa, where most guests golf, enjoy spa treatments and fish. Only she wasn’t relaxing–she was working.

Along with 80 other CEOs of small- to mid-size businesses, Hogg was attending an executive retreat sponsored by the Virginia Council of CEOs. With the lush Williamsburg landscape as their backdrop, the attendees traded tips, networked and discussed their growth strategies in small groups.

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Go shopping for a notebook computer today, and you’re likely to focus on the specs that manufacturers tout: dual core processor, large screen, size, and lightweight.

Other features of current notebooks, though, are less desirable - and more controversial. Know what they are before you buy a notebook, and you’re more likely to remain happy about your purchase.

When you buy a notebook computer, pay special attention to whether the LCD is ‘glossy’ or ‘matte’. Increasingly, manufacturers are offering glossy screens. While these are great for watching movies on your laptop, they’re not optimal for doing traditional office work.

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Google added a significant search feature (Matt Cutts mentioned it first to let us know). You can now type into Google, whois domain.com and get the whois information for that domain.

For example, whois souravsharma.com returns this result: 

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A Sphinn thread has discussion about a new AdWords experiment where Google flipped the URL location in the ad from the bottom of the ad to above the description line of the ad. The Get Elastic Blog has a screen shot and details about the same.

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There are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of the time either we have found common ones or the “Top 10” ones.. But we have to accept the fact that there must be more than 10 mistakes. So After peeping around into dozens of websites..I got this one where they have already complied a handful of list. So Instead, I go ahead and redo the same thing…..I think directing you to the main destination would be much better….  

But these ones are not specifically written in view point of any particular nature of website..and thats the reason you will find it covering various aspects of Web Design…few related to Blogs, Websites, Directories and so on…And though I am not the main author but there is no harm in promoting something good…

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