TechAirlines: Technology Tips

The non-profit Mozilla has just released the first beta of the next generation of Firefox earlier today. Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 features a brand new user interface, support for multiple new future web technologies including enhanced HTML support, WebSockets, and a more aggressive update schedule. This marks Mozilla’s first release of their plan for the future of the world’s second most popular... 

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to create, edit, and share documents online and then be able to access them from anywhere? Fortunately, there are many great applications out there that allow users to do this. And most of them are completely free, such as Google Docs and Microsoft’s new Office Web Apps. First Class Flyer Issue 11 First Class Flyer is a weekly series published every Friday... 

Web of Trust (WOT), the popular online security community and site rating add-on, has just announced that their extension for Safari is now officially available, thanks to the new Safari 5 supporting extensions. WOT for Safari Due to the gray color scheme of the Safari toolbars, the extension is slightly different than it is on other browsers. The colored icon fades after a few seconds. When you visit... 

Are you someone who can’t get enough of the sound of swarming insects from the World Cup? YouTube, like its parent company Google, loves pranks and obviously couldn’t resist. They have added a new Vuvuzela button just for you. YouTube's New Vuvuzela Button The Vuvuzela is a traditional instrument commonly played in South Africa at football (soccer) games, which includes the World Cup... 

Over a month ago, we covered Firefox 3.6.4 Beta. While this may seem like your average minor update with some security, stability, and bug fixes, Firefox 3.6.4 features Lorentz, the highly anticipated OOPP (Out-of-Process-Plugin) feature. This isolates plugins like Flash and Silverlight into a separate process so if they crash, only the plugin goes down and the user just needs to refresh the page to... 

We all know Google’s famous home page. Plain and simple with a white background. Google has announced the addition of wallpapers for the classic home page. Finally, users can customize the classic homepage with their own backgrounds by uploading them, choosing an image from Picasa Web Albums, or an image from Google’s gallery. To get started, visit the classic Google.com homepage and click... 

Remember our past articles on a free virtualization software known as VirtualBox? Are you having trouble getting started with VirtualBox? Don’t understand what certain terms mean. A new book from Packt Publishing, VirtualBox 3.1 Beginner’s Guide by Alfonso V. Romero, might be useful to you. Cover of VirtualBox 3.1 - Beginner's Guide What’s Inside Download and install VirtualBox... 

Did you enjoy this weekend’s Google Pac-Man doodle and game? Disappointed that it’s no longer on the front page? Well don’t be! Google has just announced that the Google Pac-Man game will permanently be available at www.google.com/pacman. This new page looks and works exactly like the regular Google home page, except that Pac-Man is there, so everyone can now play Google’s version...