Check out the this video by Mozilla – Firefox community. Very inspiring for a opensource admirer.  Help Mozilla promoting this awesome software called Firefox, share this post / video.

Note: This is an HTML 5 video, it would play in Firefox and Chrome Browser only. Download the sable version of new Firefox here >>

Most of you must be aware that Firefox-4 will be soon getting out of beta. Mozilla community is getting ready for a great launch of Firefox 4 and they want the Open Creative community to participate in designing official T-Shirt for Firefox 4.

Already 130+ designs are submitted. You can submit your ideas and design to http://creative.mozilla.org/ ,  28th March 2011 is the deal-line for submission. Mozilla community would be selecting the final winner and the T-shirt would be printed as a limited edition which would be featured in Mozilla store.

Don’t mis this opportunity, Submit your design here http://creative.mozilla.org/ .

You can also spread a word on your blog or by re-tweeting this post. Check out for official Posters here http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=29142435%40N08&q=+flyer&m=tags or use the images in this post.

As Google Says, “Many of us these days depend on the World Wide Web to bring the world’s information to our fingertips, and put us in touch with people and events across the globe instantaneously. These powerful online experiences are possible thanks to an open web that can be accessed by anyone through a web browser, on any Internet-connected device in the world.”

It is very important for a new web-users to know basic concept of internet and Web 2.0, this would help them in understanding and trusting the web.

Google has taken this opportunity and designed an HTML 5 based interactive book called 20 Things I Learned About Browser and Web, this explains 20 most important thing you should know about Browser and Web.

Topics Included in this Book.

1) What is internet?

2) Cloud Computing

3) Web Apps.

4) HTML, JavaScript, CSS

5) HTML 5

6) 3D in Browser.

7) A Brouwser Madrigal
PLUG-INS

9) Browser Extensions

10) Synchronize the Browser

11) Browser Cookies

12) Browsers and Privacy

13) Malware, Phishing ,AND Security Risks

14) How modern browsers help protect you from Malware and Phishing.

15) Using Web Addresses to stay safe

16) IP Addresses and DNS

17) Validating Identities Online

18) Evolving to a faster Web

19) Open Source and Browser

20) Things Later or a day on cloud

This interactive book is written very simple and keeping in mind that the readers are non technical people. All the 20 points discussed in this interactive book are divided into 20 lessons of the book and explained in details.

You could also notice that most of the topics are related to Google in some or the other ways. Google with this Interactive Book want people to understand internet, Cloud Computing, Cloud Apps (with Google Apps) and Safe Browsing (using Chrome ). You can also say it is a way of promoting Google with the help of Open Web and people know about the advantage of Open Web.

With this interactive book Google has also provided a good example of how to replace Flash with HTML 5. [Apple would be Happy ]

Enjoy reading this book, hope this was a helpful update and do share with your Friends and Family

Click here to check out this interactive book.

Soon I found that all those apps where connecting through a default “Internet Access Point” and not Vodafone Live! Access point. For connecting to Internet Access Point you need to subscribe and configure “Vodafone Mobile Connection”.

In Nokia by default all apps try to connect via “Internet Access Point”. So you just need to make you Vodafone Live! access point as default access point. Next time when app try to connect to internet, it will rout through Vodafone Live! access point.

Happy Browsing !!

What is HTML 5  ?
Its a new web standard for developing web sites and web applications. W3C is bringing in more advance features in HTML, so that you can develop more interactive features in your web applications and users can access them without downloading any plugins like flash player or Microsoft silverlight plugins or any such replated plugins. These features will be built in your browsers, For example, HTML5 introduced a <video> tag to show videos in your website; in current version of HTML you do it either by <object> / <embed> tags which also require you to download some plugins / activex controls for flash or silverlight.

YouTube has recently launched HTML5 version, which plays video with the HTML5 <video> control. Early you need to download a flash player to view youtube videos and with HTML5 you need not do that. This version was released since Apple launched the iPAD which do not support flash and has only HTML5 video support. So now iPad users can view YouTube HTML5 videos using HTML5 enabled safari browser.

But YouTube do not support Firefox… and what is the reason.

YouTube videos are using H.264 codec to convert their videos which is a patented technology, meaning that it is illegal to use without paying license fees. ( Google and Apple are paying a huge amount for using this codec.)

Which means that if your need to show Youtube videos using HTML5 You need to embeed this codec in browsers HTML parser.

Firefox is a free open souce product which designed with open web concept and they do not believe in using paid codecs in their browser. Firefox support open media format. (.OGG format)

Youtube using H.264 codec has brough a big hurdle for Firefox users. Though Youtube Flash player is still supported and firefox users can view youtube video.  At present youtube HTML5 vides are only supported by Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Microsoft IE with Google Chrome extension.

Hope soon firefox will come with some work around to access YouTubes HTML5 videos in Firefox.

Below is a Demo of  HTML5 video, This video is in Open Media Format ( .Ogg format )… u can view it in Chrome, FireFox, Opera, IE with Chrome extension and Safari / other HTML5 compatible browsers

Source Code :
<video src="http://videobin.org/+yz/14s.ogg" id="video" 
width="300" height="240" autoplay controls></video>

Soon Windows users will get an option to choose their favorite browser inside windows. This is as  part of a settlement between Microsoft and European Commission concerning the monopoly abuse by Microsoft. It is agreed between the to parties that users will get a browser choice screen in windows and expected to start appearing from early March.

This screen will have browser options like Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari and Opera along with 7 other small browsers. It is expected that this option will help users to chose the best browser of their choice. Well for me firefox is always the best one and i too prefer using firefox for all internet users. Well only thing to check out would be, will this option be available for all windows users or only for European users.

till then … Happy Browsing 

We have observed that in past few months every other [blippr]technology[/blippr] blog having a post on [blippr]cloud computing[/blippr] and cloud OS. Cloud Os is also called future of OS by many blogs designed for accessing [blippr]internet[/blippr] and web application primarily and compatible with any [blippr]netbook[/blippr].

It was [blippr]Google[/blippr] who first came in public about its cloud based OS, [blippr]Chrome[/blippr] OS which is much awaited Cloud OS, yet to be released (god knows when). Its not just [blippr]google[/blippr] coming up with this futuristic idea on cloud OS there are many other companies in Q and already in market.

Some months back on techgearz we saw an article on gOS and cloud OS built on [blippr]Ubuntu[/blippr] 9. Jolicloud is another such cloud OS release 2 weeks back again built on [blippr]Ubuntu[/blippr].

Idea of Jolicloud started in summer 2008 when Tariq Krim started thinking about the possibility to build an “organic” laptop, a combination of the greenest technologies and a fair trade production. This device would run an Internet operating system and replace existing costly software with their web alternatives.

He meet few manufacturers, designers and industry friends regarding the same, later he decided to drop the hardware to focus only on building the Internet OS. He was later joined by Romain Huet and Tristan Groléat, two young developers who shared his vision. They spent a few days drafting the blueprint of what an Internet OS should be. They decided to buy a few netbooks, refresh their knowledge of Linux and rented some office space in the Montorgueil area of Paris.

Jolicloud is a lightweight [blippr]Ubuntu[/blippr] based cloud OS designed with netbooks and internet it mind, according to @jolisupport (Joulicloud’s online support team on twitter) joulicloud support almost 98% of netbooks available in market and it has the latest Linux kernel. Its not just limited to netbooks, you can install it on PC too with minimum configuration of Pentium processor with 300 Mhz and 32 MB Ram – 256 MB recommended.

( Normally, netbooks comes with AMR based / Atom processors and 1 GB Ram ).

At a Quick glance, desktop of this OS reminds me of a simple portal website with all necessary links to your favorite web sites and applications, just a click and get started. Unlike other [blippr]Linux[/blippr] based OS its not too bulky and loaded with many desktop apps, its just a 602MB ISO file (click here to download), ported with basic applications like [blippr]Firefox[/blippr], Ping IM etc and other Linux basic apps for administration purpose.

It also has a Internet tab where you can find many internet based applications like facebook prism, shortcut to Firefox, bittorent client and any internet based software which you installed (check the above image, i have installed Linux based chrome & Twitter Prism and it started appearing in Internet tab on desktop). Unlike many Linux versions, Jolicloud doesn’t contain a Open Office pre-installed, but can download it from “My Jolicloud – App Directory”. It contains quick reference to internet based office apps like [blippr]Google Docs[/blippr] and [blippr]Zoho[/blippr] document editor.

My Jolicloud is a web app to access joliclouds online community, you need to create an profile / account for accessing this space., this can be done once you install the OS. You can synchronize your My Jolicloud profile contents with your Facebook profile.

My Jolicloud also contains list of users who are using jolicloud, you can follow them and check their statuses like you do in twitter. This status basically contains which software they have installed recently, what update did they do to their profile and so on. I saw around a 300 registered users when I logged in, this may increase soon as many users start using it.

Another interesting part in My Jolicloud was something called App Directory, you will find many application like Open Office, Google Chrome, Skype etc and Firefox Prism of many web apps which includes, [blippr]Gmail[/blippr], [blippr]YouTube[/blippr], Zoho office, [blippr]Twitter[/blippr], [blippr]Facebook[/blippr] to name a few.

( Firefox Prism allows you to have a quick reference to any web apps on your desktop, which you frequently access. )

[blippr]Google’s Chorme OS[/blippr] claims to have a 7 second boot-up time, well jolicloud took me around 30-35 secs to boot completely and around 10 secs to shutdown. ( It might be b’coz i am using it on VMware Player and not a netbook, with a shared CPU was already running [blippr]window vista[/blippr])

Well apart from the above features, you can find easy to access system administrative tools, etc. It would be out of scope of this article to explain every details of this OS, so soon you can expect a video post on joulicloud.

You can join discussion on cloud with us @ Facebook and Twitter

Check out some screens shots from joulicloud  below  OR Click Here

Firefox is turning 5, Firefox team and fans are going to take this to the streets of Rome on 8th of November. In last 5 years we have seen many faces of firefox and phases in the life of firefox, had a tough completion from the day one it came to the market. But like a brave boy it has cleared all the challenges and still holding the No 1… Woow.

Check out the above firefox cake.. isnt it yummy guys….

Every firefox fan has to make this birthday very special and lots of stuffs uploaded in internet. [ will be sharing the link in next post.]

Techgearz is proud to be associated with firefox and spreading the word. I will update this space with more and more activity goin on for this b’day celebration. Keep reading this space for that. Also check out a small recap of whats going on for the 8th November 2009. >> more updates

If we look into the so called Google Chrome OS and Cloud OS from gOS, they are all  browser based or you can say a OS designed to access internet and date present in internet.

If we talk about data, your data like documents, presentation will go into Google docs or similar applications / YouTube, iMeem and other alike application for videos / audio and gmail, Facebook, IMs and other social networking sites to communicate with your friends. Or you can say your data will be floating in the internet and you need to go to each application for access them. In a way, we will loose the ease of  accessing data at one place i.e our desktop and we have to login to all these above mentioned applications.

Question coming to mind is, can we still collaborate all data at one place like we do on our windows / Mac desktop ??

Here we have one answer to that “Question?” that called web based OS … It not exactly an OS but, web based mimic of OS that we have today.

One of such web OS is eyeOS (there are many others also), eyeOS is a php based Web OS/ application (we will be referring it as OS here). Its completely Open Source solution and any one can download it under GNU-GPL license.

It can store all kind of data at one place and access from something called your online / web desktop, its also powered with some cool application again a mimic to original desktop versions.

Application>>

• eyeOs comes with web based office application which replaces your desktop version of MS office. It not as matured as them but useful for editing excel and document file.
• It also has a good file management capability
• Also have an inbuilt media player.
• You also have a in built IM chat and mail client, you can configure it your requirement.
• Also it has desktop management tools, you can change desktop themes like you do for your  window desktop.
• Last but not the least, Its an open source product ,  you could also develop application  using simple html, javascript ajax and php.
• [check out screen shots below to see few of them.]

What Good / Bad about it.

Good part of this OS its completely online you can save data and access it from anywhere whenever you want. Its open source, so you could download it and modify it to your requirement.

Bad part is you need to be online to access it.

But how do i access it ?

It is purely Cloud Computing example. Currently this eyeOS is hosted on eyeOS linux based server. You can access Demo version of eyeOS by registering for the same with eyeOS.com. Demo version comes with 1-gb of free disk space and those cool applications.

I am not sure how much it will cost if you want to expand the space. eyeOS also comes with an enterprive cloud based paid serive.

Or else you can download this OS under the GNU-GPL license and use it on your PHP server,

Note For  PHP developer, You don’t have to install MySQL or any other kind of database for this OS / application, it work on pure folder structure of system you are using to port this application. [ Download eyeOS ]

<< Screen Shots Eye OS >>

Web based desktop of eyeOS

Playing Linkin Park music on eyeOS flash based web -media player

Interface to upload files from desktop to web based eyeOS desktop

online document editor - online replacement to original office apps

Control Panel to manage users and themes.

File management interface, similar to linux file management interface.

Opera Mini 5.0, beta is out for you to play around. Its with some cool new features to add on, well it would be the first mobile browser to come with the so called browser speed dial. Last week we saw the opera 10 turbo was launched, which also shares a better speed dial. Check the above demo of opera mini 5.0 beta

Opera Mini is the most downloaded mobile browser and yes, its has around 30 million online mobile users. Apart form the speed dial this new mini also has some cool tab features, organized search bar and easy navigation. A blackberry touch screen version is also available for beta.

Opera mini was the first mobile browser to allow you access the website the same way on you mobile phone and this feature is much more improved in this new Mini 5.0. There are many more features and opera want us to try them out and find out whats cool

I have downloaded the beta and will be goin for a test drive soon. Check out techgearz to find all those new cool dashing features of opera mini.