A Buzz About Social Networks

If you are one of the few who are avid friends of social networks or have profiles in almost all social networks or following news, information about networks and business around it then I am sure you will like this short video:

http://www.citipals.com/social_networks_mania?page=startpage

Rediscover the Web with Firefox 2

Few days ago Microsoft officially launched its new browser Internet Explore 7 (IE7) and now Firefox 2 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla. Its faster, more secure with phishing protection and customizable.

What's New in Firefox 2:

• A new theme and user interface (obviously)
• Built-in phishing protection
• Improved tabbed browsing and each tab will now have a close tab button(like Opera)
  
• Resuming your browsing session (Opera already has this feature from long time)
• Built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms (something very useful)
  
• Support to JavaScript 1.7

You can download Firefox 2 from here and can personalize and enhance your browser with this list of recommended Add-ons by Mozilla website.

Kerala : Free and Open Source

After banning Coke and Pepsi, Kerala(a state in India) is distancing from Microsoft now.

Here on, nearly 1.5 million students in the 2,650 government and government-aided high schools in the state will no longer use the Windows platform for computer education. Instead, they have switched over to the free GNU/Linux software.

"We have decided that we will use only free software for computer education in Kerala schools. We have implemented the Linux platform in high schools; it will be implemented in other schools step by step," Kerala Education Minister M A Baby told rediff.com.

They also started giving training of the Linux platform to around 56,000 teachers.

Linux PC dealers are excited about the government decision to promote Linux platforms in schools and also receiving lots of inquiries now.