Windows 8 Metro Tab Page for Google Chrome

Awesome New Tab Page, as the name suggests the extension adds a new tab page to Google Chrome. Today most you may have seen a Metro featured desktop. The new Tile based desktop has changed the interface of Windows completely. The extension is a result of Windows 8 Metro UI - inspired new tab page that is fully customizable with apps, widgets, bookmarks, and so on.

Create Custom Google Chrome Theme with 'My Chrome Theme'

Google Chrome has millions of users who spend hours daily browsing numerous websites. Those who are using Google Chrome browser for a long time might have tried many themes. I think many of you may have also searched How to create Google Chrome Themes ? And now Google has come up with Application which will help to create Chrome Themes in 3 simple steps. 

Top 15 Most Popular Google Chrome Games

The Chrome Web Store contains thousands of games. I have dug through them and unearthed some few games for you. The best thing about Google Chrome is that people can relax themselves by playing games. Theses games are free to download and play. Here are some of the most popular games in Google Chrome browser.

Hackers Defeat Google Chrome in 5 minutes

Hackers beat Google Chrome for the first time in the annual competition to test the security of one of the most popular web browser, Google Chrome. 

How to download Google Chrome OS

You can download the Google Chrome OS from Torrents. This is for those who are bored with their OS and for those who like to test or use it for just knowing it a bit deeper. 


Initially you need to get The Chrome OS image from torrents. The torrent file is in .BZ2 format & you need to extract it. Mac's will do it automatically.

Now you can play Angry Birds in Facebook

Angry Birds is one of the best Stratergy game developed by the Finnish Computer game developer ROVIO mobile. Angry Bird has been praised for its successful combination of addictive gameplay and comic style. And currently Facebook Brought this game to the Facebook users. Last Year Rovio has launched the game for the Google Chrome Browser.

5 things to look for from Microsoft in 2012

It's not that 2011 was a particularly difficult year. The company posted record revenue for the fiscal year that ended June 30. And its 2-year-old PC operating system, Windows 7, hit 500 million copies sold, further embedding it as the most widely used operating system in the world. But 2011 had few big product launches at the company, Office 365 and Internet Explorer 9 notwithstanding.

Next year will be altogether different. Microsoft is prepping the big kahuna of its product arsenal,Windows 8. The company hasn't set a date, though most analysts expect the flagship operating system to debut before the end of the year, and perhaps in time for back-to-school shopping. From that product, much else from Redmond flows.

So here are five things to look for from Microsoft in 2012:

1. Windows 8 tablets

Windows 8 is one of the boldest bets Microsoft will make, radically changing the interface on the operating system to the company's tile-based Metro look, first used by Windows Phone 7 last year. The familiar desktop photo covered with application and file icons will be available to PC users who want it. But Microsoft is pushing the new touch-friendly interface to convince consumers to buy tablet computers that will run it.

It won't be an easy sell. Microsoft will be coming to the tablet market more than two years after Apple iPad launched and quickly became a commercial success. And this holiday season, Amazon debuted its Kindle Fire, which became the first non-Apple tablet to gain a meaningful foothold. Market analyst Forrester recently reported that consumer interest in Windows tablets is waning.

As the core of computing moves beyond the PC, Microsoft needs Windows 8 tablets to succeed. It's all the more pressing as PC growth sputters and the tablet computer market soars.

The market muscle of Microsoft and its partners will help propel Windows tablets at their debut. But unless Microsoft can convince developers to create tablet-specific apps that users can't live without, the devices will have a hard time making a dent in iPad's massive lead.

2. Xbox moves farther into live TV

Even in its earliest days, Microsoft's video game console business was pegged as a Trojan Horse to bring the company's technology from the office to the living room. But the brains behind Xbox knew they had to make a great gaming experience job No. 1. Now, leading the United States in console sales in 2011, Xbox is pushing in earnest beyond gaming.

Microsoft just brought the first hint of live TV to Xbox consoles with an updated look to its Xbox Live service earlier this month. In addition to introducing the Metro-style look to Xbox, it also let customers of Verizon's Fios cable television service choose from 26 different live TV channels--Comedy Central, HBO, and Nickelodeon. A handful of other partners are offering live programming through Xbox as well.

That's clearly just the start for Microsoft. The company is moving toward the goal of getting consumers to fire up their Xbox whenever they flip on their TVs, not just when they want to play a game. Next year will see more live television content come to Xbox Live. It's a foundation that Microsoft will build out as it readies the next version of the Xbox console, something a source on the Xbox team says will happen in 2013.

3. Windows Phone: We're No. 3

It may be a measure of the decade-long struggle to succeed in mobile telephony that, for Microsoft, a victory would be grabbing the third place spot in terms of smartphone market share for its Windows Phone software. While the company has wrestled to arrive at a winning formula, rivals Apple and Google have introduced mobile-phone operating systems that have seized business that Microsoft had hoped to grab.

Microsoft rebooted its phone effort at the end of last year, introducing a passel of new phones from partners running its brand new operating system, Windows Phone 7. The slick-looking software, refreshed in September with an update dubbed Mango, has won plaudits from reviewers for its animation and app integration.

While the technology is catching up with rivals, Windows Phone's market share hasn't. According to market research firm Gartner, just 1.5 percent of the smartphones worldwide run Microsoft's operating system. And rivals aren't standing still. Apple's new iPhone 4S has outsold every other mobile phone since its debut in October. And despite the market fragmentation of Google's Android, with different handset manufacturers running different versions of the mobile operating system, it continues to pull ahead in the marketplace.

There's little doubt that Windows Phone share will grow, if only because of the marketing push Microsoft and partners, particularly Nokia, will make, coupled with the tiny toehold it currently has. But it's most likely to grab customers from Research In Motion's foundering Blackberry business rather than established Apple and Google customers.

4. Patent litigation aggressor

The ground Microsoft hasn't been able to take away from Android in the marketplace may well be covered by the revenue it's able to generate through the threat of litigation. The software giant has persuaded several handset makers--including HTC, Wistron, and Compal-- to pay it a vig for each Android device they sell to settle allegations that the mobile operating system violates Microsoft's patents.

The Android device makers that don't pay? Microsoft's taking them to court. Two high profile cases will move toward resolution next year-- Microsoft's suit against Barnes & Noble, whose Nook e-reader runs Android, and a separate suit against Motorola. (Google is in the process of acquiring Motorola Mobility.)

The tactic has proven so successful that in 2011, Microsoft started collecting fees from companies that make devices running Google's Chrome operating system as well, including Acer and ViewSonic. Expect Microsoft to continue to press device makers that use its rival's technology. Likewise, count on those manufacturers, particularly the smaller ones, to pay up rather than face Microsoft in the courthouse.

5. Growing search through social

Like the mobile-phone business, Microsoft has bounced from one strategy to the next in a bid to be more relevant in Internet search. It's re-branded its search engine a few times, added key partners, and cycled through senior executives, and still significantly trails market leader Google.

There's one Microsoft partnership that could start to pay off in 2012, and it's not the deal to handle search queries from Yahoo. It's Microsoft's deal with Facebook. In May, Microsoft began including recommendations from Facebook friends into its Bing search engine, creating customized results by elevating the ones that receive a "like" from someone in the searcher's Facebook network. So when someone is looking for a Thai restaurant in Seattle, for example, a spot that earned a like from a Facebook friend will rise in that person's particular search rankings.

Google is on to the same formula too, creating its Google+ social network to infuse its search results with customized answers to Web surfer queries. But in social networking, Facebook remains king. Using Facebook "likes" are just the first step. Microsoft clearly plans to add more social signals to Bing in 2012. And while that won't topple Google, it does offer the opportunity to grab a large slice of the search business by providing more relevant results.

Mozilla & Google seal new Firefox search deal

Mozilla and Google today said that they had struck a new search deal that will provide "significant revenue" to the maker of Firefox.

 "We're pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google," Mozilla said today in a statement. "This new agreement extends our long-term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years."

Under the deal, Mozilla will continue to offer Google as the default search engine in Firefox, which now controls about a quarter of the browser market. 

"Mozilla has been a valuable partner to Google over the years and we look forward to continuing this great partnership in the years to come," said Alan, Google's head of search.

Mozilla declined to provide details of the new contract, citing confidentiality requirements. Later, a spokesman refused to say whether the deal was comparable to the previous agreement.

In 2010, the last year for which Mozilla has released financial statements, the Google contract generated 84% of Mozilla's $123 million in revenues, or approximately $103 million.

Google's contribution to Mozilla's bottom line in 2009 was about $89 million, or 86% of the browser maker's annual income.

The Mozilla-Google deal expired last month, but Mozilla did not alter Firefox's default search provider or the browser's start page, which displays Google's search page.

Questions about Mozilla's dependence on Google have been raised since the latter launched its own Web browser, Chrome, in September 2008. According to Internet metrics firms

StatCounter, in November 2011, Chrome owned a 25.7% share of the global browser usage market to edge into second place ahead of Firefox's 25.2%.

Last week a research testing company accused Google of attempting to quash Firefox using a triple-threat campaign to deny it revenues, withhold anti-malware services and -- through a Google-sponsored report -- claim that Chrome is significantly safer.

Google denied the second and third charges, and with the announcement today, has made the first moot.

Mozilla has made only minor steps to wean itself from Google. In October, the open-source organization launched a customized edition, dubbed "Firefox with Bing," that uses Microsoft's Bing search as the default engine.

As recently as two weeks ago, Mozilla declined to confirm that it had renewed the lucrative Google contract, saying then only that it was still negotiating with its browser rival.

Because of Mozilla's financial disclosure timetable, the impact of the new contract won't be apparent until the fall of 2013, when Mozilla issues revenue numbers for 2012.

Internet Explorer more secure than Mozilla Firefox, Says Study

The Microsoft is much much happy now as they have a second position in their hands. Microsoft's Internet Explorer does a better job protecting systems from attackers who already have gained some degree of access than Mozilla's Firefox, and Google's Chrome trumps both of them, according to a new browser security study from Accuvant.

They came up with those results by analyzing the security features of the three most popular web browsers, but have decided not to employ the usual metrics: numbers of patched vulnerabilities, the severity of the flaws and the time it took for the developers to fix them.

As for the raw details, Accuvant's study didn't just focus on the sheer number of published vulnerabilities that a browser has at the time of testing. Rather, Accuvant presumed that a browser vulnerability is going to be exploited in some fashion by a third-party: The security testing, therefore, focused on the strength of a browser's anti-exploitation measures after-the-fact—"the software with the best anti-exploitation technologies is likely to be the most resistant to attack and is the most crucial consideration in browser security," Accuvant wrote.

While Google's Chrome browser won the day in Accuvant's research, the browser didn't sail through with a perfect score. Accuvant noted that Chrome, along with the other two browsers in the test, failed to adequately offer up strong enough URL blacklisting to pass Accuvant's examinations—a daily comparison of roughly 6,000 malware-related URLs against either Microsoft's URL Reporting Service or Google's Safe Browsing List.

"Gathering intelligence about malware URLs is generally performed by running honeypots and spamtraps, and harvesting URLs from malware captured in the wild. Since no authoritative source exists, it is likely that each organization gathering data is getting one part of the overall picture," Accuvant wrote. "Based on Accuvant's analysis, no party is performing this data collection comprehensively."

And while all three browsers employ address space layout randomization (ASLR), data execution prevention (DEP) and stack cookies (GS), Firefox does not implement sandboxing (the separation of running programs), plug-in security and Just-In-Time hardening (preventing javascript located on websites from compiling code that can be run on the target system).
That said, Chrome's apparent excellence in sandboxing, plug-in security, JIT hardening, and Address Space Layout Randomization, among other features, was enough to win it top honors. But Mozilla isn't letting Accuvant have the last word regarding the security of its browser.

Microsoft Silverlight 5 Released

Microsoft released Silverlight 5, which could be the last major release of Microsoft’s application framework  for writing and running rich Internet applications.

Microsoft made available on December 9 for download the gold version of Silverlight 5, the latest version of its browser plug-in and Web, desktop and mobile development platform.

Silverlight Version 5 will be supported by Microsoft until 2021 — which is a much longer period of time than previous Silverlight releases have been supported.

• Download Silverlight 5 plug-in ~ Aprox. 7 MB
 

The version 5 release supports all the Previous platforms which it's previous versions of  Silverlight did: Windows, Mac.

 It also works with Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Silverlight 5’s  special  features include Hardware decode of H.264 media; extensionof the trusted application model to the browser; and graphics stack improvements with 3D support using the XNA programming interface on Windows.

Silverlight 5 was originally expected to be released to the Web in November 2011.

Read more at > Techbay.com

Google Surprise Birthday Gift to the fans

Did anyone checked out the Google on your Birthday, Do check it as it is worth that. 
Google.Inc uses special logos or Doodles to honor special personalities,especially artists and scientists, on their Birthdays and they do something similar on your birthday as well.


If you visit the Google homepage on your birthday, you'll find a special logo and when you hover on the Doodles (Logo), it will greet you with personalized text.


It takes your Birthday mostly from your gmail account profile and so you shall log into the Google Account to see the Birthday Logo. The feature is not so familiar to some hence if you lost this this year, do remember to visit Google.com next year. 


Thanks to Google.com for providing the screenshot.

GOOGLE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR PERSONAL COMPUTERS

Google is developing as a business. Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search,cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program.The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates.


Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system.
Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at small, low-cost netbooks, but will eventually be used on PCs as well. It is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.