Explore 'Hunger Games' with HTML 5

The Microsoft and Lionsgate have teamed upto bring the Hunger Games futuristic city of Capitol to life with the latest HTML 5 technology than using the Java for Internet Explorer. 

Mozilla speeds up Firefox 9.0 with a lion interface

Though Mozilla's Firefox has been overshadowed of late by competition from Web behemoth Google's Google Chrome browser, you can hardly say the totally non-profit and of course completely free software developer is sitting still. With a new technology called "Type Inference," Mozilla has sped up JavaScript performance in its New Firefox 9 Web browser by over 35 percent, as demonstrated by several industry standard benchmark tests.

The new release of Firefox, which was announced today on the Mozilla Blog, also adds better support for Apple's latest desktop interface, Mac OS X Lion, including support for two-finger swipe gestures and a more Lion-like interface design.

Firefox 9 throws many features for Web site developers too. Their sites can now deliver large amounts of data to the browser using its support for "chunking XHR requests, allowing Web sites to display content as it’s downloaded instead of waiting for the entire download to complete," the post in the blog said. Developers can also use JavaScript to query the user's Do Not Track preference, while the release provides improved support for CSS (especially for text overflow conditions), HTML5, and MathML.


In preliminary testing, the new browser version posted speed gains on the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, Mozilla's own Kraken benchmark, and Google's V8 benchmark. The improvements amounted to 9 percent, 32 percent, and 36 percent, respectively.

With this release, Mozilla has also updated Firefox for Android. New for the mobile browser is tablet optimization for landscape and portrait orientation. Thumbnails now appear alongside the screen for each open tab, and swiping is supported. Users can also add site bookmarks to their Android home screen for app-like access.

A new Action Bar menu lets Android users access Firefox Preferences, Add-ons, and downloads. It also sports back, forward and bookmark buttons, according to the blog post.

Finally, the Android version of Firefox 9 lets sites access the mobile device's camera and supports HTML5 Form Validation, "which automatically validates Web site form fields like numbers, emails and URLs without developers needing to write a custom code or use a third-party library."

It's anyone's guess as to whether Firefox will be able to stem the onslaught from Google, but it clearly won't be for lack of constant improvements from the Mozilla team. You can try out Firefox 9 for yourself and into enter into life of high speed Web, by heading to the Firefox download page. The New Version are available for Windows 7, Vista, and Windows XP; Mac OS X and Linux in dozens of languages.

Winter Easter Egg: "Snow" In Google's Search

Google is full of fun with easter eggs hidden within search queries. Remember the barrel roll? Here’s one more that’s been discovered, just in time for the holiday season. If you are thinking of a snowy Christmas and winter season, the place to visit is one and only Google. Google surprises the visitors with Snow. To know how to get snow into google read more below.

Type ‘let it snow’ in search, and you’ll see snowflakes falling down the page. The first hit is the Christmas carol ‘let it snow’ by Dean Martin (which we’ve embedded below). Eventually your search results page will cloud over and the search button turns into a defrost button to clear out the clouds.

Type "Let it snow" into Google, and the search engine will reward you with some lovely flurries. Digital snow flakes flutter into view, while pixelated frost sneaks in from the top and bottom of the screen. Pretty soon, the effect fogs up the entire window, allowing you to draw messages in the virtual frost. You won't be able to click on any of the search results, but don't worry. The normal search icon turns into a "Defrost" button. One click will wipe away this icy veneer.

"Let it snow" stands as Google's latest Easter egg, a term for little secrets hidden in movies, video games, or websites. The search giant has sprinkled dozens of these little treats into its various pages. So, don't go back to work just yet!

Here’s a list of some of our favorite easter eggs over the year. Enjoy!

In the Last month, searchers discovered "Do a barrel roll." Typing those four words into Google flips the entire browser.

Did You ever searched for the word  "askew"? What about typing in "number of horns on a unicorn + the loneliest number"?  Enjoy ! 

And, of course, Google has some more overt surprises, such as its regular Google doodles. And there are still plenty of other hidden gags.

Please Kindly notice that  If "let it snow" isn't working, check your browser. The trick will not work in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8, nor in older versions of Firefox or Safari. Several of Google's recent Easter eggs use HTML 5, code that only runs in up-to-date Web browsers. So, what better time to do something boring – like update software – than to take a moment right now in order to do something fun – like enjoying all these Google Easter eggs.