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This is good news particularly for Mac Users. Gabtastik is a standalone desktop program that enables you to run your Facebook chat without firing up your browser. It also works on many different popular online chat services. Gabtastik is really fun-tastic. aside from its compatibility with Facebook, it also works well with Google Talk and Meebo. This in turn make sit accessible to many of the major chatting services like Yahoo Messenger, AIM and MSN Messenger. Whats also great about the cutesy little application is that you can turn and adjust the interface’s opacity so as to blend well with the desktop background. Great option when you’re not using it and you have lots of windows opened.

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Built in passwords in the browser have made typing them easy. Easier to sign in to personal favorite sites. Those sites that you just visit everyday. Foxmarks literally takes away the typing out of the equation. But it is quite a hassle when you use more than just one computer. When you are at work. What happens is that you have to type your info at home and when you are at work you have to type it again. Only Opera and Maxthon as far as i know provides easy of having your passwords and bookmarks ready across multiple product installations. Foxmarks is one such advancement. It is an add on in the Mozilla Firefox browser which syncs bookmarks across multiple browser installations. It also syncs your passwords. This amazing add on works perfectly without glitches. It sends updates of your bookmarks and passwords to a server. When you launch a particular session, it reads them automatically. Passwords are PIN protected. It certainly has no backdoors attached to it. Added to the feature is that it is completely invisible to the user. Unlike the other applications like, PassPack, Roboform and others. Hopefull this add on becomes available for the IE too.

A social dating site called WooMe recently launched a new video service that invites viewers or subscribers to watch their dates. It is believed to be a hit. It’s called WooMe.tv.
Both users must opt in to have the session shared post-date and only then does it go into the public directory. What makes it attractive is that the videos are only limited to 1 minute or even less, so you can watch two or three of them in rapid succession. Each video is linked to the members’ profiles, so if you happen to see someone you like, you can send them message and start a conversation or even fhind a date. User ratings have been used to rank out the good and the not so good. WooMe’s also highlights videos in a special featured section. You can share it with friends either through a direct link or with an embed.

Site Rubix is the outcome of a huge development that has taken a whole year and a well over a 100 grand venture, before the completed version could be presented to the public. The application will not only benefit a beginner in creating websites but also advanced website developers. Not only will it be possible to set up a website in a matter of minutes, professionals will be able to put up large campaigns with hundreds of pages for their customers quicker than ever.

Every webmaster could profit from this application, but especially the internet marketers will be grateful for this means because it has been modified particularly for setting up marketing campaigns. Images, banners, video and screen-shots can be added in an instance. Taking and customizing screenshots usually requires the use of a screen-shot application, but this will not be necessary anymore, everything has been built in to create complete websites.

One would expect that a website development application like this has a very high price tag. Nothing is further from the truth. While Site Rubix will enable us to create professional looking websites in no time, it will be very affordable.

The specifications of this project is produced by W3C HTML WG. This specification is proposed to replace the specifications of HTML 4, DOM2 HTML and XHTML 1.x.

If you are interested to join the project, you can email the developers at whatwg@whatwg.org. You can also take part in participate on their online discussions and mailing lists.

Check out the table of contents of the specifications and see if there are something you can contribute to making this big project a success.

Web applications are becoming more popular because of the ubiquity of a client. The capability of updating and maintaining the web application without the need for distribution or installation of the software in potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason to its popularity. Implementation of webmail, online auctions, wikis, online retail sales, weblogs, discussion boards, MMORPGs and many other online functions are done through development of web applications. Web applications are basically the driving force behind web activities.

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The most popular and most successful form of interactive programs in the World Wide Web are games. This is because they are not only beneficial in terms of mind growth, they also allow social relationships to be fostered even if it is virtual. They are addictive, fun, intriguing and not to mention, readily available. All of these are important aspects in internet application as stated by Jonathan Boutelle, CTO of Uzanto. He has discussed the game inspired techniques of online casual games incorporated in Mindcanvas, a survey application and SlideShare, a social sharing application for interactive slideshows. Both of which he says, has the charisma of an online game.

There are a lot of controversies surrounding “tagging” in the net applications data base. In his presentation, founder Thomas vander Wal, who also happens to be an expert in web information and applications architectural designs discussed that the current status of the tag industry actually allows us to augment the idea of existing policies and practices without hindering the path to new alternatives.
He also said that today, it is much more difficult to organize web contents and assures us that his well developed tag allows easier navigation. He also said that tagging allows users to double check web information first hand and that it allows free and personal thinking to be dominant.

Remember when we were kids and we used to love playing tag? Well were all grown up now but were still fond of playing the game although in a much more complex environment. In the past there was tremendous attention focused on the idea of internet tagging. The deal was to ask individuals to associate words or phrases with the given summary provided on a web content and as if like magic, after quite some time you will be able to create a web organization which pretty much makes everything easier to find in a pulse. The word tagging sums up the nature of the sites wherein this process is implemented, and by the look of things, it is working even though that is an oddity in itself.

Yahoo offers the entire surfing population an access to a graphic or visual dominion at a much easier navigation scale compared to everything and anything else that came before it. For the first time the components of a Flash program and the user friendly nature of an Ajax is merged to create an HTML based program. The easy uploads and easier theme designs made Flickr an instant hit among the art world seeing that they are now able to share their creations in a much more tolerant not to mention popular market in the web. Flickr just changed the face of web applications forever.