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Friday, March 11, 2011

Did You Notice About this Google Feature?

Don't know if this is new, but this is a Google feature I can really get behind.

Japan hit by large earthquake

A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan, shaking buildings in Tokyo for several minutes and forcing people out of their homes, witnesses said.
Japan issued its most serious tsunami warning, saying a wave as high as 6m (20ft) could strike the coast near Miyagi prefecture.
Reports initially reported a quake of magnitude 7.9 but have since been upgraded to an 8.8-magnitude quake, which struck about 250 miles (400km) from Tokyo at a depth of 20 miles.
Tsunami warnings have been issued.
Eric Due from the Japan Times explained what happened when the quake struck and said he saw high rise buildings sway in Tokyo.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Download Mozilla FireFox 4 RC New Released

Mozilla has just released their First FireFox RC(Release Candidate) and it's now available to download. Mozilla had released some 12 Beta version of FireFox 4 and now they have released the Release Candidate for FireFox. This is an massive update for FireFox. Most of the Numerous Bugs are fixed in it and it's now even more faster.

Mozilla has fixed some more than 650 Bugs in this Version and it's a long list of Bugs which are been fixed. So this makes it more securer, safer, and Faster.


New features in FireFox 4 RC:
There's a long list of it's features, Some of the Important features are:
  • General stability, performance, and compatibility improvements
  • Firefox 4 RC is available in 79 languages
  • The default homepage design has been refreshed
  • Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance
  • Additional polish for the Firefox Add-ons Manager
  • Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine
  • Firefox button has a new look for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users
  • HTML5 Forms API makes web based forms easier to implement and validate
  • Support for the new proposed Audio Data API
  • An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations
  • Firefox now supports the HTML5 video "buffered" property
  • New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
  • Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins
  • Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload

Press Release:
Firefox 4 RC is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. Please read below for more detailed information about what's new in this version of the beta release, as well as the known issues.
This Firefox 4 RC is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and content may change before the final product release. At this time many Add-ons may not yet have been tested by their authors to ensure that they are compatible with this release. If you wish to help test Add-on compatibility, please install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter - your favorite Add-on author will appreciate it!
Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest version of Firefox. Please tell us what you think using the feedback tools provided as part of the beta. We appreciate your input!
Final Release:
Mozilla Haven't gave any date for it's Final release, But it's final version will soon be available for users.

Download:
You can download FireFox 4 RC for Operating systems.  It's available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS . Click here to Download.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

NASA's Game Plan for Solar-System Exploration

Planetary exploration at a crossroads. On one hand, right now the pace of discovery is head-spinningly rapid. Robotic explorers are orbiting Venus, Mars, Saturn, and the Moon, with another days away from arriving at Mercury. Spacecraft heading to solar-system destinations near and far are queued for launch later this year. It's a great time to be a planetary scientist.


NASA's projected budget
The black line shows the rosy budget projection for NASA's solar-system explorations, and colored wedges indicate the funds needed for specific projects. However, in the fiscal year 2012 budget submitted to Congress by the Obama administration, interplanetary missions take a steep cut.
NASA
But there's writing on the wall, and it isn't very positive. While the Obama administration has requested $1.54 billion for NASA's solar-system activity in fiscal 2012 budget, up 11% from fiscal 2011, it'll start dropping in the years thereafter. By 2016 NASA's planet-chasers will working with only $1.25 billion.

Against this backdrop, today the National Research Council's Space Studies Board (part of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences) released an exhaustive, 400-page report that lays out a strategy for planetary exploration from 2013 to 2022. The NRC released similar assessments for astrophysics and heliophysics last year.

Although technically these "decadal surveys" assess the entire scope of a space-science discipline — NSF-funded activities, new directions for research, and which new technologies are worth developing — their real raison d'être is to decide which space missions should be A-listed for funding. And NASA counts on the panels to represent the consensus of each particular scientific community — once the rankings are made, that's pretty much it.

You have to give credit to Steven Squyres and his 15-person steering committee: since getting their marching orders two years ago, they've collectively digested 199 position papers representing the views of nearly 1,700 individuals. For purposes of manageability, the task force carved up the solar system into five domains: Mars; other terrestrial worlds (Mercury, Venus, and the Moon); giant planets; satellites; and primitive bodies (comets and asteroids).

Steven Squyres
Click here to hear Sky & Telescope's exclusive interview with Steven Squyres, who led the Space Studies Board's Vision and Voyages assessment of NASA's proposed planetary-science missions.
S&T: J. Kelly Beatty
"First and foremost, we're trying to take the pulse of the community," Squyres explains. But at the same time it's all got to fit within NASA's projected budget, and to ensure that the candidates' costs were estimated both by their proponents and by an independent aerospace contractor. "The good news is that these costs are probably realistic," he notes. "The bad news is that you're going to see some sticker shock."

NASA flies three classes of interplanetary craft: low-cost Discovery missions; moderate-cost New Frontiers missions; and uber-costly Flagship missions. Although it didn't weigh in on Discovery candidates, the panel recommends continuing this highly productive program at its current level ($500 million per year). Also reaffirmed is the decision to build the Mars Trace Gas Orbiter in partnership with the European Space Agency.

For a suitable venue to unveil the report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022, the Space Science Board chose the Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, whose 1,500 attendees have much to gain — or lose — from the panel's picks for Flagship and New Frontiers consideration. And here they are:

Jupiter Europa Orbiter
With an estimated price tag of $4.7 billion, the proposed Jupiter Europa Orbiter is ranked highly important by planetary scientists but probably too expensive for NASA to undertake within the next decade.


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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

New Adobe Release Flash to HTML5 converter

Adobe today released a tool, codenamed Wallaby, that converts Flash to HTML5.
After the drama surrounding the company’s Flash to iPhone conversion tool, Adobe is taking another crack at keeping Flash relevant as native web technologies catch up to the format’s capabalities.
The tool is still in experimental development, but can be downloaded here. Once your project is converted, you can work with it as you would any HTML file.
At this stage, some Flash Professional features are unsupported.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Make Google Chrome Faster

We've spent a lot of time jabbering on and on and on about hardware acceleration in the next generation of Web browsers.

The problem, however, is that no stable browsers have it turned on by default. Unless you're running Firefox 4 beta or Internet Explorer 9 RC, you're probably not enjoying hardware acceleration. Heck, our latest poll shows that almost 50% of Download Squad readers run Chrome, anyway!

Turning hardware acceleration on in Chrome 9, 10 and 11 (stable, beta and canary) is easy, and it can significantly speed up surfing on low-powered devices, like laptops -- or if you're the kind of person who has 30+ tabs open on your desktop PC. We'll show you how to turn on pre-rendering, too, which provides another nice speed boost.


To begin, visit about:flags.

Scroll down and enable GPU Accelerated Compositing. Just below that, also enable GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D. Chrome 11 doesn't have the 'GPU Accelerated Compositing' option, because it's now turned on by default (hooray!). Mac users, you can only enable GPU Accelerated Compositing; GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D is not yet available.

Scroll down a little, and enable Web Page Prerendering.

Finally, hit the Restart button at the bottom of the page.

Now head to your favorite shiny, graphical site (Engadget is good) and try scrolling! It should be a lot smoother.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

NASA found Evidence of alien life

WE are not alone and alien life forms may have more in common with life on Earth than we had thought, according to a NASA scientist. The out-of-this-world research by Dr Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre, was published in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology.
In the report, Dr Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites - only nine such meteorites were known to exist on Earth.
The scientist was convinced that his findings revealed fossil evidence of bacterial life within such meteorites and by extension, suggests we are not alone in the universe.
"I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet Earth," Dr Hoover said.

"This field of study has just barely been touched because quite frankly, a great many scientists would say that this is impossible."In what he called "a very simple process," Dr Hoover fractured the meteorite stones under a sterile environment before examining the freshly broken surface with the standard tools of the scientist: a scanning electron microscope and a field emission electron scanning microscope, which allowed him to search the stone's surface for evidence of fossil remains.
He found the fossil remains of micro-organisms not so different from ordinary ones found underfoot on Earth.
"The exciting thing is that they are in many cases recognisable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth," Dr Hoover said.

But not all of them. "There are some that are just very strange and don't look like anything that I've been able to identify, and I've shown them to many other experts that have also come up stumped."
Other scientists say the implications of this research were shocking, describing the findings variously as profound, very important and extraordinary.
But Dr David Marais, an astrobiologist with NASA's AMES Research Centre, said he was very cautious about jumping on the bandwagon.
These kinds of claims have been made before, he noted and found to be false.

"It's an extraordinary claim, and thus I'll need extraordinary evidence," he said.


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