Awesome Techs

Now delicious users can think about swithcing to chrome completely from firefox. Yes they have launched an early beta version for the delicious bookmark extension for chrome.

Delicious Blog Post said,

It doesn’t have all the API’s needed and it’s missing a good chunk of the functionality we believe it needs, but we’re getting so many requests for the Chrome extension that we’re going to make this available sooner than we originally planned.

To install the extension you can use the link given below.

To install the extension, click here using Google Chrome.

The Features include sync’ ing, getting the nook mark from the chrome’s omnibar, and bookmarking your favorite website with click of a single button.

Sync your Delicious Bookmarks

You can sync your Delicious bookmarks in Google Chrome using the add-on. All you need to do is just login to Delicious and all of your Delicious bookmarks are there!

Get your Delicious bookmarks right there in Omnibar

Once all your Delicious bookmarks are synced up you will notice them popping up in the Omnibar. i.e. the address bar of Google Chrome. You don’t need to search for your bookmarks separately as they will come up when you start typing matching words in the address bar.

Bookmark with a button

Now you can bookmark a URL on Delicious just by clicking a Tag button present beside the address bar. You can share the URL on twitter as well as with your friends using the same Tag button.

What you think, will you switch to Chrome entirely after hearing this news? Give us your views on this as comments!

Twitter had this trending topics section from the beginning itself it seems. Using this trending topics we can get the topics which are widely discussed in twitter. It can be strings with #tags or just a phrase that is widely used among the tweets of twitter users. But till now this section showed the trending topics from the whole world.

Twitter has launched their location aware service a few months back. Now they are coming up with an idea local trends. But I say this came a little bit late. anyway better late than never right?

Now there is an option for changing the trending location to any country. You can see it just above the trends. the list of countries are being added to their database.

Twitter said about this in their official blog,

Local Trends will allow you to learn more about the nuances in our world and discover even more relevant topics that might matter to you. We’ll be improving this feature over time to provide more locations, languages, and data through our API.

1.gTwitter (download)

gTwitter is a Twitter client built using the Mono libraries. If it is not in your distribution’s application repository, then it can be downloaded as either source, or a Mono binary from the project website. In order to run or compile gTwitter, you need to have the mono libraries installed. Refer to your distribution’s documentation for how to do this. On Ubuntu, installing the needed libraries was automatic as part of the ‘apt-get install gtwitter’ process. On systems that use Yum, the process should be similarly automated.

2. Twitux (download)

Twitux is a Twitter client for the Gnome desktop. The program features include view public, friends and mine timeline, send message, automatic login, add friend and system tray icon.

sudo
apt-get build-dep twitux
sudo apt-get install libsoup2.4-dev
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/twitux/twitux-0.62.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf twitux-0.62.tar.bz2
cd twitux-0.62/
./configure
make
sudo make install

3. Spaz (download)

Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design, and customizability. It is built entirely in XHTML and Javascript and can be styled using a custom CSS styling file. It is built on the Adobe AIR framework so to install it all you need to have is Adobe AIR on Ubuntu.

4.TweetDeck (download)

TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR desktop Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace application. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is the most popular Twitter application with a 19% market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter.com website with 45.70% share for posting new status updates.

5.DestroyTwitter (download)

DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.

PS: Since some of the titter clients mentioned here uses Adobe Air, you may want to install Adobe air first. For installing Adobe Air, First Download it from Here. Or get it from the Adobe website Adobe.com. After downloading, copy it to your home folder and rename it as AdobeAIRInstaller.bin. Now goto any terminal in your system and then type in

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

now type

./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

Now Adobe Air is installed in your system. You may need to use SUDO or execute it as root for the installation.

Some of you may have noticed that, our Twitter pages are superseding our blogs in Google search results for your name. Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick has an easy HTML workaround to keep Twitter from becoming your primary online identity.

All of you surely want your blog or website to come first in the search result. Well its ok if its not first. But we dont want these social community profiles to come before our Websites or Blogs. Kirkpatrick discovered a small HTML tag that was missing from his own blog, yet present in Twitter, that could make all the difference.

He said,

So the long and short of this story is that if you want to make sure that Google understands your blog to be your primary beacon on the web, then you should add the words rel=”me” to a relevant link on your blog. I’ve added that tag to the link on my sidebar that goes to my feedback page, because that’s a good page for me. It’s as simple as making the link text read a href=”http://marshallk.com/feedback” rel=”me”.

Via – Lifehacker Via – Add One Line To Your Blog or Twitter Could Become Your Primary Identity [Marshall Kirkpatrick]

Now facebook gives its users a  “via” feature that lets repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution. This feateure is likely to available for everyone. To try it, just go to a friend’s posted item in your news feed, click “share,” and you’ll see a “via [your friend’s name]” with an option to remove it. After sharing the shared item will appear on your profile, with a via link that points to your friend’s profile. Your friends will also see the item in their News Feeds, creating the viral loop just like the twitter retweet.

Currently, the feature only works for posted links. See the below posted Pic for knowing how this works.

Today Guardian.co.uk reported that the famous Chinese Search engine Baidu Got hacked. Chinese internet users were unable to use the Baidu search engine after it was targeted by hackers called the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’.

Guardian Said,

The search engine is widely regarded as having good relations with the Beijing government and has never been associated with sensitive content. That led other internet users to speculate that foreign hackers were attempting to discredit Iran.

China’s state-run People’s Daily website reported that Baidu’s website began redirecting to a site attributed to the Iranian Cyber Army at around 8am (midnight GMT). The People’s Daily site published a screen grab showing a message reading “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army”, alongside a picture of the Iranian flag.

Other users said they could not open the Baidu site, but it was back up and running by around 11.30am. In a statement, the company said: “Services on Baidu’s main website www.baidu.com were interrupted today due to external manipulation of its DNS (Domain Name Server) in the US. Baidu has been resolving this issue and the majority of services have been restored.”

Via:guardian.co.uk