Opera 10.60 alpha 1 is released by Opera team and is available for download for all. This is the first alpha version of opera 10.60.

Opera team says that this version would be with increased performance over previous ones. They have done good improvements in Javascript, CSS and DOM.

In addition to performance, some UI changes are also there.

Opera team has disabled the Windows 7 taskbar previews, as per them it was causing frustration for users with a lot of open tabs. However, still if you want, you can enable them from the Tabs sections of the Preferences dialog.

Also, Opera blog warns that this is a just an alpha build of Opera which is released for testing purposes, and there can be some bugs too.

You can download Opera Alpha version from official Opera blog at
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

Opera 10.60 Alpha1 is available for download is a post from: Tech Of Web

Today while reading an ebook on Apple ipod Shuffle which I bought recently , I discovered a very interesting feature of Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader. May be only me was unknown to it, but I was not aware of it. I found it interesting and so sharing with you all guys.

Adobe Reader can read out loud pdf file and you can sit at your place listening to that lecture instead of reading it from top to bottom. Reading part will be automatically done by Acrobat reader.

Here is how to make PDF Read Out Loud your documents.

Open your pdf file and click on View –> Read Out Loud –>Activate Read Out Loud

If you want some specific lines to read, take your mouse over that line and it will start reading from that line. So, now you have a speaking pdf

These are some shortcuts in order to make pdf speaking

How to make Pdf Speaking is a post from: Tech Of Web

Vopium , a VoIP company is offering free international calls to promote their Vopium International Caller App.
It also supports various IM’s like Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Skype on Nokia mobile handsets

As per Vopium team,

Just wanted to share a bit of news that Vopium a Copenhagen based company that drives down the cost ofinternational mobile phone calls – has released a new version of the its app for Android that integrates IM. The app offers free calls to Skype, Gtalk and other Vopium users, while chats on Skype, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and MSN is also available with support for Twitter. The IM feature is now available for other platforms as well i.e. iPhone, BlackBerry, iPod & Windows Mobile.
Moreover, recently Vopium has introduced a special promotion for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. All calls may it be landline for mobile will be free till February 28th, the last day of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. More details are available at our blog.

Recent earthquake in Haiti made a huge damage. Vopium is also offering free calls to Haiti until March 1, 2010.

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How To make free International Voip calls – Vopium is a post from: Tech Of Web

How to fill comments of any website or blog automatically.
Comments can be filled automatically in any comment form on Firefox browser through EasyComment firefox addon. You can save your details once in this easy-comment form and then it will automatically fill your comments section, while you are commenting on other blogs/websites.

Installation of Easy Comment:
1.Open Firefox browser
2.Go to Easy comment Firefox Add-On
3.Click Add on Firefox
4.Restart Firefox

Click on Tools—Add Ons.
Click options next to Easy Comment.
Fill in your details and click save. Leave comment section blank as you have to fill in different comments every time.You can see easy comment as text in bottom right hand corner of Firefox. Now, while commenting on any blog or website, click on that text-icon and the comment-form would be filled-in automatically.

How to Autofill comments in comment form – Easy Comment is a post from: Tech Of Web

1. Earliest Internet Browser
Released on April 22, 1993, NCSA Mosaic was the world’s first Internet browser. It was created by researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and was designed to allow people to easily retrieve data from computer networks.

2. Biggest Internet Shopping Mall
The Internet Mall has a record 27,000 on-screen virtual shops and more than 1 million subscribers in the UK alone. It uses 65,000 shops around the globe to create the service, which is available in more than 150 countries. Products ranging from popcorn to car insurance are delivered within 48 hours.

3. Internet Speed Record
On 14 April 2004 a team of engineers from Sprint Corporation in San Jose, California, USA, and the Swedish National Research and Education Network successfully transmitted 838.86 gigabytes of data over a distance of 16,343 km (10,155 miles) in 1,588 seconds. The resulting record value of 69,073 terabit metres-per-second was achieved over public networks using IPv4. The start and end points of the transmission were San Jose, California, USA, and the University of Sweden.

4. Largest Free Email Provider
MSN Hotmail is the world’s largest free web-based e-mail service provider, with more than 110 million active subscribers as of January 2003. The Hotmail user base has grown more than 10 times since January 1998 – more than the world population has grown in the last fifty years – and on most days, the number of new people signing up for an account is greater than the number of babies born into the world!
An average of 40 million Hotmail emails are sent each day, and MSN have estimated that their service saves 500 trees – that’s about 72,720 kg – of paper per day.

5. Largest Domain Ownership
According to NetNames Ltd., as of April 2000, the USA has over 11 million domains of the 15,719,462 that exist worldwide.

6. Most Questions Asked Online
On May 17, 1997, Sir Paul McCartney received over 3 million questions from fans in 30 minutes, during a web event to promote his album Flaming Pie.

7. Largest Internet Search Engine
Google, with around 2.215 billion pages, has the largest continually-refreshed index of webpages of all the world’s search engines. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their first office was a garage in Menlo Park, California, USA, which opened in September 1998 with just 4 people.

8. Most Expensive Internet Domain Name
The Internet domain name business.com was sold by Texan entrepreneur Marc Ostrofsky on Dec 1 1999 for £4.6 million ($7.5 million)
Marc, a 38-year-old Houston media entrepreneur, bought the domain name from a London Internet service provider for $150,000 in 1996, the same year his children’s nanny won $21 million in the Texas lottery. Ostrofsky is not only a savvy businessman but also a very thoughtful husband. When he sold the domain namewww.eflowers.com for $25,000 –and 50 cents on every transaction at that site – he made eFlowers promise to send his wife a dozen roseseach month for the rest of her life!

Five Most Expensive Domain Names
Business.com – $7.5 million
AsSeenOnTv.com – $5.1 million
Altavista.com – $3.3 million
Wine.com – $2.9 million
Autos.com – $2.2 million

Internet World Records is a post from: Tech Of Web