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Spread Firefox 3

Although Firefox is only reaching 20% of the browser market share, it is a highly recommended browser to use because of a lot of benefits, like fast loading time, large range of plugins, and the high usability.

Extreme Firefox supporters would actually uninstall Internet Explorer off their computer, and only use Firefox instead for browsing the internet.

The good news is: Firefox 3 is coming very soon! When? Don’t know. If you don’t want to miss this, then you must sign up below:

Download Day 2008

They are trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.  If you want to be involved in such great event, I encourage you to sign up. You will be notified when Firefox 3 is officially released.

If you haven’t tried Firefox, then I strongly encourage you to try it!  I am sure you will fall in love with it.

Hosted services by Adobe

As flash (and other Macromedia products) has been acquired by Adobe, Adobe is going to carry out a few changes to our usual PDF.  Adobe is going to add support for Flash in the next version of the Adobe Acrobat software. 

On the other hand, Adobe is going to provide hosted services to internet users.  The new website, Acrobat.com, provides an online platform for:

  • document creation - Named Adobe BuzzWord
  • internet meeting - Named Adobe ConnectNow
  • create PDF (only free for 5 documents)
  • share the files
  • store your files

Adobe says “Acrobat.com is a place where users can work with documents in the cloud”.

Firefox is going to hit 20% market share

According to Net Applications, Firefox’s market share is on an increasing trend, and it is likely to hit the 20% mark in July.

And with the launching of Firefox 3.0, it is not a surprise that it would continue the trend and hit another milestone in a short time.

And on a contrary, the market share of IE has been dropping.  In May 2008 it was at 73.75%.

Safari, used to be bundled with the updates of Mac, now has been separated as an optional download.  Their current market share is 6.25%.  Doesn’t quite help with the Windows version, does it?

Time & Expense Software - SaaS

Jxlogo_futureFor any person who runs a business, you would have notice how fast time goes. It is very hard to track the time that you have spent on a client.

Therefore it is a big help if there is some sort of time tracking software that allows you to track the time spent on each client.

Journyx Timesheet provides a timesheet & expense management solution for businesses.  It is suitable for services billed, project-oriented work, and efficiency of a workforce.  Through this software you can management employee timesheets and expenses for project control, customer invoicing, and payroll automation.  For Online Time and Expense this is a perfect solution.

Sponsored by Journyx

Rank Checker by SEO Book

Ever wonder how your keywords are doing?  Instead of plugging them into search engines one by one, you can now use this tool to quickly generate you a report.

Recently I have installed this Firefox Plugin named Rank Checker.  What it does is that it allows you to enter a list of keywords and the URL, and it would automatically query Google.com (& another extension of your choice after configuration), MSN Live & Yahoo and find the rankings of the keywords.

Results are shown on the browser as a table, and you can export the results into CSV for graphing etc.

If you want more accurate results, you may want to make sure the ‘do not use personalized result’ box is checked in the configuration.

On the other hand, you can also schedule Rank Checker to run periodically, if you need to report on the result from time to time.

Download Rank Checker