Along with Firefox upcoming update 3.5 version, Mozilla is doing an important update in its Logo and Icon,  we all recognize Firefox logo/ icon as a orange color Fox enclosing blue earth like globe which is actually a mozilla planet. The Mozilla team along with its Ux (User Experience) team member, Alex Faaborg has released few of its iterative drafts of new concept logo which will be updated and changes will be made continuously until the final one is achieved. Update - Latest Iteration 18th May The design is partially based on a conceptual sketch by Jon Hicks and rendered by Anthony Piraino. The icon/ logo design is more of improvisation to the fox's fur, and the flames starting to wrap around planet mozilla which significantly modernizes and streamlines the appearance of the icon.

FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug and provide HTML and CSS reference information with your Firefox browser. Firebug is a revolutionary plug-in and famous add-on among web developer/ designer and FIreScope extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS. The add-on is being developed by SitePoint an online resource for Web professional market, specifically Web Developers and Designers. The extension's core functionality is centered around a new Reference panel, which contains a search tool for looking up HTML elements, HTML attributes, or CSS properties (or any combination). The search happens live as one type i.e. auto suggest to get the reference results. The extension also hooks into context-menus in the HTML and CSS panels, the DOM crumbtrail, and the Inspector, adding options to look up a selected item (ie. search for it in the Reference panel) or to view a code example. The add-on comes worthy for designers/ developer when one wants to learn CSS/ HTML while developing some app/ website using same on the go. As right-click in the search results give two options, one of which is for more information online, and the other is to show a code example for the selected item it provide pretty good ...

Mozilla's Chief Executive John Lilly has revealed in an interview that much awaited mobile version of Firefox is set to launch within a time of coming few weeks though it will be launched in alpha release mode. The mobile version of Firefox will be full-featured mobile browser including support for add-ons that similar to what we already using as web version of it. Moreover it will also allow developers to develop, debug and deploy web applications for its mobile version along. This open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, can also be embedded by mobile manufacturers giving a tough competition to Opera mini, a mobile browser engine by Opera. Noticeably, Mozilla was working on mobile version of Firefox since one year. Mozilla has already released mobile browser 'Fennec' for Linux-based devices (Nokia N800 and N810) and Windows Mobile 6 based HTCS730 but it has been shipped in few places only, by Nokia with name of MicroB browser.

TechCrunch a well known Weblog and now more than a weblog, a network cum organization of people obsessed with technology and start-ups led by Michael Arrington are visualizing a Tablet PC that will cost $200 and run nothing more than just Firefox - people's very own browser which just ended up making world record in number of downloads. The ultra slim Tabloid PC device would totally be based on Open Source i.e. free technologies right from OS (BSD/Linux), Desktop/ OnScreen keywboard (Gnome, again open source) and Google Gears for widgets / plugins. Techcrunch in its blog post says about its idea of the device: The idea is to turn it on, bypass any desktop interface, and go directly to Firefox running in a modified Kiosk mode that effectively turns the browser into the operating system for the device. Add Gears for offline syncing of Google docs, email, etc., and Skype for communication and you have a machine that will be almost as useful as a desktop but cheaper and more portable than any laptop or tablet PC. Though the concept is not very new and in words of one of a comments in TechcrunchIT its like reinventing the wheels. The famous $100 Laptop is ...

PicLens is a powerful application that turn your browser into full screen 3D experience to view images and videos. Piclens transform your browser into cinematic visual presentation with images and videos put on wall and make you assume like you are seeing them on wall of a dark room. The application indeed a rich experiencing tool with media player like controls where you can fast forward, rewind, view full screen or scroll thumbnails to view images and videos. Piclens has recently make the application compatible to view YouTube videos along previous compatibility to view Google image search results into 3D visualization as well as that of Yahoo, AOL, Ask.com and Live image searches, thats too with just one single click. Moreover, PicLens allow to view photos on Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa and Smugmug into same 3D visualization along with social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and Friendster. For other sites/ blogs to be compatible with PicLens application, one has to create a media RSS along with its auto-discovery link for same and other addition in HTML to match those tags in media RSS with images and videos under webpage. However, WordPress users can use the plugin to create a mini slide ...

India along with nations across the globe is high on internet vulnerabilities through various medium, highest being malicious codes, phishing and unauthorized scanning. Recent trend is that hackers now turning to websites, servers from their previous choice of emails, cheap apps etc. Recently India's premier technology institute IIT's website has been hacked (source), although this is not single case in India, a total of 612 Indian websites were defaced during March 2008 as reported by CERT-In (Computer Emergency Report Team India), which has increased by more than 50% in India, comparing to just previous month.

AT&T, a Communication, Internet and wireless major company entered into war of 'Browsers', AT&T has tied up with Vizible to create a new browser of other kind called Pogo Browser, the browser will be giving users the new internt browsing experience rather than the traditional browsers that over a decade managed to evolve just by inculcating handfull of features like plugins, extensions etc. The new Browser Pogo will be 3D environment & visualizaton browser along with rich graphics, content handling to engage user nicely with what he is browsing, the browser will be having tabbed browsing but far different from traditional tabbed browsing unlike to Firefox or IE7 as tabs will be small screenshots of pages to chose from, tag them and drag/ drop them around, to put in archives or bookmarks. At present the browser is in closed beta invites which will be released under open public beta soon within a month or two. The 3D rendering engine of browser with its more user engageable features to experience from Vizible's visual-based technology. the Pogo would prove, the next geaneration of browsers to compete hard with itself unless it is assumed that this browser doesn't demand to much computer memory (as goes ...

This is an image captured Hubble Space Telescope and of the variable star V838 Monocerotis which lies near the edge of our own Milky Way Galaxy, though photo was taken way back in March 2004, it almost resemble that of Firefox logo. This is just an example how the space out there changes it shape and looks so much so that it can randomly resemble any shape of our physical world (and now it web world), wander if it we could find all such kind of images that resemble IE, Safari and Opera logos as well :) Via - Newlaunches