Looks like Yahoo! has released an update to Yahoo! Messenger. The current release is v10.0.0.1267. So, if you are having a version lower than this, update your messenger now by downloading the current version from here.

Also, check out Softpedia’s page on Yahoo! Messenger for a log of what’s changed.

Ever since Google announced (by mistake I guess) that they are launching there own browser called Chrome, there’s been a lot of buzz. It was expected to be launched on 2nd September 2008, Tuesday (yeah you tell me when Tuesday will come??? Of course, today is tuesday!).

I tried searching for a download link for Chrome on Google, and found out that there was in fact a website for Chrome at (http://gears.google.com/chrome) (don’t bother following that link, it’s dead). Apparently, after the Chrome comic book leak posted at Blogoscoped.com, Google took the Chrome site down and postponed the launch to 3rd of September.

All this has caused a lot of chromefusion, oops!, I mean confusion. So, I finally decided that in the end I should sit back and wait for the link to appear and for the browser to be made available for download on major sites like Download.com and Softpedia.com before I go hunting for it. Or maybe, I will try it one more time tomorrow??

I don’t know. But, whatever happens I love Firefox and plan to stick with it.

So, Google has finally made public it’s browser called Chrome :

As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

I have been thinking lately and to tell you the truth, I want to write NuvoPad from the ground up to be more user friendly and efficient than ever before. I am planning to move the source code to the .NET platform (preferably in C#) from the current VB base.

I hope I can manage it this way in a better way. I am going to start off with fresh code so that the editor is better than ever before.

Currently NuvoPad is in Alpha and that is why it is easy for me to switch the code and do a lot more without causing any major trouble for the users. I expect a beta release in the next couple of months if everything turns out fine.

Ok, I am happy to tell you that I received a card of appreciation and some cool stickers from Ian Kennedy (who is the Product Manager) at MyBlogLog, for the MyBlogLog search plugin that I created for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.

I have thanked him for appreciating my work and of course for giving us such a great product as MyBlogLog. I plan to create more of such useful utilities for us all at MyBlogLog as and when it is required in the future.

In the meantime, checkout the pictures of the greeting and the stickers that I got from Ian.

Related pages from All Pumped Up!:

• YouTube Video Search Browser plugin v1.0 for IE 7 & Firefox 2 by Fawaz Iqbal
• MyBlogLog Search Plugin v1.1 for Firefox 2 & IE 7 by Fawaz Iqbal

Other related links:

• Ian Kennedy’s appreciation of the MyBlogLog Search plugin
  

Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3) Alpha 7 is now available for download. To read the complete details of what’s available in this release, you can check this article at Mozilla.

To download the release, click the link below.

Click to download Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 (Win 2000 and above) .

For better browsing and normal day to day use, we recommend you use the latest Firefox 2 release. Click the banner below to download the latest release with Google Toolbar for enhanced security and browsing experience.

It seems Microsoft has done it again in terms of achieving user (dis) satisfaction with it’s latest Operating System, Windows Vista.

I am amazed at how hard the folks at the big dubby have worked in order to make things harder for us hapless users. Don’t mind their advertisements and various slogans including this one: “The easiest Windows yet!”.

The easiest Window yet, yes, but from my ass-point. Yeah, right. The only Windows they did make easier than the previous ones was the friendly Windows XP.

I mean, how many of you had faced problems shifting over to Windows XP? I mean to say forget about getting used to the new UI, just getting familiar with the general operations of the OS.

Isn’t an operating system supposed to make the operation of a PC more easier so that we users don’t have to look at how to send binary command to the hardware?

Why am I so pissed you say? Well sample an operation that we will perform in Windows XP and Windows Vista to see how easy is easy?

To uninstall a program what should we be doing?

Windows XP Home/Professional: To uninstall, go to Start Menu > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. Select the program you want to remove, press uninstall and voila! We have uninstalled the program.

Windows Vista (Any edition) : To uninstall, go to Start Menu > Control Panel > [Search for the right option unless you can't find one and then call your friend who has been through this process before and then he tells you the answer] Programs and Features (They couldn’t come up with any more creative name, in effect just confusing the user all the more).

Yesterday, I went to see what my colleague was doing and here we had him struggling in Windows Vista’s so called “friendly interface” just to configure his ASP.NET project to work with IIS 7.0 (it comes with Vista).

As part of it’s simplification process, the folks at Microsoft thought lets do something more innovative and change the IIS Services Administrator interface and options hierarchy. They then went ahead and created the IIS Service Manager. This has all the more made the task difficult.

If we wanted to make some changes we weren’t able to do so with any more ease than working with Windows NT!

So there you go. The easiest Windows yet, they say! Well we think otherwise oh brethren at Microsoft.

As you may be aware that I have created two new search plugins for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 namely, MyBlogLog Search Plugin and the YouTube Video Search Plugin. And of course there’s the All Pumped Up! Blog Search plugin, which makes searching for your favorite topics on All Pumped Up! a lot easier.

Check them out and send in your comments about your experiences at: contact[at]fiqbal[dot]com

Yey! The day I made available the MyBlogLog Search Plugin v1.0 for Firefox, I got contacted by one of those good people at MyBlogLog, Ian Kennedy. He appreciated the plugin and promised to mention it to everybody. Now he has posted about the plugin on the official MyBlogLog Blog.

Thanks Ian! I love it. I hope everybody who uses MyBlogLog will also love and use the plugin!

Microsoft has decided to make it’s ‘Microsoft Works’ software available free of charge to compete directly with OpenOffice and Google Docs & Spreadsheets as reported at Techcrunch. It further says:

The Works package offers word processing, spreadsheet and slide (powerpoint) functionality partially based on code from older versions of Microsoft Office.