Member of the week

Original: Member of the week

Meet an artistic member who has his own way of showing his thoughts and feelings.

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His blog gives everyone a peek of life in his own country, India. From Mumbai life to a beatiful sunset he shares many great photograph

Reality Checked

Original: Reality Checked

The giveaway has ended. Check out who won a free copy of Guy Kawasaki's "Reality Check"!

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The following people have been drawn as winners of Guy Kawsaki's marketing bible, "Reality Check". Congratulations! The books will be sent out as soon as possible. :cool:

• Yasuo Honda
• Antonio Lewis
• Vaidotas Kazla
• Will Robinson
• Graham Sutcliffe
• Alex Sverdelov
• Derek Berg
• Michael Harris
• Raphael Villas
• Mike Shields
• Darryl Hodgins
• Daniel Sparing
• Mesut Karaman
• Vanessa Richardson
• Paras Shah
• Scott Sorheim
• Leticia Borunda
• Rainer Parrales
• Nonhlanhla Dube
• Vicki Lane
• Christina Luna
• Eleanor Foo
• Laurent Saplairoles
• Katherine Catlin
• Carlos Filho
• Dobrin Banov
• Mark Brockbank
• Neil Seifert
• Aleena Afzal
• Andrew Cleverley
• Soeren Jeworrek
• Mikael Koponen
• Andrew Mason
• Janneke van Dommelen
• Greg Horine
• Kevin Charman
• Randi Friedman
• Arild Warland
• Michael Manger
• Roger L. Danielsen

New photo uploader soon

Original: New photo uploader soon

Soon we will update My Opera with many new features and improvements - as always.

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Many of you use My Opera to share your photos. The current uploader has some limitations, but this is about to get fixed. With the upcoming release we will release a beta of our new photo uploader:

Preview of the new photo uploader

Other things you can look forward to is a br

Original: Callback Examples


Now that there is just a small patch left until all the WebKit Cairo changes are in the main tree, I've been spending a bit of time attempting to incorporate WebKit into actual applications.

Apple provides some documentation on using WebKit inside other programs, as well as a few

четверг, 29 января 2009 г.

2008 Was A Great Year For Flock

Original: 2008 Was A Great Year For Flock

2008 was a great year for Flock. We launched Flock 2.0, added integration with MySpace, Digg and WebMail, secured new funding and received numerous awards. And we reached an important milestone: Flock has been downloaded over 6 million times. While our technical accomplishments, partnerships and kudos from bloggers and the press mean a great deal to us, the most gratifying accomplishments of the year came from you, the people that use Flock every day.

Together you've made over 41 million log-ins across applications like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. You've accessed nearly seven million photos and videos using the Media Bar and 25 million feeds via the Feeds Sidebar. You've stayed in touch with your friends by collectively loading more than 150 million people each and every month into the People Sidebar! And you've made almost one million blog posts using Flock. What you value inspires our direction and you've rewarded us by using Flock in record numbers. And by telling your friends about Flock. Your recommendations have been invaluable and, by our estimates, have contributed to more than 90% of our growth in 2008! You continue to show us that we're on the right track.

We know what is driving your use of Flock. You're life isn't slowing down. You're engaged and more social than ever before. You want to know what's going on and there's a lot you want to share. You've got more friends and you want to make sure you don't miss a thing. And sometimes that can be a bit much. No worries. That's how we'll continue to help, by making it easier for you to stay connected, but never tethered or walled in.

With a new year comes new opportunity and the entire Flock team is off and running to make 2009 great. We'll continue to go where your needs take us, and we'll do it by maintaining our commitment to innovation. While 'traditional' values like quality are important to us, Flock isn't like your parents' browser. At Flock we have a new world view of the browser and it's all about you.

We'll continue to innovate and find better ways to help you connect with the people, information and things you care about. But you're the best source of inspiration for Flock, so keep visiting the site and letting us know what you think and what you need. After all, at Flock it will always be all about you.

Thank you for a tremendous 2008!

Shawn Hardin

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: Flock, browser, growth, social actions

Reality Checked

Original: Reality Checked

The giveaway has ended. Check out who won a free copy of Guy Kawasaki's "Reality Check"!

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The following people have been drawn as winners of Guy Kawsaki's marketing bible, "Reality Check". Congratulations! The books will be sent out as soon as possible. :cool:

• Yasuo Honda
• Antonio Lewis
• Vaidotas Kazla
• Will Robinson
• Graham Sutcliffe
• Alex Sverdelov
• Derek Berg
• Michael Harris
• Raphael Villas
• Mike Shields
• Darryl Hodgins
• Daniel Sparing
• Mesut Karaman
• Vanessa Richardson
• Paras Shah
• Scott Sorheim
• Leticia Borunda
• Rainer Parrales
• Nonhlanhla Dube
• Vicki Lane
• Christina Luna
• Eleanor Foo
• Laurent Saplairoles
• Katherine Catlin
• Carlos Filho
• Dobrin Banov
• Mark Brockbank
• Neil Seifert
• Aleena Afzal
• Andrew Cleverley
• Soeren Jeworrek
• Mikael Koponen
• Andrew Mason
• Janneke van Dommelen
• Greg Horine
• Kevin Charman
• Randi Friedman
• Arild Warland
• Michael Manger
• Roger L. Danielsen

Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1

Original: Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1

Hello all,

Just like for previous beta releases, I am going to guide you through the upgrade steps for Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (IE8 RC1).

Before we begin, let me summarize the major changes you will see when installing IE8 RC1:

1. If you are a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 user and you are upgrading from IE8 Beta 1 or Beta 2 to IE8 RC1, you are no longer required to manually uninstall earlier IE8 builds. Instead, IE8 RC1 installer will automatically upgrade your machine from the earlier IE8 builds to the latest IE8 build, all with a single reboot.
2. There is a new pre-requisite for IE8 RC1 (KB957388). This update supersedes KB943302 and KB957055 and will be automatically installed as part of your RC1 upgrade, as long as you keep "Install the latest updates" checkbox checked. This update addresses known application compatibility issues in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and improves the performance and reliability of IE8.
3. All IE8 Beta 1 and Beta 2 users will be offered IE8 RC1 via Windows Update in 25 languages. For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the IE language that gets offered via Windows Update will match the base OS language. For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the IE language that gets offered via Windows Update will match the Active Language that the user selected for their account.

Note: If you are running Windows 7 Beta, you will not be able to install IE8 RC1. You will get an error message saying that your operating system is not supported since IE8 already ships in Win7. The IE8 RC1 available from Microsoft Download Center is a standalone upgrade for downlevel version of the OS only: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and Window Server 2003.

Here are some additional resources you can refer to during the RC1 installation:

• System requirements for RC1 are the same as Beta1 and Beta2.
• Release notes for RC1 outline a few scenarios you should watch out for when installing IE8 RC1.
• Troubleshooting guide is a great resource if you run into any problems during your installation.
• Dynamic updates article summarizes which updates get installed with IE8 to keep your experience reliable and secure.
• Technet Edge interview I did which covers many install topics. 

Windows XP or Windows Server 2003

Getting Ready

Before you start IE8 RC1 installation, there are a couple of things to keep in mind:

• Uninstalling IE8 Beta Versions

If you have Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 or prior installed, the IE8 RC1 installer will automatically uninstall any earlier versions and then install the latest version of IE8 RC1 for you. You will be prompted to reboot twice. The first reboot is to remove pre-RC1 version from your machine and the second one to complete the IE8 RC1 installation. When you launch Internet Explorer, you can open the Help->About Internet Explorer dialog to see the version number 8.0.6001.18372.

• Getting required updates for IE8 RC1

There is 1 update required when running IE8 RC1 on multi-core XPSP2 x86 computers:

KB932823 or KB946501 - This update resolves a problem in which an access violation occurs when an application exists on a Windows XP SP2-based multi-core computer. It will be installed automatically if you select "Install the latest updates" option in Setup Wizard. If this update fails to install successfully, IE8 installation will be blocked until you manually install this update from Microsoft Download Center.

Windows XP Service Pack 3(SP3) users only

The only time we encourage you to manually uninstall Internet Explorer 8 Beta versions prior to upgrading to IE8 RC1 is if you happened to install Windows XP SP3 after installing IE8 Beta.

To see if you need to manually uninstall IE8 Beta first, check these things:

• Is your computer running Windows XP SP3?

Click on the Start Menu and then right click on My Computer and then click Properties

On the General Tab under System it'll say Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3

• Is the  Remove option for IE8 Beta grayed out?

From the Start menu, open Control Panel and click Add or Remove Programs

Select Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta and you are unable to click on the Remove button.

If you answered yes to both questions, you will be able to install Internet Explorer 8 RC1, but once installed, you will not be able to uninstall either IE8 or Windows XP SP3 later. The Setup Wizard will warn you prior to installation:

If you chose to continue, Windows XP SP3 and IE8 RC1 will become permanent. You will still be able to upgrade to later IE8 builds as they become available, but you won't be able to uninstall them.

To avoid getting into this situation, we strongly encourage you to follow these steps before installing Internet Explorer RC1:

1. Uninstall Windows XP SP3
2. Uninstall IE8 Beta
3. Re- install Windows XP SP3
4. Install IE8 RC1

See my earlier blog post on Internet Explorer and Windows XP SP3 for more information.

Windows Update

Internet Explorer RC1 will be offered to all Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems that have IE8 Beta version installed and have Automatic Updates turned on in 25 languages. A prompt will appear in the notification area of the Windows taskbar when IE8 RC1 is ready for installation. The language version of IE8 RC1 offered is based on your Windows Operating System Language version. For example, if your computer is running a Chinese Simplified or German version of Windows, you will be offered IE8 RC1 in Chinese Simplified or German respectively. For any other Windows languages outside of the 25 that IE8 RC1 is available in, Internet Explorer 8 will be offered to you in English. Again, this only applies to those systems that have IE8 Beta versions installed.

Localized Versions

When installing localized versions of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 on XP or Windows Server 2003 please remember that the base language of the operating system must match the IE8 language you are trying to install; otherwise the Setup Wizard will display an error. You can install IE8 RC1 English on any localized OS Version.

More information about installing localized versions of IE8 RC1 can be found in the release notes.

Uninstalling IE8 RC1

1. From the Start menu, open Control Panel and click Add or Remove Programs
2. Click Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 and then click Remove.
3. Your computer will be reverted to Internet Explorer 6 + previous IE6 security updates or Internet Explorer 7 + previous IE7 security updates depending on what you had before the upgrade.
4. You can confirm that by clicking Help, then About Internet Explorer next time you launch Internet Explorer.
5. Be sure to check for any new security updates.

Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Getting ready

Before you start installing Internet Explorer 8 RC1, there are a couple of things you need to do to prepare your computer:

• Uninstall Internet Explorer 8 Beta

Based on the feedback we received from you, our users, we changed the install of IE8 to automatically replace the older builds as part of the installation. You are no longer required to manually uninstall IE8 Beta builds if you want to upgrade to IE8 RC1. All you have to do is run the IE8 RC1 installer and it will automatically replace the previous IE8 build with the latest one. You just reboot at the end, and you are done.

• Getting required updates for IE8 RC1

KB937287 - This update helps improve reliability and performance when you install or remove Internet Explorer 8 and future individual updates from Microsoft. Without this update, IE8 setup will be blocked: "Setup cannot continue because one or more updates required to install Windows Internet Explorer 8 are not present." To check if you already have this update on your system, go to Control Panel ->View Installed updates and search for KB937287.

KB957388 – This update addresses known application compatibility issues in Windows Vista. It will be installed automatically if you select "Install the latest updates" option in the Setup Wizard.

You are now ready to install IE8 RC1. After IE8 RC1 installation is complete, the final screen of the Install Wizard indicates that Internet Explorer installation completed successfully.

After you restart your computer and launch Internet Explorer, you can open the Help->About Internet Explorer dialog to see the version number 8.0.6001.18372.

Localized versions

In Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, we significantly improved the installation experience for localized versions of Internet Explorer 8 RC1. Unlike Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the base language of Windows does not need to match the Internet Explorer 8 language version in order for a successful install. When your user active language matches the Internet Explorer 8 language you installed, then IE8 will appear in the desired language. You will still be able to use IE8 in all other scenarios, but it will appear in English as a fall back version.

More information about installing localized versions of IE8 RC1 can be found in the release notes.

Uninstalling IE8 RC1

1. From the Start menu, open Control Panel and click Programs
2. Click Programs and Features and click View Installed Updates (located in the left side menu)
   Note: The complete list of installed updates takes a moment to update.
3. Select Windows Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 and Uninstall
4. Your machine will be reverted to IE7 + previous IE7 security updates
5. You can confirm that by clicking Help, then clicking About Internet Explorer next time you launch Internet Explorer.
6. Be sure to check for any new security updates.

What do I do when I run into issues installing IE8?

Check out the knowledge base article on Troubleshooting IE8 installation. If after trying the recommended workarounds you still can't install IE8, go to the IE Beta Newsgroup to see if there are any known solutions available. Microsoft MVPs and IE Team members are monitoring this newsgroup and they will help address your issues.

Thank you,

Jane Maliouta
Program Manager

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available

Original: Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available

We're excited to make the IE8 Release Candidate available today for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please download it now and try it out. We welcome your feedback!

What's New

The team will post more about all changes between Beta 2 and RC. In brief:

• Platform Complete. The technical community should expect the final IE8 release to behave as the Release Candidate does. The IE8 product is effectively complete and done. We'll post separately about the thousands of additional test cases we're contributing to the W3C. We've listened very carefully to feedback from the betas. With the Release Candidate, we're listening carefully for critical issues.
• Reliability, Performance, and Compatibility improvements. We've studied the telemetry feedback about the browser's underlying quality and addressed many issues.
• Security. We've worked closely with people in the security community to enable consumer-ready clickjacking protection. Sites can now protect themselves and their users from clickjacking attacks "out of the box," without impacting compatibility or requiring browser add-ons.  We also made some changes to InPrivate based on feedback from customers and partners.

We also made some changes to the user experience based on feedback. For example, based on data about how people use actually it, we made fitting more items on the Favorites bar easier. (Note that the IE8 Release Candidate is for Windows Vista, XP, and Server only; Windows 7 users will get an updated IE8 with the next update of Windows 7. Also, the Release Candidate of the Internet Explorer Administration Kit is available for download now.)

What's Important

IE8 focused on how people really use the web. Consumers want a browser that makes the tasks they do every day faster and easier. The activities people spend their time on define real-world performance: navigating to websites, working with tabs, searching, great interoperability, and a powerful platform that enables them innovate. For some people, accessibility is crucial; for some organizations, policy, administration, and deployment are essential.

The people who read this blog and comment on it are (for the most part) technology enthusiasts and professionals. We enjoy wading through the details of browser features or how to measure performance. We also need to remember that we're a pretty small minority of the hundreds of millions of people who browse the web. Looking at the telemetry data and usability tests and feedback from real users, we're excited about the positive impact that this release of IE will have.

What's Next

The call to action now is for the community to download the Release Candidate, test your sites and services and software with the product, make any changes necessary for the best possible customer experience with IE8, and let us know about your experience.

We're going to continue listening to feedback. We're interested in reports of critical issues (e.g. security, backwards compatibility, completeness with respect to planned standards work, or robustness). We're also going to keep blogging and reading and responding to the comments here.

Our next step, after listening to feedback from the final testing feedback from the community, is releasing the final product. We will be very selective about what changes we make between the Release Candidate and the final product, and very clear in communicating them. We will act on the most critical issues.

Books often have dedications from the authors at the beginning. While software typically doesn't have an equivalent, the software developer's blog is a good stand-in. To everyone who has installed the product and provided feedback so far – web developers, security experts, industry partners, IT professionals, and people who "just" browse the web – thank you from the Internet Explorer development team.

Thanks –
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager

PS – Jason Upton and I sat down last week with Channel 9 to discuss the RC.  You can view the interview here.

Updated 4:04pm – adding link to interview.

Don't forget: Community Office Hours today at 11am PST

Original: Don't forget: Community Office Hours today at 11am PST

Hey Flockstars,

I just wanted to remind you that (nearly) every week I hold Community Office Hours on Monday at 11am PST.

While you're always welcome to contact us on GetSatisfaction, IRC, or by email (evan at flock dot com), I am often unable to talk in real-time during the week.  Things come up...meetings, brainstorms, sudden bouts of synchronized dancing and singing, etc.

During Community Office Hours I am entirely focused on and available to the Flockstar community.  Ask questions, give suggestions, or just send me awesome lolcat links.

I promise that from 11am-noon on Mondays I will not multi-task or get pulled into meetings.  I may Tweet if you send me a really funny lolcat.  No promises there.

My contact info is always available on my bio, but I'll repost here for your convenience:

email: evan at flock dot com
AIM: evanhprotean
MSN: evanhamilton_protean at hotmail dot com
Gchat: evanhamiltonLD at gmail dot com
Skype: evan.hamilton
IRC: irc.flock.com, #flock

Talk to you in a bit!

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: communityoffice hours, Flock, browser, community management, evan hamilton

Community Marketing Team

Original: Community Marketing Team

Join the Mozilla Community Marketing Team!

If you're one of the more than 200 million satisfied Firefox users all over the world, we invite you to take the next step and join the Mozilla movement.

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Yes, we did...

Original: Yes, we did...

…notice this yesterday while running the Windows 7 Beta:

If you open the newly redesigned whitehouse.gov in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 Beta, you'll notice that the dropdown menus don't hide correctly when you hover over other menu items.

This is because the version of IE8 in Windows 7 Beta is somewhat older than the Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate (IE8 RC1) that we're about to release for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Internet Explorer 8 RC1 displays whitehouse.gov correctly - without this menu issue, as does most recent internal Win7 build.

Over the past months, our compatibility team has been hard at work, finding and fixing bugs that cause site rendering issues. Due to the different release schedules for Windows 7 Beta and IE8 RC1, some of these bug fixes didn't make it into Windows 7 Beta (aka Build 7000). So, if you want to use the latest version of IE8 – you'll want to install IE8 RC1 for Windows Vista or Windows XP.

Just like we did for IE8 Beta 2, we would love to get your feedback on IE8 RC1 rendering. Soon after we release IE8 RC1, we will blog again about using the Report a Webpage Problem Add-On to report site rendering issues. The data that you have uploaded with this tool in the past has been very useful in our efforts to find and fix rendering issues - thank you very much for helping us out.

Frank Olivier
UX and Compatibility PM

Firefox3 and me

Original: Firefox3 and me

When I first connected myself to the internet, I was a simple guy with no information about firefox. Then I did not know what the firefox is.But after only 3 month of web use I found my scure browser Firefox. At first I was a little bit cautious about the security of this web browser, but now it is my regular browser. I have used many browser till now but just got stagged with firefox.

• Community @ SFx

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Location: the other side of the world!

Original: Location: the other side of the world!

This week-end I flew all around the world [from Helsinki, FI] to head to Hobart, AU. I’ll be giving a talk at linux.conf.au titled “Contributing to WebKit”

As the abstract states, if you ever wanted to work on a big project that still has a relatively understandable codebase, come and learn how you can participate! The talk will be very much about the WebKitGtk and QtWebKit ports, but it will cover all aspects of contributing to WebKit.

Nepali Firefox

Original: Nepali Firefox

We are here to create a FOSS community regarding the Mozilla Usage Community.
I would like you all to fulfill this target.
Any comments regarding the mission is always welcome.
 Thanking you
Shashank Shree Neupane

2 million members

Original: 2 million members

Today marks an important day for Opera. We have reached more than 2 million registered users on My Opera - Opera's official community! :headbang:

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When the two co-founders of Opera, Jon S. von Tetzchner and Geir Iversøy, did the first few lines of code which would eventually culiminate in the Opera Web browser, they only had their network and community to support and help them spread the word: