I’m Genuinely excited! I don’t remember feeling this way when Chrome 6, Firefox 3.6 or Opera 10.60 were released — and IE9 is just a beta. There are several reasons - IE9 is the first version to support HTML5, CSS3, SVG, canvas and several other technologies. It’s clean, simple, fast and beautiful design here’s no menu bar, no Favourites Bar, no Command Bar, and no Status Bar. The new One Box, which combines address bar and search functionality into a single UI IE 9 notifications are now at the bottom of the window, are less obtrusive, and won’t interrupt your browsing experience. Windows 7 Integration – You can pin website shortcuts to the Windows 7 taskbar just like local applications Download Manager with SmartScreen Filter - At long last, IE gains a download manager Full hardware acceleration, scripting performance, HTML5 and other web standards, compatibility mode, Dev Tools ...

Responding to Apple’s announcement that it is easing a number of restrictions on App Store app development including the use of third-party development tools, Adobe has indicated that it will resume work on its Packager for iPhone tool in Flash Professional CS5 that allows developers to export their Flash projects in native iOS format. Here is the relevant blog post from Adobe: “Apple’s announcement today that it has lifted restrictions on its third-party developer guidelines has direct implications for Adobe’s Packager for iPhone, a feature in the Flash Professional CS5 authoring tool. This feature was created to enable Flash developers to quickly and easily deliver applications for iOS devices. The feature is available for developers to use today in Flash Professional CS5, and we will now resume development work on this feature for future releases.” ...

Close on heels of Google Instant, here comes YouTube Instant and Twitter Instant, possibly the fastest way to instantly search videos and Twitter right now. Youtube Instant is the creation of Feross Aboukhadijeh, a computer science student at Stanford University, who bet with his roommate (after the launch of Google Instant) and built a real-time YouTube search in 3 hours!

On the occasion of cosmoGeek’s 180 days completion, I am proud to announce its brand new so called ‘Professional’ look today. Exclusive features of this new theme - Top link bar – Posts are now broadly categorized Fast Page load Brand new custom ‘cosmoGeek’ Logo JScript ‘Slider’ with featured posts New social plugins Facebook Fan Page got a new Welcome page More features to come - Breadcrumb Related posts Google custom search box Social ‘Share’ buttons Twitter feed box Facebook comments box There is a lot of hard work behind this new look and suggestions are most welcome. ...

Multiple sources familiar with the matter have confirmed to Pocket-lint that Microsoft will launch its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, on 11 October 2010. Pocket-lint has learnt that the Redmond-based company will use New York as the global stage for the launch, which will be beamed around the world. Although none of our sources were prepared to be named, all are senior figures within the industry that we know and trust. ...

The discovery of a similar looking character in an arcade-style action game of 90s by Atari titled, Gauntlet: The Third Encounter has caused much stir in the blogosphere today. Google’s Android logo has turned out to be a look alike of one of the characters of the game. Surprisingly, even the name of the character (“Android”) is same, among others namely Wizard, Valkyrie, Samurai, Gunfighter, Pirate, Punk Rocker, and Nerd. Developed and published by Atari Games in the 1990 for the Atari Lynx, Gauntlet is considered as one of the most popular multiplayer arcade role-playing game of that time. ...

All cool New stuff from Apple Today - iOS 4.1, new iPod Shuffle, new Multitouch iPod Nano, iTunes 10 with Ping, new Apple TV

Hot on the heels of Facebook overtaking Orkut as India’s most prominent social network with 21 million vs. 20 million unique visitors in July, the company officially opened its much anticipated office in Hyderabad earlier this week. Facebook Hyderabad is Facebook’s second International office, after Dublin, Ireland and the Indian team will include more sales and operations as well as multi-lingual support staff in order provide round-the-clock international support. The office was opened in the traditional Indian way, and here is a video of the office opening. Highlights include American Facebookers awkwardly dancing Bollywood-style and an impressive Facebook cake! ...

Everything is available on the Internet. The only thing you need to know is ‘How to find it’ in a correct way. Google is the obvious answer to all questions – it can be exploited to find anything anywhere on the web using keywords intelligently. Google Hacks is a small tool which is useful to find direct links of your favourite Music, Book, Video, Tools, Hacks, Proxy, Lyrics, Fonts, Application, Torrent, Cache, Web hosting. ...

Watch ‘Star Wars Episode IV’ as an animated text right from your command line – yes, you didn’t read that wrong. Give it a try from any command line, type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl