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iGoogle, which is Google’s personalized home page has a new update where widgets on the page can now be viewed in the newest canvass view. It simply enlarges the widget to the full iGoogle window. Sixteen new and updated widgets that are promoted by Google currently support the said feature. Currently, there are around 40,000 widgets available in iGoogle. It has not stopped on displaying standard small widgets. Whats new also is the fact that the larger views will not be restricted of ways to earn from them through monetization schemes. Developers can certainly do whatever they see fit for the pages. But in the smaller view, Google does not allow advertising and other direct profit generating schemes. iGoogle’s widgets were written in the Open Social platform. So there must not be much of a problem running this on the portal page.

Online storage company Drop.io, has a new yet simple feature for its users, allowing them to use Twitter to post updates every time they add or remove files from one of their storage folders. Drop.io system is based on folders or what they call “drops”, so after plugging in your Twitter, log-in to any of your drops and it will alert you the changes every time. It is quite a useful tool altogether. You can assign it to a specific folder and still keep a little privacy not exposing everything that you are putting or taking out. The feature works with any file type which the Drop.io supports, including messages left by phone using it’s free voice recording tool. Users who would prefer not to use Twitter to broadcast can also subscribe to alerts via SMS.You can plug in any numbers you’d like to alert and it will send out a link every time one is added. There’s an RSS feed per drop as well.

Mozilla Firefox is a open source web browser created and managed by the Mozilla Corporation
which had a 20% share on the total internet browsers as of 2008 and ranking 2nd. Firefox features are tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager which can be pause, and an integrated search system. Add-ons are also available like themes, multimedia player and other more which are made by other programmer and it’s continoue to grow and evolve everyday. Firefox can runs on different kind of Operating system like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many more. the current stable release version is 3.0.3 which was released on September 26, 2008. Many webside are view best using Mozilla Firefox and it’s restore session features great.

Technology does play a lot in making life more convenient. I’m sure many globe trotters out there are familiar with the e-ticket, which is an electronic document used for ticketing passengers most prominently in commercial airlines. For those who are not so familiar with this electronic service, I’ll give you a short run-down of what it’s all about.

What basically happens is that a customer books a flight through an airline’s Web site or through phone. The following details are then assigned to the customer: confirmation number, flight number, date, departure location, and destination location. Although a hard copy can be requested to be sent by postal mail, one only needs to bring identification to be presented upon boarding.

This way, printing and mailing costs of airline companies are significantly reduced. This also reduces incidences of lost or forgotten documents.

I love this application! Seriously, but I’m not getting into the details of that lest I get into trouble if you know what I mean.

Anyway, what BitTorrent is, is basically a content distribution protocol written in the Python language by Bram Cohen under open source license. It enables efficient software distribution and peer-to-peer sharing of very large files by enabling users to serve as network redistribution points. Talk about cooperation. What it does is to share bits and pieces of the file among many customers until everyone is happy with a complete download. This makes it possible to share your file with many other people without individualizing downloads. Most of files on torrent are entire movies (without splitting them up into parts) and TV shows.

Firefox may seem very popular nowadays and is being used by majority of the population but according to survey, it indicates that almost 75 percent of people who use browse the internet still use Internet Explorer. If you are not a FireFox fan or that you are part of the 75 percent Internet Explorer users, you might as well check out the plug in that you must absolutely have, the IE7Pro. The said plug in powers up Internet Explorer with several of the features and functions that were once narrowed to other browsers in the net like a session manager, mouse gestures, prefetching and a lot more.

Microsoft is borrowing many popular features from Firefox and Safari in the release of Internet Explorer 8. Although it is originally intended for developers, the beta is public and should be utilized with caution. In the latest release of Internet Explorer, the Safety Filter exists and an antiphishing portion of the browser. In this beta, version 8 adds malware prevention that actively scans a downloading page for some malicious codes and content. Another feature that was borrowed is Web Slices that allows you to create applets on your desktop with snippets from live websites similar with Apple Safari. After downloading Internet Explorer 8 beta and you think you don’t like it, you can click on the Emulate IE7 button to have the old version back.

With 18 percent market share to 74 for IE by Net Application stats, Mozilla is surely a blast. And now, major websites just have to support FireFox. Apple’s safari which is available now in Windows too is third in rank with 6 percent share. Next contender is Opera saying that the browser is the single most significant piece of software made nowadays which badly needs innovation if you intend to extend the reach of the web. Having a lot of competitors and a richer web is surfacing, Microsoft knows the stakes are indeed high. And FireFox is becoming fiercer as it heightens its profile. There will be a Gran Paradiso, a 24-hour download record with FireFoz 3 set by Mozilla.

One of the best features of Flicks is its Camera Finder which lets you see what other people’s shots look like by using a particular model. This can be really helpful in figuring out if you basically need to get some new hardware or if you need to take a photography class. Video host Vimeo is a manual process that has a way to view which camera a user has although it is only through tags. If Flickr can find a way to make metadata more of like the equation, it could certainly produce some of the charts and graphs more appealing. Metadata for video clips though are all over and that could be the problem.

Splashup which was formerly known as Fauxto is very similar to Photoshop. It is a layer-based with lightweight editor just like offline editor Paint.net that is able to pull in images from Flickr, Facebook or any URL you specify. In editing, the idea here is same with the basic Photoshop-style image editing instead of specifically photo-related retouching. Meaning, there is no control over exposure and touch-up options like red-eye removal or face-retouching. Sliders control the effects which can be previewed in your image as you fiddle with the sliders. All in all, the layers and effects are impressively powerful but it could have been better with a photo-retouching control.