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One of the most famous browser plugin, PicLens has added Youtube and Amazon to provide futuristic Graphic Display of images as well as videos.

PicLens and Youtube

For youtube, The PicLens plug-in will install a grid button on your Toolbar, which you click to activate the PicLens full-screen interface. Click a thumbnail to start playing a video, while the search box lives in the upper right of your screen. As video starts playing, standard YouTube controls appear at the bottom of the video.

PicLens and Amazon

On Amazon, the main Amazon.com page doesn’t support the PicLens button, but if you click on the button anyway it will open up the PicLens UI. From there, change the Web site search to Amazon, type in your search term, and images of whatever item you searched for will pop out.

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For geeks who know they are good at low level programming, who understand logic and definitely love networking should participate in Google Treasure Hunt 2008. As mentioned by Google’s Australian Engineers “we’ve launched Treasure Hunt — a puzzle contest designed to test yer problem-solving skills in computer science, networking, and low-level UNIX trivia.”

Now every puzzle on the internet doesn’t stay unsolved, everyone does it, even if they can’t spoilers are ready to help them. But Google left no chances for spoilers to mess all the fun. The questions posted on this Treasure Hunt are generated for every participant. The basic idea is same just the statistical solutions are different. You can re enter you answer n number of times. So don’t even try to search for spoilers, they might not help you much.

Till time there are only 2 questions posted so make sure you solve them, I solved them both and they are really difficult.

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Now you heard of MMOGs heres, PMOG aka Passively Multiplayer Online Game. No you don’t require to download and install from big setup files, just need to install one Firefox extension and you are done. This is a browser game made for making surfing more fun.

Install the PMOG firefox extension and you are done. Just like any other game, you have character, you have armor, you can lay traps, and accept missions even create a mission. The fun with game is endless. You just need to install the extension, a PMOG toolbar is installed and the game starts. As you surf you level up with the data points you acquire.

You can lay traps on websites and when some other player visits the trapped website, it explodes and you gain points.

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AT&T the wireless telecoms company is getting it feet into Internet. With the launch of a browser, the company claims to built good relationships with the customers in a better and newer way. The browser name Pogo is still in private beta stage which mean AT&T will make sure people will get real good product as soon as it is made public.

In the browser battle, where Mozilla has certainly owned most the market and Internet Explorer gaining back the popularity since its IE 8 Beta, Opera stands no where and in such situations making Internet users use a new browser where Mozilla has gained all the charm, well sounds difficult. But wait , did I tell you Pogo can do this !! Well Pogo is like a mixture of Mozilla along with the some jazzy graphical appearance which makes it stand out in the competition. Still its time all the people can test it as its still in private beta.

This new browser has some really cool features. This could take Internet surfing at a different level. Well no its not weird nor extraordinary. All links typed in the address bar takes you to the perfect location, tabs are included. Its the browser as it should be. Well this is Pogo something should be different and here it goes, bookmarks and history is totally weird, a multi-homepage function called Springboard is added. Now the reason why bookmarks and Springboard is called weird addition. The age of links as bookmark has ended. Pogo has used a 3D engine to create and show snapshots of websites(called cells) in a unique way, it looks like using Windows Vista Aero.

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