Facebook’s re-design of the photo-viewer is now rolling out to the masses. The design now incorporates a landscape orientation, with the comments and tag information moved to the right of the photo you are viewing. The maximum allowed image width is more than 900 pixels. In essence it allows users to scroll through more comments and respond to friends on the photo without leaving the page/profile they were on.
In a possible shuffle or otherwise Microsoft has lost two biggies within its ranks. The two people who have left Microsoft are Brandon Watson, head of developer experiences of the Windows Phone division and Stephen Toulouse, the Director of Policy and Enforcement for the Xbox LIVE service. Head past the break for more.
Firefox 10 is now available for download. Since we already know the UI uplift of the browser will begin with version 12, most things are under the hood this time around. Among other things it adds a disappearing forward button, which only appears once you have used the back button. Now for the less important stuff, you get a code inspector baked into Firefox akin to webkit’s “Inspect Element” and Microsoft’s “Developer Tools”. Keep reading past the break to see the working of the developers tools.
Palm’s former chief, Jon Rubinstein, has left Hewlett Packard since the agreed upon commitment period of 24 months ended. An HP spokesperson confirmed the story by saying that the said commitment period decided when HP acquired Palm had ended and therefore Jon was leaving the organization. More about Jon Rubinstein after the break.
Mozilla has returned with yet another update for Firefox web browser and this time we do have something to cheer about. Firefox 9 comes with a speedier JavaScript engine that makes its script processing 30% faster in benchmarks. This new JavaScript trickery is being labeled as Type Inference. Another major improvement is the addition of “ two finger swipe navigation ” in Mac OS X Lion. Also the theme integration for Mac OS X has been improved. Head on past the break for the download links.
In the spirit of the holidays, Google has implanted another Easter egg into its search. Just type “let it snow“, click the search button and watch what happens. Keep reading for some of the most amusing Easter eggs implanted in Google search.
As the next and probably last of the Batman trilogy gets ready for release, Nokia partnered up for the Dark Knight Rises. You can now get a Lumia 800 engraved with the Batman logo. There will only be 40 such smartphones, making it almost impossible for us mere mortals to see one. Head past the break to see a brief unboxing video.
ThinkGeek has a new Drum Machine t-shirt with an actual working drum kit embedded on it. It also includes a mini amp to crank it up a notch. 9 different Drum Kits are available with “professional” grade drum sounds. Head past the break for a video demonstrating the Drum Kit in action.
