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The whole story began after the VP8 codec was opened by Google. Soon after its release, Jason Garrett-Glaser, a x264 and ffmpeg developer, came up with a highly extensive review of the codec. And in his technical review, he mentioned that the VP8 decoder is slow as compared to H.264, pointed out some of its weaknesses and also said that VP8 copies too much from H.264 for ease and because of this, the codec could be susceptible to patent issues.

So, the Developers are working on this device orientation technology, using which the browser will understand how the device is behind held. This technology, Device Orientation Plumbing, is being built in the webkit engine which powers Chrome and Safari. I don't think the primary aim of inclusion is to make sure if you are able to read properly while your tablet/laptop/mobile is tilted, but this will give a boon to online gaming.

Every browser has its own ways of dealing with the inevitable Adobe Flash Technology. Inevitable? Becaues of its wide usage, can't just avoid it. Google Chrome, for example, decided to prevent crashing and other issues with Flash, by integrating it with the browser using an extension to NPAPI and has finally released a stable version of Chrome with built-in Flash support.

Recently, google introduced a command line tool to access various Google services - Picasa, Youtube, blogger, calendar and docs. Its called googlecl. This tool lets you do a variety of things, like posting a blog on Blogger, uploading a video on Youtube, adding new events on calendar, editing a doc, upload any number of images on picasa(My Favourite), all from a single command!