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FFmpeg now has the fastest VP8 decoder - ffvp8

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.

Google another step closer to Chrome OS with Device Orientation Plumbing

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.

Chrome with built-in Flash is available now

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.

Googlecl, a command line tool to access various Google Services

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!

Use Google Image Help addon to view Full size Images directly

I use Google Image search pretty often and most of the times all I care about is the full image and not the web page where it was featured. So, its pretty annoying to get past that one hurdle all the time I want to visit a full image.

Apple's Safari on iOS4 is miles behind Android 2.2's web browser in Javascript Race

Based on pure Javascript tests conducted by ArsTechnica to compare the recently released Android 2.2 and iOS4, results show some great performance by the Android browser. The credit goes to the new JIT engine in Froyo which has heavily optimized the browser.

Chrome overtakes Safari, now holds Third place in US Browser Market

According to the statcounter's last week update, Chrome has finally overtaken Safari and has now earned Third position in the US Browser market. On an International scale, Chrome is way ahead of Safari, with more than twice its market share, but for the first time it has conquered it in United States.

Google command line Interfaces from Past

We have already seen an official command line google product, googlecl, but this is not the only one. There have always been shell lovers who tried to bring this Web Giant on a console. Here are a couple of command line applications, goose and goosh, to interface with Google search, which btw googlecl doesn't support.

Next Android release, aka Gingerbread, to bring Improved UI

Since the last two releases, Android Development team seems to be pretty happy with the core functionalities. The latest agenda for the team is to work on a better User Interface to improve the End user experience.

Chrome v/s Firefox - Are we witnessing a declining reign of Firefox?

Many of us started our IT life through Windows and Cyber life through IE and so we are probably the only one who can understand what it felt when we shifted and explored this web using Firefox - Freedom . This Browser is one of the most popular open source products of all time. It has a vast fan following but now its not the only option available to users.

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