Internet explorer team has sent the mozilla browser team a cake to join the celebration of the Firefox 3 release.

It seems that Firefox has been downloaded around 8 million times within last 24 hours.

IE team had sent a cake last year too, on release of Firefox 2. Last year’s cake:

Can you see the last piece of last year’s cake ?

No one wanted to eat that E !

For those who have never seen windows 3.1 or for those who want to run there beloved windows 3.1 operating system in newer operating systems, here is a small guide for installing windows 3.1 in DOS BOX.

Windows 3.1 Installation guide

Note: DosBox is a cross platform DOS emulator.You use it to run legacy DOS programs in linux,BSD, Mac OS X or newer windows systems.

You can download dosbox from here.

Windows 3.1 screenshots:

Two Free Doraemon Screen Savers :

Doraemon Screensaver 1

Doraemon Screensaver 2

Check out this Doraemon fridge: it is a device that can keep 4
bottles (hence the 4L indication) cold or warm, and it runs on 12 and
100v.

The story is that your construction company is contracted by the mayor to revitalize certain zones of the city by building residential apartments, office buildings and even skyscrapers. Population is key,and the currency of the game.

In this game, you operate a crane that swings blocks of a tower back and forth. Each block on the crane represents one storey of the building’s height. You can either click the mouse button to release the block or press space key.

The objective of this game is to create straigt towers, because the more precisely-stacked the tower, the more people you’ll get inside it. An ideal tower would be perfectly stacked from ground to top, without even one block being off to the left or right. Perfect towers will net you the maximum amount of inhabitants.

Download Tower Deluxe

1. Navigation Matrix Reloaded

2. CSS Tabs

3. CSS Bar Graphs (CSS For Bar Graphs)

4. Collapsing Tables: An Example

5. Adam’s Radio & Checkbox Customisation Method

6. CSS Image Replacement

7. CSS Shadows (CSS Shadows Roundup)

8. CSS Rounded Corners Roundup (Nifty Corners)

9. Drop Cap - Capital Letters with CSS

10. Define Image Opacity with CSS

11. How to Create a Block Hover Effect for a List of Links

12. Pullquotes with CSS (Automatic Pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS

13. CSS Diagrams

14. CSS Curves

15. CSS Image Map

16. CSS Image Pop-Up

17. CSS Image Preloader

18. CSS Image Replacement for Buttons

Well i have finished writing a small Input Method Editor for writing in Hindi. It’s still a bit rough around the edges though..

Just click on the tray icon to switch the language anytime. Or you can use the hotkey F11 to switch the language.

And the best feature of Mini IME is it’s small size. It’s only 4.7 kb ! While Microsoft’s Indic IME is around 1.5 mb in size, and requires installation, Mini IME is just around 4 kb and doesnt require any installation.

Just click and start writing … sweet !

I have plans to port the IME to mac using Text service and on linux using SCIM.

Download using the link below and please report any bugs you’ve found.

Vowel:

अ = a
आ = A , aa
इ = i
ई = I,ee
उ = u
ऊ = U,oo
ऋ = R
ए = e
ऐ = ai
ओ = o
औ = au
ँ = M
ं = x

Consonant:

क = k
ख = kh
ग = g
घ = gh
ङ = Ng
च = ch
छ = C,Ch
ज = j
झ = jh
ञ = Ny
ट = T
ठ = Th
ड = D
ढ = Dh
ण = N
त = t
थ = th
द = d
ध = dh
न = n
प = p
फ = ph
ब = b
भ = B,bh
म = m
य = y
र = r
ल = l
व = v,w
श = sh
ष = S,Sh
स = s
ह = h

Others:

Zero Width Joiner = z
Zero Width Non Joiner = Z

Download Mini IME

Windbelt - well it’s basically a taut membrane fitted with a pair of magnets that oscillate between metal coils. It basically a microturbine to generate energy from wind.

Meet Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old guy, who invented this nifty micro wind generator. Wind belt is different from rotary wind generators, becuase there is no rotating part in it. Shawn says his device is 10 to 30 times as efficient as the best microturbines.

Heres a video in which he demonstrates his new invention:

Well, this pre-release hardware can release enough energy to light up 2 white LEDs. Lets hope that it will some day replace those expensive solar panels in rural areas.

For those who are really interested about creating a working prototype themeselves can check out this site:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Windbelt-from-hard-drive-voice-coil-and-magnets/

Here’s part two of the tutorial:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Windbelt-Redux–21st-Century-Micro-Power-Generatio/

It seems that Shawn has started a company to commercialize his invention. Check out his website:

http://www.humdingerwind.com/windbelt.html

Developer kits are coming mod-2008.

http://www.humdingerwind.com/kits.html

Here is a video presenation by Shawn:

Opera users rejoice ! New version of opera is now available for download.

To download the latest 9.5 version of opera, please click here.

I will be writing reall soon about the latest features of this cool browser which is often called the Ferrari of browsers.