Yesterday Twitter launched the new share button.  We always used the tweetmeme button for our wordpress blogs and sites.

Button Twitter launched very nice twitter button which has very nice cool look and feel.

If you want to use the new twitter button in your wordpress site than use following code:

<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div>
  <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=<?php the_title(); ?>&amp;via=YOUR_NAME">Tweet</a>
</div>

you will see the button as like this.

If you want to add the big button as follows than use following code:

<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div>
   <a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button"
      data-url="<?php the_permalink() ?>"
      data-via="YOUR-NAME"
      data-text="<?php the_title(); ?>"
      data-related="<?php the_tags( '', ', ', ''); ?>"
      data-count="vertical">Tweet</a>
</div>

What Twitter is saying about this button.

The Tweet Button is a small widget which allows users to easily share your website with their followers. This page is for developers and users who wish to build their own Tweet Buttons. If you are looking for a quick way to build a Tweet Button for your website you can visit our Tweet Button Goodies Page.

The user interaction flow for the Tweet Button was designed to be as streamlined as possible and easy to use for both developers, website owners and users.

The steps a user goes through when using the Tweet Button are:

1. The user clicks the Tweet Button
2. The user is asked to login to Twitter if they aren’t already. If the user is new to Twitter they can also create an account.
3. The Share Box appears already completed with the information provided in the properties of the Tweet Button. The user can change the content if they wish.
4. Posting of the Tweet is confirmed and the user is suggested a maximum of two accounts they may wish to follow as provided in the properties of the Tweet Button.
5. The Share Box remains open until the user presses close.

You can get the Twitter button from following site

http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton

Many people faced memory issue wordpress and WordPress itself uses the so much memory. By default wordpress uses the 32mb memory.

First you need to know what is the use of increasing the memory limit for wordpress. If I increase the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT from 32M to 64 or 96M will it make my website load fast.

We can adjust the amount of memory using the wp-config.php file.

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '96M');

Many shared hosting provides the default memory for php. What I see most commonly shared hosting set the memory limit to 8mb or 16mb. They does not allow you to increase the php memory limit and in that case if you changed the wp-config file then also there is no use of that change.

What that setting do?
This setting increases PHP Memory only for WordPress, not other applications. By default, WordPress will attempt to increase memory allocated to PHP to 32MB (code is at beginning of wp-settings.php), so the setting in wp-config.php should reflect something higher than 32MB.

First Tweet: “WordPress.com experienced a service disruption this morning, but we’re back now. Thanks for your patience.”

After some time they came back with saying following sentenance on twitter

Second Tweet: You can always check the status of your favorite services—including WordPress.com—here: http://status.automattic.com/

Third Tweet: The status page is hosted completely independently so it will stay up if WordPress.com is down.

For checking the WordPress server status you need to check the following site:

http://status.automattic.com/

More details go to following URL:

http://status.automattic.com/9931/135469/WordPress.com

What Automatic is Saying?

Automattic – Sites real-time websites availability and performance status. This site shows if Automattic – Sites sites are down or have performance issues right now, and provides Automattic – Sites uptime and performance history.

This status service is powered by WatchMouse website monitoring service. We will come with more details later.

Today WordPress released the WordPress 3.0.1 version. You can download latest wordpress from follwoing link

http://wordpress.org/download/

This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.

Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 3.0.1) is available in two formats from the links to your right. If you have no idea what to do with this download, we recommend signing up with one of our web hosting partners that offers a one click install of WordPress or getting a free account on WordPress.com.

Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to reinstall it, which you can do right from your Updates screen.

In This article we will talk about the wordpress core developers who started the wordpress.

Matt Mullenweg

He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress and writes a popular blog ma.tt, a domain hack. After quitting his job at CNET, he has devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is a frequent speaker at conferences, such as Canada’s Northern Voice and the WordCamp events organized around WordPress software.

Ryan Boren

Ryan Boren. is a lead developer of WordPress and a co-conspirator at Automattic. He lives in Dripping Springs Texas with my wife, two kids, four goats, and one Pomeranian.

Mark Jaquith

Andrew Ozz

Tiny Manly Code Editor (MCE). Do you use the Visual Editor? This is the man that makes sure that is usable in addition to patching plenty of other bugs.

Peter Westwood

Title Rebuilding. Peter is world class developer who often leads the weekly developer chat and is on the forefront of educating and assisting developers

The browser has been created by a team of Indian engineers on the opensource Mozilla platform, it said in a statement.

Epic Browser is looking as follows:

epic browser

“Epic provides a uniquely Indian browsing experience. Epic’s India sidebar supports Indian content by providing users access to the latest national and regional news from popular publications, live television channels, videos, stock quotes, live cricket scores, top music albums, and local events,” it said.

Epic browser has following features:

•    An inbuilt anti-virus, powered by ESET, whose NOD 32 product is very popular the world over

•    India centric with support for 12 different Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Urdu and Punjabi

•    Indic app allows for typing in these Indian languages

•    More than 1500 themes ranging from freedom fighters to film stars to represent the unity in diversity of the country

•    A word processor to create or edit documents

•    India specific news from popular publications

•    Social Networking sites like Facebook and Twitter on the sidebar, apart from YouTube( watchable in a pop-up window), Gmail and Yahoo

•    Other useful sidebar widgets include Travel, Stocks, Maps, and Jobs

•    File backup and My Computer utilities

Users can choose from 1500+ customised Indian themes and wallpapers ranging from freedom fighters to famous Bollywood and regional film stars. Writing in Indian languages is supported throughout Epic. Users can instantly write in Indian languages on any webpage or in Write, Epic’s free built-in word processor. Twelve Indian languages are currently supported, the statement said.

Free antivirus scanning and healing is built into Epic, while another security measure warns users when they’re about to visit potentially dangerous websites.

Many People are waiting for wordpress news. They don’t know where to find the latest news about wordpress. In this article I will tell you where to find the instantally updated wordpress news.

I regularly post the wordpress news very frequently. Some time I am not able to post the wordpress news due to work. But people are are looking for wordpress related news.

There are some very good blogs about wordpress they keep posting the wordpress news. I found they never miss the latest wordpress news.

I specially recommend users to check following sites for latest wordpress news.

In this article I will tell you where you can find the latest wordpress news.

1. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/ – WordPress Official Blog

2. http://planet.wordpress.org/ – Latest news about wordpress

3. http://wordpress.org/news/ – WordPress News Page

4. http://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom – Official Twitter Account of wordpress.com

5. http://lorelle.wordpress.com – Blog about wordpress comp and meetings and news

6. http://wordpressapi.com/category/wordpress/ – Blog about latest wordpress news, wordpress plugins news, wordpress tutorials, wordpress tips and wordpress theme

7. http://twitter.com/wpmuorg – Official twitter account of wordpressmu.org

8. http://en.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress-news/ – page about wordpress news

9. http://ma.tt/ – Blog of Matt Mullenweg (Founder of WordPress)

10. Weblog Tools Collection (I know this one isn’t new, but is still updated regularly)

Now these days best and attractive images are the part of every articles. I can say image is useful for your posts. Images made easy to understand to readers what you want to say in the post.

Many wordpress blogger go to google for images and find the images. They put the image into there blogs. Some time that will cause you serious legal issues.

There are very good places to find good free images for your blogs. Here is the list of that.

1. Flickr: Flickr is a really great source for free pics, however make sure to contact the owner of the picture and ask permission before using it. I have done this a lot in the past and a lot of people are willing to share their pictures. Give them a good reason, maybe a quick complement and offer a link back to their Flickr profile.
2. Stockvault: Stockvault has a lot of nice stock photos, just be warned that this site is filled with adsense.
3. deviantART: This is a huge community of artist sharing all sorts of images and graphics. Again, checkout the license of the graphic as a lot of these aren’t free, yet it is still a great source for free images if you become familiar with the site.
4. Stock.xchng: Saving the best for last here you’ll be able to find a lot of great stock photos as well as PSD’s, templates, background images and more. Please checkout the restrictions before using
5. Free Images – Free Stock Photos:
   FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost free stock photos. Free stock photographic library.
6. gettyimages: Getty Images royalty-free gives creative freedom to crop, manipulate and combine stock photos for your project needs. Simple, affordable pricing, unlimited use.”

WordPress has just announced the 100th million plugin has now been downloaded. It’s a smaller milestone but just as impressive if not even more so, since blogging tools are not going to have the same mainstream audience or appeal as a web browser. WordPress is also celebrating a smaller milestone, the newly launched WordPress 3.0 has just passed three million downloads.

What wordpress is saying?

There are now a little over 10,000 plugins in the WordPress directory which really puts the 100 million downloads number in perspective. Of course, some plugins are more popular than others, but it does indicate that bloggers are very interested in the added functionality these plugins provide.

The most popular plugin is the antispam tool Akismet with over 8.5 million downloads to date. The tool comes pre-installed with WordPress, so that may explain its popularity, although, these installs may not be counted as downloads. However, later updates are probably counted. Other popular plugins are the All in One SEO Pack with five million downloads and Google XML Sitemaps with close to four million.

Given the popularity of WordPress plugins, it’s no surprise that they are now getting some attention from the development team. Having wrapped up WordPress 3.0, the team decided to focus on some of the things surrounding WordPress rather than the software itself.

“The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory,” Andrew Nacin, a WordPress developer, announced.

“We’re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We’ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins,” he explained.

SEO is very important when you are building and maintaining a website, and Google offers FREE tools to help make your job easier!

Google provides very nice free SEO tools here is list.

Google Analytics: According to the website, Google Analytics gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. User friendly features allow you to see and analyze your traffic data in a whole new way, as well as produce better targeted ads, create higher converting websites and strengthen your marketing initiatives.

Google Trends: With Google Trends, you can compare the whole world’s interest in the topic of your choice. You can enter up to 5 topics to see how often they have been searched, how often they show up in Google News stories and what geographic locations have searched these topics the most.

Google Keyword Tool: Undoubtedly one of the most popular in the Google toolbox, the Keyword Tool can be a gigantic help in choosing the right and most effective keywords!

Google Website Optimizer: A very easy to use free tool for testing your website content to see if it is delivering actionable results. You can find out what leads to the highest conversion rates, listen to your visitors and increase conversions dramatically. A great free tool!

Google Webmaster Tools: This one gives you detailed reports about your web pages’ visibility in Google search. You can see at a glance how Google crawls and indexes your site, as well as find out about problems Google is having with your site and how to fix them. You can also use the free link reporting tools and query traffic to see which search queries are driving traffic to your site.

Google Traffic Estimator: This one will come in quite handy as it tells you such important things as average estimated CPC, estimated ad position, estimated daily cost and estimated daily clicks.

Using above tools you can boost your website.

If you have website then you should take advantage from social networking sites to grow your website traffic and build your community or group.

According to Marketing Charts and data from Hitwise, these were the top 10 social networking websites and forums during the month of May, 2010.

1. Facebook: 54.90%. Are we really surprised to see that Facebook is the Numero Uno social website? Probably not. With over 500 million members and still growing by leaps and bounds, Facebook is incredibly popular. Make no mistake about it—Facebook appeals to younger members, but there is also a large demographic of older members, as well.

2. YouTube: 16.02%. Another hugely popular site, especially since online video viewing is HOT. Nowhere close to Facebook’s market share, but definitely nothing to sneeze at in terms of a good place for social media marketing.

3. MySpace: 11.9%. This may come as something of a surprise to people who thought that the popularity of MySpace was waning. There is also an International version of MySpace, as well as a Latino version.

4. Twitter: 1.07%. Really? Can this be true? One would think that considering the tremendous popularity of tweeting and Twitter, it would have commanded a heftier percentage of the market share, but apparently not. Who knew?

5. Tagged: 1.01%. This one bills itself as being all about social discovery, meeting new people and staying in touch with people you already know.

6. Yahoo! Answers: 0.91%. You might no think of this as a social community, but it is certainly a community with a large member base. The benefit here to someone wanting to use this site for social media marketing is that by answering questions asked by other members, you can achieve varying levels of expertise until you are deemed an expert in a category, which could be helpful in establishing yourself as an authority in your niche.

7. Yahoo! Profiles: 0.62%. Basically a place to post your Yahoo profile and share it with other Yahoo members.

8. MyYearbook: 0.61%. This one does seem to be geared more toward a youthful audience, and might be worth your while for marketing if this age group is your targeted demographic.

9. Windows Live Home: 0.46%. Okay, this one is more or less a place to bring Windows Live services together, all in one place.

10. MocoSpace: 0.34%. Again, seems to be mostly for a young age group. It probably gains much appeal by being accessible on mobile devices.

Would you like to increase traffic to your ecommerce business blog overnight?

Believe it or not, this may just be do-able!

How, you ask?

With the WordPress OnlyWire Auto Poster plug-in, that’s how!

As you may or may not know, WordPress is probably the most popular and often used blog platform on the World Wide Web according to Technorati. It’s a state of the art publishing platform that focuses on aesthetics, web standards and usability.

Best of all, it’s FREE.

The WordPress Only Wire Auto Poster plug-in can significantly increase traffic to your blog—possibly or even probably—overnight because by using it, you are able to syndicate your blog posts to over 30 of the top social sites simultaneously, with just one click of a button.

No more slogging along doing it the hard way, one at a time. With the OnlyWire plug-in, you are assured of getting your blog post out there where the most people will see it, and hopefully read it.

Just think of how this could help you build valuable backlinks, not to mention improve your website traffic and search engine index speed!

There are two ways to use the WordPress OnlyWire Auto Poster plug-in:

1. As a Firefox plug-in which will stay in the upper right hand corner of your browser, right next to the Google search bar, or
2. Install the OnlyWire plug-in from your WordPress blog simply by selecting it from the available WordPress plug-ins, and then clicking install.

It’s just that easy!

OnlyWire is a blogger’s dream come true as a time saver. There are four ways to use it, including the simultaneous submission to social sites feature:

1. Submission browser button: Syndicates your blog article to 31 social sites at once
2. Bookmark and share button: This button can be placed on websites and blogs, and allows visitors to share the page on their social networking sites.
3. Developer API: Automatically submits blog or web content to an existing CMS system at the will of the user.
4. Account management: A very handy tool within the program that you can use to keep track of everything. It will set up the social sites to be used, show submission history, as well as finalize your submissions to manage a member account.

If you want to save yourself a lot of time on social media marketing, and increase traffic to your blog overnight, then you should take a look at WordPress OnlyWire for your online dropshipping business or other ecommerce enterprise.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-onlywire-auto-poster/

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Now internet and social marketing and networking is very important these days.There are so much paid services for online marketing but why to pay for that. There are so many very powerful social marketing tools freely avaible.
Here I am giving the some list of free softwares which are avaiable for media and social marketing.

WordPress: Yes, if you have an online business, you need an online business blog. With WordPress, you can have a professional looking, fully functional blog with all the bells and whistles up and running in the blink of an eye!

Click Here to go to WordPress

Twitteriffic: A fun application for Macs with a small desktop footprint that lets you read or post Tweets. You can view as much or as little info as you like. Has been called the “perfect” Twitter app.

Click Here to go to Twitteriffic

ScribeFire: Using Firefox? This add-on for Firefox is great for blogging!

Click Here to go to ScribeFire

Dabbleboard: Gives you a virtual whiteboard, a wonderful tool for drawing and addressing a group!

Click Here to go to Dabbleboard

Ustream.tv: Want to broadcast yourself live across the internet? This is a great freebie for you! Ustream is a live, interactive video broadcast platform that allows anybody with a camera and an internet connection to broadcast globally. You can literally create your own channel, or broadcast from your own site. Wow!

Click Here to go to Ustream.tv

SightSpeed: GREAT free software that allows one-on-one live video chat! SightSpeed has received glowing reviews and would be a very valuable tool for your ecommerce business, social media marketing, PR, customer service and much more.

Click Here to go to SightSpeed

FlauntR: Online photo editor that integrates with Facebook, Flickr, and just about any other online picture service. It has a set of tools that are designed to manipulate images for social media and mobile handsets.

Click Here to go to flauntR

Yahoo Widgets: Love those widgets, and Yahoo offers 5,000 of them–the biggest widget collection in the world! You can find any kind of widget here. So cool!

Click Here to go to Yahoo Widgets

Tokbox: Turns your AIM buddy list into a videoconferencing buddy list, and separate apps can make it work through Facebook or Twitter.

Click Here to go to Tokbox

WordPress.com, has just acquired Plinky, a service designed to help writers, or bloggers, get over writers’ block.  Plinky platform will soon integrate with wordpress.

Do you ever think “Ugh, I’d totally write a new blog post, if I just had something to say?” Or maybe, “I’m sick and tired of writer’s block but I don’t know what to do about it!”

We’ve all been there — those days when the light bulb seems dim, if not burned out. To give you a little creative push and get that writerly mojo flowing again, we’ve added a new service called Plinky.com.

Each weekday, Plinky provides a prompt — like a question or a challenge — and you type in an answer. To keep it interesting, prompts are a mixed bag of fun commands (“Write a haiku about the last meal you ate”) to more thoughtful questions (“What is your favorite summer memory?”)

To get started, sign up for a new account at Plinky. Then, add your WordPress.com blog to your Plinky account, which will let you share your answer. We’re excited to see what you’ll create, and we hope to feature some of the best Plinky answers on WordPress.com. But we can’t feature your Plinky posts without your help: You’ll need to add a “Plinky” tag to your blog post, so that it appears on the Plinky tag page.

Plinky does this either with inspiring questions, like “What is your favorite summer memory?” or with prompts about what you could write about. Depending on the prompt, the answer could be just text or include photos, videos, maps and so on.

To use Plinky with WordPress.com, you have to create a new account for the service and then connect it with your WordPress.com one. After that, let your imagination loose and see what Plinky asks of you. If you tag your post with ‘plinky’ it will be showcased on the Plinky tag page along with others that have used the service.

Support instructions for using Plinky on your WordPress.com blog.

Adobe (ADBE) Flash has long been the dominant vehicle for delivering Web video to PCs, but with the addition of Apple’s (AAPL) iPad to the list of mobile devices that don’t support the plug-in, viewing of HTML5 video is on the rise. Now publishers have even more reason to support the video standard, as new data from MeFeedia show that viewer engagement levels are higher with HTML5 video than that delivered in Adobe Flash.

MeFeedia is the same outfit that reported in the first few days and weeks after the launch of the iPad that users of the Apple tablet watched significantly more video than comparable online viewers on PCs. With more iPads now in the hands of users, MeFeedia has turned its gaze to engagement rates not just for the iPad, but for HTML5 video in general.

And the numbers are pretty astonishing. Viewers that MeFeedia tracked watched about 25 percent more HTML5 video than Flash-based video. Perhaps more importantly, they were 70 percent less likely to abandon an HTML5 video than one delivered in Adobe Flash.

Leaving PCs in the Dust

Those findings may be attributable largely to the device itself. We’ve long argued that despite the lack of Flash video, the iPad is an ideal device for viewing video, and data from MeFeedia tend to support that theory. According to the company, the average viewing duration was 2.75 times higher on an iPad than on a PC.

But MeFeedia suggests that other factors may be coming into play. For instance, the user experience of having a native video player available in the browser, without having to load a plug-in, reduces the load time necessary to watch a video. MeFeedia also suggests that native HTML5 video players frequently have better performance than Flash on a number of platforms, including mobile devices and Mac- and Linux-based PCs.

Meanwhile, the average viewing time on Android (GOOG) mobile devices is 2.25 times higher than on a PC. As MeFeedia points out, mobile video is good for physically sharing with others and typically requires more commitment by the user, so they’re more likely to stick around for the video. The iPad’s lack of multitasking capabilities helps prevent users of that device from abandoning video as well.

Ads That Make You Give Up

One explanation that seems to be missing from all this is the current lack of ads running against HTML5 video. Just the presence of a preroll ad is enough to make viewers click away, with research from audience measurement and video distribution company TubeMogul showing that one in six viewers abandons a video before it begins when an ad plays.

Because HTML5 is a nascent Web standard, the tools available for tracking and monetizing video have yet to be fully fleshed out. As a result, many of the videos delivered via HTML5 today lack the same kind of 15- and 30-second interruptions that come before watching most premium Flash videos—which could explain the much lower bounce rate. That will change soon, however, as tools for monetizing HTML5 video start to appear.

Regardless, MeFeedia sees the rate of HTML5 adoption growing due to the vast success of the iPad—with more than 3 million units sold in less than 80 days—as well as the release of the new iPhone 4 and the latest iOS mobile operating system, not to mention more robust support on Android devices for HTML5 video.

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The Twitter is micro-blogging site and it is become very famous in last few years.
Twitter provides addition of Facebook and LinkedIn to its Find Friends feature.

The Twitter Facebook app now lets you know which of your friends are on Twitter. It lets you save those users to a list or follow them instantly. Users can now also post tweets directly to their Facebook pages, in addition to their profile.

As per Twitter blog post They are saying,

“Many Twitter users follow their favorite celebrities, sports heroes, or brands. They often find and follow even more nearby businesses or experts in their industry. And, of course, people also follow friends, family and associates so that they can keep updated on what’s happening with them. In fact, one of our most frequent requests from users is how they can find and follow the people they are connected to on their social networks.

Today, we’re improving our Find Friends section to make it easier to find and follow the people you already know — your friends on Facebook and connections on LinkedIn — who use Twitter. Our Facebook app, which launched in 2007, now shows which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter and lets you follow them instantly and save them to a list. The app also lets you post your Tweets to your Facebook profile and now, to one of your Facebook pages too. With the Tweets application by LinkedIn, you can see which of your LinkedIn connections are on Twitter and follow the ones you choose right from the app. The app also lets you save your LinkedIn connections as a list, post your Tweets to LinkedIn, and add your Twitter account to your LinkedIn profile.

UPDATE: The Facebook app cannot currently access your Facebook friend list. We believe this is an issue on Facebook’s end.”

Today, Mozilla is happy to release Firefox 3.6.4, the latest security and stability release for Firefox, used by nearly 400 million people around the world to browse the Web. This release provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users by isolating third-party plugins when they crash.

Results from our beta testing show Firefox 3.6.4 will significantly reduce the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games. When a plugin crashes or freezes while using Firefox, users can enjoy uninterrupted browsing by simply refreshing the page.

Mozilla recognizes that third-party plugins provide important functionality in many of today’s websites. At the same time, plugins can lead to problems for users as they browse. With the ability to automatically alert users when they have out of date plugins, and now crash protection, Firefox 3.6.4 allows users to experience all the content they love without any of the hassles. (If you’re not running Firefox, Mozilla recommends that you make a habit of visiting the Plugin Check page to keep your plugins up to date.)

At this time Firefox offers crash protection for Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight on Windows and Linux computers. Support for other plugins and operating systems will become available in a future Firefox release.

All Firefox users are encouraged to upgrade for free by using the “Check for Updates” function in the Help menu, or by visiting www.firefox.com. For more information, please visit:

• Crash Protection FAQ
• Firefox 3.6.4 Release Notes
• Plugin Check

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Google Voice is now available for everyone (provided you have a U.S. phone number).

The service, which started life out as GrandCentral, acts as a unified phone number. It can be used to make free calls to the U.S. and Canada, to send free text messages and more. Its voicemail system can even be.

Now, after more than fifteen months of testing with invite-only accounts, Google Voice is ready for the masses.

As great as the service is, it hasn’t existed without controversy. Last summer, Apple was criticized when the company barred the Google Voice iPhone app from its App Store. The battle over Google Voice was arguably the first shot in the current Apple-Google war.

And earlier today, Business Week reported that Frontier Communications is suing Google over alleged patent violations within the Google Voice service.

For many users however, Google Voice is a wonderful solution to the increasingly complex web of communication profiles. Instead of having to try to maintain separate phone numbers, users can just have one central number forwarded to different devices based on time of day or location.

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Already one of the top free apps on Android™ Market today, Flash Player 10.1 will be available as a final production release for smart phones and tablets once users are able to upgrade to Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Devices supporting “Froyo” and Flash Player 10.1 are expected to include the Dell Streak, Google Nexus One, HTC Evo, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, DROID by Motorola, Motorola Milestone, Samsung Galaxy S and others. Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via over-the-air downloads and to be pre-installed on smart phones, tablets and other devices in the coming months.

“We are thrilled that more than three million Flash designers and developers are now able to unleash their creativity on the world of smart phones, tablets, netbooks, televisions and other consumer electronics,” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business at Adobe. “The combined power of the leading rich media technology platform with millions of passionate creatives is sure to impact the world in ways we haven’t even imagined yet.”

Broad Partner Support

Device and technology partners including ARM, Brightcove, Dell, Google, HTC, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung, Texas Instruments and others announced more specifics around their support for Flash Player 10.1 today.

Content publishers including AgencyNet, AKQA, Armor Games, Blitz, CNET.com, HBO, JustinTV, Kongregate, Mochi Media, Msnbc Digital Network, Turner, Nickelodeon, Odopod, Photobucket, RAIN, Roundarch, Sony Pictures, South Park Studios, USA Network, Viacom, Warner Brothers and many others have also started to optimize Flash content to deliver the best possible experience within the context of smaller screens, which includes larger buttons for interactions, layout adjustments for mobile screens and more.

For details visit www.adobe.com/go/flashquote_sheet_101 or m.flash.com, Adobe’s showcase site for optimized Flash content. For more information on how to optimize Flash content for mobile, visit www.adobe.com/go/fpmobile.

New High Performance Features

Completely redesigned and optimized for mobile, Flash Player 10.1 delivers new interaction methods with support for mobile-specific input models. Support for accelerometer allows users to view Flash content in landscape and portrait mode. With Smart Zooming, users can scale content to full screen mode delivering immersive application-like experiences from a Web page. Performance optimization work with virtually all major mobile silicon and platform vendors makes efficient use of CPU and battery performance.

The new Smart Rendering feature ensures that Flash content is running only when it becomes visible on the screen, further reducing CPU and battery consumption. With Sleep Mode, Flash Player automatically slows down when the device transitions into screen saver mode. Advanced Out-of-Memory Management allows the player to effectively handle non-optimized content that consumes excessive resources, while automatic memory reduction decreases content usage of RAM by up to 50 percent. Flash Player pauses automatically when events occur such as incoming phone calls or switching from the browser to other device functions. Once users switch back to the browser, Flash Player resumes where it paused.

Industry Analyst Feedback

“Although it is labeled a dot release, Flash Player 10.1 is a significant update that includes a number of new performance and mobile specific features,” said Al Hilwa, program director of the Application Development Program at IDC. “This allows consumers to see a much bigger part of the Web and allows developers to bring their Flash Platform skills to a much bigger swath of devices.”

“For the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to test an Android Froyo device loaded with a beta of Flash Player 10.1,” said Ben Bajarin, principal analyst at Creative Strategies. “The overall experience and performance of Flash has been impressive. Mobile users now have access to full Web pages with rich Flash content on millions of sites. With the new mobile specific features, developers also have an important opportunity to help shape the way Web content, games, touch capabilities and more are presented across platforms and devices as Froyo and other platforms deliver full Flash support.”

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JMeter is to first download the latest production release and install it. The release contains all of the files you need to build and run most types of tests, e.g. Web (HTTP/HTTPS), FTP, JDBC, LDAP, Java, and JUnit.

If you want to perform JDBC testing, then you will, of course, need the appropriate JDBC driver from your vendor. JMeter does not come with any JDBC drivers.

If you want to install the jmeter on your linux box you need to follow my steps

1) Goto http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi
2) Download Binary 2.3.4.zip . The zip file name will be “jakarta-jmeter-2.3.4″
3) Paste it in /var/www/html/
4) Unzip “jakarta-jmeter-2.3.4″
5) New folder with name “jakarta-jmeter-2.3.4″ will be created
6) Go to command prompt
7) go to “jakarta-jmeter-2.3.4″ folder (cd /var/www/html/jakarta-jmeter-2.3.4)
go to “bin” folder (cd bin)
9) Now you are in bin folder (i.e /var/www/html/jakarta-jmeter-2.3.4/bin/)
10) type the command “sh jmeter”
11) After a short pause, the JMeter GUI should appear.

After this you can use following commands for load testing.

For non-interactive testing, you may choose to run JMeter without the GUI. To do so, use the following command options

-n This specifies JMeter is to run in non-gui mode

-t [name of JMX file that contains the Test Plan].

-l [name of JTL file to log sample results to].

-r Run the test in the servers specified by the JMeter property “remote_hosts”

-R [list of remote servers] Run the test in the specified remote servers

The script also lets you specify the optional firewall/proxy server information:

-H [proxy server hostname or ip address]
-P [proxy server port]

Example : jmeter -n -t my_test.jmx -l log.jtl -H my.proxy.server -P 8000