Templates are a great resource for starter webmasters or web designers. Its not a big deal to design a good template but for the lazy ones there are always templates sites. here is a list of some free template sites:

http://www.freshtemplates.com/

http://www.zerodollartemplates.com/

http://www.effex-media.com/

http://www.templatesbox.com/

Now you can make your Toolbar as unique as you are. You can add buttons and bookmarks; get instant search suggestions; share web pages with friends; and enjoy the Toolbar’s pop-up blocker, web form filler, and spellchecker.

There is one plugin for firefox that is currently talked about.

Its from Performancing. Its called Performancing for Firefox.

Its definitely a bloggers love. I have been using it since its first release day and there is a new version now supporting technorati and delicious. I had a chance for a sneek preview as a performancing user and was one of the first few people who had a cnahce to test it. Now its public as Nick promissed. If you are a firefox user and a blogger and dont have the plugin yet, you are defenitely missing something.

Performancing for Firefox 1.1

Download it here:  Performancing for Firefox 1.1

Happy Blogging!

There was tabbed browsing in opera and then the supercool firefox without opening n mumber of windows.
And then there was Tabbed browsing in IE(which is a flop).
Now there is combination of browsers in one.
The New IE Tab Firefox extension lets you open any website which you are viewing in firfox to view it in IE and the IE window will be opened as a tab in firefox itself. you can see it in the screenshot.

Download it here: IE Tab – Firefox Extension

Have you heard about Saarang?
Its the name of the collge festival conducted every year at IIT Madras.
I heard that its one of the biggest events in chennai that youngsters enjoy.

I came across this firefox theme on the mozilla site today.
It does’nt so good but, it comes from Chennai

You can download the theme here.
Also visit Saarang.org

“Pack could grease entry into enterprises” – Phil Muncaster, IT Week

Google has launched a beta of a free collection of applications, including some from other vendors, to help users download, install and maintain software to use the internet more effectively.

The new Google Pack – available here – is primarily aimed at consumers, but experts said it could also raise the search giant’s profile within enterprises.

Google Pack was launched at the International Consumer Electronics Show and its tools include Google Earth satellite imaging software, the Google Talk instant messaging application, Google Toolbar for web browsers and Google’s desktop search software.

The pack also features Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, a version of Norton AntiVirus software from Symantec and Adobe Reader 7.

Google Updater, also included, is a new tool that will download, install and uninstall, and maintain all the software in the Google Pack, ensuring each program is up to date by alerting users when new updates become available, according to the company.

Mike Davis of analyst Butler Group said the announcement shows that Google is trying to challenge Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop, both at home and in the enterprise. “A few years ago people were taking technology home from work, but [more recently] this has reversed, with things like instant messaging starting in the home environment and then moving to the office,” Davis said. ” If X million people have a free packet of software that can be automated, updated and supported, and it is not in the corporate environment, there will be a push for change [so it can be used] at the enterprise level.”

Davis added that Google’s announcement would raise the profile of the company’s brand and alter perceptions that it is solely a provider of search functionality.
However, David Bradshaw of analyst firm Ovum said Google Pack does not offer any applications that cannot already be downloaded from the internet for free, except for the Norton software.

“Google is marking time [with this release],” Bradshaw commented. “It had to announce something in the software domain so it put together [this bundle]. Everyone expects it to launch something to challenge Microsoft but this isn’t it.”

Instant messaging service will be available on mobile devices.

Continuing its push into the mobile space, Google is making its Google Talk instant messaging service available to BlackBerry users, Google and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced Thursday.

Google Talk for BlackBerry is a version of the instant messaging application that was designed for BlackBerry devices. The application will be much like Google Talk for PCs so when users download the client software they’ll see their existing Google Talk contact list, be able to add and alter contacts, know when contacts are online, and send and receive messages. Users will be notified on the home screen of the BlackBerry when new messages arrive in Google Talk.

BlackBerry users can download the application for free but they may be charged by their mobile operator for data transmitted when using the service.

Google Talk for BlackBerry is expected to be available in the second quarter.

Mercora, Inc. recently launched Mercora IM Radio for Google Talk, bringing Mercora’s innovative music search and discovery service to Google Talk users. As a result, Google Talk users gain the ability to browse and listen to their friends’ music as well as seamlessly access Mercora Music Search to find and listen to any music on the worlds’ largest and most diverse user contributed music network. Users can download Mercora IM Radio at gtalk.mercora.com.

Warning: It seems that Mercora automatically sends a message to all your Google Talk contacts: ‘I would like to invite you to join the Mercora music network. Download it from http://www.mercora.com/gtalk’.

A skin to make Yahoo! Messenger look like Google Talk.
Run the install and change your skin in Messenger > Change Skin…

Download: gtalk-yahooskin.exe
Source: Shift This

I’ve been searching for one good desktop application with address book, notes saver, task reminder, bookmark manager and some more cool features. In the process I found this free software RICOlmer, which is really good. But the bad thing is that it is only a task reminder. But its worth a try.
Here is the link: RICOlmer