The first App I installed when I got my iPad was Flipboard and up and till today I am still using it daily to catch up on whats happening, so its save to say the Flipboard is my favorite iPad App, the only drawback is that you need an iPad to experience it, but that could change soon.

Flipboard launched in July 2010 only for the iPad and has since seen great success on the platform winning iPad App of the year, but to grow Flipboard will have to expand their horizons to other platforms like the web where sites like paper.li already own a large portion of the market.

Flipboard just posted on their Twitter feed that they are hiring, amongst the available positions is two that stands out, one position for a Designer-Web Developer and another for a front-end Web Developer to envision and design the future of reading content online. Could this mean that Flipboard is gearing up to launch a web version of the social magazine?

Perhaps Flipboard will join other publishers like Sports Illustrated and New York Times and publish a Chrome Web App, either way I am looking forward to be able to read Flipboard from the web also.

Being a web developer I work with different kinds of browsers all the time, and since Google Chrome was released there was no turning back to my previous favourite Firefox. Two years in and Google Chrome still does not disappoint.

Since Google Chrome’s first beta release two years back the browser has come a long way, holding more than 7.5% of the world browser market share. This may not sound like a lot, but if you compare it to browsers like Opera that has been in the market for more than than 10 years and only still hold 2.4%, its clear that Google Chrome is catching up on competitors.

Google Chrome version 6 marks the second anniversary of the Web Browser that is built around speed and simplicity. The new version 6 or Chrome features a built in flash plugin, minor modification to the look, form autofill, and extension and autofill syncronization across computers.

In addition, Google Chrome also kept its support for HTML 5 top notch, making it even more appealing as a browser of choice while keeping it fast, simple and secure.

Up until now the only way for you to run Mxit on your PC was to either to use Pidgin for Windows with Mxit pc support or to use the Mxit Evo PC client.

How nice would it be if you could offer your visitors the comfort of using Mxit straight from your website without installing any software? Well now you can with Mxit’s Evo Web Widget. The Mxit web widget makes use of silverlight technology and enables you to customise the look to suite your sites needs.

How do you get your hand on the Mxit Evo web widget? Just click here and follow the instructions to embet Mxit’s web widget into your site.

Hopefully you have already downloaded and installed Firefox 3.5 on your PC, if not do yourself a favour and download it here. Even if you are a regular Firefox user am sure you do not know all keyboard shortcuts for all possible options. So to make your life easier, I present the complete list of all keyboard shorcuts in Firefox 3.5.

Here we go,

Navigation

• Back – Alt+Left Arrow, Backspace
• Forward – Alt+Right Arrow, Shift+Backspace
• Home – Alt+Home
• Open File – Ctrl+O
• Reload – F5, Ctrl +R
• Reload (override cache) – Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+Shift+R
• Stop – Esc

Current Page

• Go to Bottom of Page – End
• Go to Top of Page – Home
• Move to Next Frame – F6
• Move to Previous Frame – Shift+F6

Page Info

• Page Source – Ctrl+U
• Print – Ctrl+P
• Save Page As – Ctrl+S
• Zoom In – Ctrl++
• Zoom Out – Ctrl+-
• Zoom Reset – Ctrl+0

Editing

• Copy – Ctrl+C
• Cut – Ctrl+X
• Delete – Delete
• Paste – Ctrl+V
• Redo – Ctrl+Y
• Select All – Ctrl+A
• Undo – Ctrl+Z

Search

• Find – Ctrl+F
• Find Again – F3, Ctrl+G
• Find As You Type Link – ‘
• Find As You Type Text – /
• Find Previous – Shift+F3
• Web Search – Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E

Windows & Tabs

• Close Tab – Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4
• Close Window – Ctrl+Shift+W, Alt+F4
• Move Tab Left (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Left Arrow, Ctrl+Up Arrow
• Move Tab Right (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Right Arrow, Ctrl+Down Arrow
• Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused) – Ctrl +Home
• Move Tab to End (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+End
• New Tab – Ctrl+T
• New Window – Ctrl+N
• Next Tab – Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Page Down
• Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar) – Alt+Enter
• Previous Tab – Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+Page Up
• Undo Close Tab – Ctrl+Shift+T
• Select Tab (1 to – Ctrl+(1 to
• Select Last Tab – Ctrl+9

Tools

• Bookmark All Tabs – Ctrl+Shift+D
• Bookmark This Page – Ctrl+D
• Bookmarks – Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I
• Caret Browsing – F7
• Downloads – Ctrl+J
• History – Ctrl+H
• Clear Private Data – Ctrl+Shift+Del
• Error Console – Ctrl+Shift+J

Miscellaneous

• Complete .com Address – Ctrl+Enter
• Complete .net Address – Shift+Enter
• Complete .org Address – Ctrl+Shift+Enter
• Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry – Del
• Toggle Full Screen – F11
• Help – F1
• Select Location Bar – Alt+D, F6, Ctrl+L
• Select or Manage Search Engines (when Search Bar is focused) – Alt+Up Arrow, Alt+Down Arrow, F4

Hopefully you know most of these already and have learned a few along the way.

Firefox 3.5 was released today. Firefox 3.5  is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use.

Some of the noteable features are:

• Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. (Try it here!)
• Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing. (Try it here!)
• Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
• Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

I have been running the beta version of Firefox 3.5 for some time now and have been very impressed to date, especialy performance wise. So if you’re a Firefox fanboi go ahead and download the Firefox 3.5 now. Download available here or locally here.

While our eyes was full of Bing, another search engine entered the market silently.

Collecta the brand new search engine went live on 18 June 2009 without any big bangs or heavy marketing. You are probably asking so what makes Collecta different than Google or Bing or Yahoo? Collecta is a search engine with a new take on searching, it searches the web in a way no other search engine does. Collecta is a real-time search engine, crawling the web as you enter the keywords and spitting out the results in real-time.

The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, and Flickr, so we can show you results as they happen. Give it a try.