Google Doodles Showcases Summer Solstice in June 21 2011

Google doodles showcases the longest day of the year, which is falling today at northern hemisphere. The date is June 21st which is summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and winter solstice in the south and this is the period of longest daylight.

The sun achieves the northernmost pinnacle at the Tropic of Cancer. Numerous cultures around the world identify solstice with rituals, holidays, festivities and other traditions, as it's seen as a time of fertility.




The Google Doodle is designed by Tokyo artist, Takashi Murakami. His technique of art is called "superflat" and is consequent from anime and manga.

In contrast to today’s Google Doodle there are many other Murakami works that incorporates the albumwork for Kanye West's album, "Graduation" and also he did had an exhibition of his artwork at the Palace of Versailles in France, where he filled up 15 rooms with his sculptures.

Google is going to digitalize 250,000 books of British Library

The rich and very precious collections dating from 17th to 18th Century texts are accessible to the world through British Library.  As the news have been circulating that British Library has signed contract with Google to digitalize the texts of the books and exhibits the collection.

The contract states that around 250000 most precious text will be digitalize on Google for just free reading – no copy – copy will be disabled.

As per my well sourced information the very first digitalized online reading text would be Spanish inventor Narciso Monturiol's campaign for one of the world's first submarines dating back to 1858 and a guide about French Queen Marie Antoinette. And also comprises of the period of French Revolution, invention of rail and telegraph, the British Industrial Revolution, the Crimean War and more.

   

The calculated partnership is being called over by both Google and British Library as a shift in the direction of safeguarding culture and history for posterity and generating consciousness among people about their historical backdrop during the incorporation of historic documents with modern media.



The British library has also declared partnership with IT firm BrightSolid for the digitization of 40 million
pages of text to be made available for free on Google.

Mozilla to make public Firefox 5 on June 21 2011

The trendy web browser from Mozilla, Firefox 4 was just announced just few months back. Mozilla had by now enclosed the information that Mozilla would speed up the version numbers and Firefox 5 would be announced in the month of June. Firefox 5 is at the present absolute and very secure to release. The official launch date has been decided to the 21st of June, 2011, but the concluding build emerges to have been uploaded on Mozilla’s FTP server.

Firefox 4 brought the length of an entire cluster of alternations consists of to the user interface. A further optimized Javascript engine was put in place and a excess of features were added that incorporated hardware acceleration, HTML5 WebM support.

    

Firefox 5 in contrast, doesn’t have as numerous alternations. It has a mass of bug repairs and presentation tweaks nevertheless. There’s hold up for CSS animations and a feature that discontinues websites from tracking users.

Also a mobile version of Firefox 5 is predictable soon. Firefox 6 and 7 are in line to be out before the end of the year. If users want the new version then move to the Mozilla FTP and download Firefox 5 at this instant.

Google Generates eBook Affiliate Program for Google Users

Google launched a latest and fresh affiliate program to publishers and bloggers for its eBook program on Thursday, the company declared. As per to the company, this innovative program will permit Web publishers, retailers and bloggers to link their websites or blogs to its Google eBook service and take delivery of a commission for sending visitors to the Google eBook store.

Under this program, users require to generate a Google Affiliate Network account and sign up for Google AdSense. Publishers who works following the terms and conditions of the program and convey the Google eBook Store customers from side to side of their websites, will be pleased on a cost per action (CPA)/sales feat basis, the company said.



“As it has begun from today, Google request anyone fascinated with the service, all site owners can come down to apply to join the greater Google eBooks affiliate program. Contributing websites to increase latest and fresh revenue torrents by giving their book-reading spectators a simple method to purchase Google eBooks," Pratip Banerji, product manager at the Google Books team, wrote in a blog post.

Highlighting the main point of the simplicity and taste of the new program, Banerji added, “After coming down with GAN, you can also subscribe to the Google eBooks product feed to receive links to the complete set of
accessible Google eBooks.”