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With Apple leading the race in the smartphone market following the release of iPhone 4S, BlackBerry made an unexpected product redesign from its tranditional "enterprise-look" to a sleek, slim smartphone, named PorscheDesign P'9981.

The luxurious outlook of the futuristic-looking smartphone is encased within a stainless steel frame. Its back is a hand-wrapped leather cover and comes with QWERTY keyboard that has an embossed accent on every key.

Powered by a 1.2GHz processor, the BlackBerry PorscheDesign P'9981 also comes with a 2.8-inch high-resolution display touch screen and advanced sensoring system. The device comes with an onboard memory of 8GB, is expandable up to 40GB through the addition of a microSD card.

Whilst it is rumoured to be available in store at the later part of this year, the final price is still not confirmed.

Mobile users should be very familiar with this WhatsApp Messenger application. Exist as a cross-platform mobile messaging app, it allows users to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS, and it is also vailable for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia.

Utilising only the Internet data plan, it further allows you to use for email and web browsing at no cost to message, whilst staying in touch with your friends.

Normally, this app is charged at US$0.99 for iPhone users. Today (15^th October 2011), when I noticed that it is given out as "FREE", perhaps for a one-day promotional offer. Well, iPhone users should access iTunes to download it as soon as possible, or install it via your iPhone AppStore.

Take the best of this opportunity before whilst stock last!

Another great release from Mozilla! Firefox Beta 8.0 is now available for download and testing. If you are already a Firefox users, simply click on "Check for Updates" and it will present you with the option to upgrade to version 8.0.

New users can access Mozilla website to download the beta version from the link below.

Download Link: Firefox Beta 8

(click here to read what's new in Firefox Beta 8...)

Want to get Google AdSense stickers? Now you can get those stick 'em up from Google, wherever you are in the world. The stickers are designed for laptops, but work equally well on other stuffs. So, here's how you get them.

Send Google a self-addressed, stamped envelop with sufficient postage to return 1 oz of sticker goodness from California office in United States to you. You should also send your envelope, along with a note if you would like to:

Google AdSense
c/o Alejo Grigera
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Supplies are limited, hence whilst stock last!

Less than 2 weeks ago, I reported on the availability of Firefox 6 Beta version that was released by Mozilla developers for testing. And 3 days ago, the next version of Firefox Beta v7.0 was offered to betal channel users as well.

In this latest release, the key changes are:

• Drastically improved memory use
• Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems.
• Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync.
• Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis.
• Added support for the Web Timing specification.
• Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox. This can be enabled by installing an add-on.
• Fixed several stability issues.

If you are able to get your hands on the beta version, you should be pleased to be able to utilise these functional features.

Download Link: Firefox Beta Channel

Just today, I noticed that Google Mail, also famously known as GMail, is allowing users to preview the new Sign-in page. The new sign-in page certainly looks neat and sleek. Have a preview of the new page below.

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For Mozilla Firefox enthusiasts, you would be pleased to know that Firefox Beta 6.0 is now available for testing. In this release, users would be able to:

• Add-ons Manager with Plugin Check: Check that your plugins are up-to-date directly from the Add-ons Manager.
• Improved Panorama Groups: Reduces browser startup time by only loading saved tab groups when you use Panorama.
• Improved Address Bar: Highlights the domain name of the website you’re visiting to make it easy to identify where you are online.
• Streamlined site identity block.
• The Scratchpad: Quickly build and test JavaScript snippets in the browser.
• Support for Web Sockets with a prefixed API.
• Moveable Web Console.
• New Web developer-specific menu Window.match.
• Media API Support for server-sent events.

This release introduces innovative tools to help developers build rich and compelling Web experiences.

Personally, I enjoy the web experience of using Mozilla Firefox 6.0. Although it's at beta stage, it's almost close to production and I have not experienced a single issue up to this moment. Good job!

Download Link: Mozilla Firefox 6.0 Beta

After a few weeks of Drupal's release to fix issues and vulnerabilities, I have decided to spend some time on Saturday morning to upgrade the site's version to Drupal 6.22.

The twenty-second maintenance release actually contains bug fixes. No security fixes have been applied on this version. Well, it is perhaps a good thing I did not upgrade to Drupal 6.21, as version 6.22 was released exactly on the same day.

Drupal recommends Drupal 7 (currently on version 7.4), however, it is perhaps good to wait a while before upgrading the site to this version, due to several incompatibilities issues that need to be addressed.

NeoHide would like to take the opportunity to thank you, readers for the continued support.