If someday we have to use the services other than provided by Google, where will we go?

Conclusion: Search and Gmail are two features from Google that cannot be replaced.

I love the features, flock has a style
I can see all a lot of things that I use daily, facebook, flickr, twitter, youtube, blogger, photobucket, del.icio.us, magnolia and a lot more.

Let me check out more features

Blogged with Flock

After thejesh_gn‘s Tweet “Mozilla Prism coming to your desktops http://labs.mozilla.com/200…. U can try gmail offline using prism.” I tried to try it out.
Prism is defined by Mozilla guys as

Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web. We think the web is a powerful and open platform for this sort of innovation, so our goal is to identify and facilitate the development of enhancements that bring the advantages of desktop apps to the web platform.

As always the most frustrating thing was it did not have proxy support So tried few things over Intranet.

I have used firebug ( v .93) once, but was not able to appreciate the features provided. That usage was just for a small mesh up we ( Geo and Me ) had created. Yesterday I saw the video of Joe Hewitt’s session and was amazed to see the capabilities. I think, firebug is the best thing that could have happened to JavaScript and web development using AJAX, CSS etc. And the best part is firebug is not a BIG utility or some IDE, its just a plug-in to Firefox browser. (size ~ 300KB)

Highlights :

1. JavaScript profiler : when profiler is on it measures following parameters.
• How many times JavaScript method was executed.
• What was the execution time for each method call. ( own time as well as total time spent) Along with these parameters a complete statistics of time taken, average time, % time taken is shown. It works almost in same way as any other java profiler. Profiler can be activated from source code also using some JavaScript methods. ( console.profileStart(String) and console.profileEnd(String) )
2. JavaScript Debugging : We can insert breakpoints ( no more ‘alerts’) and can check all local variables in inspect dialogue, same as any other debugger. Firebug supports conditional breakpoints too. If parameters of some method are to monitored we can keep a check on that also. A complete list of all the method calls with different parameters is provided.
3. Trace the control : this feature shows you where the control is reached in JavaScript. The DOM node( in source code) is highlighted at the location where the control is active. It explains from an event what all changes are taking place in JavaScript. It also shows the runtime what all objects are inserted in DOM nodes. We can log DOM events that are sent to particular elements
4. JavaScript Editing : A very good JS editor with all the features we ever wanted.
5. Console Logging : Just to console.log(object) in JS and in console we get the hyperlink with that object that links to DOM tab which shows all the properties of that DOM component. There is a console.dir(object) method too which helps in saving the DOM property of a particular component at particular time. Console.trace() is very important method which tells us from where the particular method was called and with parameters.
6. We can monitor the XML that is fetched when a request is send. Along with this we can see Request/Response headers as well as the parameters used to fetch the XML.
7. We can monitor all network traffic going on behind the page. It shows the time taken to fetch each element( JavaScript, image, css etc) on the page.
8. Styling/Live editing of page : excellent way to visually edit html/css and the results are shown the runtime only no need to refresh page. Very good facility of disabling tags and classes, so no need to comment/uncomment code when we want to see the effects of some code snippet. When we hover over some tag in source code, we can see that portion in web page to get highlighted. This facilitates a lot in editing style sheets/page. Along with this we can see graphically the css attributes that are overridden thus help us in debugging.

Video tutorial can be downloaded from here.

Interesting Fact : API to firebug is to be release in some days and people can develop extension to this extension :- )