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Google Chrome OS is a lightweight open source linux-based operating system developing by Google based on Google’s Chrome web browser.

The following video tells you “What is Google Chrome OS?” in plain english.

What do you need to know about Google Chrome OS

The Google Chrome OS IS the web browser. It has super fast start-up speed. All applications are web applications, no installation.

The OS has high security to prevent malware and virus. If anything goes wrong, it will reboot and fix itself.

Chrome OS only works with solid-state hard drives and meant for netbooks. It will not install on your notebook.

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WordPress, the most popular blogging platform, has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award 2009 for the first time in the past four years.

The other two finalists MODx and SilverStripe tied for the first runner up position. (Sorry, first time I heard of them!)

In addition, WordPress also won 2nd place of the Best Open Source PHP CMS Category in 2009 Open Source CMS Award, ahead of Joomla! (3rd place). Drupal won in this category.

Matt, WordPress Co-Founder, wrote about the news, too.

WordPress as CMS?

Personally, I still treat WordPress as a blogging platform and not a CMS. Yes, you can use it as a CMS but it is not a out-of-box CMS script.

What do you think? Do you use WordPress for your CMS site?

Some CMS books for you: Beginning Drupal 7, Joomla! 1.5: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website (2nd Edition)
, WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide

While Mozilla Firefox celebrates its 5th birthday, Cenzic, an application security vendor, claims that the Mozilla Firefox led the field of Web browsers in terms of total vulnerabilities.

This is certainly not a good news for Mozilla.

According to Cenzic, Firefox accounted for 44 percent of all browser vulnerabilities reported in the first half of 2009. In contrast, Apple’s Safari had 35 percent of all reported browser vulnerability, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was third at 15 percent and Opera had just six percent share.

Does it make Firefox a dangerous web browser?

The Firefox plug-ins are one of the main reasons of the vulnerabilities. Mozilla launched a plug-in checker in Oct 2009 to address the problem.

Ironically, while Firefox has the most vulnerabilities, Cenzic themselves use Mozilla technology within its own solutions.

[via InternetNews.com]

Tip: Install NoScript addon to make your Firefox safer.

I use Google Gears on WordPress admin panels. It really makes a difference, pages are loading much faster with Gears.

Firefox 3.5 was not supported by Google Gears when it was released. There was no update for Google Gears for months. No stable release.

I have given up. Then, today, when I clicked on the “Turbo” link on WordPress Admin and then discovered the new version of Google Gears!

Though not announced on the Google Gears official blog (the latest announcement is about Gears 0.5.21), the Gears has been updated to version 0.5.32.

Available for Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac, Linux and Android. Click here to download latest Gears.

Tested with Firefox 3.5.3 on Mac OS X, works great! Now my WordPress Admin panel is fast again!

Do you use Google Gears? Besides WordPress, where do you use Gears?

More Information:

• Introduction to Google Gears: Creating Off-Line Applications with Pre-built Components listing at Amazon.com

With the release of Firefox 3.5, Mozilla Store has added Firefox 3.5 t-shirt for pre-order.

The front of the tee features Firefox 3.5 tag cloud; back features Firefox logo and wordmark. The price is USD$ 19.15, exclude shipping.

The shipping fee for single shirt to Malaysia is USD$ 14.55 (registered mail). That’s expensive. Threadless only ask for USD$9 for shipping.

I would need to pay more than RM120 to get a Firefox 3.5 t-shirt…

Any Malaysian wants to buy the Firefox 3.5 tee? Maybe we can do a bulk order.

P.S. 24 millions (and counting) copies of Firefox 3.5 has been downloaded since released.