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Software isn’t just about functionality anymore, users want brains and beauty. And beauty, as we know, is in the eye of the beholder, which is why the team behind Firefox 3 plans to ditch the unified cross-platform look of the browser in favor of a sexier look tailored to specific operating systems.

Rather than a single look across all platforms, which is the way Firefox currently ships, Firefox 3 will feature different skins for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and various Linux distributions.

Alex Faaborg, Mozilla’s interface designer, posted a note on his blog yesterday about the divergent themes coming for Firefox 3. Echoing the sentiments of many a Mac Firefox user, Faaborg writes, “personally I think a unified cross platform UI results in applications that at best feel foreign everywhere, and at worst don’t even feel like real applications.”

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Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world’s most frequent searchers for Web sites using the keyword "sex" on Google search engines, according to statistics provided by Google Inc.

Germany, Mexico and Austria were world’s top three searchers of the word "Hitler" while "Nazi" scored the most hits in Chile, Australia and the United Kingdom, data from 2004 to the present retrievable on the "Google Trends" Web site showed.

Chile also came in first place searching for the word "gay", followed by Mexico and Colombia.

The top searchers for other keywords were as follows (in order from first to third place):

• "Jihad" - Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan
• "Terrorism" - Pakistan, Philippines, Australia
• "Hangover" - Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
• "Burrito" - United States, Argentina, Canada
• "Iraq" - United States, Australia, Canada
• "Taliban" - Pakistan, Australia, Canada
• "Tom Cruise" - Canada, United States, Australia
• "Britney Spears" - Mexico, Venezuela, Canada
• "Homosexual" - Philippines, Chile, Venezuela
• "Love" - Philippines, Australia, United States
• "Botox" - Australia, United States, United Kingdom
• "Viagra" - Italy, United Kingdom, Germany
• "David Beckham" - Venezuela, United Kingdom, Mexico
• "Kate Moss" - Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden
• "Dolly Buster" - Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia
• "Car bomb" - Australia, United States, Canada
• "Marijuana" - Canada, United States, Australia
• "IAEA" - Austria, Pakistan, Iran

Source | Reuters.com

Google Earth has announced the latest enhancement to its popular topless Dutch sunbather-spotting service in the form of a YouTube layer which “places videos in their geographical context and provides a new way of discovering and understanding the world”.

The facility can be found in the Featured Content folder, and a quick peruse of the UK threw up this illuminating vid of narcotic-crazed yoof throwing a few shapes and providing further evidence, were it needed, that civilised society should at all costs avoid the fair city of Nottingham:

Google Earth’s chief technologist, Michael Jones, enthused: “Our vision here is all about the sense of place. Photos show the local view, but videos add the sense of life. The combination of Earth’s “where” with YouTube’s “what” makes the combined experience that much more complete and compelling.”

Well, Mike, we reckon what we’ve seen so far certainly gives a sense of life and place. Those among you who want to know more about this combined experience can allegedly get details here later today.

Source | Theregister.co.uk

The popular services Blogger and Blogspot of Google broke down yesterday, after a small period of declining functionalism.

From Monday already, the forum tool Blogger of Google began to fill from complaints bloggers, who supported that they faced a lot of problems in posting, in refreshing, but also in the accessing their blogs, but also other users. Finally, the problems lift to the top on Wednesday, therefore the services Blogger and Blogspot broke down completely. In Europe and USA, all links in blogs and relevant destinations of this services returned error message of servers Google, confirming the size of problem, thus as it was shaped by the reports and the complaints of his users. The services came back after passed more than 1 hour, however the reintroduction was progressive, after enough hours afterwards the broke down, a lot of users were unable to upload content or have access in blogs.

After the two days downtime the site is finally up again. Hope that it will not happen again. Sorry for any annoyance.

Also now you can find the site both at: scrnews.110mb.com and scrnews.uni.cc

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