I stumbled across this collection of (very rare) Facebook UI shots over time. You may find some of the newer ones on the Internet Archive but it indeed is amazing to see how the User Interface of Facebook has changed over time, since it started from the dorm of Mark Zuckerberg. It starts from when Facebook was “thefacebook” uptil now. Enjoy.

After unveiling of one of the epic features of Google+ called hangout that allows users to make video calls online with an awesome user experience, Facebook is now also announcing soon the the video calling feature that will allow Facebook users to make video calls.

Facebook video calling is not officially announced yet but it is ready and working! somewhere on internet, the direct link to the video calling page got leaked or discovered.

IE9 RC was already around for a couple of months now with news that Microsoft will be taking a leap ahead with the new Internet Explorer 9. It has landed now: Microsoft has released the final version of IE9 with a whole bunch of improvements. The main highlight is a new domain for browsers: utilizing GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit) for improved HTML5 and video encoding/decoding. Up until now, browsers mainly utilized CPUs even for compute intensive jobs. This changes with the new IE9.

Before this year closes, make sure you get all of at least most of these really useful apps on your iPad. Currently there are more then a million apps listed on the App Store and you will find a couple of lists around the web listing some essential apps in different categories. In this article I have compiled a list of apps categorically put in News, Music, Gaming, Reading and a bunch of other categories. If there’s an app you think is missing from the list and should be added in the essentials list then do suggest!

Web 2.0 is here to stay and the web technologies that made it “2.0” have also matured enough to move on to Web 3.0? Web is more intelligent, user friendly and interactive. Rich Internet Applications (RIA) have successfully caught the users’ attention and brought the desktop experience to browser. The transformation of desktop experience to browser played a key role in quick adoption of web 2.0. In this article we will take a look at some of the JavaScript APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that made it all happen.

HTML5 is gaining a lot of steam lately but it’s ultimate test would be to bring to the browser what it’s rival Flash is already doing – Interactive browser based games. So I thought of compiling a list of browser based games that have been released or are in testing phase. All of these games are purely coded in HTML5 and most of these are even Open Source so if you want to try out building something for your own idea, you can use their codebase.

If you are starting off with writing some JavaScript, the first step is to choose an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). An IDE typically includes a Compiler, Code Editor (with/without Intellisense) and a Debugger. There are tons of additional features that almost every IDE now includes but these are the basic components. Let’s start with a list of possible IDEs you can use for writing JavaScript and debugging them.

Adobe decided to reply to Steve Job’s accusations by launching an Ad campaign focused on their “Love for Apple”. Adobe’s founders emphasize that Web is Open but Apple is trying to dictate what and how content should be made and distributed over the mobile web.

We all want to believe what Steve Jobs claimed in his long blog post in a reply to all the recent criticism Apple has faced for it’s lack of Flash support. We even went to the point of actually believing that it’s time for Flash to be replaced with the new open standards of playing video and animations on the mobile web. But this video reveals the other side of the story. Here we see HTML5 animations on iPad from a popular HTML5 demo website. The video speaks for itself.

Firefox 1.1 Beta also known as Fennec or Firefox mobile project is powered by the same engine as the latest Firefox 3.6 for Desktop but optimized to run smooth on a mobile device. Mozilla has released the first ever (Beta) version of it’s mobile browser but it’s initially available for Nokia N900 handsets.

Now you can “Like” anything almost anywhere on the web. Starting from today, Facebook has started posting notifications on your Facebook page detailing that now it’s possible for you to “Like” content on it’s partner websites including Yelp, Microsoft Docs.com, Wall Street Journal, Pandora and several others. 

Yes, it’s now officially available at the Apple App Store. We first announced the news of Opera Mini submission to the App Store for approval and now Opera just announced that Apple has finally approved the “fastest browser on earth” for iPhone and iPod touch. There were doubts that Apple will not approve Opera because it competes with the native Safari browser for iPhone.

When Facebook is still reluctant to shift to HTML5 because of bandwidth or processing overheads or whatever the reason may be, there’s an app that would do the work for you. Until now, you couldn’t play Facebook videos through the official Facebook app for iPhone and iPod touch but now with “Facebook video player” you can playback videos on Facebook.

Mozilla Firefox 3.7 pre-alpha dubbed “Minefield” is out with some really great UI enhancements and an extensive use of Windows Vista/7 glass. In fact it seems like they’ve turned every portion of the UI into glass and this is really awesome. It’s still pre-alpha release but it gives you an idea of how Firefox 3.7 will look like.

The Aero effects in Windows 7 are really cool to start with but sometimes you can do not want so many thumbnails of your open tabs in Firefox to pop up every time you hover cursor over the Firefox tab in the taskbar. Or conversely, you may want the thumbnails to show up. Either way, here’s the simplest way to enable or disable thumbnail preview of your open tabs of Firefox in your Windows 7 taskbar.