Opera 10.51, the fastest Web browser ever!

Opera recently released Opera 10.51. Opera claims this as the fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers. The browser has also been given a completely new look similar to Google Chrome. It also claims it ensures the fastest javascript.

The desktop browser is free to use, lands on Windows. Opera has said, its Mac And Linux Version is coming soon.

The Norwegian software maker calls Opera 10.51 the fastest browser they’ve ever produced. The browser is also said to include improved standards support for HTML5 and CSS3. It allows users to switch between pages or windows without having to disturb your browsing.

For Windows 7 and Vista users, there are some more goodies: Opera now fully supports Aero Glass, Aero Peek and Jump Lists. You can easily access your Speed Dials, tabs and more from the Taskbar.

Opera 10.51 is available for Windows in 42 different languages and Opera 10.50 beta 1 is a free to download.

Google’s new move to buy ‘Picnik’

Google has bought online photo-editing site Picnik. It will take about three weeks to complete the deal. The firm did not disclose the cost of buying this online photo-editing site. As, five-year old start-up Settlement, 20-strong team will start working on Picasa, Google’s online photo sharing service.

Last month, Google bought social search engine Aardvark and mobile e-mail service reMail and introduced a social network named Buzz. It also said it would offer ultra-fast broadband network service to thousands of US homes.

Since September, 2009, Google has bought eight companies, and threatened to leave China. Google claimed that the hackers in China had tried to infiltrate its software coding and the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said, “the company would resume its historic pace of acquiring one small company a month on average, with larger deals happening every year or two.“

Buxter facilitates direct payment system among Facebook friends

Popular social networking site Facebook has allowed small payments system which can be shared directly among Facebook friends through an application called Buxter. But this application only handles its transactions in Euros or US dollars and requires 5% conversion fee for other currencies at the point of upload to a Buxter account. Transactions between Buxter accounts are free to make and receive but a 1.9% commission fee, minimum 2 euros or 3 dollar or 2 pounds is charged to move the money to another source such as a bank account.

The application is designed for small payments (a maximum of 50 euros can be held in any one account) and transactions can only be made among people who are friends on Facebook.

Already More than 13 million people across the world have Buxter accounts. ClickandBuy is the company who is behind this application. They believe people would use the service to pay each other for shared expense.

Digital Camera Raw update 3.1 has released by Apple

Recently Apple has released Digital Camera Raw update 3.1. It is able to render both Aperture 3 and iPhoto’09. It is also compatible with more than ten new cameras from seven different manufacturers around the world.

Digital Camera Raw Update 3.1 weighs in at a little over 6.7MB. It’s now available via Software Update which can also be downloaded from Apple’s support site. It requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later verson or Mac OS X 10.6.2 or later verson to run.

The update covers cameras of disparate pedigree: Sony Alpha DSLR A500, A800 and A850, Pentax K-7 and K-x, Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1, Olympus E-P1 and E-P2, Leica X1 and M9, and Hasselblad H3DII-50. Hasselblad H3DII-50 is a medium format DSLR with the most expensive Among the bunch of Camera.

Google’s new deal indicates its interest on Social Networking Market.

Google Inc. has signed deal to buy Aardvark. Aardvark is a San Francisco based Internet search and social networking company. Aardvark’s service taps a person’s network of social contacts. It introduced ‘social search’ instead of typical searching.

The purchase represents the latest sign of Google’s interest in the fast-growing social networking market. At present, most of social networking market is captured by companies like Twitter and Facebook. Recently Google has introduced a new product called Google Buzz into its Gmail Web-based email service. Google Buzz directly integrates Twitter-like social networking features.

Google said that it had signed a conclusive agreement to acquire Aardvark, but it did not comment about the amount of the deal, but technology blog TechCrunch has demanded deal was for $50 million. The deal acquisition deal between Aardvark and Google was expected to close within the next week.

Microsoft is on the way to release its Office for Mac

Microsoft sneak peak offer of Office for Mac will be available later this year. Microsoft has Previewed Office for Mac in San Francisco lately. It includes new connections to Microsoft services which will help users collaborate more effectively.

Its new tools allow users to work on Ms Office files from different locations via a Microsoft Office Web Application connection (though its beta now). Throough Web Application documents are stored in the user’s Windows Live ID account or Microsoft SharePoint.

This office application for Mac Ribbon represents an evolution of the Office 2008 Elements Gallery, leveraging the classic Mac menu and standard toolbar. Users can collapse the ribbon and the toolbar to get more screen space.

It also have Co-authoring feature which will remove confusion from having multiple versions of documents. It also facilitates real-time status updates to users.

With the new design, Microsoft intends to make it easier to find new and frequently used commands.