We just got upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 3.6 with some more remarkable features . 

The new personas themes allows you to stylize the browser as per your taste in no time there are  thousands of personas available , Once you install firefox 3.6 try visiting  http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/ and just hover  your mouse on the theme thumbnail.And just wear your style in seconds after a preview.

The browsers also keeps you safe from outdated plugins. There are a lot of other features like video display in full screen for Open/ Native  formats , improvised browser responsiveness  etc  , we were already delighted to see the speed at which the earlier 3.5 [read old article] version loaded compared to the others.

Secondly, there would be an element of joy for the developers who have been putting substantial effort to bring up open video formats which were otherwise dominated by Proprietary technologies, coming with or without of limitations, licenses, patents or an attached fee.

Visit  firefox 3.6 release notes

After installing inkscape.0.47 if you have come across the error:

"C:\Documents and Settings\(profile)\Application Data\Inkscape\preferences.xml  not a valid XML file ", or you don't have permissions on it. Inkscape will run with default settings. New settings will not be saved ."

Even  after one month of its release  the delightment still stays. We have tested the Inkscape 0.47 version and  are finding it more wonderful every day , and there is so much stuff that is offered. The latest version offers a lot of new features like :

Openclipart.org provides lots of useful clipart that  for lots of applications like- designing your website,brochures,logo's or just jumpstart your thinking process in terms of graphic image generation. You can use a simple software like inkscape which is free and get a basic idea in less than 1 hour to use it by going through the tutorials.

If you are using Inkscape ,Sodipodi ,openoffice.org or any opensource application, You can download the open clipart library from openclipart.org. The collection is really huge and mind boggling .

What's new in openclipart ?
The library helps people to consolidate SVG images and  offers the images from a platform .During last 6 months the volume of users and the availbility of clipart in .SVG format has increased tremendously.

The Domain Name System (DNS) servers maps or connects the domain names with the respective IP addresses of the hosts so that people don’t need to remember the IP addresses to browse the websites on the internet.

Most of the computers on the internet have an IP (internet protocol) address, which are a set of numbers like 59.92.32.1 and might difficult to remember by the users. The domain name system DNS Allows familiar and meaningful sequence of letters or numbers, which can be easy to remember by users. The domain name can be resolved to the IP address it is mapped. To know more on this, click on below links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DNS.html
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_dns_dns.htm

If you don’t wish to reveal your personal information (like your name, address, telephone e-mail etc.), that’s included in your domain name record and displayed in the whois database to the general public, in order to avoid spams and unsolicited communication, you can do so by opting for private domain registration with the registering company for an additional charge. For detailed information in this regard visit the following websites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy
http://www.actnowdomains.com/private-domain-registration.htm
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/domains/pdr/pdr-01.html

Whois is a database containing the personal information of all the registrants of domain names. The database is publicly available. You can check a domain name’s expiration date & ownership details etc. by visiting sites that offer the whois check facility, few are listed below:

http://www.whois.net/
http://whois.domaintools.com/
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
http://www.who.is/
http://www.whois.com/

To know more on whois click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS.

To register / buy a domain name, you simply have to go to any website offering domain registration service and after checking for the availability of the domain name, you can book the domain name by following the simple steps given in the respective site.Today there are thousands of  service providers offering you registration services. So, go ahead and find the one who offers the best prices and it’s quite better to register the domain for atleast 3-5 years if you are seriously thinking of hosting your own site.