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It’s Tuesday and here are the news:

• Google has released a beta version of their new Chrome web browser, running on WebKit like Apple’s Safari. The main idea behind the browser is to speed up websites by in one way or another, caching more code, mainly speeding up JavaScript web apps. You can find a post over at the official Google Blog that talks about the release. Currently it is for Windows only.
   
• Timothy Armes has released an update to his popular LR/Enfuse Lightroom plugin, bringing it up to version three. Features included in this new version includes batch processing and the ability for the plugin to reimport and stack the originals, and more. Both of these features do require Lightroom 2.
   
• Mozilla has in the days released an alpha stage plugin for FireFox called Ubiquity which allow you to create simple and quick mashups. What you do is that you pop open a window inside of FireFox (hud-style, transparent, dark-grey) where you type a command of what you want to do (like "google text" — which will search google for "text"). Check it out and give it a test, it’s relatively cool. It’s still a little buggy and could use a lot more commands, but hey, it’s only the first alpha version.
   
• Over at the Photography Corner they have posted a great article today in their resources section. The article is all Tips for Photographing Wildlife and is very well written and takes up some really good pointers.

Finally a note to everyone in the US Gulf Area! Hope everything is well with you and I hope it’s going to stay that way. Be safe!

» Late “Last” Monday News

I’ve been very busy today sorting and working with photos from my week away last week and getting back into things so that’s why there have been this little delay in the news post.

• Last Wednesday the ISO group decided to take the Adobe PDF document seriously and approved it as an ISO standard. From now and on the format will be recognised as format ISO32000-1 and it will be controlled by the organisation.
   
• Last week also Google announced that the search engine is now indexing flash! According to their official blog they have now "perfected the algorithm" to now index flash. This is all pretty exciting as it makes SEO with flash a lot easier! Read more about it at Viget Inspire.
   
• Last but not least Nik Software has announced the release of Color Efex Pro 3.0 for Nikon Capture NX 2.0. Existing users can upgrade to the 3.0 version for free. The software is available in a Complete ($179.95) and a Select ($99.95) edition.

And as it turned out a terrible lot of "last"’s