Christmas, the most awaited day of the year, is the day of celebration for everyone. During Christmas spirit of festivity and party reaches its maxim. No place is left in the world where its celebration does not reach. If you are you planning to celebrate your Christmas in the most fashionable way, you must be looking forward to the best Christmas party games. If you invite your friends over for Christmas you must be wondering whether they will like your selection of party games?

Christmas is a time for happy gatherings. Come on this is the season of goodwill; it is a time for festive fun and cheer. Whatever games you play should make no difference. Best Christmas party games are played at office Xmas parties, Children’s Christmas Parties, and at family celebrations. They all add fun and spread the Christmas spirit!

Now let the fun begin with the dreaded word game.

This game involves giving a small token to each guest on arrival. Now announce a Christmas theme word. Tell all they are not to utter this word at all during the Christmas occasion you celebrate. Words like “tree”, “bells” or “holly” are fine examples. If a guest overhears another guest utter this specific word at any time they take that person`s token. The guest with the most tokens at the specific designated time of ending the game wins a special gift!

Christmas Talent Contest!

If you want fun than for this particular game try to avoid volunteers, as most of them may not be able to sing. Let everyone showcase their talent by singing or dancing. Contest winner tags should “Best Singer” “Best Dancer” “Worst vocalist” “Most Unique” “Most Funny” This game guarantees the air to fill with laughter. It’s more fun to hear voices like that of a wailing banshee, or watching the footwork of those who believe they have feet like Micheal Flatly.

Remember Christmas celebrations should cater for all age groups so organize for the young and old. Best Christmas party games are the ones people can join in with.

Christmas Memory Game!

Gather 10 to 20 small Christmas items and place on a tray. Examples: bows, Christmas stocking, bells, Christmas tinsel, Christmas lights, gift labels, candles, Christmas video, nutcracker, etc…

Set the tray down and allow players to study it. Then hide tray contents by covering with a cloth. Now give the players paper and a pencil and have them write down as many of the items as they can remember. The one with the most correct items written down wins. Why not fill the tray with treats, like cookies, cake, tubbed jellies or assorted types of candy. The winner of the game gets to take home the treats. Everyone would be exciting to take bag full of goodies and cookies.

Experts are warning Internet users against Koobface computer virus targeting popular social networking sites in the run up to Christmas. It is said that Facebook users are most at risk from a variant of the Koobface virus, which comes in disguise as a festive greetings video, hosted on YouTube.

The new virus is “particularly nasty” and encourages victims to participate manually in creating a new Facebook account to help spread the worm. The attacks work by posting malevolent links on Facebook pages. It invites users to click on the Christmas card videos, which takes control of the PC to the attackers.

Internet security company Panda Security has been tracking the latest variant of the Koobface worm from its labs in Spain. “There is no doubting that this latest attack represents a serious threat to social networkers,” Sky News quoted company’s UK managing director Peter Lautin as saying.

“If someone runs the infected file on their Facebook or MySpace page, the worm will automatically log in to their account and several other social networking sites, sending malicious messages to all their friends,” said Lautin.

Source : Hindustantimes.com

Despite all the handwringing about Microsoft’s market clout in the European browser war, the real threat to Firefox may be Google, not Microsoft. Even as Microsoft’s browser market share deflates to 64.36 percent, Google has upped its game with its increasingly extensible Chrome browser.

For those of us who cling to Mozilla Firefox because of its library of excellent add-ons and extensions, suddenly we have another viable, open-source choice.

Internet Explorer remains a viable threat to Firefox due to Microsoft’s heft in operating systems, which helps to create enough inertia that most Windows users who start with IE simply never discover that they have browser alternatives.

But while IE plays catch-up to Firefox in sheer extendability and third-party innovation, the real contender could well be Google Chrome, which marries open source with a strong developer/extension story and bests just about everyone in performance.

Firefox is best because it enables third-party innovation. Add-ons like ForecastFox (in-browser weather updates), AdBlock Plus (blocking ads), and so on make browsing experience awesome.

According to TechCrunch, development of add-ons for Google Chrome is much easier than it is for Firefox, and those add-ons apparently no longer constrain Chrome’s performance in the same way that Firefox add-ons do for Firefox.

If true, then Mozilla needs to be doing a lot more than simply opening up a Firefox add-on marketplace in 2010. Instead, Firefox should be heads down on improving browser performance.

A marketplace makes sense for enriching the Firefox developer community and, hopefully, diversifying Mozilla’s revenue sources so that it’s not so heavily dependent on Google.

But given that Google Chrome’s improved extensibility is aiming squarely at Firefox, Mozilla has more than a monetary problem. It has a serious competitive threat looming, one that will only be won by significantly improving performance while maintaining its excellent track record with developers.

Mozilla marshals a more diverse and robust open-source community around Firefox than Google does for Chrome. But users arguably won’t care. The Google train is coming, and it’s not going to stop…not even for a longtime ally like Firefox.

Source: News.cnet.com