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Advertising gone wrong: 23 poorly placed banner ads
By Adam Maras, Downloadsquad Have you ever come across an advertisement on a web page that just made you think, “wow. That really shouldn’t be there.”? I’ve come across a few in my time, but it looks like the folks over at BuzzFeed have been running into them left and right; they’ve compiled a collection [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fast forward to 4.0 with a new Firefox theme
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Not long ago a DeviantArt user put together a Firefox 3/3.5 theme based on Mozilla’s concept for Firefox 3.7. Want to go the extra .3 and jump ahead to version 4? Take a look at Strata40. By using the them in conjunction with a few Firefox addons – All Glass, Personal [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )In The Pre-Chrome OS World, Google Optimizes Gmail For Netbooks
by MG Siegler, Tech crunch Google is clearly enamored with the netbook space. We already know that it’s serving as an entry point for the new Chrome OS, but Google isn’t just going to sit around and wait for that, it’s starting to optimize its experience for netbooks already. Tonight, Google has just released a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Chrome’s New Feature: Click The UI Designer To Close The Window
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch This is just kind of odd. Look at the picture below. See the picture of some guy in place of the “X” button? Yeah, that’s this guy. Apparently, one of Google’s Chrome UI designers, Glen Murphy, has inserted his face into the latest nightly build of Chrome. Specifically, this is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google Acquires Video Compression Technology Company On2 For $106 Million
Google and On2 Technologies jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire On2, a developer of video compression technology. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. On2 markets video compression technologies that power high-quality video in both desktop and mobile applications and devices and also [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Carbonite launches online backup for Mac
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Carbonite has been providing online backup services for PC users for years. This week the company launched a Mac client. Here’s how it works. For $54.95 a year, Carbonite provides you with unlimited online storage space to backup all the important files on your computer. At regular intervals, the program will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google’s got a new Chrome beta
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad On the official Google Chrome blog a few hours ago, Google announced the release of a new beta version that falls somewhere in between the stable and developer branches. Apart from the speed improvements in Google’s V8 javascript engine, several new features have been added. In addition to the drag-to-split side-by-side [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google Chrome on Linux progressing, screenshots inside
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Ubuntu users (or users of a Ubuntu-based distro) who have been waiting patiently for the chance to play with Google Chrome, there’s now a dead simple way for you to do it. Thanks to the PPA (personal package archive) for Chromium daily builds team, getting the pre-alpha Chromium browser running on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Opera 10 Alpha now includes Opera Turbo compression
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad Today on the official Opera blog the company announced the release of Turbo in the newest version 10 alpha build. Turbo is a server-side technology designed to compress data before sending it to your computer, resulting (hopefully) in a bandwidth savings and speed increase. You’ll notice a few differences with turbo [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pre browser looks mighty fast in Palm webcast
By Darren Murph, Engadget As it stands, the best shot you have at a “full” web browsing experiencing is with Apple’s iPhone. Granted, Opera Mini ain’t half bad, and Fennec (er, Mobile Firefox, holds a lot of promise, but it’s hard to argue with the sheer performance numbers associated with Safari. That said, it looks [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Firefox 3.1 beta 3 released
By Jay Hathaway, D ownloadsquad Firefox 3.1b3 is out today, and the release notes list a few important improvements: faster Javascript with Tracemonkey, improvements to the new private browsing mode, faster rendering and native JSON support. Anecdotal evidence from folks on Twitter and some testing here on my MacBook says that 3.1b3 is noticeably faster [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Littleshoot Adds BitTorrent Capabilities to Any Browser
By Janko Roettgers, Torrentfreak Have you ever tried to explain BitTorrent to someone who has no clue about P2P? It’s challenging, isn’t it? Things that most of us take for granted really make no sense to users that aren’t all that tech-savvy. Don’t believe me? Just go to a site like Yahoo Answers – and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Google Reader adds comments, risks wrath of web publishers
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Google Reader has added a new feature that makes reading RSS feeds a more social experience: You can leave comments on other users’ shared items. In other words, if your friend clicks the share button next to a blog post or news item in Google Reader, it will show up in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Questionable Microsoft Chart proclaims IE8 is the fastest browser
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad There have been a lot of speed claims lately when it comes to web browsers – when Apple released Safari 4, I put half a dozen options through the paces to see who came out on top. IE8 didn’t appear in my chart, because it handled the benchmarks so badly that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Periodic Table of Typefaces
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad OK, look. I can think of a thousand better ways to organize fonts than by creating a spoof of the Periodic Table of Elements. But none of them are quite as cool. The Periodic Table of Typefaces covers a number of major fonts and includes information about the family and classification [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wednesday giveaway: Comodo Internet Security Pro
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad I took Comodo’s free Internet Security suite for a test drive when they released it last year, and was pleased with how it performed. The company has been a respected provider of firewall protection for years, so it was nice to see them develop a more complete desktop security solution. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Firefox Has Got a 100% Market Share…In Antarctica
By Stan Schroeder, Mashable.com And they say it’s hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft’s global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica; according to StatCounter’s recently added feature, GlobalStats, in 2009, only one browser was used there. I’m guessing the data comes from [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )LiveSlices showcases useful web slices for IE8
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad.com One things I would have liked to include in Pimp Your IE8 was bigger list of webslices, but the collection at the Microsoft addon site isn’t all that impressive. The crew at LiveSlices, on the other hand, has put together several that are well worth installing. Among their listings are slices [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mozilla rethinks the behavior of new browser tabs
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad.com A few months ago Mozilla embarked on a quest to determine a way to make new browser tabs more useful. Right now, when you open a new tab in Firefox you get a blank page. Compare that with Google Chrome, Safari, or Opera, which show you a list of shortcuts to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Access multiple email accounts with Gmail in 3 easy steps
By Matthew DeCarlo – Techspot.com It seems as though nearly everyone has at least two email addresses these days, and it’s not uncommon to have upwards of four that are used on a regular basis for separate purposes. You may or may not have heard of Gmail’s multiple inboxes feature and how useful it is, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )California targets internet maps, seeks blurry buildings
By Brad Linder – Downloadsquad.com California lawmakers are considering legislation that would require online mapping services from companies including Google, Microsoft, and AOL to blur details of public buildings like schools, churches, hospitals, and government buildings. The goal is to prevent terrorists from being able to obtain detailed images of buildings and surrounding areas by [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )EU! Internet Explorer now uninstallable in Windows 7
By Lee Mathews – Downloadsquad.com While it’s not likely to placate those who are out for browser blood, Microsoft has taken steps toward pacifying the European Union in the latest RC builds of Windows 7. As you can see in the updated Windows Features screen captured by AeroXperience, Internet Explorer 8 can now be removed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Xenocode lets you run Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer from a flash drive
By Brad Linder There have been portable versions of web browsers including Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera that you can run from a USB flash drive for a while. Basically these apps let you store your data to the flash drive allowing you to run these apps on Windows without installing anything or writing any [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Flock Ditching Firefox, Moving To Google Chrome
By Michael Arrington Flock, a social-focused browser startup that has raised nearly $30 million in venture funding, has ceased building on top of the open source Firefox browser, say multiple sources. The next version of the Flock browser will be built on Google’s open source Chrome browser platform. The last version of Flock was released [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Foxmarks bookmark sync service becomes Xmarks
By Brad Linder Foxmarks was a service that let you sync your Firefox bookmarks across multiple computers. But then last month Foxmarks did something silly: The company added support for Internet Explorer and Safari bookmark synchronization, which made the Foxmarks brand obsolete. Today, the team has remedied the situation by rebranding itself as Xmarks. Xmarks [...]
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