Archive for the ‘The Internet’ Category

Firefox unveils a new way of tabbing

Tab Candy gives a whole new meaning to tabbing

With Firefox 4 still in Alpha testing, Mozilla is looking to introduce a new feature called Tab Candy. Mozilla’s Aza Raskin says that it’s still early in testing mode but you can get it with the latest nightly build of Firefox 4.

Youtube reveals new embed code

Youtube (and subsequently Google) is pushing their HTML5 support by rolling out a new embed code that will come with an Adobe Flash wrapper or in a HTML5 player (the best of both worlds?). If you’re on a mobile device, the obvious advantage is that you’ll now be able to view videos on the browser [...]

Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta 1

Firefox 4.1 Beta

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 beta 1, the first public, stable version of its next major browser.  4.1  features a brand new UI with tabs on top (reminiscent of Chrome) but adds more HTML5 support as well as Google’s new WebM open video standard.  Another improvement is that plugins are now both easier to manage [...]

Download Opera 10.6 [Windows, Linux, OS X]

Opera 10.6

The Opera development team has released the final version of Opera 10.60 web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD.. Opera 10.60 touts a highly optimized JavaScript engine that’s claimed to be 50% faster than the earlier, Opera 10.50 release.

.XXX domain gets ICANN approval

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The ICANN gave initial approval for the creation of the controversial .xxx domain at its conference in Brussels, for (who else aside from Vin Diesel’s movie franchise) porn site use. In response and approval of the ICANN’s decision, the ICM Registry, said .xxx would make it easier to filter out inappropriate content. The decision came [...]

Adobe releases Flash 10.1

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Adobe has just released (quietly I might add) the Flash 10.1 plugin.  This new version supports hardware H.264 video acceleration on Windows PCs (no Mac or Linux release yet) with compatible graphics processors.  This is good news for underpowered ultraportables and some netbooks should now be able to play high-definition YouTube videos.

Google Chrome drops http://

It’s the buzz in reddit a few days ago and it seems that the latest Chrome update for the development builds has confirmed the rumor that Google has purposely removed the http:// from the address bar of it’s Chrome Browser.

The Wibiya Toolbar

If you’ve been browsing around, the blogosphere, you’ve probably encountered the Wibiya Toolbar. It’s a simple but powerful script that gives sites subscribers a lot of options to subscribe to, browse and share information from their favorite blog, forum or whatnot into their favorite social networking site. It’s a boon to webmasters because Wibiya gives [...]

Japan ranks #1 in world internet speed

Japan always gets the best of things, including internet speed. Compare Japan’s $.27/MBps speed to the Philippine’s $23/MBps and you get the very clear picture. Aside from arguably the best data plans in the world, there’s no bandwidth caps (unlimited upload / download) nor throttling involved and there’s wifi everywhere. *sigh*

Enable multiple account logins on Firefox

I’ll have to admit that most of the times, I need to have multiple logins on a single browser. Be it checking messages or viewing/exchanging details from multiple accounts, you’ve got to admit at one point or another, there was a time that you wanted to login to multiple accounts at the same time on [...]