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 [...]
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Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta 1
July 8th, 2010 
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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]
July 4th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
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
June 28th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
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
June 11th, 2010 sylv3rblade 
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://
April 20th, 2010 sylv3rblade 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
April 20th, 2010 sylv3rblade 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
January 5th, 2010 sylv3rblade 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
January 1st, 2010 sylv3rblade 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 [...]
Internet Explorer SmartScreen blocks 2 million malicious URLs daily
November 28th, 2009 sylv3rblade The Internet Explorer line might be the bane of developers the world over but there’s no denying that it’s latest incarnation is better than it’s predecessors in more ways than one. One aspect that Internet Explorer 8 shines is security, it’s the safest version of Internet Explorer to date. Yes, it’s less secure than your [...]
