Archive for November, 2009

Web Browser for Kids – KidRocket Review

By | November 17, 2009 | 4 Comments

Web Browser for Kids - KidRocket ReviewThis is a guest post by Dwarka Rao from Review Unit, a blog with tech reviews and latest news.

Parents are aware of the ugly side of the Internet, so it is their obvious responsibility and worry to allow their kids to make the best of Internet in order to learn things in the safest environment. You cannot always keep an eye on the activities of your children while they are on Internet. This requirement has evolved in the form of kid browser. Continue Reading

Flash Player 10.1, Now with Multi Touch Support

By | November 17, 2009 | 3 Comments

Flash Player 10.1, Now with Multi Touch SupportYesterday, Adobe has unveiled the next release version of their Flash Player software: 10.1 Beta.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 not only includes various bug fixes and enchantments, but also a bunch of new features:

Flash Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices.

Support for new platforms
Flash Player 10.1 will be available for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks and other Internet-connected devices. Continue Reading

Play Cube Defense, a WebGL Game

By | November 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

Cube Defense is a simple tower based defense game, discovered by our reader Nox. Just like in similar games, you have to build towers and defend yourself. Author recommends running it on latest WebKit nightly builds, as WebGL might run slow in other web browsers.

Play Cube Defense.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 16th

By | November 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

Weekly Browsers Recap, November 16th

Thanks to Nox for links.

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Opera Software Q3 2009 Financial Results

By | November 16, 2009 | 12 Comments

Opera Software Q3 2009 Financial Results

Today, Opera Software has revealed their Q3 2009 financial results.

Mobile OEMs:
Decline in revenue
• Total revenue down vs 3Q08 due to lower shipments and NRE

Device OEMs:
More than 75% of revenue from licenses
• 10 new customers since 3Q08

Opera Desktop: Continue Reading

Opera 10.10 RC1 Released

By | November 13, 2009 | 10 Comments

Opera 10.10 RC1 ReleasedToday, on Friday 13th, Opera Software has released RC build of Opera 10.10.

As far as new features go, Opera Unite is the only one, so far.

While waiting for official RC changelog, feel free to see some of the changes in the following post.

Download:

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Want to Win Nokia N900?

By | November 12, 2009 | 4 Comments

Mozilla is announcing yet another contest, this time it’s for best mobile add-on.

Just develop and submit your extension until December 7, 2009, and if it’s any good, judges will pick you as a winner.

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Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 Released

By | November 12, 2009 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 ReleasedYesterday, Mozilla Foundations has released one more beta of Firefox 3.6 web browser. Sometime later, “Beta 2 Revision 2” appeared as well.

Since the very first Beta, they managed to squash over 190 bugs, resulting various improvements for users, web and add-on developers. Also, this update includes a “mechanism” which prevents incompatible software from crashing Firefox.

Changelog.
Download.

Thanks to Justin Stepp for news tip.

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Apple Releases Safari 4.0.4

By | November 12, 2009 | 0 Comments

Apple Releases Safari 4.0.4Yesterday Apple has released Safari 4.0.4 web browser. Besides fixing 7 security vulnerabilities, the following version also offers performance and stability improvements. Therefore, it’s recommended to update your browser as soon as possible.

Changelog:
– Improved JavaScript performance
– Improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number of history items
– Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins, the search field and Yahoo! Mail
Security fixes

Download.

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Google Chrome + Mouse Gestures = ChromePlus

By | November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

Google Chrome + Mouse Gestures = ChromePlus

Our reader Dainius has discovered a new tool/browser called “ChromePlus”. Basically, it’s a Google Chrome web browser with few additional features and without any Chrome background processes.

What additional features?
At this moment, it has the following:

Mouse gestures
Download Tools Support
IE tab
Super drag
Also, an ability to close tabs by double clicking on them.

Want to try it? Here is a home page link.

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