Category: Videos
Control Your Web Browser with Kinect
Reveals endless possibilities.
Now here is something to add in your Christmas shopping list. Guys at MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group are working on a new way to enhance your web browsing experience.
By using Microsoft Kinect and DepthJS system, they managed to do something neat and that is: control a web browser with bare hands (no mouse required). What do I mean by that? Just check the video above.
Via Engadget.
Download Opera 11 Beta
As promised yesterday, Norwegian browser maker has announced a Beta version of Opera 11 web browser.
The following release includes a handful of new features, where the most notable are: tab stacking (see video below) and visual mouse gestures.
In addition, it also brings an improved address bar, updated email application, extensions auto update, bug fixes and much more.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 22nd
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• Microsoft Caught Cheating in the Sunspider Benchmark
Oh boy, here we go again.
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7 Released
Screams for more performance.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 15th
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• Download Firefox 4 Beta 7
Here comes the seventh beta release of Firefox 4 web browser.
• Firefox Celebrates 6th Birthday
With the upcoming Firefox 4 release, Mozilla has celebrated the…
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Microsoft Releases IE9 Platform Preview 6
Today, at the Microsoft PDC 2010 conference, IE team has announced the availability of 6th Platform Preview build of Internet Explorer 9.
According to the benchmark results above, company has not yet given up on the browser performance wars and continues to march forward.
What else does it bring to the table?
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HTML5 Video Growth Explodes
Today, MeFeedia has released an interesting piece of information.
By using data from more than 33 000 different publishers, they revealed what appears to be a pretty significant growth of HTML5 playback.
According to report, numbers have doubled in the last 5 months and as of October 2010, 54% of H.264 videos are now available for playback in HTML5.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, October 25th
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• Browsers Are Awesome!
See the video.
• So I Close Firefox After Watching Some Porn…
Not 100% browsers related, but hey, it has “Firefox” in the title, so here…
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The Video Demo of Opera 11 Alpha
Here is a sneak peak of what is coming from Opera Software.
So far, it looks more like implementation of Widgets. Let’s just wait for an actual release before making any final judgments.
Watch Opera’s Up North Web Event Webcast
If you have missed today’s Up North Web event, here is your chance to see its webcast right now.
Just head over to the following site where you can find 4 videos from:
Lars Boilesen
Christen Krogh
Håkon Wium Lie
Jon von Tetzchner
As well as some photos.
