Tag: Browser

Nook Touch Web Browser

By Vygantas Lipskas | June 10, 2011 | 6 Comments

Download not required.

If you own the new Barnes & Noble Nook Touch and are up for some grayscale Internet experience, then we have some good news for you.

Turns out, the popular handheld device has an experimental web browser, which allows you to access various web pages just by typing the URL into the search bar.

Even if browsing not as smooth as the butter, it’s still a nice surprise to all the Nook users.

BlackBerry Webkit Browser Hands-On

By Vygantas Lipskas | July 12, 2010 | 4 Comments

Guys at Driphter.com got their hands on the upcoming BlackBerry browser that utilizes Webkit rendering engine.

Although it’s still in early development stages, browser does look promising and we are looking forward to the final version capabilities.

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Browser Privacy Issue with Few HTC Devices

By Vygantas Lipskas | June 16, 2010 | 1 Comment

Browser Privacy Issue with Few HTC Devices

There appears to be an issue with HTC Droid Incredible, HTC Droid Eris, HTC Evo and maybe other devices that run Sense UI.

BGR reports browser privacy bug, where phone would periodically make a screenshot of the contents of your web browser and never delete it.

Furthermore, deleting browser history or even hard-resetting device will still leave those JPEG files in place.

If you want to get rid of them now, navigate to emmc folder and seek for .bookmark_thumb1, that’s where those files are placed.

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Twitlet: The Way to Twit in Any Browser

By Alejandro Yee Cota | February 12, 2009 | 0 Comments

Twitlet, a free service that works on any JavaScript capable browser, comes very handy when trying to update twitter in a fast and very simple way to twit on Twitter.

To get it to work, click the create button, then type your Twitter user name and password then create. Now just drag the link to you bookmarks toolbar and you are ready to go.

It also supports posting which web page you are visiting, you only need to put #this or #link to the update textbox.

Via DownloadSquad.com
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KidZui Browser is Now Free

By Vygantas Lipskas | June 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

KidzuiWeb browser for kids from ages 3-12 “KidZui” can now be downloaded for free. I guess by offering a free product, you can surely gain more popularity in a shorter period of time.

KidZui has all the sites and games your kids love and much more. With the KidZui browser, you have access to over 600,000 websites, pictures and videos which were approved by trained parents and teachers. You may learn more about KidZui in their home page and download it here.

Opera Mini 4.1 Almost Released

By Vygantas Lipskas | May 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

Opera Mini 4.1According to Per Thomas post in Opera Mini Blog, the new Opera Mini 4.1 will be released in next week.

As he said, team managed to do more than 150 various changes and bug fixes (since Beta) which is really an impressive number for such a small (but features rich) piece of software.

We are waiting…

Opera Browser, Iphone Edition

By Vygantas Lipskas | January 10, 2008 | 27 Comments

Opera Browser, Iphone EditionWith the recent Opera 9.5 SDK for devices release and upcomming iPhone SDK, does that makes it possible?

Check “Opera Browser Coming To The iPhone” video and you decide.

Did he just said “Yes!”? No, that was just the end of conversation (or do they just want you to think so?). Not in the near future. I bet that we will see more information regarding Opera for iPhone in the upcoming months. And who knows, maybe at the end of the year, you will be reading FavBrowser.com on your iPhone using Opera ;-) Continue Reading

2007 December Browsers Market Share Results

By Vygantas Lipskas | January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

2007 December Browsers Market Share Results It’s time for the December, 2007 web browsers market share report. See November stats here.
As you will see in this graph, there are some noticeable changes for the Opera web browsers. Not sure why, but both of them (Opera and Opera Mini) got slightly different values than they should. It’s the second month, so not sure if it’s a bug. However, we have keep going and post what we know.

Yet another bad month for the Internet Explorer. This time it felt from 77.35% to 76.04% (1.31% decrease).

Firefox market share continues growing and might reach 20% very soon, they have increased its market share by 0.79%: from 16.01% to 16.80%. Continue Reading