Mozilla’s developers are busily crafting all kinds of features for future versions Firefox — Jetpack’s no-restart add-on functionality,out of process plugins, a bigger, badder JavaScript engine. They’re also taking a look at how we log in and out of websites and trying to standardize that process.
To that end, Mozilla has put together a draft spec [...]
Google Maps just added one of its most-requested features ever: biking directions! Sure, you could get by on your bike with walking or driving directions, but those often include either freeways or streets with no bike lanes. The directions come with the ability to change routes by dragging and dropping the start and end points [...]
One of my favorite video games from my childhood was a strategy game for my Commodore 64 called M.U.L.E. In fact, when I wrote about an online C64 emulator two years ago, I ended with the question “Does anybody remember M.U.L.E.?” Evidently, they do, and they loved it as much as I did.
Today I discovered [...]
Yesterday you read about Mozilla’s effort to boost Firefox’s Javascript processing speed with the new JägerMonkey engine. Now Asa Dotzler has blogged about another feature — freshly landed in the Firefox nightly builds — which should speed up the ‘fox even more.
The gfx.font value above is a new about:config value which toggles GPU accelerated rendering [...]
The Opera Desktop team is reporting that Opera 10.50 for Mac has reached Beta, which means it’s now stable enough to take for a spin as your daily browser. The changelog includes some major bonuses for Mac users, like Growl support, multitouch gestures, and a native Cocoa build. Although PowerPC support is gone, support for [...]
Inbox2 is a “premium connected lifestyle application”. I’m not making that phrase up — it’s from their about page. In simpler terms, it’s an email client which also does Facebook and Twitter. And it’s beautiful. Seriously — this thing is in-your-face gorgeous. I love the color scheme!
Since the premise is fairly easy to understand, I’d [...]
Opera has put together one heck of a nice browser with version 10.50, and their developers continue pressing ahead. With today’s release of Opera 10.50 beta 2, things are looking good for the alternative browser.
As you’d expect with a beta build, the changelog sports a lengthy list of bug and crash fixes and there have [...]
Yes, it’s here! Yes, it’s faster than Google Chrome! Well, truth is Opera 10.5 has been faster than Google Chrome ever since the Carakan engine was bolted on in December 2009…But the bottom line is that Opera 10.5 is shaping up to be a very compelling browser.
One big change I’m particularly happy about is that [...]
Skype has always been a pretty popular video conferencing program and is looking to keep the streak alive with high-definition video. The service recently announced that they will begin supporting 720p high-definition video conference calls, provided users have an HD webcam and enough bandwidth to handle it.
The new HD features come as part of [...]
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It’s here! Enna, a media center application made for Linux is finally ready for public release. Yay? If you’re not sure what this is, you’re not alone. First, GeeXbox is a Linux app that turns your computer into a media center that can work on a lot of software configurations. Enna is a nice graphical [...]
