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  • Author: Shailpik
  • Published: Nov 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Safari 4.0.4 Released, Update Now

Just a little heads up for you guys. Safari’s new update has been released. Mac OS 10.5.x and 10.6.x can update right now. Check your software update if you have not been notified yet. Screenshot on the other side.
It improves on three major points and one of them is better stability for third-party plug-ins. Good [...]

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Categories: Apple, Browsing, Mac, The Web, Tools, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

PBTweet Enhances Twitter Experience

PBTweet is a bookmarklet and userscript that enhances several aspects of Twitter by changing or adding new functions to the popular social network. Before we start looking at the features a word about compatibility. The bookmarklet works with most Webkit based web browsers including Safari and Google Chrome. The userscripts are compatible with Greasemonkey [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Web Browser Have Impact On Battery Life

A recent Anandtech study suggests that the web browser has an impact on a mobile PCs battery usage. The test, which analyzed battery performance under various popular web browsers and three websites, can probably not be seen as representative but it could indicate which web browser uses less battery power to operate. A test with [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: None

Sync Google Chrome Bookmarks With Xmarks

The Google Chrome developers have only recently begun to offer bookmark syncing between different installations of the Google Chrome web browser. This option to sync the bookmarks uses Google Docs to store the bookmarks and requires therefor a Google account. The main limitation is however that it only syncs between Google browser installations. That’s a [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 14th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Another Report Finds Internet Explorer 8 To Be The Most Secure Web Browser

A web browsing security test that pitted Internet Explorer 8 against Firefox 3, Opera 10, Safari 4 and Google Chrome 4 came to the conclusion that Internet Explorer 8 is the most secure web browser, at least in the area that were tested by security research company NSS Labs. The report, which is available at [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

New Microsoft Proposal About Windows 7E

Windows 7E is the version of the Windows 7 operating system that will be sold – as of now – in all countries of the European Union. It is basically a version of the Windows 7 operating system without Internet Explorer. This has caused quite some concern by users in the European Union as they [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 16

Web Browser Backup And Restore

The importance of web browsers has risen in the past years especially with the shift from desktop applications to web based applications. Web browsers are not just tools anymore that can display websites on a computer system, they can be used for a wide variety of services which makes it important to be prepared for [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, firefox, opera

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