
Four short months after Opera 10.5, the Scandanavian potato boilers are back for more — the latest version of their lightweight web browser features not only claims to be the fastest, but the first final browser with WebM video support. While we actually noticed a variety of web videos felt choppy with the Windows version, [...]
Jul 4 2010 | Posted in
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Facebook has unveiled new features to the site, which are designed to make the tagging of photos easier. Speaking about the new face-recognition tech in a blog, Sam Odio from Facebook says about the updates: “People love tagging their friends and family in photos, but we’ve heard that it can be a tedious process. “You [...]
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It is time for HTPC enthusiasts to rejoice! Videolan announced the availability of VLC 1.1.0 a couple of days back. VLC’s popularity soared in the mid-2000s when standard definition videos were all the craze, and CPUs were powerful enough to easily decode them. Over the last few years, many people have built up a big [...]
Jun 26 2010 | Posted in
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Mozilla is rolling out an update of its Firefox Web browser that adds support for plugin isolation. Version 3.6.4, which includes the new feature, was officially released on Tuesday and will be deployed soon through the browser’s automated update system. It is unusual for Mozilla to deploy a major new feature in a minor point [...]
Jun 23 2010 | Posted in
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Adobe Systems plans to release the final version of Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones on Tuesday, but very few people will be able to use it right away. Flash Player 10.1 is designed to offer a consistent user experience across laptops, desktops, tablets, phones and televisions. The player for desktops became available June 10. Users [...]
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YouTube has a new bare bones video editing tool that allows you to clip your videos, and add a soundtrack right in your browser. The new tool, which follows in the footsteps of similar online video editors such as the now defunct YouTube Remixer powered by Adobe Premiere Express , is a bit limited, but [...]
Jun 17 2010 | Posted in
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Still on over-drive, Opera Software has today let loose a public beta version of its upcoming Opera 10.60 desktop browser which features speed enhancements and added support for the Google-promoted WebM open video format and more HTML5-enabled functions. According to its developers, Opera 10.60 can be up to 50% faster that its predecessor (in certain [...]
Jun 16 2010 | Posted in
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Supports GPU acceleration on select Nvidia, AMD and Intel chips As avid supporters of Adobe’s Flash Player platform, we have been hopefully awaiting this moment for several months now. Today, the company has released the final version of Flash Player 10.1 to the public, with plans to introduce the mobile version of the software in [...]
Jun 13 2010 | Posted in
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Unpatched bug — Microsoft’s eighth zero-day this year — can be used to dupe users into visiting rigged Websites or opening attack email Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 contain an unpatched bug that could be used to infect PCs by duping users into visiting rigged Websites or opening attack [...]
Jun 12 2010 | Posted in
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Adobe has acknowledged a “critical” security flaw in its Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player software. Adobe says the vulnerability potentially enables hackers to take control of affected computer systems. Users running Windows, Macintosh or Linux might all be open to attack. The company is working to fix the problem. In the meantime, users of Reader, [...]
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