Tokyo-based web software company Lunascape Corporation recently released a web browser called the Lunascape 5 Alpha. This Windows-only browser is the English version of their popular Japanese version (downloaded 10 million times) released back in 2001. What makes Lunascape unique is that it’s the world’s first hybrid engine web browser that uses three rendering engines [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Rumors about a Firefox Mobile browser started circulating late last year and early this year, Mozilla announced that they were indeed working on a mobile version of Firefox and were designing two types of user interface; one for touch screen devices and second for non-touch screen devices.UI for non-touch screen devicesUI for touch screen devices As [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 20, 2008
As a parent I was happy to read about this new browser for kids called KidZui. Although my kid is still too little to browse the Internet or even use the computer, it's good to know that there's technology such as this that makes browsing the Internet safe for kids.So what is KidZui? KidZui is basically a browser based on Internet Explorer (if you use Windows) and Safari (if you use a Mac) that "whitelists" websites, photos and videos that are suitable for children. 200 teachers and parents across the US were hired to scan the world wide web to look for appropriate content that would be included in the whitelist. As of now, KidZui has 500,000 whitelisted websites, pictures and videos. All content gathered by KidZui are manually reviewed by humans before they get included in the whitelist to make sure nothing inappropriate gets thru.Screenshots:Start PageCreate Zui Page
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Even though Firefox is slowly but surely gaining market share and popularity, the majority of Internet users still prefer or use the Internet Explorer.I have been a Firefox user and avid fan for many years now and started using it since it was called Firebird. Why do I prefer Firefox? Because of it's security, speed and most of all because of it's flexibility. You can change the way it looks with different themes and add more functionality with add-ons/extensions.If you're still not convinced with Firefox and prefer to use the Internet Explorer but would like to have some of the capabilities of Firefox, then maybe you should try IE7 Pro.
Continue reading...Monday, July 23, 2007
Here’s one tool that I’m sure any webmaster or blogger would definitely love. It’s called Xinu. What is Xinu? It’s a tool that lets you check your website or blog’s PageRank, Alexa rank, backlinks, Technorati rank, feed subscribers, domain validation/diagnostics and many more. Btw, if you haven’t noticed the name comes from Unix spelled backwards. Screenshot:Xinu [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 11, 2007
This is the first time I’ve heard of a security flaw that’s caused or involves two browsers. Most of the time, known security flaws are found in Internet Explorer and sometimes in Firefox. But this time it involves both browsers. At first, security researchers laid the blame for the latest zero-day exploit on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Just by reading the title of this post, do you have any idea what it’s about? If not, then here’s a little explanation: Bill Gates = Microsoft = Internet Explorer. Got it? Bill Gates owns Microsoft, the company that which the infamous browser Internet Explorer comes from. Therefore the nickname, “Bill’s Browser”. I came across this [...]
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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