Category: Firefox

Smokescreen brings Flash Content to iPhone OS

Despite the prolonged stalemate between Apple and Adobe when it comes to Flash content on the Apple iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. A couple of guys, Chris Smoak and Simon Willison have come up with a JavaScript framework that essentially reads in a SWF file and turns them into animated SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files. …

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Net Usage Item – Keep Track of Your Internet Usage

Net Usage Item (Preferences)

Ever found yourself wondering where all of your broadband download quota went after you have been throttled accompanied by finger pointing and frustration? Perhaps you want to make full use of your peak and off-peak quota? Maybe you find it hard to ration your usage during the month? If you use Firefox, there is a …

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LogMeIn – Remote Desktop Made Easy

LogMeIn (Remote Desktop)

Have you ever been away from home and found yourself needing to access a file or document on a computer at home or perhaps an important e-mail that you don’t seem to have on your phone? Perhaps you are one of those people that is often called upon to help people with their computer problems …

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Opera Mini for iPhone – Wait for it, Wait for it…

A couple of days ago, Opera announced that it had submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App Store. Opera is one of the stalwarts of the browser industry having been released back in 1996 and now up to Version 10. Opera has also been lauded as the quickest when it comes to webpage rendering particularly …

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Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview

Internet Explorer 9

A preview of Internet Explorer 9 has been released to the public earlier this week to test the waters with early adopters. If you are keen to download a copy (which is a painless installation and can run side-by-side with your existing version of Internet Explorer), you can grab it here. Bear in mind, this …

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Portable Applications – A Convenient Necessity

Have you found yourself using a computer that doesn’t have the applications you need or is locked down to the point where you can’t install anything? I’ve come across this a few times and more often than not they have an Internet connection that is rather slow making application downloads agonising. For a while now, …

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Google Chrome Bug Bounty – Cheap or Considerate?

I came across a news article today on ZDNet Australia about Google starting a reward scheme for people who find and report bugs in its Chrome browser. There are some questions and answers about what constitutes an eligible bug at the Chromium blog but in a nutshell, the base reward starts at US$500 (similar to …

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