ReadWriteWeb:
Opera just announced the release of Opera 10.10. This latest version of Opera's desktop browser now includes Opera Unite, the company's browser-based web server. With Unite, users can share photos, music, notes, websites, forums and calendars - but unlike standard web apps, these apps are hosted on the user's computer. When (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera's out with a 10.10 final release, and this one includes the Opera Unite personal media server we've previously toured in beta. A few other features, like built-in BitTorrent, make Opera 10.10 worth a look. Unite is an intriguing step forward for Opera, bringing an entirely new sub-set of powers to a (Read More)
Mashable!:
Google Chrome is lightning-fast, holds over 3% of the browser market, and will soon become an operating system. Yet while it has several decisive advantages over Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and other browsers, there is one thing it does not have: extensions.We’ve known that extensions were coming to Chrome since Fe (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the web, liveblogged by technology sites, and Twittered so much that it's sti (Read More)
: What do you mean "was"? It's not even out for a year. This doesn't make sense to me. It's a preview. They did you a favor by playing show and tell. Patience. Also note that Sarah freelances for Microsoft.
Lifehacker:
Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centered, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support, and much more are now baked in. Camino's got a lot to recommend it, especially if you're mainly concerned (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centered, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support, and much more are now baked in. Camino's got a lot to recommend it, especially if you're mainly concerned (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centered, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support, and much more are now baked in. Camino's got a lot to recommend it, especially if you're mainly concerned (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Readers offer their best tips for alleviating sunburn, shortening URLs in Firefox with a keyword, and using Gmail Tasks as a borrowing/lending list. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various (Read More)
Mashable!:
Microsoft, with the launch of Windows 7 complete, is turning its focus towards one of its most important components: Internet Explorer. With huge pressure from Firefox and Google’s Chrome browsers, Microsoft has revealed the first details of Internet Explorer 9 at the Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference in Los An (Read More)
Mashable!:
For lots of web designers and type lovers, there’s much to talk about when it comes to typography and the web. Traditionally, embedding specific fonts into live content (that is, not just using a font to create a text graphic) has been difficult because it means that the end-user needs to have the font installed on their ow (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Microsoft just announced that it started work on Internet Explorer 9 three weeks ago. Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, showed an early build of IE9 during his PDC keynote today. In this presentation, Sinofsky announced that Microsoft will focus on support for new standards lik (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows Mobile/Symbian: Opera has released version 10 beta of their popular mobile browser. If you put a lot of miles on your mobile browser, Opera Mobile 10 has quite a few new features and tweaks worth the update. Mobile browsing is less than ideal and a good mobile web browser will seek to minimize the irritation of usin (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It only took 3 years to go from HTML2 to HTML4, but the HTML4.01 specifications were published 10 years ago and even though today's web looks very different, we are still waiting for HTML5. The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started preliminary work on HTML5 in 2003 and the W3C HTML Working Group was formed in 2007. Some mo (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Verizon Droid phones experience some Y2K-ish timestamp glitches and fixes, Firefox Mobile fares well in a head-to-head test, and we all learn the logical approach to fast food choices. Mystery Of Droid Autofocus Conspiracy Solved (For Reals This Time) It sounds like a prank, but an issue with timestamp rounding caused some (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows only: Portable browser backup utility FavBackup updates with loads of changes, including single-file backups, multiple profile support, and a new Ribbon interface. Using the utility, which we've mentioned before, is extremely simple—just unzip and launch the application, select your browser and profile, and run thro (Read More)