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PicLens 1.7 Released: Now With ESPN, Movie Trailers, and Amazon Shopping
Visual browsing of webpages and media is an increasingly attractive prospect for Internet users. Names like Viewzi, Searchme come to mind, as do inventions like Tag Galaxy and even MSNBC’s Spectra RSS news reader. This weekend, one market player, PicLens, developed by Cooliris, is stepping forward with some advancements and additions to its engine.
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The History of Firefox 1.0 to 3.0 in Screenshots [Screenshot Tour]
Mozilla released Firefox version 1.0 to relative obscurity in November of 2004, and four short years later, the much-anticipated Firefox 3.0 will hit the streets with ambitions of setting a new world record tomorrow. In honor of tomorrow’s 3.0 release, let’s take a look back at a visual history of Firefox, version 1.0 to […]
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Internet Addiction To Be Added to Manual of Mental Disorders
First, we all had mild Asperger’s. Now, Internet addiction disorder? Give a geek a break. In the March issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Jerald Block proposed that Web abuse be added to his field’s bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Which browser is fastest?
Yesterday’s release of Opera 9.5 and Tuesday’s planned release of Firefox 3 may have you thinking about upgrading from Internet Explorer 7 (or even IE 6).
If so, you’re probably wondering which browser is fastest. The folks over at Lifehacker have put all the contenders to an informal test and found Opera and Safari to be […]
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Firefox 3.1 New Features Already in the Works [Firefox 3]
The official release of Firefox 3 may be slated to drop on Tuesday, but the folks at Mozilla have already started drafting features for Firefox 3.1, like a Windows Alt-Tab-style for the Ctrl-Tab switcher. Want it now? Check out the Firefox 3-compatible Ctrl-Tab extension.
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What’s the Next Internet Deal of the Decade?
Now that Microsoft-Yahoo has officially collapsed, speculation moves on to what the next Internet mega-deal might look like. Realistically, there are only two companies that can pull off anything resembling the scale of what Microsoft-Yahoo would have been – and those are Microsoft and Google.
The two technology titans are at markedly different points […]
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Opera 9.5 Brings Speed and Syncing to the Browser [Featured Download]
Windows/Mac/Linux: The final version of the Opera 9.5 web browser is in the open as of this morning. We’ve previously highlighted some of its features, including the browser-syncing, speed-dial- Opera Links, but there’s also an integrated BitTorrent download manager, mouse gesture control, and a claim by developers that JavaScript and HTML render more than twice […]
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Finally: Firefox 3 Coming On June 17th
We waited and we waited, and finally the Mozillian gods have shed some divine mercy on us mortals: Firefox 3 will officially be released on June 17th.
Seriously, it’s been a long time. 34 months of development, 5 betas and 2 RCs, that’s enough to make any user squirm with anticipation. If everything goes well, […]
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