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6 Excellent Firefox Extensions Made To Save You Time
If you are a die-hard Firefox user then I am sure you are always on the look-out for tips and tweaks to get more out of Firefox in less time and hence be more productive.Keeping that in mind, I decided to list six Firefox extensions, which I use in my daily life and which have [...]
The 100 Best Products of 2008
This year’s tech gems–as picked by PC World editors and readers–will leave you more productive, connected, and entertained.
After a good deal of–ahem–lively discussion, the editors at PC World have completed this year’s list of the 100 best technology products available today. How did we do it? After nominating hundreds of devices, apps, sites, and services [...]
Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration
Santa Clara (CA) – GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely new class of software. It appears that the next Photoshop will be one of the first mainstream applications that will tap into the GPU for a speed up. And, at least from [...]
Top 10 Firefox 3 Features
The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla’s finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so it’s time to spotlight the [...]
Firefox 3 On Track To Be Speediest Browser
Now that Mozilla’s locked down Firefox 3’s final feature set with Friday’s push of release candidate 1, it’s official: while Firefox 3 boasts some great new features like a smart address bar and better bookmarks manager, the best reason to upgrade will be for the performance improvements. Firefox 3 is noticeably faster and more stable [...]
Intel to update desktop CPU lines in 3Q08
Intel is planning to cut desktop CPU prices in the third quarter this year, along with the launch of more quad-core and dual-core models, according to sources at motherboard makers.
The performance-level Core 2 Quad Q9650 with a core frequency of 3GHz will launch priced at US$530 in thousand-unit tray quantities, while the Core 2 Quad [...]
NVIDIA Unleashes World’s Fastest GPU Again
NVIDIA once again announces the world’s fastest graphics processing unit until the next one rolls around, the GeForce 8800 Ultra. Come May 15th, PC gamers around the world will be able to shell out somewhere around $1000 ( 699 with tax in UK monies) for video cards equipped with the cutting edge GPU with 768MB [...]
Internet 2 reaches 9.08 Gbps
Tokyo (Japan) - Scientists working on the bigger, better and most importantly faster Internet 2 have achieved a new world speed record. The Internet 2 Consortium has just announced that in late December and early January, scientists at the Univesity of Tokyo slammed gigabytes of information on an around-the-world path at more than nine gigabits [...]
NVIDIA Reveals New Mid-Range DX10 GPUs
NVIDIA today announced the expansion of the NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series line-up to include three new mid-range DirectX 10 GPUs to include the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT, and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT. These new cards join the already announced NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS. The new 8600 series [...]
The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time
From breakthrough hardware to time-honored software, we salute those amazing products that changed technology–and our lives–forever.
1. Netscape Navigator (1994)
infographic: Courtesy of the Third Age Introduction to the Internet
Marc Andreessen may have known what he was getting into when he cowrote Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, but it wasn’t until he graduated [...]
Intel’s Next-Gen CPUs: Penryn and Nehalem
With Q1’07 winding down, today Intel’s Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, held a briefing with press disclosing more info about Intel’s upcoming next-generation processors than ever before. We’ve summarized the highlights of the briefing in this quick article.
Intel’s Penryn family of Core 2 CPUs
As you no doubt know by now, Penryn [...]
Event: FITC Toronto 2008
If you are serious about your web career, don’t miss out on this upcoming festival in Toronto - FITC 2008. It will take place between April 19th - 22th. For those who don’t know about the festival, “FITC is now entering its 7th amazing year, and is the only festival of its kind; [...]
Photoshop: Hand Drawn Design
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the hand drawn style is one of the hottest design trends. There are several ways to create hand drawn images — you can create it from scratch in Photoshop or you can scan an actual hand drawn sketch. Personally, I like to use a scanned drawing because you get [...]
SEO Guide for Designers
According to a poll I conducted, just over 1 out of 10 people don’t think SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is mandatory as a designer; and what really surprised me is about 24% don’t even know what SEO is! If you’re among the quarter of people who don’t know what SEO is or understand how it [...]
Simple Double Quotes
This CSS tutorial will show you how to display two double-quote images using one blockquote tag. The trick here is apply one background image to blockquote, and then apply another background to the first-letter (pseudo-element) of blockquote.
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