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Study Finds Firefox Users Safest, IE Users Unsafe
Mozilla Firefox users are the safest Web surfers on the Internet, according to a study by The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM’s Internet Security Services. According to the study Firefox users were the most likely to use an updated version of their browser.
Researchers determined Firefox users are by far the safest Web [...]
Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash
Adobe released on Tuesday the first Reader application to bake movies and animation into the Portable Document Format.
With Adobe Reader 9, users can play Flash movies, Shockwave animation, and other rich media content without needing to open a third-party player.
With Reader 9, one click would play a Flash movie embedded in the PDF shown here.
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Uncloaking ‘invisible’ Flash Web content
Adobe announced late Monday night that it was providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications that include the Shockwave Flash file (SWF) format.
It sounds exciting, but what exactly does it mean for Web searchers, Webmasters, and Flash creators? CNET News.com [...]
Official: Windows 7 date is confirmed
Bill Gates may have only just said his goodbyes, but the Microsoft machine keeps on running with the company announcing information about the release of Windows 7.
The paint may not have even dried on the Windows that is Vista, but it seems that Microsoft is already looking to launch its successor within the next two [...]
Adobe Director 11 Review
Adobe Director multimedia authoring software, which gained popularity during the CD-ROM era of the 90s, has released its first upgrade since Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005.
The last significant upgrade for Director was in 2001, with the 8.5 version. Many developers began using Director at that time, as an introduction to 3D applications. While quite a [...]
Firefox Impressions From An Internet Explorer User : 5 Things Microsoft Can Learn From Mozilla To Build A Better Browser
The latest release of Firefox 3 should give Microsoft something to worry about. I wasn’t an avid Firefox user until the pre-release days of Firefox 3. And by the time I made the switch, it dawned on me how Firefox 3 was light years ahead of Internet Explorer 7, and the lackluster Internet Explorer 8 [...]
Microsoft in ‘trouble’ as Bill Gates leaves
A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June.
Three people will essentially fill the void left behind when Bill Gates retires from the company he and friend Paul Allen co-founded in 1975.
Since [...]
iPhone 3G is finally official, starts at $199
It’s been a long, leak-filled wait, but Apple finally took the wraps off its 3G iPhone. Thinner edges, full plastic back, flush headphone jack, and the iPhone 2.0 firmware — Apple’s taking a lot of the criticisms to heart from the first time around. Obviously 3G is at the forefront, but they’re also making sure [...]
The Best Graphics Cards for the Money
Detailed graphics card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit specifications and reviews are great—that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.
So if you don’t have the time to research the benchmarks, or if you don’t feel [...]
Google updates Web address iconography
Overnight, Google got a new face on the Web–one measuring 16×16 pixels.
The search giant updated its favicon, the eensy little 256-pixel logo that appears in browser locations such as bookmarks, URL location bar, and window tabs. The old icon, a capital G in a multicolored box, has been supplanted by a cuddlier-looking blue lower-case g.
It’s [...]
Mozilla Aims For Firefox 3.0 Download Record
For the upcoming release of Firefox 3, Mozilla aims to set a new world record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.
The company has put out a call to its global community of users to pledge to download the new 3.0 version of Firefox on the day the browser is made available [...]
Windows 7 Shows Microsoft Hasn’t Learned Vista Lessons
The project was called MinWin, a Microsoft effort to slim down the next version of Windows. The company said it had heard, loud and clear, that another bloated OS like Vista wouldn’t fly. Then Windows 7 galumphed into the room.
Microsoft is spending much of this week offering glimpses of its next operating system at the [...]
Adobe offers sneak peek of CS4 apps
Adobe Systems is offering two-day trials of three beta applications from its next Creative Suite package.
The previews of Dreamweaver for Web design, Fireworks for image editing, and Soundbooth for audio editing became available Monday.
Trials expire after 48 hours for most people, but registered CS3 users get to keep using the CS4 betas until the [...]
Windows 7 info officially revealed
With Vista struggling Windows 7 it’s the OS on everyone’s lips at the moment. It could be set for an early release in Q4 2009. Chris Flores, from the official Windows Vista Team Blog brings us up-to-date.
Flores has conceded that Microsoft is working on Windows 7, but has stated that this is normal in the [...]
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 [...]
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