March 2010
M T W T F S S
« Feb    
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Opera Mini 5 now available for Android devices

Filed under: Browsers, Mobile

Opera has just released the second beta of its Mini 5 browser. Amongst other changes and fixes, Android is now supported.

Until now, Android users have been stuck with Opera Mini 4.2, a thoroughly lackluster browser that really doesn’t compete with either the stock WebKit browser or Dolphin. With Mini 5, Opera becomes [...]

Delicious lands in Google Chrome Extension Gallery - it’s official, and very beta

Filed under: Google, Browsers

It’s still a bit rough around the edges at this point, but the new beta bookmarking extension from Delicious is a big improvement over its last offering.

In case you hadn’t seen the last version, it was pretty much identical to using Delicious via a bookmarklet — and not very exciting. The new [...]

GPU accelerated rendering lands in Firefox nightly build

Filed under: Mozilla, Beta, Browsers

Yesterday you read about Mozilla’s effort to boost Firefox’s Javascript processing speed with the new JägerMonkey engine. Now Asa Dotzler has blogged about another feature — freshly landed in the Firefox nightly builds — which should speed up the ‘fox even more.

The gfx.font value above is a new about:config value which [...]

Opera 10.5 for Mac hits beta, goes Cocoa, and adds multitouch

Filed under: Macintosh, Beta, Browsers

The Opera Desktop team is reporting that Opera 10.50 for Mac has reached Beta, which means it’s now stable enough to take for a spin as your daily browser. The changelog includes some major bonuses for Mac users, like Growl support, multitouch gestures, and a native Cocoa build. Although PowerPC support [...]

Inbox2 does email + social networks in style, but not for everyone

Filed under: Beta, Microblogging

Inbox2 is a “premium connected lifestyle application”. I’m not making that phrase up — it’s from their about page. In simpler terms, it’s an email client which also does Facebook and Twitter. And it’s beautiful. Seriously — this thing is in-your-face gorgeous. I love the color scheme!

Since the premise is fairly easy [...]

Opera 10.50 beta 2 keeps the pedal to the metal

Filed under: Beta, Browsers

Opera has put together one heck of a nice browser with version 10.50, and their developers continue pressing ahead. With today’s release of Opera 10.50 beta 2, things are looking good for the alternative browser.

As you’d expect with a beta build, the changelog sports a lengthy list of bug and crash fixes [...]

Gowalla’s Android app is in beta, uses Skyhook for accurate geolocation

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android

A big part of getting a location-based app right is — shocker! — providing an accurate location.

Gowalla is using that principle to get a leg up in its battle with Foursquare for location-based check-in supremacy. Gowalla now uses Skyhook in its Android app, which means it’s providing some of [...]

NetFront, Opera web browsers for Google Android on the way

Filed under: Browsers, Mobile, Android

Mozilla isn’t the only company itching to port its web browser to run on Google’s Android operating system. Google announced recently that 60,000 handsets a day are now shipping with Android, and it seems like every day a device maker announces a new Android-based product. So while the WebKit-based browser that [...]

Google Maps adds Labs, just like Gmail has

Filed under: Web services, Google, Freeware, Web

One of my favorite features of Gmail has come to Google Maps: the Labs feature. In Gmail, Labs allows you to turn on a bunch of different experimental features that Google engineers have coded. In Maps, it’s exactly the same thing. Just click on the little green beaker up [...]

Opera 10.5 hits beta, still faster than Google Chrome

Filed under: Beta, Browsers

Yes, it’s here! Yes, it’s faster than Google Chrome! Well, truth is Opera 10.5 has been faster than Google Chrome ever since the Carakan engine was bolted on in December 2009…But the bottom line is that Opera 10.5 is shaping up to be a very compelling browser.

One big change I’m particularly happy [...]