browsers
Software

Google Experiments With A New Launcher And Ditching The Black Bar

There’s a new, cleaner Google web interface being tested right now. It does away with the black bar in favour of nicking the Chrome OS and Android grid icon and using it to populate a nice little white dropdown menu.

5 April 2013

Software

Google Forking WebKit To Create New Rendering Engine

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit — the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages — in favour of its own solution, which will be called Blink.

22 March 2013

Gaming

Latest Chrome Experiment Turns Websites Into A Playable Marble Maze

If your favourite websites just aren’t as captivating as they used to be, the latest Chrome experiment should breathe some life back into them. Just feed it a website, and the World Wide Maze will automatically deconstruct and turn it into a 3D marble maze that can be controlled using your smartphone’s accelerometer.

13 March 2013

Software

Reign In Your Gazillion Browser Tabs With This Handy Chrome Extension

Tabs, tabs, tabs. They somehow grow like a virus in your browser window. The more squeeze in, the more you STRESS OUT. OneTab offers a simple solution.

6 March 2013

Software

European Union Fines Microsoft $730 Million Over Browser Monopoly

The European Union competition police has handed Microsoft an enormous $730 million fine after the software giant admitted that a “technical error” saw new Windows machines arriving without the option to choose a default web browser.

27 February 2013

Software

Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 Is Finally Available For Download

Windows 7 users are finally getting Internet Explorer 10. They’ll be auto-upgraded in a few weeks, but you can go ahead and download the updated browser starting today.

24 January 2013

Online

What’s Your Browser’s Home Page?

Selecting your browser’s home page is a crucial life decision, because it’s the first thing you do when you fire up your browser. Duh!

15 January 2013

Software

Say Hi To The New Google Chrome Beta, It’s Listening

Voice control has been the trend in phones for a while now, but it’s not content to just stay there. The newest Chrome Beta 25 is introducing a Web Speech API, which means a talk-y future is on the horizon, hopefully.

12 January 2013

Software

Nokia’s Xpress Browser Decrypts Your HTTPS Data

It’s come to light that Nokia’s Xpress Browser — used on its Asha and Lumia handsets — routes your secure and encrypted HTTPS data through its servers and temporarily decrypts it.

3 January 2013

Software

Your Ancient Internet Explorer Is Wasting Everyone’s Time And Money

The New York Times’ spectacular multimedia feature, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, is incredible. The elegant design and tasteful extras only contribute to the gripping narrative. It’s everything we’ve been promised about the journalism of the future. But if you’re looking at it on Internet Explorer 8, you’re doing it wrong.

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