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Firefox Home Enters the App Store, Connects Your PC's Browser to Your iPhone's

Firefox Home isn't the introduction of Mobile Firefox (aka Fennec) we've been waiting for, but it is a pretty great tool for iPhone users who use Firefox on their PCs. READ»

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iFive: Storms Push Oil Closer to Shore, Climategate Report, UK's Tech Bill, Sea Shepherd, Firefox 4

While you were sleeping, innovation was not crying in court after being informed it was to spend time in chokey. Instead it was poring over data received courtesy of an FOIA request, picking the right smiley face, and then facing ...READ»

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Jumping to Conclusions:The Next Generation of the Internet, as Seen by Silicon Valley

For many reasons, I’m interested in the next generation Internet. Today I’m at Launch SIlicon Valley, watching ten companies in this space present their concepts. I haven’t finished listening, but I have already jumped ...READ»

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Firefox in the Fire

Firefox, the red-hot alternative web browser, is approaching its first big test as a mainstream product. One of Firefox's best features has been its built-in pop-up blocker. Heck, sometimes it worked too well, preventing 2nd windows ...READ»

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Browser Wars: Hey Microsoft, Stop Being Jealous of Firefox and Check the Math

Microsoft is obviously chock-full of nice sweet people, slaving away to make its software products all groovy...but not Amy Barzdukas. She's just been saying some very snarky things about Firefox's Billion Downloads claim. Amy, ...READ»

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Could Firefox 3.5 Spark a Web Design Boom?

One feature of Firefox's new version allows the browser to display any font. Here's how good-looking the results can be.READ»

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta Scores Millions of Downloads: No Longer "Internet Exploder"?

Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer has been known as Internet Exploder for some time, due to its sluggishness and out-of-date feature set. But the new IE9 beta is netting millions of downloads. Is the curse finally broken?READ»

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Browser Wars: Firefox to Hit One Billion Downloads Today

Firefox has been nipping at Microsoft Internet Explorer's heels since 2004, and today the browser is passing a milestone: One billion copies will have been downloaded. That's in total, across all the versions made. Now, Mozilla isn't ...READ»

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Five Browser Secrets of Power Web Surfers

Whether you're working or wasting time, you spend a lot of time on the Web every day. But are you using your browser's best features?READ»

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What is NoFollow?

NoFollow is a HTML tag you can place on a link to tell search engines not to follow that link. The link will not pass any link juice to your site. The only benefit of the link will be the traffic it sends. Note: Some larger ...READ»

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Internet Explorer 8: Microsoft's Biggest Loser

At a security conference yesterday in Vancouver, a hacker exploited a security hole in Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 8 in under two hours, taking control of a Sony laptop running an internal build of Windows 7. IE8 was launched ...READ»

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Futures Thinking: Writing Scenarios

So what do scenarios actually look like? Here are some real-world examples.READ»

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The First Google Wave Add-on Comes to Firefox - If You Only Had an Invite

An enterprising coder has already written a Google Wave add-on for the Firefox browser. (Now if only you had your Wave invite.)READ»

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Amateur Hour, Web Style

The brand may be yours, but the message is me, me, me.READ»

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Bookmarks Killer iCyte Lets You Tag, Take Notes, and Share URLs

There is a multitude of Firefox extensions out there, but few are as useful as iCyte. iCyte allows you to save sites (or text from sites) in an archive, instead of just bookmarking a URL. Better yet, it lets you arrange those snippets ...READ»

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Stunt Driving Meets Typography, in a Font Using Skid Marks

Using specially designed motion-capture technology, an ad agency created unusual free tie-in for Toyota's new car.READ»

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Safari Is Junk, But Still Users Grow

According to Ars Technica, Apple's Safari Web browser--both the iPhone mobile version and the desktop version for Mac and Windows--has been slowly gaining marketshare in the browser wars. Ars takes this as a tribute to the slow ...READ»

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How To Build Your Own MyLifeBits

Audio recorder | Bell uses an Olympus digital recorder to capture everyday conversation. Easily available off the shelf. Voice recording | A modified phone tap captures MyLifeBits phone calls and routes them onto a hard drive. ...READ»

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Google Chrome Updates to Version 6, Slims Down Even More

Google Chrome is two years old, and with the new sixth stable release, it's got new features like form autofill and extension syncing, plus a new, sleeker look.READ»

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free online games The Nature of Free Online Games Free online games are scattered anywhere on the Internet. There are a lot of them which you can choose from whenever you need them. Some of the categories include action, ...READ»

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Viral Blanketing

Talk about interoffice advocacy... and then some! When Rob Davis, a relatively new hire at Minneapolis-based PR firm Haberman & Assoc., was hit by a virus on his home PC, he didn't just clean up his hard drive, he started using a new ...READ»

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Emtec's Innovatively Odd Gdium Netbook has Portable Main Drive

Emtec is jumping on the crowded netbook bandwagon with its Gdium Liberty 1000. It's a pretty standard machine with one oddly innovative exception: It has a main solid-state drive that's designed to be easily undockable. This ...READ»

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Join Me & Joi Ito at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, November 3-5!

 I'm excited to announce that i'm going to be participating in the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival on the Future of Learning, Freedom and the Web, in Barcelona, Spain this November 3-5.Mozilla, the creators of the open-source ...READ»