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Google Chrome a new web browser for Windows

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster safer and easier

Search from the address bar
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab

Private browsing
Open an incognito window when you don 39 t want to save your browsing history

Google, seemingly torn between Chinese censorship and Chinese opportunity, is now “99.9 percent” certain that it will shut down its Chinese search engine, Google.cn.

According to a Financial Times source “familiar with the company’s thinking,” the search giant, having reached an apparent impasse with the Chinese government officials, has drafted detailed plans to close the Chinese search business, though it remains optimistic about finding a way to maintain its overall operations in China.

In March 2008, Microsoft and Nokia announced their commitment to make Silverlight available for certain Nokia phones running the Symbian operating system. Microsoft is finally ready to make a beta of that code available.

Experience the web, Apple Style, with Safari – the fastest, easiest to use web browser in the world. Safari – It’s a browser. It’s a platform. It’s an open invitation to innovate. Whether on a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPod touch, Safari continuously redefines the browser, providing the most enjoyable way to experience the Internet. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web. It renders web pages at lightning speed. It works on the iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and PC. It shows you your favorite sites at a glance. And it’s so smart, it even checks your spelling and grammar. Meet Safari 4, the world’s most innovative browser. Safari is designed to emphasize the browsing, not the browser. The browser frame is a single pixel wide. You see a scroll bar only when needed. By default, there’s no status bar. Instead, a progress gear turns as your page loads. And if you so choose, you can hide almost the entire interface, removing virtually every distraction from the browser window.

Features

• Improved Privacy over Chromium
• Easy SSL Certificate Identification
• Fast Website Access
• Greater Stability and Less Memory Bloat
• Incognito Mode Stops Cookies, Improves Privacy
• Very easy to switch from your Browser to the Dragon

Comodo Dragon Browser (Windows only; Freeware)

Capcom’s Street Fighter 4 iPhone may look impressive, but Palm is looking to give it a run for its money, with their incredible Unreal Engine 3 WebOS port. Continue reading for a video demonstration.

It runs at a pretty smooth clip, with just a tiny bit of artifacting…Palm has it currently setup to demonstrate the game at 1 fps when in card view.

[via Engadget]

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform Some of the basic features include full unicode support ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats
Main Features
Open component architecture allowing third party developers to extend functionality of the player
Audio formats supported quot out of the box quot WAV AIFF VOC AU SND Ogg Vorbis MPC MP2 MP3
Audio formats supported through official addons MPEG 4 AAC FLAC OggFLAC Monkey 39 s Audio WavPack Speex CDDA TFMX SPC various MOD types extraction on the fly from RAR 7 ZIP amp ZIP archives
Full Unicode support on Windows NT
ReplayGain support
Low memory footprint efficient handling of really large playlists
Advanced file info processing capabilities generic file info box and masstagger
Highly customizable playlist display
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Most of standard components are opensourced under BSD license source included with the SDK

Can a geodesic dome save Houston? The Discovery Channel thinks so. Featuring gigantic doors that can be closed to insulate the city from inclement weather (hurricanes, etc.), apex vents for ventilation, and built using a “strong and lightweight plastic called ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, or ETFE.”

Some environmentalists seem to feel that the Houston dome project is the only way to save the city. I’m all for preserving nature.

[via AC]

The BMW Z4 GT3 is powered by a four-litre, eight-cylinder engine producing approximately 480 bhp. A six-speed sequential gearbox sends all of that power to the rear wheels. ABS and central-locking wheels are standard, and for consumers who want an extra touch of civilization, air conditioning is optional.

Microsoft is specifying a real date on which business users will be able to get their hands on Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010: May 12. Consumers will have to wait until June to buy the product online and at retail.

Comical is a comic downloader and viewer that utilises a custom-built framework for the parsing and downloading of comics from websites. The framework uses an open XML format that allows anyone to add support for additional comics.

There is full support for comic archiving and browsing. If archiving is enabled (within the Settings window), Comical will archive any downloaded comics; these comics can then be browsed as required via the navigation buttons located in the top-right of the main application window.

The original version of Comical was merely a testing harness used for creating the framework that powered the main web-comic download and parsing functionality; version 0.90 Alpha has since had its interface completely rewritten to be more user-friendly and will continue to be improved upon in future updates.

Comical Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

It was just over a month ago that Microsoft officials said the company had sold 60 million copies of Windows 7. On March 2, they updated that tally, claiming 90 million copies of Windows 7 have been sold to date.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster safer and easier Google Chrome also uses a brand new javascript engine V8 which is much faster than existing javascript interpreters This means you can create more complex and more intensive AJAX applications with fewer speed and processing constraints Finally. Google Chrome is built on top of WebKit so Google Chrome users will benefit from the CSS3 features being added to WebKit as those features are released .

HTC has been sued by Apple for infringing on 20 iPhone-related patents. The court filing by Apple says "that a bevy of HTC-made cellphones — including the Nexus One, T-Mobile’s G-1 and the MyTouch 3G — use patent-protected technologies owned by Apple without having a license for them." Video after the break.

Apple’s asking for a permanent injunction, which would bar HTC from importing or selling phones here that use these patents, along with triple damages with maximum interest (read: a lot of money).

[via Washingtonpost - Gizmodo]

The hardgraft Phone Slim Case ($60) is perfect for your pocket. This one size fits both the iPhone and iPod touch. Protect your phone simply buy sliding it in case providing a nice snug fit, and push it out by squeezing the leather bottom.

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Along with the fairly staid C5 phone, Nokia today announced a new structure for its phone series-as we heard a few weeks back. Now, all Nokia phones will come in four different classes-the classic C-series, entertainment and media-themed X-series, business E-series and flagship “high end” N-series. [Nokia Conversations]

A few days after the Opera 10.50 beta for Windows got its second revision, the first Mac beta for version 10.50 finally has been released to the public. There has been a pre-alpha release available since late December, but it hasn’t received the multiple public upgrades that the Windows one had, until now.

Opera 10.50 beta 1 contains a lot of Mac-specific changes, most notably the Carakan JavaScript engine which has been noted in the Windows version for making Opera comparable, speed-wise, to Google Chrome.

In casual testing comparing Opera 10.50 beta 1 to Google Chrome 5.0.335.0 on a Mac Mini with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, a 1.83 Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, and 1 GB of RAM, the development version of Google Chrome was slightly faster than the new Opera beta. Opera scored an average of 598.33 milliseconds over three runs, while Chrome notched 562.53 ms averaged over three runs. Regardless of which one is actually faster, these improvements are just as dramatic as the ones made to the new Opera beta on Windows and indicate the Opera is taking progress seriously on both Windows and Macs.

Other changes include the browser being built from the ground up in Cocoa, Growl and multitouch support, support for the HTML5 < video > tag, and extensive hooks between Opera Widgets and the desktop. This means that widgets can be used as standalone apps, previously limited to the Windows version. Opera Unite also works in this beta, and there have been extensive interface tweaks–though nothing as dramatic as the Windows 7 changes. The new beta also supports OS X 10.4 Tiger, although the browser won’t work on PowerPC chips for now.

The full changelog can be read here.