Gnutella — the venerable peer-to-peer file sharing network — doesn’t get as much time in the spotlight today, what with the rise of BitTorrent. It’s still around, though, and Android users now have an app which lets them connect to the Gnutella network, search for files, and download directly to their device: DroidG. Fire up [...]
Xmarks, the cross-platform multi-browser sync solution that was on the verge of shut down, has been saved from oblivion by a purchase by fellow browser add-on company, LastPass. For those who haven’t heard of LastPass before, it’s like the Xmarks of passwords, with secure password sync and storage across multiple platforms and browsers, which currently [...]
CCleaner just hit version 3.0 recently, but Piriform has already pushed an incremental update to the popular clean-up app. What’s new in CCleaner 3.01? For starters, there’s support for Adobe Reader X and Acronis True Image, better cookie detection for users of Firefox 4 beta 7, and improved handling of 7-zip, Chromium-based browsers like SRWare [...]
Xmarks’ announcement that it would be shutting down in the near future is turning into a topsy-turvy saga. Now the Xmarks team has decided to reconsider offering a premium service in order to keep the product alive, thanks to an outcry from Xmarks fans. Here’s the pitch: if you love Xmarks, pledge $10-20 to say [...]
Other browsers like Chrome and Opera can do it, and they’ve been doing it for ages. There are add-ons that let Firefox do it, but if it’s such a useful feature, why hasn’t it been included out-of-the-box? “It” is paste and go, and like sync functionality, it has finally been permanently bolted on to Firefox. [...]
This one’s for the Web developers in the audience. ColorPicker is a very powerful JavaScript … color picker. Okay, so maybe the name isn’t very original (or searchable, for that matter), but it is very descriptive.
In the demo shown on the page, ColorPicker pops up as you click a text field that needs to be [...]
Boxee, everyone’s favorite open-source underdog in the emerging entertainment-center-in-a-box market, has been using Gecko for its on-board browser for years now. That’s all about to change, according to Boxee’s Lead Apps Developer Rob Spectre, who told GigaOM that the team was looking to make good use of HTML5, and saw a shift to WebKit as [...]
CloudMagic is a Google Chrome and Firefox extension which indexes your email locally on your computer, and provides ridiculously fast results when you search. The extension provides a CloudMagic search field right in Gmail with a shortcut key of Ctrl-/ (rather than just / for Gmail’s regular search field). It features search-as-you-type that seems to [...]
Bynamite is that it looks slick. It’s a service that purports to let you easily opt out of over 100 ad networks and specify what interests you (and what doesn’t) so that you can get better targeted advertising.
It’s not an ad blocker. It’s a browser add-on for Firefox and Chrome that’s coupled with a website. [...]
There’s only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already.
The Developer Previews (Internet Explorer Test Drive) are not meant to have a user interface — they’re just there to show off the Trident rendering [...]
