eBooks have the ability of bringing entire bookstores right into your home. The best part is you get to choose what books and pay cheaper prices for them. Then when you choose what books you can easily take it wherever you want: beach, gym, plane, school, etc. The eBook is a growing far, but which eBook is the one to get? The common known eBooks like the...
Presentations: With YouTube, Without Distractions
One of the best additions to the Microsoft brand was Microsoft Office. With every application needed to do anything professional for school or work, it is attempting to fall in line with each generation without a sweat. What is the newest feature behind the Office creation? Powerpoint has now added a “Youtube” button that allows you to immediately insert a...
10 Useful Google Chrome extensions for everybody!
For 1 year and five days there is support for extensions in Google Chrome. In all this time, which is not very long quantity wise, Google Chrome extensions have been developed faster than we expected. Right now, there are around 8000 extensions in the official directory. In one year, Google Chrome extensions have become more useful and more complex. However not...
Google Chrome Vs. Firefox, who is better in hardware acceleration ?
The newest battle ground in the web browsers “war” is hardware acceleration. This technology, like most of you are already aware of, allows web browsers to use the processing power of the video card, along with the processor of your computer. Currently, web browsers are just beginning to show us the potential of hardware acceleration. Tests are...
Is your Firefox slow? Here’s what you can do to improve the Firefox speed!
Besides all the qualities and extensions we are very grateful for, Firefox also has some problems. Most of the times, these problems consist in very high requirements of the system resources, a heavy start and a generally slow behavior. In this case, we can find solutions for the situations in which Firefox is very slow. When you install Firefox for the first...
Google Chrome, introducing the 7th version!
We well know the fact that Google Chrome has the habit of burning it’s versions. In less than two years since the release of the first version, Chrome burned no less than six versions, and now we are facing the 7th one. Google likes to introduce new features gradually. They don’t necessarily keep them for major updates. This is why the 7th version...
This is how Internet Explorer 9 will look like ( probably )
We have talked a lot over the last few months about Internet Explorer 9 and the truth is we don’t know many things about the new features it will bring, nor about the web sites loading speed and nothing regarding other important aspects of a web browser. However, we now have a first image that shows us the the next Internet Explorer version will look...
Mobile Web Browsers: Windows Phone 7 vs Nexus One vs iPhone
There is a heavy competition between mobile operating system, so it’s only natural to also have a great competition between their web browsers. The video below shows you the differences between the web browser of an LG phone that runs on Windows 7, a web browser on Nexus One that runs on Froyo ( Android 2.2 ) and the one of an iPhone that runs, of course,...
Mozilla is testing a new menu for Firefox 4
Although the deadline until Firefox 4 should be ready, it seams that Mozilla is still experimenting. For example, they haven’t decided about the shape of the unique menu that will come with the new Firefox version. Users that have already installed the Firefox 4 beta versions have already noticed the fact that the new version joins the trend and removes...
CPU “killing” viruses, Intel buys McAfee to kill them too!
The most important purchase of the year belongs to Intel. The CPU manufacturer purchased McAfee, known for their complete security solutions: anti virus, firewall, anti spam, web filtering, email protection and so on. Intel offered 7.6 billion dollars! 60% more than the current market value of the company, which makes us wonder what kind of virus scared Intel so...