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Google unveils 2 new extensions for Firefox

Published on December 15, 2005 in Google, Security and Web browsers. 0 Comments

Google today launched two new extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The Google Safe Browsing extension aims to notify the users of Firefox whenever they visit a phishing site. This is very much similar to the Netcraft Anti-phishing toolbar and anti-phishing feature that Microsoft is going to incorporate in IE7.

Another extension is the Blogger Web Comments. Once installed, the extension searches the Google Blogsearch and find whether other bloggers have any comment on the page you are currently viewing. You can use it to post to your own blog too.
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Google Earth for Mac OSX

Published on December 13, 2005 in Apple and Software. 0 Comments

While there is no Google Earth officially from Google yet, those guys at UneasySilence seem to be able to get it early. According to their blog post, a “very mysterious man” has sent them the download link to the Mac OSX version of the popular satellite imaging software.

There is currently no official Mac OSX version of Google Earth, so download at your own risk.
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Yahoo upgrades Widget Engine to version 3.0

Published on December 13, 2005 in Software and Yahoo. 0 Comments

Yahoo has upgraded its Yahoo Widget Engine (previously known as Konfabulator before the original creator, Pixoria was acquired by Yahoo) to Version 3.0.
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Firefox 1.5 exploit discovered and made public

Published on December 9, 2005 in Security and Web browsers. 0 Comments

A bug that exists in Firefox 1.5 has been discovered and made available to public. The exploid code takes advantage of a bug of Firefox in handling history of visited sites, and could cause denial of service to the victim. When the topic of a page is crafted to be long enough, it will crash Firefox each time it is started.

Currently there is no any official fix from Mozilla. The only workarounds are either to erase the history.dat file manually, or to disable history feature of Firefox 1.5 (Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> History -> Set the number of days to save pages at 0).
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Mykzilla Firefox-style tabs for Thunderbird

Published on December 8, 2005 in Web browsers. 0 Comments

One of the features that make Firefox such a useful and friendly browser is its tabbed browsing. Unfortunately, such a feature is not seen in Thunderbird, another flagship product by Mozilla, the company that makes Firefox.

A software developer Myk Melez has published a “hacked” version of Thunderbird that comes with tabbed browsing feature. This is an unofficial release and it’s likely to break. So handle with care.
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Recolored - adding colors to B&W photos

Published on December 7, 2005 in Software and Useful. 0 Comments

You don’t have to be a Photoshop guru to convert a black and white photo into one with colors. Now with Recolored, just briefly tell the program what color to use in different regions and it will automagically repaint the photo for you.
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Skype 2.0

Published on December 2, 2005 in Software. 0 Comments

Skype Technologies S.A. has launched the version 2 of its popular VOIP software. New to this version is the video conferencing feature, which lets users to do video conferencing for free.

Together with the launch, Skype has also announced partnership with Creative and Logitech to produce Skype-enabled webcams. Creative’s Skype-certified webcams will be available at retailers in Europe, while Logitech’s can be purchased through the Skype online store

Skype has also partnered with Six Apart to provide instant calling feature at Six Apart’s Typepad personal blogging service.
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Firefox 1.5

Published on November 30, 2005 in Web browsers. 0 Comments

Firefox 1.5 and Mozilla 1.5 have finally been released. A new website at www.mozilla.com has also been setup to host the programs.

What’s new in Firefox 1.5:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
* Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
* Improvements to popup blocking.
* Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
* Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
* Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and “Safe Mode” experience.
* Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
* Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
* Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
* New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
* Many security enhancements.

Firefox 1.5 RC3

Published on November 18, 2005 in Web browsers. 0 Comments

As reported earlier, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3 is now available for download. This should be the last release candidate release before the final release of version 1.5 of the popular open-source web browser.
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