A few countries are already seeing the pilot program of Youtube's new subscription tier to skip those darn ads. With Youtube videos now being peppered with ads every 10 minutes or so, this is a…
Download Opera 10.6 [Windows, Linux, OS X]
The Opera development team has released the final version of Opera 10.60 web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD.. Opera 10.60 touts a highly optimized JavaScript engine that's claimed to be 50%…
.XXX domain gets ICANN approval
The ICANN gave initial approval for the creation of the controversial .xxx domain at its conference in Brussels, for (who else aside from Vin Diesel's movie franchise) porn site use. In response and approval of…
Adobe releases Flash 10.1
Adobe has just released (quietly I might add) the Flash 10.1 plugin. This new version supports hardware H.264 video acceleration on Windows PCs (no Mac or Linux release yet) with compatible graphics processors. This is…
Google Chrome drops http://
It's the buzz in reddit a few days ago and it seems that the latest Chrome update for the development builds has confirmed the rumor that Google has purposely removed the http:// from the address…
The Wibiya Toolbar
If you've been browsing around, the blogosphere, you've probably encountered the Wibiya Toolbar. It's a simple but powerful script that gives sites subscribers a lot of options to subscribe to, browse and share information from…
Japan ranks #1 in world internet speed
Japan always gets the best of things, including internet speed. Compare Japan's $.27/MBps speed to the Philippine's $23/MBps and you get the very clear picture. Aside from arguably the best data plans in the world,…
Enable multiple account logins on Firefox
I'll have to admit that most of the times, I need to have multiple logins on a single browser. Be it checking messages or viewing/exchanging details from multiple accounts, you've got to admit at one…
Internet Explorer SmartScreen blocks 2 million malicious URLs…
The Internet Explorer line might be the bane of developers the world over but there's no denying that it's latest incarnation is better than it's predecessors in more ways than one. One aspect that Internet…