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Images of IE9 Beta Leaked

It was revealed at a Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting that the beta of IE9 would be coming out in September.  It has been hinted by some that September 2nd is the intended release date.  The screen shots below are from cnBeta

Translate Text within Images

There are plenty of utilities both on the web and offline that will translate text for you.  Still there are times when you have an image that has some text in it that you wish you could translate.  You could type it manually into a translator but if there is much text that can get very tedious fast! A [...]

Skype 5.0 Beta With Group Video Calling Available For Windows

It has been going around that Skype 5 beta was going to available soon.  Now it is.  The main new feature that people are talking about is the ability to do group video calling.  In the previous version if you wanted to do a group call all video was disabled.  Now in the beta you can make a 5-way [...]

Giveaway of the Day – Simpo PDF Merge & Split

February 8, 2010 Simpo PDF Merge & Split is an Award-winning PDF tools, which can precisely merge and split any pdf files. With merge function, you can help you to merge several pdf files or specific pages in pdf files into a single document, while split function allows you to extract pages out of a [...]

Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 Final

Google Chrome 4.0 has been finalized and is now available for download for the general public. It was on January 21st, 2010, that Google released the last Beta development milestone of Chrome, namely version 4.0.249.78. And fact of the matter is that this is the same build string of version 4.0. Google Chrome 4.0 comes to the [...]

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 (Final)

Firefox 3.6  is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Maemo. Notable [...]

Firefox 3.6 1 Release Candidate Has been Released

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is the latest development milestone of the next version of the Firefox web browser. As a release candidate, this is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, and represents the features and content that will be in the final product release. Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate [...]

Google Chrome Passes Safari in Market Share

Google Chrome after only two years has passed Apple’s Safari browser for the title of the Internet’s third most popular browser.  Net Applications found that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (all versions) accounts for about 62.7 percent of the worldwide browser market, while Mozilla’s Firefox accounts for about 24.6 percent of the worldwide market and now Chrome [...]

List of Firefox Add-ons

I know that this has been written about on this site before; it is always good to go over it again. Here is a list of the add-ons that I find are the most useful in my everyday browsing in Firefox. ColorfulTabs This add-on is one of my favorites. It will color every tab in [...]