Google Chrome - A web browser from Google released

« 3 September 2008 | 11:37 | Announcement, Technology | No Comments »

Google has released the beta version of Google Chorme - a new open source browser. Google Chrome is based on the open source web engine called Webkit, which also powers Safari browser. Some other features of Google Chrome are:

Tabs are independent. Each tab has it’s own location bar, navigation buttons etc. If one tab crashes, [...]



KDE 4.1 Alpha1 released

« 30 April 2008 | 5:54 | Announcement | No Comments »

KDE team has released an alpha version of their next KDE release, KDE 4.1. KDE 4.1 brings the following news features:

Akonadi is among the new big things in KDE 4.1. Akonadi is the desktop-independent storage engine for Personal Information Management (PIM) data. While not yet based on Akonadi, KDE 4.1 also brings a KDE [...]



ESPN 360 sucks

« 5 December 2007 | 9:40 | General | 7 Comments »

I wanted to watch the video of my school’s football match on ESPN 360. I logged into my desktop (I use Ubuntu), opened Firefox and went to ESPN 360 website. I was shocked to see that ESPN 360 supports only Windows and Mac OSes (Screenshot below). It sucks. The same thing happened with BBC’s iPlayer. [...]



Prism prototype now available for Linux

« 12 November 2007 | 7:49 | Technology | No Comments »

Close on the heels of launching Prism for Windows, Mozilla lab has released it for Mac and Linux. According to Mozilla lab, Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. With Prism, you can add your favorite web apps like GMail, Google [...]



Netscape Navigator 9 released

« 16 October 2007 | 6:12 | Announcement | No Comments »

AOL officially released Netscape Navigator 9 yesterday. It’s based on Firefox 2.0.0.7. It’s available for Mac and Linux too. I’m not sure if the Windows version still carry the bloated Internet Explorer also, but the Linux version was a 9 MB download. I downloaded the file and extracted it. It created a folder called Navigator. [...]