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Lunascape Is Firefox, Chrome And Internet Explorer Rolled Into One
5:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application Lunascape is a web browser capable of running any of the three major web rendering engines—Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Safari/Chrome), and Trident (Internet Explorer). That means that each time you open a new tab or follow a link, you can tell Lunascape which engine you want to use to render the page. The idea, in theory, is that Lunascape gives you the benefits of each popular browser in one. For example, Lunascape gives you IE support for the few IE-only sites still out there and no-nonsense speed from WebKit or Gecko. More »
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LittleShoot Adds P2P File-Sharing To The Browser
8:39AM Gina Trapani | New peer-to-peer file sharing web service LittleShoot finds and downloads files right inside your web browser. LittleShoot founder (and former LimeWire engineer) Adam Fisk says he created LittleShoot to overcome LimeWire’s shortcomings. To get started, you can search for a keyword at the LittleShoot web site without installing a thing and you’ll get dozens of results from YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo, and LittleShoot users. (See the results for a search on “Twilight” above.) To play or download a file, you will have to download and install a small LittleShoot add-on. To publish a file on LittleShoot, hit the Publish tab and add a file on your local computer. The Mashable web site reports that LittleShoot is optimised to find nearby computers that host the file you need as well as defaulting to computers on the same ISP to increase download speeds and responsiveness. All in all, LittleShoot is looking very promising for P2P-ers who don’t want to run full-fledged BitTorrent or other clients. What’s your favourite way to P2P? Let us know in the comments. Thanks, Sangraal! LittleShoot [via Mashable] More »
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Google Chrome’s about:internets Easter Egg
9:09AM Gina Trapani | Google Chrome users, type about:internets into the address bar to get a fun little animation. Don’t clog the tubes, yo. (Check out some more of our favourite software Easter eggs here.) More »
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Orca Browser is Avant for Firefox
8:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: The free Orca Browser is a web browser based on the Firefox 3 core with the same speed and features of Firefox in addition to a handful of extra features. Those extra features include a built-in ad blocker, flash blocker, auto form-filler, and perhaps most useful, an online storage account that syncs your bookmarks, auto-form information, and more with an online account. Orca is made by the same folks who developed the freeware Avant Browser, which is based on Internet Explorer with an emphasis on speed and improved features. More »
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Click&Clean Clears the Crap from Your Browser
7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Freeware application Click&Clean works in conjunction with previously mentioned favourite CCleaner to cover your browsing tracks with the click of a button. To use it, first make sure that you’ve already installed CCleaner and then download and install Click&Clean. Once installed, Click&Clean will add an entry to your quick launch bar. You can stop with that if you like, but Click&Clean also provides a Cleaner button for you Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbars—you just have to add them through the customise dialogs. Once there, clicking the toilet paper icon will automatically run CCleaner’s browser cleanup tools to give your browsing session a deep clean. Click&Clean is freeware, Windows only. Click&Clean [HotCleaner via FreewareGenius] More »
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Opera 9.5 Brings Speed and Syncing to the Browser
10:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: The final version of the Opera 9.5 web browser is in the open as of this morning. We’ve previously highlighted some of its features, including the browser-syncing, speed-dial- Opera Links, but there’s also an integrated BitTorrent download manager, mouse gesture control, and a claim by developers that JavaScript and HTML render more than twice as fast as Opera 9.2. Opera 9.5 is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Opera Home page More »
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Top 10 Useful Bookmarklets
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Having a good set of bookmarklets on your browser’s toolbar is like having a web-savvy Leatherman handy—you can take them anywhere, use them in many situations, and they just simply work. A bookmarklet is a little different than a plain old bookmark—it’s a snippet of JavaScript that can perform all sorts of magic on the web page you’re currently viewing. You add bookmarklets to your bookmarks collection to get all sorts of things done as you surf the web. Let’s take a look at some of the best bookmarklets available, which can help you search and email, download videos, and work out some of the web’s kinks. More »Opera releases Mobile browser Opera Mini 4.1
8:00AM Sarah Stokely | Opera has taken the latest version of its mobile browser, Opera Mini, out of beta this week. The new Opera Mini 4.1 gives the browser a speed bump and offers several new features for quicker scrolling, navigation and page rendering.One feature carried over from the 9.5 Beta 2 version of Opera’s desktop browser is the ability to guess the URL you want when you enter a search term in the address bar.4.1 also supports offline viewing, and users with Java-enabled mobiles supporting JSR-75 will be able to upload and download any file via Opera’s mobile web.Opera Mini 4.1 is not compatible with all mobile phones, so check the full list of compatible phones here. Most Java handsets are supported, including BlackBerry and Palm phones.Opera Mini 4.1 is a beta, so the usual warnings apply. It can be downloaded here. [via]
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