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Sharing files on the web has become easier and easier.  There are plenty of websites that let you upload files.  However, one of the trade offs is when your buddy wants to download that file, they may have to wait through a forced waiting period so a site like Zshare… Continue Reading »

Wednesday was day one of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest, and the results are in.  Using fully patched copies of Safari, IE8, and Firefox, hackers broke them all.  They each failed to what is called hacker “Nils.” The Pwn2Own contest challenges experts in security to find and exploit vulnerabilities in… Continue Reading »

And the boys continue to fight over who’s is bigger.  I wonder if they all drive red cars?  This latest round in the Google/Microsoft bru-haha features Google wanting to hop in bed with those battling Microsoft in an effort to prove antitrust charges having to do with the software giant’s… Continue Reading »

After surviving US and European Antitrust lawsuits for bundling their Internet Explorer browser with Windows, Microsoft is finally feeling the hit from a group they never expected — the consumer.  It seems that less and less people are using the built in IE browser and are switching to better browsers,… Continue Reading »

Despite the fact that I am not ready to part with Firefox, it is hard to deny that Chrome does have some nice features, one of which is the most visited tab.  Now, as part of the latest (currently beta) version of the Google Toolbar for Firefox, users will have… Continue Reading »

What the?  In an obvious attempt to promote their own Chrome browser, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 and run Firefox or Chrome instead.  With these other browsers, Google promises that Gmail will run “twice as fast.”  Additional perks of the switch include fast JavaScript… Continue Reading »

Now may be a good time for anyone still using Firefox 2 to go ahead and make that move to Firefox 3.  Mozilla has officially ended support for Firefox 2, users are being notified through the automatic update process, with a message stating that “this is the last planned update… Continue Reading »

Need a toolbar?  No?  I didn’t think so.  MySpace figures you do need a toolbar.  If your life is still on MySpace, the toolbar will let you get updates on your friend’s activities, automatic login, links to MySpace services and is powered by Google. The toolbar works with Firefox 2.0… Continue Reading »

There are a lot of add-ons for Firefox out there.  Over 5,000 of them to be more precise.  But, its a bit hard to actually find the most useful ones unless you’re searching for them specifically.  Mozilla is trying to help us all out with that.  It recently opened a… Continue Reading »

According to a source, you can opt into the new Netflix Watch Instantly movie player.  The source is The Official Netflix Blog, so it’s probably accurate.  This brings Netflix’s movie player to OS X for the first time (without running Windows) by using Microsoft’s Silverlight. If you’re a slider and… Continue Reading »