Posts from 'Internet' category

Today was the first day of Google IO conference, a place were the Mountain View company meets the developers and presents is future plans for Android and all other Google services. We have a huge list of announcements for the 2011 Google IO so let's get started. Android Honeycomb 3.1 This is the biggest update for tablets after Android 3.0 and includes some improvements and new functionality worth mentioning more than on a normal scheduled upda...

I know that most people use one monitor, the one on their laptop or the one on their desktop, but for a select category of people it's normal to have two or more monitors on their desk. I'm talking about engineers, architects, graphic designers, programmers, journalists and such, so why stare at a plain monitor background when you can express yourself with a cool wallpaper that expands nicely over your screens. Imagine you have to leave the offic...

I remember that one of the reasons I bough the Nokia N97 Mini one year ago was the Ovi Maps application from Nokia that offered free navigation and maps with updates you can preload on your smartphone. A lot of things have changed since then as I've switched to Android, Nokia announced Microsoft as its partner for future smartphones and Google Maps became a very interesting navigation solution, even if it does consume data from your cellphone mon...

FireFox is one of the top four internet browsers today. Battling alongside Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Opera and Google’s Chrome, FireFox already made a name for itself in terms versatility - its open source software allows FireFox to load numerous third-party Add-ins, which is a very popular feature for a web browser.Mozilla launched a new and improved version of FireFox 4 Mobile this month. The mobile web browser market is dominated ...

About the Mozilla Firefox 4.0 many have been said even before the launch of the first beta version for tests. The software is scheduled to appear in October 2010. Firefox 4.0 is now a Beta release. This month Firefox 4.0 beta 5 appeared; a browser which seems to be focused on security and is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.I admit that I usually do not hurry up installing beta versions, but due to the fact that I wanted to write an ...

Initially launched as a simple search engine Google has become a company with increasingly diverse activities during the last decade. All this because Google wanted to win as much money as possible and dominate as many markets as possible.Even so sometimes Google proved it can provide us with interesting and useful things. The Art Project is one of those things.Many of us wish they had the possibility to visit touristic locations from all...

A year has passed since my colleague Daniel wrote his article on the web browsers’ war. In this interval of time a few small changes have happened.  Each producer has launched new versions of their browser. Even so, one thing has remained unchanged. All producers say their browser is the fastest in the world. This is of course impossible. There has to be a single browser that is really the fastest. In this article we will try to figure ...

Internet Explorer continues to have 60% of the web-browser market, but its popularity is constantly decreasing ever since the Mozilla Firefox and more recent Google Chrome alternatives have appeared. The alert upgrade rhythm of the Firefox and dazzling rhythm of the Google Chrome made people prefer these alternative browsers. Experienced users all go for alternative browsers.Remaining on the 1st place because of the default presence on to ope...

I’ve recently found out what the new iPhone 3GS is capable of.First of all, it will appear the 32GB version, along with the 16GB one. The price will be 299 and 199$, associated with some monthly plans to fit. We don’t know yet how much it will cost without monthly plan and if they will be available this way. The 8GB version will still be available for a while for 99$ (but the 3G version, not the new one).We know that the 3GS...

It’s simply too great to play games while enjoying comforts of the home. The development in technology over the past few years has changed the gaming world. Games have gone more realistic as the graphics have improved greatly. Present day games offer exciting gameplay when compared to old games. Companies release new games every now and then, and they keep making improvements so as to offer great gameplay.Now, thanks to development in ...