Microsoft has put significant effort in the development of their latest browser for Windows to reverse the fortunes and put a brake on the rapidly decreasing market share as compared to the two big guns in the Internet browser arena namely: Firefox and Google Chrome. If it does succeeds to reverse the fortunes for Microsoft or not ? – only time will tell, but one thing is for sure that they have introduced some desperately required feature in the latest release. Key new features include the extensive ...

Although, from last couple of years Gmail has started to pick up the steam, and is now one of the most used email services in the world. However, Hotmail despite an apparent loss in it’s dominance from good old days is still pretty popular. Of course, if you have an iPhone it is not a problem to access your Gmail account there. Right? But interestingly many of the loyal Hotmail users don’t know they can also access their email on the iPhone. Actually, it is not that difficult to setup your hotmail ...

Most of the currently available browsers either do not support the hardware acceleration at all, or if they do, then it is not enabled by default. However, there are some exceptions such as Internet Explorer 9 and latest Firefox 4 betas. However, if you happen to be on Google Chrome than most probably the hardware acceleration is NOT enabled, although Chrome supports it. Enabling hardware acceleration should allow to significantly boost your page rendering and browsing  speed. This is particularly ...

Many of us are used to play the light-weight flash games in our favorite browsers. This is particularly true for the casual gamers out there and for the people that don’t have much time otherwise, and want to kill a small amount of time with some light gaming-fun on a PC. There is no limitation of flash games on the Internet, but if you play a lot of flash games confined to the boundaries of a browser window you might have noticed some annoying problems as well. One of the main problems is the ...

Default menus in Firefox are although functional but they are not very interesting to look at from a eye candy point of view. You can spice up the Firefox menu by adding very nice icons to the menu-items to make them much more visually appealing.Menu Icons Plus is the extension that will do the trick for you. It iconifies your Firefox menus and includes built-in icons sets to choose from, along with the ability to import/export icon sets. It also provides options for changing other aspects of ...

Voice Search is a Google Chrome extension that allows to perform search queries in Chrome browser by speech instead of traditional way using the keyboard to input the queries. This might be useful for some people that are feeling futuristic or not in so much mood to use their fingers too much. Extension shows a microphone icon in the extension area in the Chrome, but also for the search boxes in the HTML 5 based websites . To perform a search just click on the icon and speak the word or query you ...

We have already covered a simple way to launch Windows applications directly from Firefox with the click of a button. Furthermore, we covered an alternate approach to achieve the same objective but with much more flexibility but a bit more involved (so probably more suitable for advanced users). However, today we are going to cover a much simpler technique to launch/open the currently open webpage in a tab in Firefox in to another web browser of your choice, for example, Internet Explorer, Safari ...

Most people that are in the loop for the development status of the Firefox 4.0 know that Mozilla has made major changes to our beloved Internet browser, including both underlying and upfront GUI changes. While for the most part these changes are welcome, there are some GUI related choices that many users are not particularly happy about. Talk for example about the Panorama feature, Bing Orange Menu button at the top, removal of the statusbar and among some others. But today I am talking about an ...

YouTube is of course the de facto standard these days for viewing and downloading latest (and not so latest) videos covering a wide variety of topics ranging from fashion, entertainment, music to the gaming. However, some for these videos you might only be interested in the audio part of the file – this is true particularly say for the video lectures, for some guides and of course for the music that you might want to transfer to your iPod to listen on the go. Of course, there are already a lot ...

WordPress is finally now available after going through the RC4. This is an exciting news because this version brings some useful new features and large amount of bug fixes from the previous release. Notable new features include significantly faster way of linking to your older stories in the articles. A new revamped and cleaner dashboard interface. And for the developers new Post Formats support among many other enhancements. A highlight of all the new features in the latest version of the WordPress ...