Archive for May, 2008
Firefox may seem very popular nowadays and is being used by majority of the population but according to survey, it indicates that almost 75 percent of people who use browse the internet still use Internet Explorer. If you are not a FireFox fan or that you are part of the 75 percent Internet Explorer users, you might as well check out the plug in that you must absolutely have, the IE7Pro. The said plug in powers up Internet Explorer with several of the features and functions that were once narrowed to other browsers in the net like a session manager, mouse gestures, prefetching and a lot more.
May 29 2008 | Information | No Comments »
Microsoft is borrowing many popular features from Firefox and Safari in the release of Internet Explorer 8. Although it is originally intended for developers, the beta is public and should be utilized with caution. In the latest release of Internet Explorer, the Safety Filter exists and an antiphishing portion of the browser. In this beta, version 8 adds malware prevention that actively scans a downloading page for some malicious codes and content. Another feature that was borrowed is Web Slices that allows you to create applets on your desktop with snippets from live websites similar with Apple Safari. After downloading Internet Explorer 8 beta and you think you don’t like it, you can click on the Emulate IE7 button to have the old version back.
May 25 2008 | Download | No Comments »
One of the best features of Flicks is its Camera Finder which lets you see what other people’s shots look like by using a particular model. This can be really helpful in figuring out if you basically need to get some new hardware or if you need to take a photography class. Video host Vimeo is a manual process that has a way to view which camera a user has although it is only through tags. If Flickr can find a way to make metadata more of like the equation, it could certainly produce some of the charts and graphs more appealing. Metadata for video clips though are all over and that could be the problem.
May 15 2008 | Information | No Comments »
Splashup which was formerly known as Fauxto is very similar to Photoshop. It is a layer-based with lightweight editor just like offline editor Paint.net that is able to pull in images from Flickr, Facebook or any URL you specify. In editing, the idea here is same with the basic Photoshop-style image editing instead of specifically photo-related retouching. Meaning, there is no control over exposure and touch-up options like red-eye removal or face-retouching. Sliders control the effects which can be previewed in your image as you fiddle with the sliders. All in all, the layers and effects are impressively powerful but it could have been better with a photo-retouching control.
May 10 2008 | Application | No Comments »
Adobe opened an online community with a word-processor, file storage and sharing, and deep tie-ins to a new Acrobat 9 enabled with Flash. This is a bold move for something that is best associated with the free and omnipresent Acrobat Reader that opens ready-print portable document format like PDF files (which will now play movies). The free Acrobat beta includes the Buzzword word processor with its ConnectNow Web conferencing desktop sharing tool allows chatting through text, video and voice. Users can also store files on Acrobat.com beta and join each other on virtual meeting rooms to share similar document views in real time. The said site will also host data from forms formed in Acrobat software. Its security was enhanced that allows users to add 256 bit encryption used by online banks to PDF.
May 08 2008 | Community | No Comments »
Adobe Flash provides a way to build rich internet application as it is cross-platform and quite powerful in creating application UI. Adobe Flex is a framework which provides option for a developer to build user interfaces through compilations of MXML (XML-based interface description language). And this Adobe Flex framework is compiled and turned into a SWF file that is to be run in the Adobe Flash player. AIR or Adobe Integrated Runtime which is a platform that does not rely to the hosting operating system. This Adobe AIR allows Flash Player and Ajax applications to be developed or installed into a user’s desktop.
May 01 2008 | Application and Definition | No Comments »