By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Need a second opinion before you make your next electronics purchase? A new social network called PEBuzz (Personal Electronics Buzz) hopes to help. The site, launched about a month ago, features user-generated reviews and opinions on everything from high-end TVs to random gadgets. The site lets you set up […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] In a landmark ruling, a US federal appeals court has declared that employers are not allowed to read employees work emails and text messages without getting a warrant first. But the ruling only applies to situations where the company outsources its email and texts to an outside company and […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] You only have to look at the issue of online file sharing to see how different the European Union is. Some political parties in Scandinavia want to legalise it while German prosecutors think it’s a waste of their time and taxpayers money even prosecuting such “petty offenses”. But France […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to Mozilla’s official live downloads page, Firefox 3 is about to hit 8 million downloads (at the time of writing this, it was at around 7.9 million and rising VERY fast). This is in the first 24 hours of its release. According to the page, this translates to […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A while back, I wrote about the RSS feeds that I use to look for stories. Well I have now come across another potential source of new online information, albeit a slower, more laborious one. inSuggest is a service that scans your Del.icio.us bookmarks, and based on the sites […]
The following video shows an interesting demo of an experimental user interface for a future mobile version of Firefox. This is well worth the watch for those of you who are anxiously waiting for a good browser to be released on their favorite mobile platform. Yes, yes, I know, the browser on the iPhone already […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] One of the extensions that will NOT be graduating with the Firefox class of 2008 will be Google Browser Sync after the company decided to consign it to the internet graveyard. It seems the team responsible for its development has “moved onto other projects” (is that like a politician […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Mozilla has finally announced the release date for Firefox 3 – Tuesday June 17th – 5 days from now. Mark it in your calendars folks! It’s taken 34 months to develop Firefox 3 and anticipation is high. I tried out one of the preview versions when I was helping […]