Technologizer

Would You Pay For Firefox Extensions?

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Firefox is the happy result of untold hours of unpaid effort by the Mozilla community. But Mozilla is announcing a pilot program called Firefox Add-On Contributions, with the aim of helping Firefox extension developers make a buck from their hard work. It’s a platform for requesting and receiving payments for extensions, with PayPal handling the [...]

5Words for Monday, June 22nd 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009

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Are you using Firefox 3.5? Firefox 3.5 is almost done. AT&T and Apple’s closed Web. How not to use Twitter. 3.0? On most iPhones, no. Your ringtone is a performance. Two Engadgeteers review Nokia’s N97. Fake Steve Jobs has returned. FCC to target blogger freebies? Google works on machine vision.

Google Makes Chrome Speed Boost Boast. Who’s Next?

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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Google is boasting that an update to Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine and Webkit browsing component has yielded a significant improvement in performance. Yippee. Now, who’s next? The renewed browser war resembles more of a game of leapfrog than the big-bang releases of the 1990’s when one version of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator could change the [...]

5Words for May 21st, 2009

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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Apple tablet rumors: gettin’ boring! Analyst thinks Apple tablet coming. Google, beta: no longer synonymous? Jetpack: Mozilla’s new add-on framework. Are your deleted photos deleted? Is Kumo search already behind? Twitter: more popular. MySpace, not. Conficker hasn’t gone away yet. Got 400 movies on Blu-Ray? Cablevision to launch remote DVR.

5Words for March 25th, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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No history-making news today: The White House’s Digg clone. Yahoo closes FareChase travel site. Guy Kawasaki provides Twitter tips. Mozilla plans 3D graphcs Web. Canon DSLR does 1080p video. Sprint details WiMax rollout plans. HD radio: a progress report. Finally! Castle Wolfenstein for iPhone. PCMag likes Wacom’s latest tablet. This Eee PC’s a keyboard.

5Words for March 12th, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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Today’s big news: Google Voice: David Pogue reviews Google Voice. Google Voice: privacy is over? Will Google Voice change telecommunications? March Madness on your iPhone. Hulu adds social networking features. Sirius XM plans iPhone application. Third-party iPhone Shuffle earbuds. Microsoft figures out netbook market. Mozilla preps for Chrome era. Microsoft speed tests: IE’s OK First fix for Windows 7 glitch. Apple patents Wii-like controller. Dell’s multitouch desktop: Japan [...]

Flock: Goodbye Mozilla, Hello Chrome?

Monday, March 2, 2009

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TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington (who’s back from his month-long blogging hiatus) is reporting that one of my favorite products is going to undergo a radical change. Flock, the browser with built-in support for Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites, will supposedly dump Mozilla, the platform that’s most famously used by Firefox, and build a [...]

5Words for February 18th, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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Late today–I’ve been airborne: Facebook reverts to old terms. Intel and Nvidia’s legal tussle. Folks are dropping cable, apparently. Tumblr shuts down unkind blogs. Verizon preps for 4G wireless. Mozilla: iPhone jailbreaking is OK Microsoft kills subscription software offering Text in school, get arrested. Time to stop using CAPTCHA? Western Digital’s remotely-accessible drive. April 5th arrival for Nintendo DSi.

Firefox Goes Private, Kills Fancy Tab Switching

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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The Mozilla folks have released beta 2 of Firefox 3.1, the next version of the world’s favorite open-source Web browser. It includes a bunch of technical refinements and fixes, and one significant new feature: private browsing. And it removes one feature from beta 1 which I kinda liked. Mozilla’s implementation of Private browsing (which Apple’s Safari [...]

One Possible Future for the Browser

Monday, August 4, 2008

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Where is the Web going? Jesse James Garrett–the influential founder of Web design firm Adaptive Path–is in as good a position as anyone to provide smart answers to that question. And he’s just delivered some in the form of a next-generation browser interface called Aurora. Don’t get too excited–Aurora is pretty much just a pie-in-the-sky idea [...]