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Mass. Official Aims To Shame Library Porn Viewers

172 votes | submitted 2010-06-29 16:30:41 by byteforbyte | 71 comments

A city councilor in Massachusetts thinks he's come up with a way to stop people looking at pornography on public library computers - name them and shame them.

Google Rolls Out Android 2.2 for All Nexus Ones

583 votes | submitted 2010-06-29 16:00:41 by smurfz | 110 comments

The Android 2.2 rollout has finally begun, starting with Google’s flagship phone, the Nexus One.

Chrome overtakes Safari in the US!

0 votes | submitted 2010-06-28 15:48:15 by topstorynz | 0 comments

Google's Chrome browser has overtaken Apple's Safari in the United States, according to web analytics company StatCounter. Although there are many different companies measuring traffic, StatCounter is one of the big names in this area, and according to its latest stats, Chrome is now in 3rd place, behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla.

Now You Can Send Emails In Your Handwriting...For Real !

339 votes | submitted 2010-06-28 15:44:49 by salmanziaa | 63 comments

Wow, sending e-letters to your friends and relatives in your own handwriting would really appeal to many people.

Digital Image Founder Smooths Out Pixels

314 votes | submitted 2010-06-27 21:55:01 by FatTonyDAmico | 40 comments

Russell Kirsch says he's sorry. More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film was shattered to bits.

Google Chrome Now Enabling Flash by Default

353 votes | submitted 2010-06-25 16:06:37 by deafbeat | 37 comments

Google released a new update to the official version of Chrome that has Adobe's Flash turned on by default.

Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in speed test (Vid)

621 votes | submitted 2010-06-24 01:37:39 by surferess | 180 comments

IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than HTML5 when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering. In some other initial benchmarks, see video IE9 is about 30% slower than Chrome 6 in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark -- and about 10% faster than Firefox 3.7.

Firefox update brings protection from Flash crashes

973 votes | submitted 2010-06-23 17:38:34 by ltgenpanda | 85 comments

Mozilla has released a Firefox update that introduces support for plugin isolation. It will prevent Flash crashes from taking down the whole browser.

Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection Now Available

418 votes | submitted 2010-06-22 22:49:29 by naykatiolyu | 60 comments

News, notes and ramblings from the Mozilla project

The 5 Most Advanced Search Engines On The Web

351 votes | submitted 2010-06-22 20:39:17 by kylescousin | 18 comments

Advanced search engines will meet you halfway, by providing forms for advanced searches, better interpreting your queries, suggesting keywords, or finding unusual context.

P2P lawyers tell judge: suing 5,000 "Does" at once is fine

327 votes | submitted 2010-06-22 19:35:08 by hdar3415 | 37 comments

A federal judge wants to know why it's proper to lump 5,000 anonymous P2P defendants into a single court case.

Android got world cup fever: Vuvuzela App for Android

224 votes | submitted 2010-06-22 07:46:10 by allnuts | 38 comments

Vuvuzela is the musical instrument from South Africa that became world famous with the FIFA World Cup in 2010. For some people it is really annoying and for others it adds to the spirit of the game.

10 Best Free Image Hosting And Photo Sharing Websites

365 votes | submitted 2010-06-22 05:57:29 by cutedrishti8 | 26 comments

Have you faced limited bandwidth problem on your Hosting service? Mostly , blogger suffered with exceed bandwidth problem.

VLC 1.1.0 release

1714 votes | submitted 2010-06-22 01:58:34 by jbkempf | 305 comments

VLC 1.1.0 was just released by VideoLAN.GPU and DSP decoding on selected platforms, new support for codecs, demuxers and muxers, Lua extensions and Lua content extensions (luaSD), improved interfaces, removal of lots of modules, rewrite of many modules in order to improve performance...

How to Rescue a Crashed PC

481 votes | submitted 2010-06-21 16:57:47 by digitalmoto | 126 comments

There's crashed...and then there's CRASHED. Typically, there's no one pat reason or cause for a PC crash. So we've put together a rundown of the solutions for any possible issue, from basic fixes to tackling a totally dead hard drive. Here's the gamut of solutions for recovering your data and, perhaps, your whole system before it's too late.

BuddyFox - Instant Messaging Finally in Firefox

402 votes | submitted 2010-06-19 10:40:27 by macbookforme | 60 comments

The new Firefox addon, quietly released just couple of days changes the entire way you can communicate with your friends online.

Unreal Engine Puts BP Oil Spill Into Perspective

2554 votes | submitted 2010-06-18 21:05:30 by gameondigger | 248 comments

See the Unreal Engine rendering 25,000 oil barrels in one go!