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Aza Raskin, one of the main developers responsible for Mozilla Firefox, presented this week a new concept that promises to shake up the browser market. Tab Candy, a new concept that will allow to group tabs the way user well understands directly in the browser.

The idea is that users can get an overview of all open tabs, naming them and placing them in groups. The novelty is available for download in Alpha version for those who want to check. However it is not recommended to replace by the current version of your browser.

The new function can… Read More

A Safari vulnerability released today could easily steal your address book contacts through the autofill feature.

Blogger Jeremiah Grossman notified Apple privately one month ago, about a vulnerability in Safari’s autofill feature that can steal your contacts names, where they work, live and even their email address.

The JavaScript powered code scans through your autofill information and takes your available information without any user interaction or prompts. Grossman posted a proof-of-concept code website that scans through your name, company, city, state, country… Read More

One malicious add-on and another add-on with a serious security vulnerability were discovered recently on the Mozilla Add-ons site. Both issues have been dealt with, and the details are described below.

Mozilla Sniffer

Mozilla released an alert about an add-on for Firefox that, when installed, is stealing passwords typed in the browser. Called “Mozilla Sniffer”, the add-on was added to the Gallery of Add-ons on 6th June and removed more than a month later on 12th July.

It was discovered that this… Read More

After a victory for iPhone users was won by Fring last week, the social communications company is now facing the backout of their most valued collaborator, according to TechCrunch. Fring, a communications platform that enables VoIP (Voice over IP) phone calling to both Fring and Skype contacts, enabled video chat on its iPhone app last Thursday. Until that point, iPhone 4 users wanting to take advantage of the video chat functionality made possible by the device’s front-facing camera had to use Facetime, which was… Read More

When the subject is Microsoft’s novelty, the climate is always anxiety. It was thus with Windows Live Messenger 2010 and now all attention to Windows 8. Last week, an Italian website shook the world of computing.

Another blog Microsoft Kitchen released several screenshots of complete project of the supposed new Microsoft Operating System. All Microsoft internal thoughts regarding Windows 8 are in the presentation, product development cycle with resources and ideas in detail. The information is so sensitive that all slides are stamped with watermark “Under NDA”. So far, nobody knows whether it is a marketing gimmick… Read More

Have you ever imagined a disc with a capacity of 128 GB? Begin to imagine. The Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA) announced the specifications of the new standard of disks, BDXL. Therefore, manufacturers are now able to start production of new media and also the necessary equipment for playback and recording. There is no official statement to that effect, but the expectation is that the first compatible player will be available in a year or two.

These discs may have three or four layers… Read More

The question that what happens if I can’t find what I’m looking for on Google? The most practical response should be going to another search engine, always in the context of the internet, as are the books and public libraries.

Chitika obtaining a rather surprising response; users who do not find on Google what they are searching for look Yahoo, then Ask, then Bing and finally AOL.

The study is based on a survey of about 40 thousand internet users’ behavior… Read More