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Aug 10

Tricia’s Story of Multiple Sclerosis

Update from Tricia September 17, 2008: Thank you all for your kind and encouraging words! When I hear how my story has touched people around the world, I can’t believe it! When the National MS Society put together and posted the video, I was shocked at the response. Now, three years later, people are still watching it, forwarding it and commenting on it - wow! My son Jake will be 15 this year, he still loves playing baseball and is a freshman in High School. He helps raise money and awareness for our annual Walk MS event, and this year he’s riding in the Bike MS Tour, all to help create a world free of multiple sclerosis. He is my inspiration and I thank God for him every day! I have good and bad days, but am blessed with family, friends and doctors who support me. I will continue to fight for a cure with my continued dedication through volunteerism and fundraising. I know I speak for many when I say I want to live in a world free of MS. With Hope and Love, Tricia Chandler

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Aug 10

Typographic pizzazz: Coming to a Web near you

Your favorite font could soon be coming to the Web. That’s because of a new technology called Web Open Font Format, or WOFF, that has attracted support from all the right players: browser makers, standards groups, typography designers, and online services to ease licensing. The technology,

…jdaggett/webfonts/historicaltext.htmlIn other words, it’s showing how font choice can add a little flavor of history. I don’t think anybody was trying to make a political or religious statement here. I have yet to detect any anti-Catholic agenda at Mozilla. :) Like this 8 people like this comment
by juan_trujillo August 18, 2010 8:46 AM PDT Relax man. It’s just a font example with some historical background. You don’t have to imply conspirative theories behind every single statement. Like this 11 people like this comment
by KeithBeucler August 18, 2010 6:33 AM PDT According to this article, the use of WOFF would still be dependent on the user having the latest browser version. Anyone who develops for the web knows that they still have to support legacy browsers. I prefer the use of web based fonts. By using a web based font you only have to insure that the service you are using is up and running.Although controversial, perhaps the best way to insure users have the latest browser is to…

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Aug 10

Firefox for Android and MeeGo coming soon

Have you been waiting for Firefox for your Android device? Then your wait might be coming to an end as Fennec 2.0 is all set to release in coming days and the mobile version of the most popular web browser Mozilla Firefox is going to come on one of the most popular mobile platform.

…Have you been waiting for Firefox for your Android device? Then your wait might be coming to an end as Fennec 2.0 is all set to release in coming days and the mobile version of the most popular web browser Mozilla Firefox is going to come on one of the most popular mobile platform.
Now things are starting to stabilize ( ) we are gearing up for the first Fennec 2.0 alpha release in just a few weeks, Mozilla’s Matt Brubeck noted in a recent blog post. Fennec 2 will run on Android and MeeGo (it has been working on Maemo for a while now).
One of the big changes in Fennec 2 is Electrolysis, which separates content rendering and javascript into two different processes. This allows the app’s UI to be responsive while the javascript is rendering and doing its thing. It also could protect the app from crashing should it encounter pages that are script-heavy. Fennec for mobile phones will also offer Sync function that will allow you to sync tabs, bookmarks, and history from your desktop computer.

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Aug 10

Web Browsers’ Private Modes Leak Info, Say Researchers!

Browsing the Web in “private mode” isn’t as private as users think, a researcher said today.

…that could reveal some of the sites that you’ve been to,” said Collin Jackson, an assistant research professor at the Silicon Valley campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Jackson, along with three colleagues from Stanford University, will present their findings later today at the Usenix Security Symposium in Washington, D.C.

Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Chrome and Safari offer private browsing intended to cloak a user from Web sites and erase all browsing evidence from the PC or Mac.

Apple’s Safari was the first browser to feature private browsing, followed in 2008 by Google’s Chrome, and in the next year, by Microsoft’s IE and Mozilla’s Firefox. Opera added a similar feature this summer, but was not included in the research.

The tools are designed primarily to prevent Web destinations from being recorded to the browser’s history so that someone else with access to the computer — a spouse, say, or child — can’t see where the browser’s been. Chrome, calls its feature “Incognito,” while IE dubs it…

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Aug 10

Private browsing: it’s not so private

The private browsing features found in most Web browsers, designed to keep online activity secret, have been examined by a team at Stanford University. Unfortunately for those with an interest in “special interest” websites, the team found that these modes are not as private as they should be.

…To keep browsing private from other users of the same machine, browsers must discard (or avoid creating) any history entries, cached items, cookies, and so on. To prevent sites from being able to track visitors, the browsers must ensure that they don’t send any cookies or other identifiable information from non-private sessions when in private mode.

The researchers found that the browsers’ protections were imperfect. Browsers did not properly isolate their private sessions from non-private ones, with the result that suitably crafted sites could trace visitors between private and non-private sessions. Sites could also leave persistent indications that they had been visited, allowing visits to be detected by local users.

The big problem: add-ons

The problem got worse when extensions and plugins were considered. All four browsers tested enabled plugins in private mode, and these plugins can themselves store data that allows both kinds of privacy to be…

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Aug 10

RIM Introduces BlackBerry Torch 9800

Today, Research In Motion launched the BlackBerry Torch 9800 - RIM’s first slider smartphone. It features a capacitive touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and the new BlackBerry 6 operating system, which includes a WebKit browser.

…According to RIM, new WebKit-based browser renders HTML web pages (as well as HTML email) quickly and beautifully for a great browsing experience . It features tabs for accessing multiple sites simultaneously, pinch to zoom and an auto-wrap text zoom feature that can intelligently wrap text in a column while maintaining the placement of a page’s key elements….

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Aug 10

News Update: Research in Motion’s New BlackBerry Web Browser Beats iPhone in Test (RIMM, AAPL)

Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry users have waited a decade for an improvement to the current web browsing experience most users would describe as grim relative to other smartphones. When RIM acquired Torch Mobile some time ago, crackberry users rejoiced that they may finally get a WebKit-based browser, capable of holding its own with those experienced by owners of the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and other similar high-end smartphones. It look like patience may have paid off. Tech blog Engadget ran an HTML5 test and noted that the new WebKit browser found in BlackBerry latest version of its operating system (6.0) scored a 208 (out of 300) - topping the iPhone’s score of 185 and the HTC Incredible’s score of 151. The new operating system is slated to be released some time in the third quarter of this year. SmarTrend currently has Research In Motion in an Uptrend. Since 2008, SmarTrend subscribers trading Research In Motion using our alerts outperformed the stock by 603%. We are monitoring these developments and will alert subscribers to any change in trend.

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Jul 10

Yolink Helps Web Researchers Search Behind Links

Article describing yolink, a technology that powers up search in a complete new and different way. Download the browser add-on, check out their new API, use their Google News feature, or embed their widget on your blog for better search capabilities.

…Do you like this story? This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: yolink Quick Pitch: Yolink is a next-generation technology that enhances search by extracting information from behind links and inside of documents. Genius Idea: Yolink wants to be a researcher’s best friend. How? By searching not just a page, but also the links contained within that page. This makes finding contextually linked information super simple. Yolink is available as a browser plugin (for FirefoxFirefox, Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer and Google ChromeGoogle Chrome), a desktop search app or a widget you can integrate with your own blog. The service is also an add-on to CraigslistCraigslist, WikipediaWikipedia and Google Patent Search.The Yolink team has also created a yolink Labs project that showcases just how powerful…

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Jul 10

OpenGL ES 2.0 Coming to a Desktop Near You to Speed Up WebGL

The Khronos WebGL working group is developing a 3D API for the web, bringing 3D content right to the web browser using open standards.

…This API has been adopted by many embedded devices such as consoles, mobile phones, handheld computers, and vehicles. As a subset of the full OpenGL 2.0 specification, OpenGL ES 2.0 limits the embedded graphics API to only the most common functionality, reducing the implementation burden for embedded hardware.
The Khronos WebGL working group is developing a 3D API for the web, bringing 3D content right to the web browser using open standards. This effort uses an OpenGL ES 2.0-like interface as its backbone. OpenGL ES 2.0 was chosen as a common denominator of 3D acceleration on devices supporting web browsers.
AMD has just announced support for OpenGL ES on desktop platforms. This means ATI…

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Jul 10

Certified Lies: Big Brother In Your Browser

You probably feel safe when you see the padlock on your browser window indicating secure communication with your bank or e-mail account. What if instead of worrying about man-in-the-middle attacks, it became government-spy-in-the middle eavesdropping?

…a fresh installation of Windows 7 will list 15 CAs in the operating system’s Trusted Root Store. Sadly, however, this interface is terribly misleading as it doesn’t reveal the fact that Microsoft has opted to trust 264 different CAs. This means any web browser that depends upon Microsoft’s Trusted Root Store (such as Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari for Windows) ultimately trusts 264 different CAs to issue certificates without warning. Firefox is the only major browser to maintain its own database of trusted CAs. Each of the 264 root CAs trusted by Microsoft, the 166 root CAs trusted by Apple, and the 144 root CAs trusted by Firefox are capable of issuing certificates for any website, in any country or top level domain. You don’t think the government will use their own CA which could be tracked back to them if discovered, do you?
To be fair, however, all encrypted streams that travel over the Internet are susceptible to government spying, not just those that use Microsoft technology.
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