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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

Google Opens Chrome Web Store To Devs

Google is now allowing developers to upload applications to the as-yet-un-open Chrome Web Store, an online gallery of web applications and web extensions for the company’s Chrome browser and its upcoming Chrome OS operating system.

…but it will also charge 30 cents per transaction and a one-time $5 registration fee.

Uploading apps to the store is similar to a procedure used by the current Chrome extensions gallery, and when the store officially launches, it will replace the gallery. The store will offer extensions and browser “themes” as well as what Google calls “installable web apps,” essentially a web app with some extra metadata that mimics installation. It adds a launch icon to the browser, and in some cases, it adds a few hooks into your machine’s operating system.

“An installed web app could be separated visually from other tabs, could integrate better with the OS, and could be granted increased permissions,” the company says.

“Installing a web app in Google Chrome is easy and quick, with no restart required. At its simplest, installing a web app is like creating a super-bookmark to it.”

During the Web Store’s developer preview, the apps you upload will only be visible to you…

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Aug 10

Install - Upgrade Midori 0.2.7 In Ubuntu

Midori is a lightweight Web browser based on GTK+2 and WebKit. It features tabs, windows, and session management and is extensible via Lua scripts.Features * Full integration with GTK+ 2 * Fast rendering with WebKit * Tabs, windows and session management * Flexibly

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Aug 10

Recoll The Best Application for Desktop Search

The desktop search tools can now be used not only to find a single file by its name, but can also perform searches within the context of e-mail, images, videos and music.Some tools go a little ‘further and also indexes the history and browser bookmarks to desktop search tools work by creating an index of all files. When the system searches…

…Space, possible outcomes are shown, such as Python, pytypte, etc..Under the search term and the number of results returned, you may need to navigate through various pages of results to find the one that we tried, all by simply clicking on the link at the top right pane of the results.When you view the results, recoll print a small sample for each file, although this may not be enough to see if the file found is the right one. In our help, you can click the preview button next to the link on the result to preview the document with the internal viewer of the program. To help us refine the search, recoll can define words to search and then filter assuming all are present, or at least one and no other options (advanced search). You can also limit your search to certain types of MIME file, as PDF files or spreadsheets. Finally, if you know a part of the path where the file might be, you can limit your search to a certain tree. While many other tools constantly monitor the disk to keep the index in line with any…

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Aug 10

Infinity Browser 12.0

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Aug 10

Fotoxx - Photo Editing 10.8.3 / Ubuntu / Linux

Fotoxx is application for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use.It lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser, import camera RAW files and edit them with 16-bit color, save edited images as TIFF-8/16, JPEG, or PNG, and edit the whole image or…

…Fotoxx is application for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use.It lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser, import camera RAW files and edit them with 16-bit color, save edited images as TIFF-8/16, JPEG, or PNG, and edit the whole image or a selected area with adjustable edge blending. It supports multiple undo/redo. Tags, dates, and ratings can be added to images, which can be searched using these criteria as well as file names. Functions include brightness and color adjustments, trim, rescale, rotate, warp, sharpen, blur, noise reduction, red-eye removal, HDR composites, tone-mapping, and panorama.New release 10.8.3:The Italian translation was updated.You can install using the following .deb files: download fotoxx-10.8.3-32.debdownload fotoxx-10.8.3-64.debdownload rpm / tar.gz…

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Aug 10

Google Makes it Easier for Big Companies to Switch to Chrome

Google’s Chrome browser is steadily increasing in popularity among consumers, and now it looks like Google is making a more concentrated effort to lure enterprise and corporate users too. As The Chrome Source points out, Google has now made the Chrome browser downloadable as an MSI file, which will make wide and remote deployment

…Do you like this story? Google’s Chrome browser is steadily increasing in popularity among consumers, and now it looks like Google is making a more concentrated effort to lure enterprise and corporate users too. As The Chrome Source points out, Google has now made the Chrome browser downloadable as an MSI file, which will make wide and remote deployment much, much easier for system administrators.In an effort to make the Chrome installation process easy (and to ensure users are downloading the latest version), the normal Chrome for Windows installation process downloads the installer package during the installation itself.There is a way to download Chrome for offline installation, but until now, Google hasn’t made it very easy for Windows System Administrators to do unattended installations, install Chrome from a network share or from a remote location. The MSI package will let administrators do that, which will make it significantly easier for large groups or organizations to migrate to using Chrome as…

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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

India’s Browser EPIC joins the Browser War

Know what epics offers which IE , chrome and firefox do not

…challenging the monopoly of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) . An Indian browser titled EPIC has made its fresh entry in battle . EPIC is based on Mozilla Firefox platform , and is developed by a Bangalore based software firm named Hidden Reflex . Comparing to Google Chrome and Firefox EPIC offers some unique and interesting features .

The Epic browser has a very colorful look which you can customize according to your interest . The default peacock background looks quite attractive . There are lot of interesting themes available to choose from . You can use firefox themes and addons with epic . Currently Epic browser has over 1500 application.

Epic has many inbuilt services , quite of which are…

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Aug 10

UK government: Upgrading away from IE6 costs too much

The UK government is keeping Internet Explorer 6, despite a petition asking it to ditch the Microsoft browser for security reasons.

…on July 30, the government gave an official response. Here’s the crux of it:
Complex software will always have vulnerabilities and motivated adversaries will always work to discover and take advantage of them. There is no evidence that upgrading away from the latest fully patched versions of Internet Explorer to other browsers will make users more secure. Regular software patching and updating will help defend against the latest threats. The Government continues to work with Microsoft and other internet browser suppliers to understand the security of the products used by HMG, including Internet Explorer and we welcome the work that Microsoft are continuing do on delivering security solutions which are deployed as quickly as possible to all Internet Explorer users.
The UK government is correct in saying that Microsoft will continue to keep IE6 updated and secure. In fact, the software giant has promised to do so until April 2014, which is when Extended Support for Windows XP (which includes IE6) ends.
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