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Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released

July 7th, 2010

It’s finally here: Mozilla has released the first beta for Firefox 4.

The new iteration of the world’s second most popular web browser, which can be downloaded here, has been hotly anticipated for almost a year. Today however, it transitions from concept to reality, with many more betas to come until its official release at the end of the year.
As we have reported in the past, Firefox 4 is a major upgrade from its predecessors. It not only includes a redesign of the user interface (tabs are now on top except for the Mac version), but a wave of additional features, including enhanced HTML5 support, hardware-accelerated HD video, WebSockets and enhanced add-on support via Jetpack.
There’s a lot more to Firefox 4, most of which you can see in this feature spotlight the Mozilla team put together to highlight the many upgrades the new browser contains. However, we want to stress that this is an early beta of the browser — it will crash and frustrate you, which is exactly what Mozilla is hoping to catch now before its final release.
Mozilla needs Firefox 4 to be a winner; in recent months, Google Chrome has been stealing browser marketshare at Firefox’s expense. The new version could either reverse the downtrend or accelerate its fall.
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iPad 3G Released, Spirit Jailbreak Coming Soon

May 2nd, 2010

Today, Apple released the iPad 3G. The pricing is $629 for the 16GB, $729 for the 32GB and $829 for the 64GB. That’s $130 more than the WiFi-only model which is ridiculous. A research firm iSuppli, which did a teardown of the WiFi model, and found that the additional parts required for 3G connectivity cost an estimated $24.50. That’s Apple for you!

The Dev-Team say that they will release their untethered jailbreak which will work on all devices including the iPad soon after the iPad 3G release. Sadly the jailbreak named Spirit will not include a carrier unlock.

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At some point after (don’t ask when!) the iPad 3G is actually in customers’ hands, the first “userland” jailbreak since firmware 1.x will be released by @comex.  It’s called “Spirit” and was first demonstrated working on an iPad by @MuscleNerd within 24 hours of the iPad’s release on April 3.

The Dev-team recommends you have your SHSH blobs backed up.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Content-Aware Fill is Amazing

May 2nd, 2010

I just watched a sneak peak of a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS5 due to be released in a couple of weeks – Content-Aware Fill!

It is mind blowing at what it can do!

Don’t take my word for it and check out this video!

If this is anything short of amazing, what is? Especially I was thoroughly impressed at how it filled out the panorama image.

What did you think?

WePad – iPad Alternative from Germany

May 2nd, 2010

Apple iPad has been selling like hotcakes and in fact the iPad 3G version is due to come out this week.

No offense to Apple iPad owners, we dedicate a whole section in our Top iPhone Resource site for iPad news.

WePad Tablet

WePad tablet computer from Germany has an interesting concept. Check out their opening lines which takes a direct hit at Apple.

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Some of the WePad specs are here

  • 11.6” Multi-touch 1366×768 pixel display
  • 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M processor
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 16/32GB, extension with SDHC card up to 32GB possible
  • 1.3 Megapixel camera
  • Upto 6 hours battey life

Wepad is based on Android and Linux and has some impressive hardware specifications. In fact, you can see how WePad compares with Apple iPad in a chart provided conveniently by Wepad people.

WePad hopes to stand out from the competitors with their interactive reading experience from WeMagazine ePublishing Open Platform.

Most of the website besides the WePad page is in German so I wasn’t able to gather more information about the background of the company behind WePad. If anyone fluent in German does so, please leave your thoughts in the comments.

Is WePad the iPad Killer?

Like the proverbial ‘iPhone killer’ now everyone is starting to talk about a iPad killer. Again, I really really like that Apple isn’t the only one making tablet computers and that there are several good competitors coming out.

However, Apple has an unique advantage and headstart over the others with the App Store ecosystem with over 180,000 apps and the iTunes managing the media delivery to the tablet.

I am excited that Android’s app store is catching up steadily and look forward to more Android based tablets bringing more choices to us, consumers.

TC50: Threadsy, A Communications Stream To Rule Them All

September 16th, 2009
by MG Siegler on September 15, 2009

Screen shot 2009-09-13 at 5.04.30 PMEmail. Twitter. Instant Messaging. Facebook. Those are just four of the most popular ways to communicate online. And actually, the average 23-year-old has 6 different accounts that they check for messages each day. Maintaining and keeping up with that is either basically impossible, or flat-out impossible. That’s where Threadsy comes in.

Launching its large beta today at TechCrunch50 as a free web app, Threadsy wants to take all of your online communication and shove it into a single service. All of the messages directed at you (email and Twitter @replies, for exmaple) will be put into a single stream of message, called the “inbound” column. Meanwhile, all of the activity streams that you simply follow (Twitter, Facebook, etc), will be put into a single activity stream, the “unbound” stream. The result is one service to rule them all.

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TC50: Lissn Is A Broader Twitter Meets A Simpler Google Wave

September 16th, 2009
by MG Siegler on September 15, 2009

Screen shot 2009-09-13 at 3.05.22 PMA lot of people use Twitter to have conversations with others, but that’s not really what it was built for. Initially, Twitter was just supposed to be a place to update what you are doing; the @reply only came around because people started using it to direct a conversation at another user. Now conversations are one of the most interesting things about Twitter, and a new startup launching in private beta today at TechCrunch50, Lissn, wants to build a new platform from the ground up with conversations in mind.

If you’ve seen the video demos or had a chance to use Google Wave at all, Lissn may seem familiar — it has the same type of real-time conversation aspect. The difference, of course, is that this is the main function of Lissn, while Wave is trying to be a lot of different things wrapped into one. Lissn is all about having conversations with people, and allows others to watch, and join in as they’d like.

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