Apple Releases Safari 3.1

Apple® today introduced Safari™ 3.1, the world’s fastest web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences*. Safari 3.1 is availabl e immediately as a free download at www.apple.com/safari for both Mac OS® X and Windows.

“Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “And best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience.”

The incredible performance of Safari, combined with its elegant user interface, lets users spend more time surfing the web and less time waiting for pages to load. Safari features an intuitive browsing experience with drag-and-drop bookmarks, easy-to-organize tabs, an integrated Find that shows the number of matches in a page and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information.

Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. Safari also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to create stunning new web sites.

Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download at www.apple.com/safari for both Mac OS X and Windows users. Safari software updates are delivered seamlessly through Apple’s Software Update application, which automatically checks for updates.

Source- Apple Press Release

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Firefox 4 alpha available for download!!

After Internet Explorer 8 it’s now time for Firefox 4 Alpha codenamed Minesfield. Many new changes has been made in this new version of Firefox.It’s pretty smooth and fast and also the user interface has been changed considerably.

Here are some of the notable changes in this version-

• Changes to the graphics layer
• New data storage layer for bookmarks and history (using SQLite)
• Extended search plugin format
• Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
• Support for SVG text using svg:textPath
• To get a list of the most recent additions, check out the Burning Edge weblog.

Here is the screenshot of the Firefox 4 Alpha-

U can download it here- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

TuneUp Utilities 2008 7.0.7992 available for download

TuneUp Utilities 2008 optimizes the performance of your computer, solves problems and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs.
Features:

• TuneUp Utilities 2008 - Start Center: TuneUp Utilities is made up of many useful modules that can all be accessed from a common Start Center. This Start Center is divided into five categories to make finding individual modules easier.
• Reliable Protection for Your Data: TuneUp Disk Doctor performs a thorough analysis of your disk drives and their file systems. If errors are found during analysis, they can be automatically repaired to prevent data loss.
• Simple Hard Disk Organization: Get a quick overview of your entire hard disk with a single click. Identify and eliminate unnecessary files and gain valuable free space.
• Simple Windows Customization: Configure all of your important Windows settings to meet your needs, secure your system and expand the functionality of Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.
• Perfect Error Correction: Installing and working with applications can often cause errors in the Windows registry. With a few clicks, you can easily find and correct these errors.
• Simple 1-Click Maintenance: Run regular maintenance functions with a single click - fully automatically, if desired! Configuring the system, making backups and performing maintenance can be easily carried out using the intuitive user interface.
• Optimum Start Acceleration: Decide for yourself which programs should be run on Windows startup. Find and remove unnecessary items that slow down your system so that your computer will work and start up faster.
• Internet and Windows Acceleration: Enjoy faster surfing and faster Windows operation. Items in your Windows configuration that slow your system down are detected and fixed. Your Windows registry will be defragmented to give you additional speed.
• Secure Data Rescue and Deletion: Easily restore deleted files. Permanently and securely delete sensitive files with the secure DoD 5220.22-M and Gutmann methods.
• Individual Windows styling: Give Windows an individual style! Change and expand the interface, replace symbols and even change your Windows XP logon and start screens. Our download area continually provides new additions to give you a much-needed change of style.

  Download: TuneUp Utilities 2008 7.0.7992 (Shareware, $49.95)
  Link: Home Page

Tune-Up Utilities 2008 available at Amazon!!

With TuneUp Utilities, your system leave be faster, further comfortable and further secure. All important aspects of system configuration, safeguard, cleanup and continuation can be accessed through a fashionable graphical interface. Now for Windows Vista as well. TuneUp Utilities 2008 - Start Center is made up of many useful modules that can all be accessed from a common Start Center. Reliable Protection for Your Facts TuneUp Disk Nurture performs a comprehensive analysis of your disk drives and their chain systems. Errors can be automatically repaired to discourage facts loss. Simple Insoluble Disk Organization Attain a swift overview of your whole oppressive disk with 1 click. Identify and eliminate unnecessary files and gain valuable unshackle fracture. Simple Windows Customization Configure all of your important Windows settings to meet your needs, secure your system and extend the functionality of Internet Colonizer 7 and Firefox 2.
NEW! Configures Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Windows Media Player 11 and Office 2007
* NEW! Automatically eliminates errors in the file system
* NEW! Allows for simple clean-up of your disk drives
* NEW! Deletes sensitive data using the secure DoD 5220.22-M and Gutmann methods
* IMPROVED! Gives you intelligent tips to optimize your hardware and software
* IMPROVED! Speeds up your system startup
* IMPROVED! Scans your system for settings that might be slowing it down and corrects them
* Reliably and completely removes unnecessary applications including their registry entries
* Offers optimum Internet and system settings for every type of user
* Defragments the Windows registry
* Restores accidentally deleted files
* Speeds up your Internet connection
RELEASE DATE : 20 December 2007
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Mozilla FireFox 3.0 Beta1 released!!!!

The latest version of firefox is now available for download.This buld was hidden as it is a nightly build! but we finally got our hands on it.

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Features:

• Improved Tabbed Browsing
• Spell Checking
• Search Suggestions
• Session Restore
• Web Feeds (RSS)
• Live Titles
• Live Bookmarks
• Pop-up Blocker
• Streamlined Interface
• Phishing Protection
• Automated Update
• Protection from Spyware and more….

Download: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 1

Firefox passes 400 million downloads

Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser.
That number shouldn’t be confused with actual installations, Mozilla’s public relations folks rightly caution. (I’m sure I’ve downloaded it at least a dozen times this year, and I’m only using copies on three computers at present. On the flip side, there are any number of other ways to get Firefox, including Linux installations.) Nevertheless, 400 million is an achievement worth noting, given that just a few years ago it looked like Microsoft had the market locked up with Internet Explorer.
However, not everything is going swimmingly in Firefox land. Mozilla had hoped to release a Firefox 3 "Gran Paradiso" beta in July. Instead, Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, now says it’s due "this fall."
News Source: CNET News

Firefox 3 has improved Password Saving

Opera 9.5 has got a new feature that it does not holds back the website from loading when prompted for “Save Password”.This gives the site oppurunity to continue log in and give the user the power to change the login credentials if unfortunately posted wrong.A simillar feature can be seen in the latest version of Firefox 3 - Nightlies ,but it is implented a bit better than that of Opera in the sense that Opera 9.5 uses a pop up dialog box to prompt for password saving whereas Firefox 3 uses a slim bar along the top of the site just like the Internet Explorer as shown in the image above it is small ,user friendly but cant be said pretty.

This feature is a good alternative to not still found feature of determining whether the login was successful, and if the login wasn’t correct prevent the password-saving option from even appearing.

Another Update that firefox has got is that now a bar appears asking for permission if the site asks you to install an extension whereas earlier one had to save the site in whitelist.But now one can temproraily allow it just like IE.

Source Technoworld

Windows Live Installer vs. Google Pack

Windows Live Installer is set to go against Google Pack this week. Back at the end of June Microsoft announced through the voice of Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management, that its cloud operating system evolving under the Windows Live brand umbrella was moving into the new phase. Lagging well behind Internet rival Google in the area of serving web-based applications, Microsoft is of course leveraging its operating system monopoly in order to push the Windows Live set of online products and services.
And according to the NY Times, Microsoft is getting ready to rain on Google’s parade this very week. The Redmond company will unveil its Windows Live Installer, a product designed to be an equivalent of the Mountain View’s search giant Google Pack. With the mention that while the Google Pack is a bundle of both proprietary and third-party online software and services, Microsoft’s Windows Live Installer will deliver exclusively the company’s collection of offerings.
Microsoft has failed to officially confirm the delivery of the Windows Live Installer, but it is clearly heading into a direction that will permit it to bridge the Windows operating system, forecasted to hit an install base of over one billion by mid-2008, with its Windows Live cloud operating system. Following the availability of the Windows Live Installer users will have a single point access to downloads such as Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery but also to services such as Windows Live Hotmail and SkyDrive.
In contrast, Google desktop is already offering for download a set of free applications including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Norton Security Scan, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Toolbar for IE, Spyware Doctor, Picasa, Google Talk and StarOffice, Sun’s alternative to OpenOffice and Microsoft’s Office System.

source- softpedia