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Capti Narrator Comes To The Desktop

For most people it's usually faster to read than it is to listen but there are times when it's better to listen than it is to read; while driving or at the gym, or even for pleasure to nod off to sleep. If this sounds of interest, take a look at Capti Narrator. Capti Narrator is a popular app for

Firefox adds new “health” feature

No, Mozilla is not going to diagnose your sinus infection, but it plans to help with the health of your Firefox web browser. It is not currently in the stable build, but the company is testing this new feature for future builds. The Firefox Health Report is a new system Mozilla has built to log basic health information about your

Firefox changes it’s status with Facebook, now “in a relationship”

Mozilla is becoming more social. Today the Firefox web browser maker announced full integration with Facebook Messenger. The app works much the same as any Firefox add-on, but it has been built on some brand new technology. Messenger for Firefox utilizes the new Social API from Mozilla. Users will need to be running the latest version of Firefox, but seeing as the

Mozilla Pushes 16.01 Update for Firefox

Yesterday Mozilla took the unprecedented step of pulling down a version of Firefox and warning those who had already installed it to stop using the browser.  The move came after a rather bad security flaw was found in the software that would allow a malicious site to potentially be able to determine which websites users had visited and obtain access to

World Wide Web Turns 19 Today

Okay, that headline is a bit misleading because World Wide Web, or W3, is actually older than 19, but on April 30, 1993 it officially entered open-source.  That was probably the biggest open source project in history and it was instituted by the "father of the internet", Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in Switzerland. Berners-Lee, in 1989, wrote the

Adobe BrowserLab 1.6.4

Given the people who read this blog, as well as write for it, I doubt I am a minority when I say I have, and use, multiple web browsers on my computers.  At any given time you can find Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome on my PC's.  I haven't yet succumbed to adding Safari or Opera, or any of the

Google Releases Chrome Beta 15

Google has released the latest beta version of their popular web browser, Chrome.  Number 15 (for those keeping count) has some real changes - much more than some new versions, which have been simply bug fixes.  This comes within days of Chrome 14 hitting the stable channel. Of course, the changes have become fewer because the browser has matured.  Over