Tagged ‘firefox’

Best Android apps of the week

Got a craving for the best Android apps of the week but don’t know how to sate your hunger? Wonder no more, because we’re here to ease the burden and bring you the best downloads the Android Market has to offer. And we’re not asking for a penny in return! Are we good to you, or what?

Eagle-eyed readers might notice something different about this week’s column – we’ve included swanky-type web links which whisk you away to the new online version of the Android Market, which was unveiled by Google a few days ago. So now it’s even easier to grab the app you want.

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Mozilla has slapped down Skype with a ban on the official Skype Toolbar for Firefox. The add-on comes bundled with the Skype installer but Mozilla says it causes browser crashes and slows down processes to a crawl…

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Listening-Room-2

Listening Room is a project by developer Abe Fettig which lets you set up a room where you can play MP3s which everyone on the same web page can listen to. They in turn can play their own tracks. The site is still a little buggy but fire it up in an up-to-date version of Chrome, Safari or Firefox and it’s an impressive achievement. We particularly like the fact that album artwork shows up on the little record player that spins while a track is playing. The site is free to use and pretty brilliant so make sure to follow Abe on Twitter (@sleeperco) and check out his blog.

Out now | £free | Listening Room

Google Body Browser: search yourself!

Google Body Browser is Google’s search smarts translared to the human body. The simulator lets you explore a virtual human body and is now in Google Labs. You’ll need a browser with WebGL so that’s Firefox 4 and Chrome 9 betas or Chrome 8 if you enable WebGL in the “about:flags” menu. The Google Body Browser visualisaton options are great and there’s lots of search tools to play with. You can see them in the Google Body Browser video after the break…

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Mozilla has adopted two real Firefox cubs (aka red panda cubs) which live at Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee. Mozilla has set up a dedicated website to track the progress of the Firefox cubs. You can watch them on webcam and follow them on Twitter. When Firefox 4 hits its next download target, Mozilla plans to reward Cub Number One and Cub Number Two with a jungle gym to play in. Quick! Get downloading, the Firefox cubs are depending on you!

Out now | £free | Firefox Cubs

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Morning all! It’s the start of another working week alas, but look on the bright side: it does mean that a whole lot more breaking gadget news is about to come rolling in too. Catch up with everything else you missed in the meantime right here in your techie breakie.

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Meet the Mozilla Seabird! This concept device is the product of the Firefox maker’s Open Web Concept Phone Project and created by seasoned concept creator Billy May. It’s the mystery device that was showcased in an ad during Jimmy Fallon’s show on US TV and that we all had some much fun speculating about. Typically, a bunch of brilliant Electricpig readers predicted that the mystery machine was the Mozilla Seabird. We salute you and celebrate your cleverness with a Mozilla Seabird video and details after the break…

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An Internet Explorer 8 bug exposed on a security mailing list could open you up to malicious attacks on popular sites including Twitter and Hotmail. The flaw was publicised by Google man Chris Evans (no, not that one) and it seems Microsoft has left the Internet Explorer 8 loophole unplugged for some time…

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