If you work in the kind of office that gives you about as much freedom on your computer as the average sex offender, you’ll know the pains involved in having to run on an outdated web browser. Struggle no more: you can now run any browser without having to install it first. Read more
Google Chrome’s 17th iteration has just launched in public beta, adding a pretty swish new feature that guesses where it is you’re about go on the web. Read more
Mozilla’s Firefox, amid reports of a tumbling web browser chart position, may be about to add a new string to its bow by focusing on online gaming. The company has just added an API to allow gamepads to work in-browser, so is it about to change tact completely? Read more
With Adobe Flash for mobile devices about to fall off the face of the Earth and HTML 5 flying the flag for new web page development, it looks as though the web standard that’s caused so much contention is about to meet its maker. It’s only right to celebrate such a thing by pointing out its best bit – Flash games. Read more
Don’t get overexcited. The best iPhone apps library isn’t about to play host to the Portal of Valve fame with its mind-bending puzzles and curious cake. This Portal is a little more practical – a web browser replacement for iOS devices with an ace control system and full screen browsing smarts.
We’re quite taken with it and the sci-fi style controls that disappear when you shake the phone. Portal is easily one of the best iPhone apps for browsing we’ve ever seen and is really built for the touchscreen environment. Definitely a worthy inclusion in our best iPhone apps pantheon and well worth buying. Check out Portal in action after the break…
Another Kinect hack! And once again our mind is blown. The cool kids at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group (what a badass thing to put on a business card) have created a system that allows Kinect to become a Minority Report-style tool for web browsing. It can’t be long before we see an arm-waving plugin for the Boxee Box or Apple TV can it? Hurrah! Hit the jump for the video of the Kinect hack in action…
The Amazon Kindle 2 will feature an “innovative Web browser” if a new ad by Kindle making Amazon shell-company Lab 126 is to be believed. But will a touchscreen Amazon Kindle 2 with perked up web browsing be enough to fight the iPad or should Amazon angle for partnerships with devices like the Dell Mini 5?
The Amazon Kindle 2 has been revealed! But did you know there’s a lot more underneath that redesigned shell than simple e-reader skills?
We’ve unearthed several secrets of the Kindle 2. Want us to spill the beans? It’s all after the jump!