Facebook announces improvements to games platform
We all love Facebook games, right? The dull machismo of Mafia Wars, bully-tips in Sorority Life and button-pushing-till-you-drop Farmville have rendered games consoles and high-end PCs dead, right?
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Google launches Instant search, saves you time
One of the innovations we expected to see from Google today was the introduction of Instant search. And Google hasn’t disappointed us. You can already try Google Instant here.
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6.9 and 3.5.1.2 security updates
Firefox has been updated to version 3.6.9. The new version features various security fixes, the most important being the inclusion of support for an anti-clickjacking mechanism. From Mozilla:
‘Google Me’ might be Google’s new social network
Further rumors have appeared that seem to confirm beyond any doubt that Google is planning to launch a social network service to rival Facebook. In these latest stories, Google is reported to be in talks with various games developers, including Disney’s Playdom and Zynga (a company in which Google has recently invested a large amount of money).
Google testing new image search interface
Google seems to be testing a radically changed image search user interface. Reports on various websites say that it might have been around for up to a week… and that it looks a bit like Bing. I just got the new interface this afternoon. And I don’t use Bing.
No add-ons work with Mozilla Firefox 4
Before you jump straight to the comments section, yes I’m aware that Firefox 4 beta doesn’t have to be compatible with pre-existing add-ons. The idea of my experiment was to see how much Firefox’s new add-ons center changes the way browser extensions work. The answer is: a lot!
Why internet ‘privacy’ concerns are wrong
Picture the scene: you go to your local supermarket and buy ten items. As the items are scanned by the shop assistant, each one is logged in a computer database. When you complete your purchase and leave the store, a record of what you bought remains. Although, it’s not actually a record of what you bought at all. It’s a record of what somebody bought.
Google Reader finally gets folder and tag renaming
If you’re anything like the Softonic team, you’ll have a Google Reader account packed with important, interesting and at times esoteric RSS feeds that you like to stay up to date on. And given that you’ve got so many feeds, you like to be able to organize them with folders and tags. And given that up until now, folders and tags have been uneditable, you’ve been forced to resort to very useful guides like this in order to ‘rename’ folders.
Up for grabs: 10 free licenses for Snagit 10
Released last week, Snagit 10 is the latest version of the greatest screen capture tool on the market. The Softonic editors love Snagit so after testing and reviewing version 10, we thought we’d share this excellent program with a few of our readers.
Android 2.2 Froyo seen in the wild!
There are only a couple of days to go until Google’s I/O developer event. Which means that it won’t be long before we see some official news about the latest version of Android, 2.2 (aka: Froyo which is San Franciscan for ‘frozen yogurt’, I believe).
Is iPhone Doomed to Glorious Irrelevance?
The news I’d been waiting for finally turned up this week. During the first quarter of 2010, Android overtook iPhone to reach 2nd place in the US smartphone market, behind Blackberry. To many observers, this will come as no surprise – Android is available on an ever-increasing roster of devices while the iPhone is just… the iPhone. It’s also worth pointing out that new iPhone models are always released in June, so there’s a possibility that this change will be reversed in Q2/Q3 – though how many consumers are aware of this, I’m not sure.
How to: Fix Last.fm iPod scrobbling problems
Last.fm might not be the darling of the free internet radio world anymore – especially given that Spotify seems to have more tracks available to listen to. But what Last.fm still does better than any other service is statistics: nowhere else can I track what music I’ve been listening to for the last few years, and find people with similar tastes. So when Last.fm added support for iPod ‘scrobbling’ in 2008, I was happier than ever!