With the new iTunes and Quicktime update users now also get the option to install Apple’s free Safari browser, a safe concurrent to the pre-installed Internet Explorer. But because Apple also offers its browser to users that didn’t run the Safari before, most people condemn this practice.
John Lilly from Mozilla, developer of the concurring Firefox-Browser [...]

When using Windows XP and having Internet Explorer 7 installed, there is a high risk that a Windows security breach might be used by hackers, even when surfing with the secure Firefox browser. A problem handling internet adresses which contain an ” or a % sign could execute a program on the computer by just [...]

A new update for the free Firefox browser is fixing some security issues and shall also provide more stability. The exact list of changes for the new version 2.0.0.5 can be seen in the Mozilla Release Notes.
If the automatic update scanner is disabled in an already installed Firefox, you can get the newest version directly [...]

With 27.8% nearly every third surfer in europe uses the free Firefox browsers. In countries like Finland and Slovenia the usage-rate is above 50%, which makes Firefox to the number one browser there. These are the results of Xiti Monitor, who where measuring usage statistics for one week now.

Even with new Internet Explorer 7, the [...]

Apple’s QuickTime Player now offers fullscreen playback also in the free version. This option was only available in the pro version until now and a reason to rather use an alternative like VLC player for video playback instead of the Apple software. But next to only fullscreen playback the new “presentation mode” also play back [...]

Apple released its Safari webbrowser now also for Windows. Like the iTunes music player, the new software shall convince more users to switch to the mac platform. The new Safari for Windows is now already available as a preview version, which actully still seems to have some little problems.

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It’s a better choice to [...]

Adobe is planning to bring videos to cell phones. Flash Lite, the mobile version of the mulitmedia development environment, is intended to simplify this in the future. New version 3 is supposed to be released in the first half of 2007. Currently available is version 2.1.
The company has now revealed details about this version at [...]

Google released a new version of the 3D-modelling software SketchUp. Using a few tools, houses and other buildings or objects can be modelled. Among other possibilities, created figures can be placed into Google Earth.
Version 6 features new possibilities such as texturizing objects with the help of digital images. Moreover, text und logos can be integrated [...]

The german “Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik” (BSI) warns, that a serious security breach in the free firefox browser could allow attackers to access the surfers PC, run code or get access to private data.
The firefox developers, Mozilla Foundation, offered a bug-fix, which shall fix the bug. The update can be installed automatically using [...]

Sun’s 3D Desktop project “Looking Glass” features a new way to handle icons, folder-windows and applications on a screen: Instead of just displaying them in two dimensions above each other, windows can be turn to the side.
The software runs at the moment in Java and is available for Linux and Solaris, where it shall work [...]