Google Chrome’s ability to keep a browsing session afloat, even if one of the webpages were to crash is really impressive. What I mean to say is that if one page goes down it doesn’t take the entire session down with it.
With the new Release Candidate, Firefox tries to achieve the same functionality through its crash proofing and plug-in isolation mechanism. So let’s say, you were watching a flash video and the flash plugin crashes. Unlike, previous versions of firefox which would react to this by crashing the entire browser, the 3.6.4 release candidate isolates the flash plugin page and preserves the rest of the browsing session.
You can hand over Dell Mini 5 aka Dell Streak to a 5 year old and still enjoy complete peace of mind. This is courtesy its 5 inch diagonal capacitive screen which is made out of Gorilla Glass.
The glass is environmentally friendly and made of alkali-aluminosilicate. To put the glass to the test, Engadget tried to stab the hell out of it with a ball point pen. Check the video below.
Seems like AT&T always has an ace up its sleeve when it comes to annoying iDevice customers. The latest victim being iPad users. The $29.99 truly unlimited monthly plan for iPad is no longer available to new customers; however, existing customers can choose to stay on the unlimited plan or opt for DataPro plan.
On the pretext of offering affordable mobile internet, AT&T has killed unlimited plans and now just provides two plans called DataPlus and DataPro ($15 per month for 200MB and $25 for 2GB respectively).
Here’s a video of Steve Jobs at the D8 conference posted by All Things Digital. Jobs spoke about some important topics like Flash, Gizmodo, Foxconn, AT&T, Digital Media etc.
Opera fans will be thrilled to know that the latest alpha build of the browser has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux users. The new build flaunts performance improvements in CSS, DOM and Javascript. It’s also 76% better than Opera 10.5 when it comes to PeaceKeeper benchmark.
