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You Can Now Use Game Controllers with Firefox

Mozilla just launched a new Gamepad API that will allow developers to use either USB or Bluetooth-connected gaming controllers with the Firefox browser. Not so you can scroll web pages with a PS3 or XBox 360 controller, but so that new cool games can be created. As if we don’t…

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December 6th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Silence of the Celebs Chrome Add-on Says Bye, Bye, Charlie… Farewell, Lindsay!

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If you feel that your constantly deluged by news about celebrities, then this new browser add-on is for you. Silence of the Celebs is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to block and remove the headlines of certain celebs from news sites, such as CNN, The Huffington Post, and…

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March 10th, 2011 by: Range

Google Chrome to Kill the URL Bar?

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Well, not really, but it looks like our overlords at Google are thinking about eliminating it in at least one browsing mode in their Chrome browser.

The thinking behind this is to shave some pixels off the height of the non-browsing parts of the browser. The new mockups that we’ve…

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February 22nd, 2011 by: Range

LG Optimus 2X Web Browser Speeds By iPhone 4

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If you’ve got any doubts that having the latest mobile hardware in hand won’t improve your web-surfing experiences, look no further than this video demo showing off the LG Optimus 2X smartphone compared to the iPhone 4.…

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January 4th, 2011 by: Technabob

Skyfire Browser for iPhone Lets You View Flash Videos

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iOS owners now have the option to view Flash videos on websites despite Apple’s refusal to support Flash in their mobile devices, thanks to Skyfire Labs’ Skyfire browser. The browser doesn’t actually play Flash videos straight off – videos are first transcoded on Skyfire Labs’ servers, then sent back to…

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November 7th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

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Impact: Simply Addictive

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Damn you Marc DeAngelis. I should never have read your post about Impact. But you had to go and make up some clever title – “Impact is like heroine on crack”. Is there such a game? Is there such a thing? There is. It’s called Impact…. It’s

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October 29th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Boring Rpg: Progress Quest for the Bored

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It claims to be a game for people who are lazy, but we all know there’s really only one game for that. In fact, Boring RPG is not boring at all; it’s an RPG for the bored. Boring RPG… is a “one more click” type of game, with social elements

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October 17th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Kick Ass Bookmarklet Lets You Demolish the Web

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Sick of ugly ads on websites? Tired of all the Apple news everywhere on the Web? And how about those YouTube commenters? You can vent out your frustration or just plain waste some time by wreaking virtual havoc using Erik Rothoff Andersson’s Kick Ass bookmarklet.

Drag it to your bookmarks…

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October 3rd, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

The Revolving Internet: in Case You Need to Puke While Surfing

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The Revolving Internet rotates the page at a constant rate. It starts out at Google, so if you want to know what another website looks like if its revolving, just look it up and click on its link. In my experience though, not only was it dizzying, it made pages…

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July 14th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Frash: Android Flash Ported to iPad: Could It Make Jailbreaking Worth It?

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The quest to bring Flash to Apple’s tablet continues, and we have yet another contender. A developer going by the name of Comex (who also made the iOS jailbreaking software Spirit) has ported the Android Flash runtime to the iPad.

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July 5th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

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