Your internet browser might not factor much into your typical travels on your cyberpod, but being on the leading edge of the internet takes a lot of work and a lot of new features.If Google Chrome’s your choice of browser, you have plenty of risk options to see how edgy you can get. There’s Chrome, Chrome Beta, Chrome Dev and ...
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For PC users, this week marks an important date, as Microsoft’s mainstream support for Windows 7 ends. Even with no new features being delivered, security updates for the platform will continue for the next five years – not too shabby, especially for a platform that’s already as old as it is. Can smartphone users expect the same kind of support for their mobile operating systems? Not with Google, apparently, as security researchers clash with the company behind Android over willingness to address security holes in widespread, but aging software.The issue at hand is the old ...
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Back in April, I covered Link Bubble, Chris Lacy’s third-party Android browser which loads web pages in the background without interrupting whatever it is you were doing when you clicked the link. It’s a chat heads-style floating browser that can be tossed aside. You get to choose when you want to read the pages you load, rather than being jerked around between your Twitter client, a feed reader, and your default browser.But even the developer knows Link Bubble isn’t ideal for every situation, that ...
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For many of us, web browsing is the heart and soul of our mobile usage. Browsing web pages from a coffee shop on your phone or buying something from Amazon while waiting in line are what make modern smartphones so different from their ancestors. Mobile browsing today is not all that bad, fairly enjoyable, and actually pretty efficient.So how do the two most popular mobile platforms compare when it comes to mobile browsing?Ignoring all the third-party options available on both and not considering ...
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Delivering apps as web services, rather than natively-packaged code, can have a lot of appeal to developers: it can streamline distribution (including that of updates), allow you to reach users across platform boundaries, and speed development time. That’s not to say that web apps aren’t without their own set of problems, and one such issue has concerned just how we interact with these apps on our smartphones: sure, we can pin a bookmark to a web app on our home screen, but then what about the app drawer? And how would the web app look when we’re trying to switch between ...
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