Internet

stereo_moodWell, that’s a very good idea if you ask me. The internet is full of music streaming resources, based on artist, genres or other common tags. How about listening to music based on your mood? Stereo Mood does exactly that, the only thing you need to choose is your mood, the playlist is auto-generated by the service.

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NoRedirect-BlockedNoRedirect is a Firefox/SeaMonkey extension that lets the user take control of HTTP redirects. It can be used to interdict an ISP’s DNS search redirection hijacks, preview/screen “shortened” URLs, stop the annoying redirection of “smart” error pages, etc. Shortly, the NoRedirect Firefox Extension is a very helpful FF extension, grating the user some control over many of those “spamy” redirects.

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Chrome3-SunSpiderGoogle just announced that they released a new hot stable version of Chrome the 3rd. Google brags with increased speeds and comes with some benchmarking, especially for you. As you can see, the SunSpider benchmark looks very good, beating the crap out of … everybody. The new tab page suffered a look change but this is the least important part. Chrome comes heavily armed for HTML5, which emphasizes the <video> and <audio> tags.

New themes are also present in this new Chrome release, making it even more customizable. You can read more about this stable release on the official Google Blog, but I’ll go play with it some more.

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Good job Hillary! Although I was a little surprised (pleasantly I might add), it was a well founded statement…Firefox must be installed in the State Department. I really hope they don’t use IE6 in there, although it’s not out of question.

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wikipedia_logoLet’s face it, Wikipedia is something that we can’t live without these days. But without internet access, it’s kinda hard to look it up, isn’t it? Well, not anymore. WikiTaki takes Wikipedia and it’s database offline and at your disposal wherever you go! No internet access, no 3G access, it’s you and your trusty laptop charged with gigs of information.

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BrowserTraySwitchBrowserTraySwitch is a very small application that, as you probably figured, will change your default browser extremly fast. BrowserTraySwitch will stay open in your system tray and you can easily right click and change the default internet browser. While the application is more of a “lazy way of…”, it has its uses, especially for the web debbugger.

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the_internet_2002It’s very big…it’s huge…it’s..the internet. It is said that more than 1 billion people are using the internet, but it’s only a rough estimate and, who knows? Colin Barras from NewScientist.com brings some interesting facts about the exploding internet, things that you didn’t even imagine or just might simple amuze you. The article comes also with some maps, including the submarine cables and the internet census.

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lunascapeThe browser war is far from over, the main battle being disputed over JavaScript supremacy. I don’t know about you, but when I think browsers I think about Mozilla’s Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, being the 3 top contenders. Ya, I don’t think about IE at all..moving along. Somebody told me, “Lunascape is the fastest browser in the world man!” After I killed the guy, I decided to take a look, I hate people dying in vain…so..let’s see.

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