Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on November 29, 2011 by CyberNet.

With the holidays right around the corner it is important to make sure you’re getting the best deal for the gifts you are picking up. There are all kinds of browser extensions out there that can help you save a few dollars, but PriceBlink is one I always use.

PriceBlink is available for Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari and does price comparison shopping as you browse around some online stores. If it sees that someone else is selling the item cheaper or that there is a coupon available the extension will display a popup bar along the top of the webpage just like in the screenshot above. In my demonstration Newegg is selling a pair of headphones that I can get for half the price somewhere else. That is a pretty big savings.

By my count the service supports upwards of about 5,000 online merchants which means it should work with most of the retailers you shop. If you tend to shop around yourself then you may not need something like this, but if you’re more of an impulse buyer this can save a lot of dough.

PriceBlink Homepage (Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari Extension Available)

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This article was written on June 06, 2008 by CyberNet.

VLC is an incredibly popular cross-platform media player, and it’s well known for supporting a wide variety of media types. iPhone and iPod Touch users can rejoice because a public version of VLC4iPhone is right around the corner! Work has already begun on porting the popular VLC media player over to Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, and the progress looks great.

Note: VLC4iPhone is currently in semi-private Beta testing. You can join in the Beta if you donate to the cause.

The screenshot to the right is compliments of iPhoneFreakz, and as you can tell the player fits in well with the standard iPhone interface. The best part is that it already supports a wide range of media formats including MPEG/MPG, MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, MP3, XviD, h264, FLAC, 3GP, and more! Think of all the headaches this can save since you won’t have to convert your videos in order to watch them on your phone.

It’s quite awesome that a developer has undertaken a project like this, and I wonder what kind of media players are going to emerge once the official App Store has launched. In the mean time you’ll need to have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch if you want to dabble with VLC4iPhone, plus you’ll have to donate to the project as we mentioned earlier.

VLC4iPhone [via Gizmodo]

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This article was written on November 05, 2006 by CyberNet.

The most popular feature in Firefox is probably the tabs. Everyone loves being able to reorder them as they please and tweak them until their heart is content. By default Firefox doesn’t offer many options for configuring the tabs, but that’s why Tab Mix Plus exists. It is an extension that lets you customize the tabs to your every whim.

Up until now there were only test versions of Tab Mix Plus that worked with Firefox 2, but it has finally been released. Here is a list of the changes in this version:

• Firefox 2.0 and above compatibility
• Compatibility Detector
  • Checks if extensions are compatibly with TMP
• Added automatic tab reloading
• Better custom colors 
  • Current and Unread tabs
  • Progress meter on tabs
• Improved tabs list button
  • Tabs can be sorted alphabetically
• Warn when closing window with protected tabs
• More tab close button options
• More tab opening options
  • Duplicate tab
  • Load custom URL
• More tab actions
  • Move tab to a new window
  • Copy tab URL
• Further compatibility with IETab and IEView Lite
• Further improvements on our Session Manager
• Other bug fixes

This version does not use the built-in session restore feature that Firefox 2 now has or the scroll buttons, but it will be available in future versions. The developer said that this will be the last version that is compatible with versions prior to Firefox 2. I can’t wait to see the next version now! 😀

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Microsoft has pushed out Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7, expanding availability of the latest version of the browser from just Windows 8/8.1 machines. The release – in 95 languages – will eventually be pushed out automatically, Microsoft says, with the promise of a 30-percent real-world boost in performance versus IE10. There’s also more security, […]

This week the folks at Rockstar Games have begun pushing a real-deal set of fixes for the Grand Theft Auto Online environment. This piece of the GTA:V or Grand Theft Auto 5 universe saw some heavy oddities going on online when the service was launched including loss of progress, vehicles disappearing in garages, and straight […]