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This article was written on September 28, 2006 by CyberNet.

Songbird has released the “Almost 0.2″ version of their media player and it looks like it could be promising. You may think that the last thing we need is another media player but this one will be different.

One of the features that I noticed right away was the ability to browse a website and have it popup when it finds a music or movie file. It will then give you several options such as saving the file to your library or adding it to a playlist. Very nice!

It is also similar to Winamp in the respect that it supports extensions and skins (which they call feathers), but it is built off of Firefox so it is open source as well. It is kinda the best of both worlds and if this becomes as popular as Firefox I could only imagine the cool extensions we would start to see.

Their full-scale extension site is yet to launch but they have posted links to a few people who already have working extensions:

• Minimize to Tray – Minimize Songbird to your system tray (Windows only)
• eMusic Extension – Discover new music in Songbird with the eMusic extension.
• Artist Tracker Songbird Extension – Keep track of your favorite artists with the artist tracker Songbird extension.
• iPod Device Songbird Extension – Synchronize your iPod with your Songbird library using the iPod device Songbird extension.
• iTunes Playlist Songbird Extension – Copy your iTunes playlist to Songbird with the iTunes playlist Songbird extension.
• Library File Organizer Songbird Extension – Organize the songs in your music library with the music library file organizer Songbird extension.
• Audioscrobbler

So the list of extensions is not very large right now but I am sure they will quickly gain followers. I will definitely be watching this project for future releases.

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This article was written on June 11, 2007 by CyberNet.

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I have received a lot of emails regarding RealPlayer 11, but I refrained from writing about it until I actually had something that everyone could play around with. If you’ve been waiting to try out the cool new features that RealPlayer 11 has to offer, here is the direct download link (download mirror). I received the link in an email from an anonymous tipster, and this release hasn’t officially been mentioned on the RealPlayer site so the link may not be available for too long.

This wasn’t supposed to be available until the end of June, so look at it as an early present. I’m sure many of you will refuse to install it simply because of the bad name RealPlayer has given itself, but I’ll admit that the interface and the features it offers stack up quite nicely to the existing media players available to consumers.

The installation for RealPlayer was quite simple, and you won’t see anything out of the ordinary. Actually there is one thing that you’ll probably want to make sure you leave checked, and that’s the new video downloading feature:

In about 15 seconds, RealPlayer 11 will be up and running. One of the first thing that I did was jump over to the options to see if the video downloader had any “advanced” configuration options, but there wasn’t anything too special:

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Then I hopped on over to YouTube to see how well it would do at grabbing a video from there. I was actually surprised at how seamless the whole process was as I was instantly presented with a download link above the video:

And then the download manager popped up so that I could track the download process:

After the download had completed I was able to play the video in RealPlayer, and the good news is that RealPlayer doesn’t actually convert the file into a RealPlayer file format. It actually downloads the video and keeps it in the native format, whether that be Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, or any other supported format. The video looked extremely crisp just as I expected that it would:

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Still not convinced to give it a shot? I know, I really wasn’t too compelled except for giving the video downloading feature a run through. I did, however, find out that you can also use RealPlayer 11 to record streaming videos such as those found on news sites. Although you should know that the download will not go through if the streaming video is copy protected.

Aside from the video downloading/recording capabilities the entire interface is very nice. It kind of looks like a mashup between iTunes (because of the layout) and Windows Media Player (because of the glossy look). Not only does it look good, but it just doesn’t seem like the computer hog that I once knew RealPlayer to be, so it might be time for me to give it another shot.

RealPlayer Homepage
Direct download link (Download Mirror)

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Nobody will be too shocked to hear NVIDIA expects its next flagship GPU to be the fastest that’s ever been, but few will have guessed it’d also be one of the company’s coolest and quietest. In the first public teasing of its next-gen graphics card (which is almost certain to bear the GeForce GTX 580 name tag), NVIDIA has revealed a new vapor chamber cooling system, which reminds us of Shuttle‘s ICE CPU cooler — basically, water sealed within the chamber gets boiled by the hot elements (a copper plate in NVIDIA’s case), which forces it to transfer heat away to the bits that are being cooled by the fan, where it chills out and recycles itself back to the boiling plate. The end result, according to NVIDIA, is about seven decibels less vroom relative to the GTX 480, along with lower operational temperatures. Besides that, the company’s Tom Petersen also showed off an impressive tessellation demo and the first public display of Call of Duty: Black Ops gameplay, which was powered by this as yet unannounced GPU. Skip past the break to see it all on video.

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This article was written on March 10, 2008 by CyberNet.

Mozilla started creating an application last year called WebRunner that would allow you to run certain websites in a standalone version of Firefox. Eventually WebRunner was renamed to Prism, and thus was born a great tool. Prism 0.9 is the latest release, and it is really starting to evolve into a handy little application.

To make things a bit easier Mozilla has created a Firefox 3 extension so that you can instantly make a Prism application for any website. Once installed head on over to the Tools menu, and click the “Convert Website to Application” option. Doing so will bring up this dialog:

You can pick where you want shortcuts to show up, and even customize the icon that is shown for the application.

What I really like about the new version is that each web app is given its own profile. That means you can create two different web apps for the same site, such as Gmail, but use each to manage a different account without needing to logout first. Because of this Prism has just become a lot more useful to me!

Prism Homepage
Prism Firefox 3 Extension
Thanks to “Trip” and “Change” for the tips!

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This article was written on September 03, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the nicest features in the upcoming Opera 9.5 is that the “save this password” prompt doesn’t hold back the website from loading. This gives the site an opportunity to log you in before saving would could potentially be an incorrect username or password.

The latest Firefox 3 nightlies also have a similar feature, but I believe it is implemented a little better than Opera’s. Firefox doesn’t use a popup dialog box anymore to ask the user to save a password, instead it shows a slim bar along the top of the site (pictured above). It’s unobtrusive, small, and doesn’t interrupt the browsing experience of the user.

Unfortunately no browser has figured out a way to determine whether the login was successful, and if the login wasn’t correct prevent the password-saving option from even appearing. However, this is a good enough alternative for me and I think most users will truly appreciate it.

One other thing that Mozilla added was a bar that appears when trying to install an extension from an untrusted site. Prior to this you had to whitelist a site before you could install an extension from it, but now you can temporarily allow it:

Source: Burning Edge & Mozilla Links

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