In previous -Must have Firefox add-on series, we talked about three finest add-ons that make browsing a lot easier. This time our focus will be the add-ons that can extend your browser’s capability beyond usual. This add-ons or extensions are equally valuable to students as well as business users. DownThemAll! Not every Internet surfer in the world has high speed connection, and mostly they use some kind of download manager or accelerator to …

There are plenty of Flex tutorials out there, still why another one? Simple in my opinion most of the Flex tutorial I came across with goes too deep/complex without creating a base of understanding. Flex isn’t HTML  that you can just learn it through so called -Dumb guide to Flex. To be able to use full potential of Flex you should be known to one or more of these- PHP, ASP,JSP, CSS, XML etc. No need to be master of those but at least familiar with them makes Flex application …

As a developer I naturally lean towards Firefox when it comes to browser choice. But Opera 9.2 Web browser is something to take note of, you have to like it regardless of your open source love or hate. Opera 9.2 is a cross platform browser. You will be shocked, if I say Opera 9.2 supports almost all the popular OS, which are not supported by IE or FF. Opera 9.2 is compatible with- Windows, Solaris Sparc, Solaris Intel, QNX, OS/2, MacOS, Linux Sparc, Linux PowerPC, Linux i386, FreeBSD i386, BeOS. You got to admit that’s a long list of compatibility. The key features of Opera 9.2- Speed Dial The coolest and unique feature of Opera 9.2 is Speed Dial. So what does this Speed Dial do? As the name suggests, it gives you quick access to your favorite/frequently visited sites via keyboard shortcuts or thumbnail click. Speed Dial appears in any new tabbed window you create in Opera. It’s a new way to provide users with quick access to favorite Web sites when a new tab is opened. The new window features nine thumbnails for Web sites you visit frequently. Clicking on any of the thumbnails causes Opera to show you the full Web page. Alternatively, you can open pages by pressing Ctrl+1 through 9. Say it isn’t cool enough? There are more in Opera 9.2, read on. (Click on thumbnail to see larger image).

Apple’s Safari may be the rocking browser for Mac users, but only 4.04 percent Internet surfer use Safari while Firefox 2.x takes the third spot with 10.02 percent and IE7 occupy spot two followed by its predecessor IE6 at the top with a blistering 46.76 percent share (Statistics provided by Net Applications ). Even the web developers using Mac doesn’t hassle to check if their pages work with Safari unless their target market is particularly Mac oriented. So as you can see Safari remains as an underdog in browser war. Only Mac users were in love with it, deducting those …

Last month (I.e. May 2007) Microsoft announced Expression Suit and Silverlight, which will be competing (most probably) with Adobe’s creative suite and Flash. Though I still noticed flash in Microsoft’s site :P. Microsoft is quietly putting the moves on Adobe’s other popular consumer technology, the Portable Document Format (PDF). XML Paper Specification, or XPS — Microsoft’s new rival to PDF — the Redmond company is making the software for free to both consumers and pros. The rivalry didn’t stop there. Adobe’s Acrobat Connect …