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Kidzy Is A Configurable, Child-Safe Web Browser For Concerned Parents

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Internet is a source of practically infinite knowledge and entertainment for all and sundry. Even our children can take great benefit out of it if used in the right manner and for the right purpose. But the fear of exposure to inappropriate content like pornography, online harassment, child predators etc. tend to worry people and keep them from allowing their children to use the internet unsupervised. Kidzy is a full-screen internet browser that can be employed to let small children browse the web in a secure and safe environment that isn't offered by mainstream web browsers like Firefox and Chrome. The application’s parental control features aren't very flexible, but they do ensure that your kids only get to surf the web pages that you have explicitly allowed them to. Read More

Bitdefender Safepay Is The Most Secure Browser For Online Transactions & Private Surfing

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Both Firefox and Chrome are considered the big guns of today’s web browsing industry, with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer incessantly leaping behind. Even though Redmond’s offering still holds a large market share for now, Internet Explorer doesn't seem to have a bright future a head of it compared to the other two. Though apart from mainstream general purpose browsers, there are also niche browsers that specialize in a particular aspect of web browsing. Bitdefender is one of the most reputed names in the computer security industry and yesterday, they released a browser of their own that promises safer and more secure web browsing compared to any currently available option. Currently in beta, Bitdefender Safepay runs in its own full-screen, sandboxed more in order to make the activities of e-commerce, online banking and internet shopping secure, and keep users safe from hacking, phishing, tracking and session hijacking attempts that could compromise their sensitive information. Read More

GO Dev Team Enters The Android Web Browser Arena With Next Browser

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Even if you aren't much of an Android fan, you might still have heard the name GO, which has long been rocking the Android ecosystem. No, it’s not a phone or a tablet, nor a pair of stylish headphones. In the Android world, the name GO is associated with a feature-laden launcher, a beautiful weather app, an exceptionally great SMS app, and loads of other great tools that are created by the super-talented GO Dev Team. Keeping their tradition, the folks behind the ever-popular GO Launcher have released a fascinating new app called Next Browser for Android. If you’re wondering why’d you need yet another browser when the likes of Opera, Chrome and Dolphin are already available for the platform, then we must tell you that Next Browser has what it takes to be in the same league as these names, packing in a plethora of features such as speed dial, an awesome Next View feature to find and explore interesting content, voice search, browser extensions support, bookmarks synchronization and more. Read More

Brow.si For iPhone Is A Cross Between A Web Browser & Feed Reader

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There’s absolutely no shortage of RSS readers or news aggregators on iOS. Hop onto App Store and you will find plenty of such options there, each with their own unique features. Though if you’re looking for an RSS reader that doubles as a snappy web browser, try Brow.si. This fascinating app lets you browse your favorite websites just like you would in any modern mobile browser. In addition, you can subscribe to the ones that you frequently visit and receive push notifications for updated content published on them. Thus, it eliminates the need of using a web browser in conjunction with a separate news reader app for the purpose. Furthermore, any links that you want to open from your subscribed content wouldn't require a separate browser either, also eliminating the need to switch between a browser and your feed reader while going through your feeds. Read More

Opera Browser For Android Boasts Redesigned UI, Webkit Engine & All-New Features

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Opera Browser Beta has just been released for Android with a totally redesigned UI, new features, and Opera’s new Webkit-based rendering engine that is supposed to improve site compatibility across the board (Update: Now out of beta). The browser comes bundled with further improvements and features wrapped up in a very clean interface that retains the typical Opera theme we’re accustomed to, and minimal UI elements, with a focus on gestures for navigation. Whether you're an Opera fan (like me), or are just looking for a better alternative to Android’s stock browser, you can learn all about the new Opera Browser Beta after the jump. Read More

SlimBoat Is A Fast, Cross-Platform Web Browser With Several Built-In Tools

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Firefox and Chrome have apparently become everyone’s favorite web browsers, thanks to their extensive add-ons/extensions support, excellent UI and countless features. Microsoft has also improved its browser in Internet Explorer 10 that was first shipped with Windows 8 and got released for Windows 7 as a stable build today. Though there are many other web browsers out there as well that are simply overlooked by most of us due our usual hesitation of making a switch to a different one. If you want to try out something different for a change, give SlimBoat a shot. It’s a free web browser for Windows that comes packed with plenty of features out of the box. Read More

UC BrowserHD: The Best Modern UI Web Browser For Windows 8 & RT So Far

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Ever since I got my Surface tablet, I’ve yet to come cross a decent web browser on Windows Store. Even though Microsoft has bundled Internet Explorer with both Windows 8 and RT, it doesn’t stand a chance against the likes of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, both of which have yet to bring their Modern UI apps to the Store. Browsing through Windows Store to fight back my hard luck, I stumbled upon UC BrowserHD and couldn’t wait to give it a try. Already a big name on Android and other mobile platforms, UC BrowserHD does full justice to the Modern UI, and boasts a myriad of features that would leave anyone impressed, including smooth web browsing, bookmark syncing to the cloud, multi-tab support for simultaneous browsing, and an interesting speed dial feature to quickly access your favorite websites. Read More

Lightning Browser Is A Lightweight Android Web Browser With Flash Support

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While the likes of Chrome, Firefox, Dolphin and Opera are generally amongst the top candidates to claim the best Android web browser title, these heavyweights are often considered as a secondary option by those who are just looking for a fast, simple and lightweight mobile browser that is void of any unwanted bells and whistles. If you’re hunting for a barebones browser supporting just the basic features, XDA member anthonycr’s Lightning Browser might well be up your alley. With a file size of just 200KB and a relatively small memory footprint, Lightning Browser is arguably one of the tiniest full-featured Android web browsers available in the Play Store. What's more, it also supports Adobe Flash! Read More

Restore Browser Settings & DNS When Changed By Malware

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One of the things that many malware and viruses do while attacking the computer is enable dead or inactive TCP/UDP ports to start listening to malicious external requests. This process sometimes involves shutting down browsers' native antivirus security features, which are specifically incorporated to prevent users from like threats. So, unless you deploy a smart malware detection solution, you may not be able to find and remove the bugs that surreptitiously deteriorate your browser's performance. Most antivirus suites are programmed to detect the malware only when they are accessed or moved to main memory as a part of the basic application operation request. Even if it's not loaded into the memory, it can change the browsers' native features that help prevent external attacks. Developed by Anvisoft, Browser Repair offers a robust solution to tackle malware and threats that attempt to change browsers’ native features. As of now, it supports only Internet Explorer, but has some options, which can resolve issues that you may be facing in other browsers as well. Read More

Nokia Xpress Is A Web Browser For Lumia Windows Phones With Limited Data Plans

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Unlike its desktop counterpart, Internet Explorer is a pretty nice web browser on Windows Phone (albeit one without too many bells and whistles attached to it). As is the case with most smartphone apps designed for web browsing, the stock browser in WP7 provides users with a seamless and feature-rich browsing experience. This might be perfect if you always use Wi-Fi, or have an unlimited data plan, but if that is not the case, you are sure to feel the need for some app that focuses more on data conservation rather than bringing high quality, flashy images to your phone’s screen. Nokia Xpress is a fresh release for Lumia phones, and it aims to provide a browsing environment that is quick and utilizes the minimum possible data through cloud-based compression. In addition to that, people can use the Xpress app as a feed reader, since the app’s Magazine section displays content in its most data-friendly form (much like an RSS client). Read More

PriceBlink Finds The Lowest Price For Products Of Interest [Web]

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There are two kinds of shoppers in this world: those that are brand loyal and will stick with a good brand that suits them and will limit themselves to shopping it exclusively, while the second type are the ruthless bargain hunters who love sales, collect coupons and can smell a discount a mile away. If you fall in to this second category and would like to take your shopping away from brick and mortar stores to online retailers, PriceBlink is an extension available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer that does the bargain hunting for you. It adds a toolbar at the top of the browser and notifies you not only of ways you can get discounts on a particular e-commerce site, but also checks to see if the item you are currently viewing is available elsewhere at a lower price. When the same item is available on another site(s), the extension also allows you to see what the ratings are on each site from the toolbar and compare prices. Using the PriceBlink service and signing in to it via Facebook, you can add items to your wish list. Read More

Maxthon Web Browser Now On iPhone; Offers Reader Mode, Download Manager & Cloud Syncing

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Maxthon is a name that has been around in the tech world for quite a while now, with applications for both mobile and desktop platforms. There is even a cloud storage service from Maxthon, which goes by the name of Skyfile. Regardless of all these useful services and apps, Maxthon’s web browser remains its most popular product. Maxthon Web Browser was first released for Windows and Mac, but it later arrived for the iPad as well. Now that the app has gained popularity on the iOS tablet, an iPhone version of the browser has been released, too. The app has a pretty neat interface that is reminiscent of Chrome for iPhone. Just like the iPad version of Maxthon, the iPhone app has a reader mode, a comprehensive download manager and the ability to sync bookmarks with your desktop computer. Read More

[Giveaway] Open Links Directly Within Any iPhone App Using BrowseInApp

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The “Safari versus Chrome” debate is still hot among iOS users, but as always, the developers over at the Cydia store have got a rather distinct opinion of their own. BrowseInApp is a new tweak that aims to make web browsers a little less important on an iPhone. No, it is not a standalone web browser; you will still have to continue using your current browser for routine tasks. The sole aim of BrowseInApp is to provide a quick and easy way to open links from within any app. If you have this tweak installed on your iPhone or iPad, you will be able to open any web link within the app you are currently using, without having to navigate your way to a web browser. BrowseInApp will open the link in the blink of an eye, and the tweak’s own browser comes complete with a usable address bar, back/ forward keys and a close button! Read More

Send Any Link From Mobile Safari To Chrome For iPhone & iPad [Tip]

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Chrome for iPhone and iPad came out a couple of days back, much to the delight of the iOS user community. The browser brought with a lot of the familiar goodies of its popular desktop and Android variants, including Google Sync, speed dial tabs and loads more. We even did an article elaborating the goodies in Chrome for iOS just yesterday. Whether Chrome is the best browser our there for your iDevice or not, is yet debatable, and while there are mixed feelings on that ground, a majority seems to believe Chrome is definitely better. faster, and more feature-packed. Wherever you lie in the spectrum, sometimes we do things just because we can. And so it turns out, while you cannot change the default browser in iOS (well, actually you can, if you are jailbroken), you can still play a cool little JavaScript trick to launch any page that has been opened in Mobile Safari directly in Chrome, with there mere tap of a button! Read More

Sleipnir Linker: Push Content & Associated Actions From Desktop Browser To Android

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Fenrir Inc., the team behind the cross-platform Sleipnir Browser for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, have just launched the latest version of their desktop browser that helps users instantly share content from computers to their mobile devices devices with ease. Regardless of whether or not you’re already a fan of the browser’s slick features, which include automatic grouping of tabs by domain, enhanced support for HTML 5, JavaScript and CSS 3 content, stern integration with a slew of web apps, smart sharing, cloud support et al, you’re going to appreciate its support to allow you to instantly push URLs, addresses and phone numbers etc, to your mobile device, so that you’re never required to re-search for the desired content while on the move. Better yet, you don’t even need to sift through multiple screens, or scour bookmarked content in order to interact with shared content. Instead, all you need to do is push, say, a phone number from the computer, and it will be automatically dialed on your phone. From the smartphone’s perspective, all this is made possible with the help of Sleipnir Linker – an Android and iOS (to be released) app that caches whatever content you share from your computer via Sleipnir Browser, and lets you interact with it accordingly. Read More

AVG Family Safety For WP7 Released; Censors Inappropriate Web Content & Ensures Safe Browsing

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The rather strong presence of Internet Explorer as the stock browser in Windows Phone 7 has made sure that no other web browser app gains too much popularity in the Marketplace. It’s not that IE is the perfect browser for your Mango phone (it doesn’t even have private browsing), but most people are content with the convenience and efficiency it brings to WP7. AVG Family Safety is a new app (by AVG, the antivirus guys) that aims to go one step ahead of IE by offering the option to control content that can be browsed on your Windows Phone. If you are using the AVG PC suite, you can block any website on your phone (the WP7 app requires the same credentials as the PC variant), and in addition to that, the app also alerts users if there is malware on any website you visit. AVG Family Safety might be lacking some of IE’s flashiness, but it certainly does provide you with a more secure way of browsing the web. The app can be extremely useful for people whose children use their phone for surfing the net. Read on if you think AVG Family Safety can be of use to you. Read More

Downloader Elite: Perhaps The Best, Most Feature-Rich Download Manager For iPhone & iPad

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Downloader Elite is the sort of app you can’t really consign to just a single category. Most people will call it a simple download manager or a web browser for iPhone and iPad, but it is actually much more than that. The app includes a decent audio player, can handle a vast variety of video formats (including FLV and HTML5), has a PDF reader, and comes complete with a nice text editor. With support for so many file formats, the app makes everything convenient for users by providing them with a neat download manager. The app is Downloader Elite has AirPlay support, lets you play videos in the background and can be used to open ZIP or Office files. The list of offered features goes on and on, past the break. Read More

Hekasoft Backup & Restore: One Place To Keep All Your Browser Profiles Saved

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Internet browsers are perhaps the most used programs on any computer these days. Opening the browser is the first thing that almost all of us do after turning on the computer. Initially, since there was no concept of a browser profile, there wasn’t a need for any type of browser backup. As technology advanced, our requirements and the dependencies on the internet increased. New browsers the likes of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera came out brandishing several features, which were not available in Internet Explorer at the time. More options meant a greater possibility to customize the browser according to your personal requirements. However, in the event of a system wipe, all customizations used to get lost or could not be transferred. That’s where browser backup programs and extensions came in. They allowed users to keep a copy of their profiles backed up, and restore them when needed. Today, we have an application called Hekasoft Backup & Restore, which not only lets you back up and restore profiles of multiple browsers from a unified interface, but those of software like Thunderbird, FileZilla, Mozilla Calender/Sunbird and Pale Moon as well (Internet Explorer not supported). Read More

Downloader For iPhone: Download & View Almost Any Music & Document File Format

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Safari is a pretty good mobile browser, and that’s why most users don’t feel the need to look for a new one in the iOS App Store. There are a few web browsers that hold their own against Safari, like the previously covered Dolphin browser, specially since it got its Sonar update recently. However, it is not just a two-horse race when it comes to iPhone web browsers, there are other apps out there which can let you do stuff other apps can’t dream of. As a web browser, Best Music & File Downloader Pro might not be the best option out there, and it isn’t meant to be, either. The app is all about letting you download files in popular formats, and then managing those downloads any way you want. Read More

Switch: Transfer All Tabs In Current Window To Another Browser [Mac]

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We’ve covered quite a few extensions that allow you to send your currently open tabs from one browser to another. These extensions, although not for the general web surfer, are nonetheless useful for developers and designers who need to check how their developments are rendered across different browsers. The slight drawback with these extensions is that not all browsers have one such extension available, not all extensions work the same, and you might have compatibility issues if any one of the browsers is updated. Switch is a free Mac app that goes above and beyond all this, (literally - it sits in the Menu bar) and allows you to send all open tabs in the current window to anyone of the browsers that you have installed. Read More