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Edge is one of the latest Apple approved web browsers for the iPod touch and iPhone. The company has started including third party web browsers in the App Store. All of them have something special in them. You can choose any of them considering your requirements and preferences.

Edge’s speciality lies in its full screen web browsing capabilities. It has been optimised to give the user a full view of the web page. Like other web browsers there will not be any interfering elements to obstruct your view. But to offer this the Edge has to sacrifice loads of functions that are generally used while surfing the web. Unfortunately, you will not be getting any address bar, forward or backward buttons, history, bookmarks support, refresh option, home button and many other tools. So clearly Edge still has a way to go before it rivals the browser used with Windows Mobile or Symbian phones, like the Nokia E71, yet alone challenge the Safari on iPhone browser. Every time you want to open up a new web site you have to specify its URL by navigating to iPhone’s settings page and then load the Edge. This naturally this irritates almost all the users and makes it impractical to use the Edge browser. But still if you have great tolerance level then this iPhone browser is best for you because no other can offer unobstructed browsing.

Another main feature of Edge is that it’s the only third party browser for iPhone that does not charge you anything. This browser is perfect for those who usually visit selected web pages and don’t switch form one hyperlink to other too much.

WebMate is the new third party web browser for Apple iPhone that is available for $0.99 at the App Store. The best part of this mobile browser is the ability to support tabs. This means that when you click on a hyperlink the WebMate does not reload the existing web page, instead it open opens the linked content in another window and the user can easily shift between different windows via a counter displayed at the bottom of the screen.

The user interface is good and easy to operate. If you want to close any window then simply use the little trash icon at the bottom of the screen. If you usually click on loads of links while browsing or a hardcore fan of Mozilla Firefox then this one is for you. One of the greatest strengths of the iPhone, as compared to other internet surfing capable phones, like the HTC Touch HD, is the selection of web browsers that the user is offered. Instead of being relegated to one single browser, the iPhone gives users the ability to choose their favourite, just like with a regular computer.

Of course, using WebMate, instead of the default Safari on iPhone, does have its flaws. One of these is that it does not saves the content of the opened tab. This means that whenever you switch from one window to other the whole web page will be reloaded again. This ultimately slows down web browsing and sometime frustrates the user if he is in hurry. Another issue with WebMate is that it do not offer core features like bookmarks, auto complete, and history.

Incognito is the latest web browser that is now officially open for use on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The main attraction of this third-party application is that it offers completely anonymous Internet surfing. It’s perfect for those who don’t want to let others trace their web activities.

Incognito keeps everything in memory as far as a particular web session is maintained but forgets every thing the moment the session is ended. It never saves history, passwords, credit card information, information filled in forms and keywords used in search engines. Apart from this all your online multimedia activities are also erased. Nobody can find out the videos you watched, the songs you heard, the flash games you played or any other file accessed by you. Incognito provides full support to keep the linked media files anonymous. It also sports an orientation lock mode.

Incognito is easy to install and use. Its UI is great and there is a customisable home page that can be shaped as per your preferences. Not only security wise but the Incognito is known for its speedy performance too on both the Apple iPod touch and iPhone. It can load any web page (including the ones containing heavy flash work) at a blazing speed. You can find it at the App Store.

Gaming enthusiasts are having a field day. The Toshiba Qosmio X300 notebook offers users a memorable gaming experience. This notebook is not only big, but it also comes in a bright red colour with an expensive price tag as well. There are not many gaming laptops that have made their presence felt in the market in recent times, but the Toshiba Qosmio X300 will be something that many cannot ignore. Its great features will make overlooking it next to impossible.

Real gaming experience cannot be completely realized on regular laptop screens but Toshiba has taken the gaming experience a step further by housing the X300 in a large case with a weight of 4.2kg. With specifications of 412×306x65 mm, it is certainly not a laptop that can be easily carried or moved around. The shape of the Toshiba Qosmio X300 is bizarre and ugly but its glowing red translucent case, which has a flame motif, makes up for its ugly look. Get ready to experience some superb, mind blowing sounds that will emanate from the speakers numbering four. A sub woofer system embedded in the case is also by Harman Kardon.

The 17 in widescreen display has a resolution of 1680 x 1050 and presents crisp pictures to its viewers. Users can find image quality that is really good. Video conferencing is possible through the 1.3 mega pixel web cam just above the monitor. Speak to friends through an internal microphone. Photography enthusiasts will enjoy the 5 in 1 card reader. The high end Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 processor runs at a speed of 2.53 GHz.

Are you passionate about your browser? Do you think your browser is the best? Then, this is what you have to read. Having a fascination for your favourite sports team, actor, actress and arguing about their greatness is an age old phenomenon, but today’s world of late have been arguing about their browsers with their friends and colleagues. From the famous Internet Explorer to the new Opera browsers there seems to be people arguing which is the best.

This argument arises because of the difference in their feature, security, etc. so let us discuss in detail about them. Internet explorer is the widely used explorer in this world comprising nearly 80-85% of the browsing market. Mozilla Firefox stands in the second place with 8-12% of the browsing market. The third, forth and fifth places are occupied by safari, opera and AOL respectively. Nevertheless, all signs point to Internet Explorer losing ground, which is even more worrying for Microsoft considering that more people are getting online than ever before. With more and more people getting online due to the availability of netbooks, cheap laptops like the Asus Eee PC 701 4G designed for going online, in addition to accessing the internet with smartphones, it is not a good time for Microsoft to be losing market share. When it comes to the question of quality there’s a tough competition among all the browsers. Once upon of time, internet explorer was criticized for its poor safety measure but the new version has equaled its competitors in every sense and so does their counterparts.

Experts were put in a very great confusion when they were asked to judge who is the best and in the end gave a conclusion that each one is best in different aspects. Though a few argued that Internet Explorer is the best since it is the widely used browser, many disagreed. Like this there had been a lot of argument over this title. Only time can say which is the best browser because a poor browser will have no place in the market.

Apple is entertaining the third party Internet browsers nowadays and some of them have already been provided a space in the App Store. As of now there are only three third party browsers that can be downloaded from App Store for the iPhone, and compete with Apple’s Safari browser.

The first one is Edge Browser. The speciality of EDGE is that it allows full screen web browsing. However, to offer this the browser sacrifices on screen controls and navigation menus. So unless you are using analytics or working on a site about which you know each and everything the EDGE is useless. But EDGE is the only third party browser that is available for free. The second web browser that is Incognito that is very useful if you fear of leaking your website activities to another user. This browser leaves no traces of any session established between the phone and the web server. In other words you can browse the Internet without any worries as nobody can find out that which web sites you visited. The only downside of this browser is that it comes with a price tag of $1.99.

Another third party browser exclusively developed for Apple iPhone is the WebMate browser. You can get it by paying just 99 cents. If you are addicted to tabbed browsing then this one is for you. But this one also has its own limitations, and Safari naturally remains the best browser for your Apple iPhone. It cannot save information of active tabs. That means if you switch from one tab to other the latter one will get reloaded from scratch. So the overall browsing experience will be slow.

The new Modbook Pro is a sophisticated portable computing tablet that is designed by Axiotron by reassembling the components of Apple’s 15 inch Macbook Pro along with some new ones. It offers best of both the worlds. You not only get a portable computing device but also enjoy the latest cutting edge technology integrated within.

The overall body of Modbook Pro tablet is made of aluminium and does not contain any outer shell or plastic parts that give it ultimate structural strength. The base of the Modbook is same as the base of the 15 inch Apple Macbook Pro. This was done so that there is no interference with the functioning of the hardware parts and installed softwares including Mac OS X operating environment. The Modbook Pro is targeted at working professionals who feel to have a robust computing machine that can be used on the go with ease. It sports a large touch panel. There are loads of touch applications that you can be used to do various tasks. You can use the drawing pen tool, the virtual keyboard or just swipe your fingers on the screen to zoom and rotate an image. The options to control the applications are unlimited.

Coming to the hardware configuration, the Modbook Pro equips high performance chips and memory modules. It’s built around 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor core and sports a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics chip that offers high definition graphic processing. So you can enjoy 3D games, high quality videos and run image processing softwares with ease. The Modbook Pro makes sure that you have plenty of connectivity options on the move. It features Ethernet port, FireWire 800, two USB 2.0 interfaces, Mini Display Port, digital audio, ExpressCard/34 slot and Bluetooth.

The mobile browser war has reached to new heights in the past recent months. Google, Mozilla Firefox and Nokia are redesigning their strategies with regards to the development and revamping of their web browsers for the PC as well as for mobiles. However, Apple and Microsoft were strictly focusing on their own web browsers only, i.e. Safari and Internet Explorer respectively.

But now the Apple too has decided to show a ‘green signal’ to other web browser vendors to develop their respective web applications for its most famous product, the Apple iPhone 3G. With the approval of third party web browsers, the Firefox and Opera iPhone version is most likely to hit the mobile browser markets. In fact, due to its dominance Firefox may be the first third party web browser to be seen in the App store. This may be followed by Opera, Google Chrome or even Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. But it’s only a guess as of now. The company has not announced the final beneficiaries that will be allowed to get a place in the App store.

The open source application; Mozilla Firefox is currently the biggest competitor of Microsoft Internet Explorer and disrupting the dominance the IE used to enjoy earlier. At present, Safari is the default web browser application for iPhone and may be the users get to use the Firefox’s iPhone version soon.

Apple has released the much awaited 17 inch version of its classic MacBook Pro. Despite its large widescreen display, the MacBook Pro offers a sleek design and curvy edges, just like the Apple’s 15 inch notebooks. The overall design of this notebook is built with the aesthetics of the old 15 inch machines in mind. The 17-inch MacBook Pro brings all the advanced computing technology right at your fingertips.

MacBook Pro 17 inch model is build around the high speed Intel Core 2 Duo processor and can support up to 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM. Graphic options too are very impressive. It supports both NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor with 256MB DDR3 RAM (shared with main memory) and the dedicated NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB GDDR3 memory. It is essentially like the previous Apple MacBook Pro, but obviously with a larger 17 inch display. This notebook is environment friendly as it is made of highly recyclable materials. There are no harmful toxins used while manufacturing this notebook. Connectivity options are in plenty. You will get USB ports, FireWire 800 port, ExpressCard interface, wireless interfaces and much more.

The 17 inch MacBook Pro has given the honour of the world’s thinnest and lightest 17 inch notebook. This is the only notebook that is powered via the latest high capacity battery based on the ‘adaptive charging’. It’s developed by Apple and offers 8 hours of run time and 1000 recharge cycles.

Google is marching forward on the upgrade path. Recently this popular search engine company surprised millions of Internet users by launching its first web browser called Chrome 1.0 and now within a short time span it has upgraded the browser and released the new Alpha version called Chrome 2.0.

Chrome 2.0 has got some very significant improvements over its predecessor. It’s now more flexible, speedy, user friendly and holds loads of useful functions. You can now get tools like auto complete text fields, full page zoom, enhanced spelling checker and improved auto scroll function. According to Google the alpha release of the second version of Chrome is far much reliable and faster as compared to the Chrome 1.0 and other web browsers too. It now also allows the users to import bookmarks from Google Bookmarks. On top of all these upgrades lies a unique feature called ‘Profiles’ that is not found in any of the web browsers till date. Chrome 2.0 Profiles are same as the Windows user profiles. The only difference is that here you can set and maintain different profiles for web browsing preferences such as browser settings, bookmarks, history and cookies. Clearly Google was not content with simply entering the mobile phone and mobile OS market with its G1 Android run smartphone, which is directly targeted at dethroning the Apple iPhone 3G. The Internet Search engine giant is also intent on challenging Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and of course Apple’s Safari browser.

Chrome 2.0 Alpha uses a new WebKit rendering engine that enables advanced CSS coding functions including reflections, masks, gradients, and canvas drawing. This engine is the same as the one that is used in the Apple Safari 3.1.