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The Apple App Store is receiving more and more third party web browsers everyday. All the browsers have got a unique set of features. Some claim to be the most speedy web browsers, some boast of extra functions they offer to the user and some endorse simplicity at its best. The Full Screen Web Browser (FSWB) is the latest third party application released for the iPhone.

The speciality of FSWB is that it uses each and every pixel of the iPhone’s 480×320 display to display the web page. Of course, owners of the Apple iPod touch can also make full use of the browser’s capabilities. You may wonder that such full screen browsers have already been released but unlike them the FSWB does not sacrifices address bar and navigation bar. It displays the address bar and a translucent navigator at the bottom but these two options are automatically hide after few seconds. Shake your iPhone and the accelerometer will bring these two items again on the screen. The makers of FSWB claim that it increases the display area by 25 percent in portrait mode as compared to Safari browser. In landscape mode the viewable area extends by 40 percent that leverages web surfing.

Performance wise the FSWB is same as Apple Safari. This is because the Full Screen Web Browser is based on the safari’s WebKit engine. In order to incorporate stringent security parameters the history option is not included in FSWB. So you have to type full URL each time you visit a web page. You have to sacrifice tabbed browsing too if you wish to use FSWB.

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.