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Firefox 3 Boosts Browser's Market Share Over 19% (1,615 diggs) Firefox 3 has experienced rapid market share gains since its release in mid-June, helping to push the Mozilla browser's overall share to more than 19%, a Web metrics firm said Wednesday.

Thank you, Adobe Reader 9! (3,069 diggs) Recently I wrote a blog entry about bloated software, and how much better Foxit PDF reader was than Adobe Reader. But I was using Adobe Reader 8. Little did I know how much superior version 9 would be.

Master Your Digital Media with VLC (2,222 diggs) Cross-platform media player VLC is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife of media applications" for good reason: Not only does VLC play nearly any file you throw at it, but it can do so much more. From ripping DVDs to converting files to iPod-friendly formats, let's take a look at the four coolest things you can do with it

Hologram Google Earth (1,823 diggs) Google Earth projected and interacted with as a hologram.

Firefox sets new record, cracks 19% market share (1,844 diggs) Mozilla Corp. used the launch of Firefox 3.0 last month to boost its browser market share to over 19%, an Internet measurement company said today.Most of Firefox's increase came during the week following Version 3.0's release, when the combined share of Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 jumped from 18.2% before the June 17 launch to 18.6% immediately after.

Mozilla Sets World Record (4,548 diggs) With over 8 million downloads Mozilla sets the Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

The Golden Age of Unknown Software (517 diggs) There is an endless supply of nifty apps and utilities out there that you simply have never heard of.

10 Useful Apps To Reduce Your Dependency On Google (773 diggs) They are worth being familiar with so that you can avoid a crisis situation when you cannot access a Google product for some reason.

iGoogle transformed into a social site (1,015 diggs) Google plan to rollout several new social features for iGoogle personalized start page. The updates include chat, activity streaming and a new interface for the gadgets offered on the start page...

GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (3,575 diggs) A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win.

Tracking Nightlife Activity : Mapping the Cool Quest (619 diggs) Jebara’s creation, Citysense, uses advanced machine learning techniques to number crunch vast amounts of data emanating from thousands of cell-phones, GPS-equipped cabs and other data devices to paint live pictures of where people are gathering. Fed to websites such as Google or Yelp, the data reveals what ’s happening at any location.

Coming Soon: Pirate TV Show (1,228 diggs) Jesse Alexander, the executive producer of the popular TV-shows ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’ and Matt Mason, author of ‘The Pirate’s Dilemma’, are working on a new TV-show about piracy. The show will be based on Matt’s book, and will show how important pirates are for today’s society.

Firefox Addiction... It's an Epidemic! (967 diggs) The world is in need of healing. Firefox 3 provides so many options and tools that users become addicted and unable to do anything with these add-ons. The Firefox Addiction Treatment Recovery Center are here to help.

30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions (2,685 diggs) We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you ’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.

Tricks to manage multiple accounts in Gmail (877 diggs) Gmail is a perfect tool to manage multiple accounts, from different domains, even when they run on different servers. It ’s also possible to fetch all your mail from Live, Yahoo or another provider, straight in your Gmail inbox.

How to make an 18ft tall Firefox 3 robot (736 diggs) A team of Firefox add-on developers, enthusiasts, and advocates built the Firefox 3 Robot in San Francisco's Dolores Park!

Why You Will Love FireFox 3? (1,110 diggs) The new version of Firefox feels much faster. The notorious memory leaks of flavors of 2.0 are plugged. The developers claim 3.0's Javascript performance is 9.3 times faster than IE7's and 2.7 times faster than its predecessor. They also claim 15,000 improvements to the old version - most of those are under the hood...

Blind Can Surf the Internet From Any computer, Anywhere (597 diggs) New software, called WebAnywhere, launched today lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Web on the go. The tool developed at the University of Washington turns screen-reading into an Internet service that reads aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections.

Software Predicts Fate of Death Row Inmates (512 diggs) Scientist claim to have found a way to predict whether a death row inmate will be executed or not with an accuracy of 90%. They found a strong relation between certain profiles of an inmate and the likelihood of execution. But it may not be the profile you are thinking of...

Announcing the "Internet for Everyone" campaign (1,952 diggs) Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to help launch the Internet for Everyone campaign, whose goal is to make ubiquitous and open broadband access for every American a priority in the next administration.

Oh, the irony!! (4,867 diggs) The Application Crash reporter quit unexpectedly.

Tricks to improve your Gmail experience (1,210 diggs) I’ve switched (back) to Gmail. After the problems Outlook gave me in the past, I was looking for a solution with more flexibility. Gmail has everything I need for my online business, but Outlook was the client to have for connecting with an Exchange server. Since I ’m no longer using the Exchange account anymore, Gmail is the way to go!

And the fastest browser is... (1,181 diggs) [Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate] Which is the world's fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn't beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra Web application. Your mileage may vary with other applications.

The Twitter Hall of Shame: 50 Historic Tweets (1,457 diggs) Collection of angry, awkward and funny Twitter messages. Unfollow Me: Leo Laporte called for a boycott of Kevin Rose but later regretted it, as he was "drunk and out of control."

"Augmented Reality" application developed for Google Android (699 diggs) "Enkin" introduces a new handheld navigation concept. It displays location-based content in a unique way that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations. It combines GPS, orientation sensors, 3D graphics, live video, several web services and a novel user interface into an intuitive and light navigation system for phones.