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Best Five Web Browsers

9:43 AM | By coms


#1 Firefox 3.5




Firefox 3.5

Publisher: Mozilla
Version: 3.5
Excellent
Overall Rating
Excellent
Features Set
Excellent
Ease of Use
Excellent
Security
Excellent
Speed & Compatibility
Excellent
Help/Support











Experience the simplistic power of Firefox, one of the original FREE Internet browsers. This web browser packs top–notch features and blazing speed into a tidy, intuitive interface that will help you navigate the web the way you want to.
A few outstanding features include tabbed browsing, an integrated search engine and many add–ons of all types. This high-performance browser also has a massive selection of great customization features and tools to help you personalize your Web experience.
New to version 3.5 of Firefox is improved speed, a private browsing mode, even more security than in previous versions, open audio and video formats, and a bunch of additional improvements. 
Standout Features
  • Private Browser Mode
  • Open Video and Audio
  • Instant Web Site ID
  • Smart Location Bar
  • Built-in Spell Checker
  • Customization
 #2 Chrome

Google Chrome

Publisher: Google, Inc.
Excellent
Overall Rating
Excellent
Features Set
Excellent
Ease of Use
Excellent
Security
Excellent
Speed & Compatibility
Excellent
Help/Support







Google has joined the Internet browser competition full force with a very impressive entry, Chrome. Google Chrome takes a unique approach to browsing the web, combining top notch features with speed, compatibility, and simplicity.
Chrome uses complex features but makes them very simple to use. Chrome is an open source project using the WebKit rendering engine. We like what we've seen in Chrome so far, and look forward to seeing more innovation and simple usability from the browser in the future.
Standout Features
  • Flexible Tabs
  • Incognito Mode for Private Browsing
  • Integrated Download Manager
  • Online Task Manager

#3 Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8

Publisher: Microsoft
Version: 8
Excellent
Overall Rating
Excellent
Features Set
Excellent
Ease of Use
Excellent
Security
Excellent
Speed & Compatibility
Excellent
Help/Support








Microsoft's current standard is Internet Explorer 8. This web browser outperforms its ancestors with tighter security, private browsing and a clean look.
Internet Explorer 8 features extensive parental controls that can be customized to fit each individual in a family. If you have small children and protection is a priority, look no further, this is the browser for your home computer.
Internet Explorer is a good browser with great features. Additional features in version 8 make it even better and definitely worth your consideration.
Standout Feature
  • Compatibility View to correct display problems
  • Grouped Tabs
  • Web Slices
  • InPrivate Browsing

#4 Opera 9.6


Opera 9.6

Publisher: Opera
Version: 9.6
Very Good
Overall Rating
Excellent
Features Set
Very Good
Ease of Use
Excellent
Security
Very Good
Speed & Compatibility
Excellent
Help/Support








Opera sings to a different tune, and it sounds great. This browser has all of the entertaining and practical features that will not only make surfing the web functional, but also fun.
Just a few of the outstanding features include interactive voice, quick find, thumbnail previews, mouse gestures and customizing skins. This is one of the only browsers that has interactive voice commands. You can navigate the web by talking to the browser, and Opera will even read text to you.
Configure Opera to fit your needs and your style. Arrange panels, toolbars and buttons and choose from several unique skins and various widgets.
Opera has a dedicated user-base and reasonably so with all of its innovative features. However, we couldn't overlook some fairly serious compatibility issues. We look forward to Opera becoming a bigger household name and getting better compatibility web-wide.

#5 Safari 4

Safari 4

Publisher: Apple
Version: 4
Very Good
Overall Rating
Very Good
Features Set
Excellent
Ease of Use
Very Good
Security
Excellent
Speed & Compatibility
Excellent
Help/Support








Safari is not an Apple exclusive anymore; the top-notch browser is now available for PCs as well. Safari provides the Mac look and feel in Internet browsing. It is complete with tabbed browsing that includes a save tabs feature.
Safari focuses on being lightweight and non-obtrusive rather than customizable. Hence the sleek interface isn't bulky and the frame is only one pixel wide.
Some nice features include the development of Top Sites, spell checking for all fields, resizable text boxes, and snapback.
Safari competes with our top browsers, but lacks some features like parental controls, anti-phishing, and a smart toolbar.



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Three Generations Of 1.8" Hard Drives Benchmarked

9:13 AM | By coms

Many people have already pronounced 1.8” hard drives dead. However, constant capacity growth ensures this small form factor remains at least somewhat attractive. Flash memory, which is the logical alternative to compact hard drives, is not yet capable of meeting the capacity demands in mainstream consumer markets. In order words, flash drives at capacities of several hundred gigabytes are still too expensive. We decided to look at three recent 1.8” product generations from Toshiba and look at where performance and efficiency are heading.

Who Uses 1.8” Drives Anyway?
The industry anticipated that storage for ultra portable notebooks and netbooks would increasingly be based on the 1.8” form factor. This is the case, but only in the high-end for ultra portable computers. Netbooks, which represent one of the fastest growing segments, turned flash down because it simply cannot yet satisfy the consumer’s capacity requirements at the price points that have to be reached for those cheap portable computers. Therefore, many netbooks are based on 2.5” drives today.
However, 1.8” hard drives are utilized for all sorts of ultra portable devices that have to combine both high capacity and attractive prices. This is the case for Apple’s iPod Classic, in addition to many other full-size, full-feature MP3 players, such as Microsoft’s Zune 80/120, Internet media devices like those from Archos and ultra mobile PCs (UMPCs). In addition, the 1.8” form factor has been quite popular for smallest size portable storage.
Some Facts
Hitachi had an 1.8” hard drive portfolio; Seagate offered its Lyrion 1.8” line for a while. However, both left the 1.8” market years ago. WD never even tried. Right now only Samsung and Toshiba remain active in this segment, Samsung focusing on retail products and Toshiba addressing the market opportunities mentioned above.
Earlier 1.8” hard drive generations from various manufacturers operated at 3,600 or 4,200 RPM, which didn’t deliver particularly impressive performance. Samsung and Toshiba accelerated their products to 5,400 RPM at the time when ATA interfaces using ZIF connectors were replaced by Serial ATA. Most of the current 1.8” hard drives are based on SATA 3 Gb/s interfaces with Micro SATA connectors. Performance of 1.8” hard drives can’t keep pace with 2.5” or 3.5” models of course, but in exchange, the drives are robust, very quiet, and considerably smaller.



Analysis: Three Product Generations
We grabbed three different 1.8” drives from Toshiba to perform a little analysis on performance and power efficiency: a 160GB MK1617GSG from 2008, the 250GB MK2529GSG from late 2008, and the newest MK3233GSG at 320GB, which has been available only for a few months.




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Flexi PC Pet ID Tag

8:32 PM | By coms


While some folks treat their pets as second class citizens, most of us do otherwise, as they are part of our family. With the Flexi PC Pet ID Tag, you can be sure that your mind won’t be as frazzled whenever Fido goes running off without letting you know beforehand – after all, it functions as a USB flash drive which is not only water- but shock-proof as well, allowing anyone who retrieves your pet to plug it into a computer to check out the owner’s information, ranging from contact number to address, vet information, medical and dietary needs among others. Updating it is a snap – the thing is, you will need to move your lazy butt to do so from your computer. Well, if you can spend an hour reading up on all of Tiger Woods’ mistresses, don’t you think spending a few minutes to keep your pet’s vital information updated all the more important? ThinkGeek is carrying the Flexi PC Pet ID Tag for $14.99.
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