How fast is fast? If you’re Google, fast means roughly six weeks. Taken out of context, it would seem like waiting six weeks for anything would be extremely painful. But in the world of software development, that’s might brisk. You may recall, Google has stated numerous times that they are trying to maintain a rigorous 6-week update schedule for major browser releases. With that said, today marks the release of version 7. For feature-creepers, this version...

Opera Mini is great and all — It’s been downloaded hundreds of millions of times — but let’s face it, it has “Mini” in it’s name. For basic phones, it is far and wide better than the built in browser. But smartphones are a different beast. They have much beefier specs, and as such, can handle quite a bit more 1′s and 0′s. Thankfully Opera feels the same way. The upcoming Android version is claimed to be arriving...

So you use Google Chrome. Awesome for you, you high tech hipster you. But if you really wanted to be cool, you’d be using the beta (or even more extreme) dev builds of Chrome. The rough, early builds are publicly available and easy to find. While you will experience some issues here and there regarding performance and stability, the payoff is generally fixes for older bugs, speed, and everyone’s favorite — new features. So how about taking a beta of...

It’s easy to say the weekly stories of App Store approval/rejections are an emotional roller coaster. But finally — Finally! — we can say that Apple appears to be weeding out the stupidity and employing some people with common sense once and for all. At one point, apps that “copied functions of native iOS apps” were banned outright — no matter how good they were. But Apple has at least relented a tiny bit of control. Now there are...

Besides sucking the bottom of the web browser barrel when it comes to browser performance and standards, IE has also had the unlucky glory of looking like trash. The UI was horrible, slow, and clunky. With each new version end users hoped for progress. But instead, Microsoft laughed in their faces and continued on their “our way is the only way” tirade, acting as if their browser was the only browser that mattered and that these silly “browser...

I have to admit, as Windows Phone 7 launch draws nearer, I find myself getting more and more excited. Part of it is the love I have for new, shiny gadgets. The other part is eager to see how well Microsoft managed to make Windows Phone 7. So far, we’ve seen plenty of promising features and hands on accounts. But the little things that we encounter day in and day out also play a big part in the success and/or failure of a platform. So today, we’re looking at...