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Firefox Beta Tests Add-on Hotfix Feature

Starting with Firefox 10, Mozilla will start delivering hotfixes for its web browser, via an add-on, in order to have fewer full updates pushed to users. Firefox beta users are the first testers of the feature, as Mozilla pushes today an automatically downloaded test add-on. The component is visible in the Add-ons...

21 January 2012
05:07 GMT

Magicka: The Other Side of the Coin Expansion Announced

Paradox Interactive has just announced yet another expansion to its very popular Magicka title, this time in the form of Magicka: The Other Side of the Coin.The original Magicka took PC gamers by storm and, despite having quite a lot of flaws and requiring dozens of patches, it quickly gained a cult following due to ...

20 January 2012
02:33 GMT

Lightning, Calendar Add-on from Mozilla, Updates to 1.2b1

Hardcore Thunderbird users, and even less addicted ones, are already familiar with Lightning, Mozilla’s extension for offering a calendar in their email client. Lightning 1.0 has been introduced in Thunderbird 8.0 as an integrated add-on, back in November, 2011. However, a new edition, Lightning 1.2b1, is alre...

9 January 2012
09:24 GMT

Rock Band Gets Rush’s 2112 as Special DLC

Harmonix has confirmed that Rock Band owners will be treated with a very special downloadable add-on this week, if they play the game on the Xbox 360, or next week, if they have it on the Nintendo Wii or PlayStation 3, in the form of Rush’ famous 2112 song. Rock Band, despite dwindling in popularity and sales,...

29 December 2011
04:36 GMT

Nintendo 3DS Gets Circle Pad Pro Add-on in Europe Next January

Nintendo has confirmed that European 3DS owners will be able to get the Circle Pad Pro add-on for their device on January 27, 2012.The Nintendo 3DS wasn’t exactly a huge success, but things are getting a lot of better, as the Japanese company registered massive sales throughout recent months, with Black Friday ...

1 December 2011
04:56 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Gets Batcave DLC Before Christmas

Rocksteady Studios has confirmed that the next piece of downloadable content for its Batman: Arkham City title will arrive right before Christmas, on December 20, and includes the Batcave challenge map.Batman: Arkham City impressed legions of gamers last month with its sharp graphics, stunning open world and variety ...

29 November 2011
05:03 GMT

Likejacking Prevention Tool for Opera Released by Zscaler

Zscaler released not long ago a browser plug-in for Chrome, Safari and Firefox that protects users against malicious Facebook elements, and now they made available a version of the tool that works on Opera. Since clickjacking operations are not that uncommon on Facebook, security solutions providers struggle to make...

22 November 2011
06:56 GMT

Uncharted 3 Gets Day-One DLC with Classic Skin Packs

Barely has Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception been released on the web and already Sony, its publisher, and Naughty Dog, its developer, have deployed day-one downloadable content for the new adventure game.If you find that the skins that you can use for your multiplayer character are insufficient, then you can enjoy...

2 November 2011
06:54 GMT

Batman: Arkham City Nightwing DLC Gets Trailer Ahead of Release Next Week

Batman: Arkham City is set to receive its first post-release downloadable content pack, in the form of the Nightwing one, which introduces the famous crime-fighting hero to the already impressive roster of characters from the game.Arkham City doesn't just feature Batman, but also many of his companions, ranging ...

27 October 2011
12:01 GMT

Uncharted 3 Won't Any Get Single-Player DLC, Naughty Dog Says

The developer of the Uncharted series, Naughty Dog, has revealed that there won't be any sort of single-player downloadable content released for the upcoming Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception title, largely because its add-on ideas are really vast and it would be much easier to make full games instead.DLC is p...

17 October 2011
15:51 GMT

Download ATI Catalyst Application Profiles 11.9 CAP2 Driver

We've already brought forth a bunch of drivers and fixes for both AMD and NVIDIA cards during the past few weeks, but it so happens that AMD has another one to offer, albeit a really small one. The newest downloadable package that AMD posted is not a driver per se, but an update, of sorts, to the Catalyst 11...

13 October 2011
10:18 GMT

Gears of War 3 Horde Command Pack DLC Out on November 1

Gears of War 3 has just received details on its first downloadable content pack, in the form of the Horde Command one, which is set to arrive on November 1 and bring lots of upgrades to the Horde cooperative multiplayer mode.Barely has Gears of War 3 been released on the Xbox 360 and there's been quite a lot of ...

5 October 2011
18:01 GMT

The Witcher 2 Expansion and The Witcher 3 Might Appear, Developer Says

CD Projekt Red, the developer behind the recent The Witcher 2 role-playing game, has confirmed that it's already working on quite a few big projects, including a possible sequel to the game, not to mention a full-pledged expansion. The Witcher 2 impressed legions of gamers earlier this year, when it came out ...

26 September 2011
02:41 GMT

Gears of War 3 Story-Based DLC Won't Feature Current Characters

The story-based downloadable content that will be released for Gears of War 3 won't feature already known characters like Marcus Fenix, Dominic Santiago or Cole Train, instead relying on self-contained adventures with new heroes.Gears of War 3 has just been released earlier this week across the world, exclusivel...

22 September 2011
15:51 GMT

Dolphin Browser Pushes Bookmark Sync Add-on out of Beta

A new version of the new Bookmark Sync add-on for Dolphin Browser is now available for download, pushed out via the Android Market, as the software came out of beta. The add-on was initially released a few weeks ago via Dolphin Browser's servers in a beta state, with support for the Dolphin HD 6.2 flavor of...

10 September 2011
10:11 GMT

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.6 Review

Mozilla develops one of the best and most annoying browsers in the world. We’re talking of course about Firefox. Even if now it has reached version 6.0, it still lacks some basic features. Some browser purists will say that Mozilla has left all the customizing in the hands of the third-party developers, but I t...

8 September 2011
10:01 GMT

Nintendo 3DS Gets Second Analog Nub Add-on for Monster Hunter Tri 3G

Massive Nintendo 3DS news have just surfaced, as the Japanese company is preparing a brand new add-on for the handheld console, in the form of a new cradle, which adds a second circle pad for the device, as well as a new R2 shoulder button, designed specifically for the upcoming Monster Hunter Tri 3G game. The Nin...

7 September 2011
02:35 GMT

Dolphin Browser HD Gets Bookmark Sync (Beta) Add-On

Add-ons are always a great means for expanding the capabilities of applications, and they are specifically great when it comes to mobile browsers. On the small screen of a mobile phone, it comes very handy to be able to perform various actions with a single clock or with only few of them, and here's where a...

5 September 2011
03:49 GMT

Red Dead Redemption Myths & Mavericks DLC Pack Gets Details, Release Date

The previously announced Myths & Mavericks downloadable content pack for Red Dead Redemption has now received some fresh details about what exactly is included in the add-on, as well as a concrete release date for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms. Red Dead Redemption was launched more than one year ago, bu...

2 September 2011
03:05 GMT

Duke Nukem Forever DLC Announced, Parodies Call of Duty, Team Fortress 2

Duke Nukem Forever is set to receive its first piece of downloadable content later this year, with Gearbox Software, its developer, announcing the Hail to the Icons Parody Pack, which brings three new modes, four new maps and lots of overpowered weapons. Duke Nukem Forever was finally released last month, after al...

27 July 2011
04:45 GMT

Fallout: New Vegas Gets Three More DLC Packs in Next Few Months

After much speculation, leaks from patent filings, and intense rumors, Bethesda has officially confirmed the next three downloadable content packs for Fallout: New Vegas. Bethesda revealed a few months ago, after the release of the first DLC for the game, Dead Money, that three more add-ons are going to be launche...

4 May 2011
02:40 GMT

Dragon Age 2 Gets New Weapons and Armor Packs via DLC

Dragon Age 2 will be on the receiving end of some new downloadable content, in the form of the Item Pack #1, which is now available on the PC, Mac and Xbox 360 platforms, while the PlayStation 3 still needs to wait. Dragon Age 2 has been out for over a month now, and, in case you feel that your experience througho...

28 April 2011
15:51 GMT

Red Dead Redemption Pre-Order DLC Available for Download Today

All of the downloadable content that was offered for those who pre-ordered Red Dead Redemption last year will be available starting today for all owners of the Western game. Rockstar promised that any content that was offered as a pre-order incentive when Red Dead Redemption was launched would eventually make its ...

12 April 2011
02:40 GMT

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Gets New Single-Player DLC

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will receive a brand new add-on, in the form of the Da Vinci Disappearance, which brings new single-player and multiplayer features to the extremely popular title. Ubisoft revealed, at the beginning of the week, that its Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood game sold over 6.5 milli...

18 February 2011
17:21 GMT

Fallout: New Vegas Gets New DLC, Dead Money Arrives on PC and PS3

Fallout: New Vegas, last year's extremely impressive role-playing game from Obsidian Games and Bethesda, will be getting some brand new downloadable content, while the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms will finally receive the Dead Money add-on that was previously released for the Xbox 360. Fallout: New Vegas de...

7 February 2011
17:21 GMT

Download IE9 Beta Diff-IE Add-on to Keep Track of the Evolving Web

A new Internet Explorer extension is designed to help users keep track of the ever evolving web. Modern dynamic websites are updated and refreshed extremely often, and customers can turn to Diff-IE Add-on for Internet Explorer in order to have the modifications highlighted to them. The add-on has been developed my ...

13 December 2010
10:04 GMT

MAG Gets Escalation DLC on November 2

Sony's Massive Action Game (MAG) will be on the receiving end of a brand new downloadable content pack, in the form of the Escalation expansion, which was previously tested during the game's beta stage last summer.MAG players have already received a lot of new changes to the multiplayer only first person sh...

1 November 2010
03:54 GMT

Firefox Add-On Developers Get a Debug Tool in JetBug

The successful Firefox page debugging add-on FireBug was ported to Jetpack's level with the release of JetBug.Jetpack, the Mozilla Labs project to ease the task of  building Firefox add-ons only using common web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, has gotten a real bump in adoption after one of Fir...

15 October 2010
10:50 GMT

Windows Media Center Renders YouTube Video

By default, Windows Media Center cannot serve YouTube videos, but with a little help from a third party add-on, it can become ready to deliver not only the Google clips straight to your TV, but also videos from DailyMotion and the defunct Soapbox.As soon as you install MacroTube on your PC, all the above-mentioned vi...

6 October 2010
11:38 GMT

Mozilla Explains the Reason for Releasing Experimental New Features as Add-ons

Mozilla doesn’t necessarily follow a conventional development cycle, either compared to other open-source outfits or to commercial ones. That’s neither good or bad thing, its approach has both advantages and disadvantages, but there is one trend that seems particularly popular. In recent years, Mozilla ha...

8 July 2010
11:49 GMT

IE9 Needs Some Add-On Love, Firefox Add-Ons Downloaded Over 2 Billion Times

Internet Explorer 9 is without a doubt evolving the right direction in terms of performance, web standards support, innovation, etc. The two million downloads of the browser’s Developer Platform releases are testimony to the fact that Microsoft is getting IE right this time around. But still, there’s some...

5 July 2010
12:54 GMT

Google Enables Users to Opt Out of Analytics

Online privacy issues are a big deal these days and a couple of the biggest web companies online, Google and Facebook, have been feeling the heat lately. Both are taking steps in ensuring that they meet the users’ demands. Google is now offering a way to opt out of analytics tracking with Google Analytics on an...

26 May 2010
06:41 GMT

Nexus One Rooted, Shows Multi-Touch on Video

Rooting an Android-based mobile phone seems to be one of the main sources of entertainment for some users out there. This process offers access to additional functionality on the device, and other more, so there are a lot of Android phone owners interested in making a move in the area, especially since a rooted devi...

22 January 2010
05:19 GMT

The UMD Drive Could Return to the PSP Go

When Sony introduced its new handheld, the company presented it as a step into the future. By abandoning the UMD cartridge and relying solely on the digital distribution of the PlayStation Network, the PSP Go was made even more of a handheld platform by trimming some weight and emphasizing mobility. There were some d...

3 December 2009
03:38 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons Guidelines and Requirements

Microsoft is keen on keeping apps built on top of Internet Explorer 8 as a platform as high quality as possible. With the vast majority of add-ons now under the Redmond-based company’s control, as they are third-party built extensions, it’s only up to non-Microsoft developers to ensure that IE8 indeed get...

10 September 2009
08:32 GMT

The Mozilla Add-Ons Site Adds Recommendations

Mozilla released the newest version of its, arguably, biggest addition to the Firefox web browser, the online add-on gallery. The new AMO 5.0.9 comes with a bunch of new or improved features, which could really change the way users discover new add-ons with “Recommendations” and “Collections,”...

29 August 2009
06:45 GMT

Rumor Mill: New World of Warcraft Races Revealed by Halloween Masks

World of Warcraft is one of the biggest games in the world, and it is the most popular MMORPG, with over 11,5 million paying subscribers each month. As such, there is a lot of interest regarding any new updates that will be made and any new character classes or races that might be added. The two add-ons already rele...

21 July 2009
16:41 GMT

FoxyTunes Adds YouTube Support

FoxyTunes is one of the most popular Firefox extensions there are, so popular actually that it was acquired by Yahoo! Music for $40 million and they continued to develop it. Its latest release has added support for YouTube to the growing list of web services it supports. Now you can control the video and also browse ...

26 May 2009
08:33 GMT

Top 5 Most Popular Twitter Add-ons for Firefox

Twitter, the micro-blogging service, has seen a surge in popularity in the last few months. In keeping with its real-time nature, people want to be able to access it faster and easier and have it be available all the time not just when they're using the site. So we've gathered the most popular Twitter add-o...

25 May 2009
06:23 GMT

Introducing Mozilla Firefox Jetpack

With Jetpack for Firefox, Mozilla Labs is nothing short of exploring new ways to extend and personalize the web. The project is designed to lend a streamline add-on development for the Firefox open-source browser. Mozilla recognized developers building add-ons for Firefox as a source of innovation on the Internet, nu...

21 May 2009
08:36 GMT

City of Heroes Doubles Its Content in Just 24 Hours

Comic books have played an important part in a lot of people's lives, especially gamers, who have been offered a wide variety of titles based on popular comic book characters. From Marvel and DC to any other comics company, the market is filled with them. NCsoft, a company specialized in online games, has decid...

21 April 2009
15:01 GMT

Twitter 2.0 Add-on for fring Available for WinMo and Symbian

The guys from fring have recently announced the release of a new Twitter 2.0 Add-on for their namesake application, given the fact that Twitter has become increasingly popular lately, and that their users seem to have requested such an update to be made. The new Twitter 2.0 for fring is announced to be available for ...

31 March 2009
06:01 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 Toolbar and Add-On Management

One of the aspects that evolved with the advent of Internet Explorer 8 was the way the browser allowed end users to handle various browser enhancements including toolbars and add-ons. In comparison to Internet Explorer 7, IE8 puts end users back in control, allowing them to take advantage of management enhancements, ...

10 March 2009
07:48 GMT

IE8 RC1 Offers Service-Based Customization

With the advent of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft is attempting to kick the personalization capabilities of the browser up a notch. However, the Redmond company is by no means limiting itself to just browser add-ons, as it also allows end users to extend Internet Explorer 8 with web services. In this context, the cus...

4 February 2009
15:01 GMT

Six More Add-ons to Be Released for Microsoft Flight Simulator

We live in some very tough financial times, and companies are starting to feel the negative aspects of the worldwide recession. Such a corporation is software and gaming giant Microsoft, which has announced a few weeks ago that it will implement a grave cost-cutting plan, which includes the reduction of 5,000 jobs in...

3 February 2009
03:08 GMT

Live Search Integrated into Firefox

Working to satisfy what it referred to as popular demand, the Live Search team has made available an officially supported add-on designed to integrate Live Search with Firefox. The Live Search add-in for the Mozilla open source browser is offered as a free download and was published on the Firefox add-ons repository....

30 January 2009
09:32 GMT

10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions

Even though Safari is the dedicated Internet browser for Apple computers, it failed to impress me and when I switched from Windows to Mac, I decided to take my browser with me. Considering the fact that Firefox is a very customizable, cross-platform browser, along with the huge number of add-ons available, I came to ...

4 January 2009
04:01 GMT

Download TuneUp Plug-in for iTunes Mac - Free Version Available

A very popular plugin for iTunes on Windows, TuneUp, has finally arrived for Mac. TunesUp is an extremely useful piece of software that does a superb job in fixing mislabeled song information, finding missing cover art for you, and even recommending events and Wikipedia reads on your favs. Best of all, a free (limite...

11 December 2008
10:27 GMT

Apple Games Features Spore: Creepy & Cute Parts Pack

In light of Electronic Arts and Maxis shipping Spore's first add-on this week, Apple is advertising the Spore: Creepy & Cute Parts Pack on its web site, providing readers with a link to the US Apple Store for order. Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack is the first add-on for Spore, Will Wright's God game availa...

20 November 2008
04:04 GMT

Spore Patch 3 Brings 24 Freebies

The release of a third Spore patch was announced by Electronic Arts and Maxis. Besides fixes and tweaks, the patch also includes free exoskeleton limbs for your creatures, ranging from Arm Plated to Proprioceptive Flex. The two companies have also announced the shipping of the Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack to retail...

18 November 2008
04:17 GMT


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