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PeaZip 4.3 Has Support for EPUB

PeaZip 4.3, an open source file and archive manager that can be used to extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, has been announced on the second day of Christmas, December 26th. The PeaZip developers have made a series of modifications to the backend and to the file manager, but nothing out of the ordi...

27 December 2011
11:01 GMT

Opera Gets Auto-Updated Extensions and On-Demand Plug-Ins

Opera 11 has reached the beta stage of development today and brings long-awaiting features like extensions or higher control over plug-ins to early adopters.Despite maintaining a modest market share, Opera has always been at top when it comes to innovating, being directly responsible for many features seen in modern ...

23 November 2010
09:58 GMT

Opera Wants a Cross-Browser Standard Extensions Platform

Opera made quite a few announcements yesterday including a new version of its desktop browser which will get support for browser extensions. But, while Opera may be late to the game, it's pushing forward and thinking about implementing a cross-platform extensions standard. Opera is deeply involved with web stand...

15 October 2010
10:10 GMT

Firefox 4 Extensions Support Change Could Lead to More Compatibility Issues

Mozilla has just announced a small change that could have a big impact for Firefox extension developers. Specifically, the upcoming Firefox 4 beta will no longer unpack the XPI archive in which extensions are distributed, rather, it will read all of the files from inside the archive. "The next beta of Firefox 4 will...

24 September 2010
06:51 GMT

Apple Launches Updated Safari 5.0.1 with Extensions Support

Apple has released Safari 5.0.1 turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery, the company announced just minutes ago. With Safari Extensions Gallery, users can immediately find extensions that add new features to Safari. Users can also get their extensions directly from their developers&...

28 July 2010
09:52 GMT

NASA Panel Sees No Point in Extending WISE's Mission

The American space agency launched its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope just a few months ago, but scientists are already talking about getting an extension to the initially-planned mission. NASA officials planned for the instrument to function for about ten months, but experts asked for the fligh...

14 May 2010
02:40 GMT

Google Wave Gets an Extensions Gallery

One of the great prospects of Google Wave has been the ability to develop embeddable widgets enabling users to extend the functionality and add the features that they need to a wave. While Google Wave is still in private beta, though there are over one million users by now, there was a need for them to be able to fin...

12 March 2010
08:56 GMT

Cassini Gets Program Extension Through 2017

Under the US budget proposal for 2011, the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft has received a seven-year extension of its mission, running through 2017. The probe, which arrived in Saturn's orbit in 2004, was at first scheduled to be decommissioned in 2008, but its operations were extended until September 2010. Now, Pre...

5 February 2010
04:09 GMT

Kate Gosselin Gets Hair Extensions: New Look for New Year

Love her or hate her, the truth is that Kate Gosselin continues to fascinate and get people’s attention. As she’s reportedly planning for a new reality show, possibly this time centering on her love life, the former “Jon & Kate Plus 8” star also saw to that she stepped into the new year as a n...

7 January 2010
14:11 GMT

Download Google Chrome 4.0.249.30 Beta, Now with Extensions

Undoubtedly, a key aspect of Mozilla’s success on the browser market can be attributed to Firefox extensive customization capabilities, and in fact, early on in the life of Chrome, Google promised support for extensions for its own breed of open source browser. With the latest update to Google Chrome, the Mount...

9 December 2009
03:05 GMT

ISS Extension Is on the Table

Though the International Space Station (ISS) is at this point only 86 percent complete, and scheduled to be finished by next September, current plans are to decommission it no later than 2015. This is the initial time frame that countries involved in the project signed up for, so a new set of meetings needs to take p...

3 December 2009
03:16 GMT

Google Chrome Extensions Gallery Opens Up for Developers

Google Chrome extensions are here for everyone. Well, almost, for everyone who's a developer. The extensions gallery which we've been getting hints of for more than a week now is finally open for business, but for the moment, only to allow developers to upload their extensions. The gallery went live just a...

24 November 2009
02:48 GMT

Google Gets Ready for Full-Blown Extensions Support in Chrome 4.0.249.0

Google Chrome is now almost certain to get much better support for extensions very soon, at least in the developer channel builds. After the first clues of an online extensions gallery were spotted yesterday, Google made it more or less official with the latest Chrome release, which now features links and notifiers ...

17 November 2009
09:22 GMT

Google Chrome to Get Extensions Gallery

Everything online today is about customization and options. The world doesn't need 100,000 iPhone apps and developers aren't stopping any time soon, so people seem to be gobbling it up. Yet, you can't really hope to compete in the smartphone market without apps and lots of them. The same is true for b...

16 November 2009
04:14 GMT

Google Chrome Extension Support Is Here

Google Chrome is growing up, fast. While it's still behind the more fully fleshed browsers in some areas, it's catching up and, at the rate it's developing, Chrome may just become the most feature-rich web browser out there, sooner than you think. Hot on the trail of several improved features, Google h...

10 September 2009
09:50 GMT

Jetpack 0.4 Comes Out Five Days After the Previous Version

Development on Jetpack, Mozilla's lightweight extension platform for Firefox, is moving at a blistering pace, and, just five days since the last version, Mozilla is launching Jetpack 0.4. You'd think that a work week is hardly enough time to get one feature done, but the new version is actually sporting an ...

18 July 2009
03:34 GMT

Mozilla Reveals Harry Potter Personas

Launched three months ago, Personas is a Firefox extension that allows for easy customization of the browser's appearance. Though in the works at Mozilla Labs since 2007, just recently the organization put its weight behind the project and pushed to make it an integral part of the Firefox 3.5 experience and now ...

9 July 2009
06:29 GMT

Will Firefox 2.0 Extensions Be Compatible with Firefox 3.0?

As Mozilla is wrapping up the development process for the Beta 2 stage of Firefox 3.0 now due on December 21st, it is clear that the next version of the open source browser will hit in early 2008. And taking into consideration the proximity of the final version of Firefox 3.0, just a few betas away, questions come to...

12 December 2007
06:36 GMT


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