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Google Chrome can be configured to save the browsing session on close so that the user can continue the session on the next startup. All websites and services that had been open in tabs are reopened on the next browser start. It sometimes happens that Google Chrome cannot open a website, displaying a dreaded “Oops! [...]

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It took quite some time but the wait is finally over, Firefox 3.6.4 has been released and is currently distributed to all mirror servers around the world before it is officially announced and distributed. The delay can be largely attributed to the out-of-process plugins feature that the developers have integrated into Firefox 3.6.4. The feature [...]

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Regular readers might have already spotted a new feature that I have just enabled. The comment form now lists a Twitter ID field next to the standard username, website and email fields that existed before. Ghacks commenters who add their Twitter username to the Twitter ID field in the comment form will have their comment [...]

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US phone network AT&T was massively over-subscribed for orders for the new iPhone 4, with many people who tried pre-ordering a device on the launch day being greeted by a series or errors.  The good news though is that the company has begun shipping some of the handsets to customers but mysteriously cancelling other orders. [...]

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AT&T has already sold out of pre-order iPhone 4’s, having had some 600,000 people in the US sign up for one of the spangly handsets (though I doubt anyone who finds one in a bar now will get $5,000 for it). Apple say it’s the largest number of pre-orders they’ve ever taken in a single [...]

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I was pretty much waiting for the announcement that the final version of Firefox 3.6.4 has been released. Imagine my surprise when I saw the notification that yet another beta build was released first. I have been a beta user ever since the first version of Firefox 3.6.4 came out. The latest build is a [...]

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Google and Adobe have integrated a native Flash plugin into the Google Chrome browser. This integration offers two benefits and one disadvantage to computer users. An integrated Flash plugin means that the user does not need to install Flash on the PC anymore. It is also beneficial as the updating of the plugin happens in [...]

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Managing different screen resolutions is a common problem that Windows users experience. Windows has no option to create screen resolution profiles to switch between them whenever the need arises. This can be problematic if a computer is connected to different monitor setups regularly. The only option to fix that problem is to use a third [...]

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Hackers have exploited a vulnerability on AT&T’s US network when iPad users authenticated themselves online that has allowed them to gain access to a list of 114,067 email addresses belonging to owners, it has been reported by gawker. The group, calling themselves Goatse Security harvested the data using nothing more than a PHP script and [...]

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I had a chat lately with a friend who happened to have a staggering amount of tabs open in Firefox all the time. We are talking about 100 and more tabs. The only complaint that he had was that it took a long time to load all this tabs as Firefox was trying to load [...]

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