Are you an avid Apple aficionado? Then for sure you didn’t miss out on the latest browser that the company released. According to Apple, Safari 4 is faster than the other browsers available today. It is about eight times faster than IE8 and three times faster than Firefox when it comes to loading HTML Web pages. Mac and Windows users can’t wait to check out if such claim is really true. So, only after three days upon release, Apple has already recorded more than 11 million downloads. As you can see, such is their keenness to try it out for themselves.

How many sites are you signed up on? Do you have Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Blogger, and others? If you have accounts in all of these, you’re probably one busy bee. Since you have your hands full every time, you probably need several pairs of helping hands, right? Well, let your helper be the 8hands Desktop application. This is one nifty program that organizes all your online accounts, puts them in just one neat setup so that if there are updates you’ll see them immediately. So, instead of having to check the sites one by one and probably wasting time in the process, you can do all simply through 8hands.

Do you always end up having so much wasted paper and ink at the end of a print job? If you do, well, you’re going to have bigger expenses because of the wasted materials. To avoid ending up with badly printed and ultimately wasted printed materials, use the GreenPrint World. This is a program that you can download, free of charge, to help you from printing unnecessary pages. GreenPrint World is a very intuitive program that analyzes the document or page you intend to print, it provides options whether to include or exclude a certain element in the page such as photos, logos, banners, and disclaimers.

Many of the smartphones out in the market today have Windows Mobile as their operating system. Users are able to browse the internet via their phones through this mobile OS and accessing Facebook through the phone is possible because of this. However, the extent of access is only limited. But, that’s about to change as Microsoft release the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile, this new Facebook application is exciting because it lets you do more with your profile like update your status, accept friend requests, and share pictures with other members.

Are you ready for a new media player and downloader? The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) released the Miro 2.0 for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X last February 12. If you don’t know what Miro is, well, it is an open source HD Internet TV and podcast downloader and player. The new Miro has an all-new interface and various new improvements to make user experience more meaningful.

Three of the biggest names in the computing industry have joined forces in order to improve the research efforts being done for cloud computing. Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are combining their expertise for cloud computing, which could be the IT delivery model of the future. Cloud is a network that is made of thousands of networks and cheap servers that are only as powerful as your home PC but holds huge amount of data from the Web. Through this partnership, HP, Intel and Yahoo will develop a global Open Source testing site for cloud computing. They hope to make six centers with 1,000 to 4,000 Intel processors to make up the cloud structure. This test bed will be powered by the Open Source software PIG, as well as Apache Hadoop and a program made by Yahoo Research.

Google did not foresee that one of its former employees would come up with a search engine that could possibly overthrow Google as the search giant. Launched just this Monday is the new search engine called Cuil. Don’t be fooled by its spelling because you can easily pronounce it as “cool.” Cuil is the creation of former Google employee Anna Patterson and her husband Tom Costello, who also function as the President and CEO of the said search engine. And also acting as vice president of engineering and a third cofounder of Cuil is another former Google employee, Russell Power.

Heard of Qik? Though it is pronounced as quick it is not a verb. Qik is the new means by which you can enjoy live video service right in your mobile device. A public beta is now available for your inspection after almost year private of beta testing. Together with going public, Qik is installed with neat features to make it easily serviceable. Curious to know what these features are? Restricted group access, self-service event streams, and a new embedded player are the things to look forward to in Qik. Through the group access feature offered by the site, users can choose only those who they want to view and upload clips. Qik also includes a new Events feature in the site.

I’ve already written a handful of articles about the upcoming Firefox 3 while it was still in the making and in the beta testing stage. After all that effort, I guess I’d be depriving you if I fail to write about it now that it has been released – OFFICIALLY! It’s about time actually after being three years in the making. Because of its development duration, we can expect all fixes have been done for it to be compatible both in Windows and Mac OS. Mozilla officially released the Firefox 3 yesterday, June 17. Together with its release, Mozilla also hopes to set a Guinness World Record for this new browser’s total number of download in a day.

Have you been waiting for the Mozilla FIrefox 3? The newly released Moxilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate is not yet the final version, rather, it is the fourth Beta version of F3. This version is catered for developers who need to carefully analyze if their codes properly work in the new browser. Wth the changes done on the browser, users can expect a faster, easier and more secure browsing. Some improvements were done on Firefox’s memory and speed that is why it was able to pass the Acid2 test as well as the Acid3 test.

Adobe has been busy! But their preoccupation has yielded another beneficial product for techies – the Adobe Media Player. This is advantageous software because unlike other desktop video players available today, the Adobe Media Player allows users to stream and download videos from major content providers. It also enables the user to import video feeds by means of an RSS feed. Users can also play stored music in this player. However, Adobe Media Player has limitation; this can only play FLV files or MPEG-4. So, even if you can download a variety of file formats with this Player, actually playing them is a different matter.

We all know about that active proliferation of online storage services nowadays. Well, Hewlett-Packard is adding to its number with their newly launched HP Upline. This service is a beneficial one for backing up of files as well as file sharing. Intriguing? I think so. This new service also features automatic backup and 1-click restore capability. HP Upline offers unlimited storage for an affordable fee of $59 for one year. However, if you also want to just try it out, you can. If you only want to try and but buy, HP offers a limited 1GB storage for free. But there’s a catch. When the year is up, you have to upgrade to the paid service otherwise you’ll never see your files again.

Many of you might have heard of ‘Blackle’, an alternative to Google that apparently saves energy and now as part of this quest to save the world one watt at a time ‘LocalCooling’ was created. I must admit I thought it was a sport’s drink when I first heard of it but it turns out it’s a desktop application that not only estimates the energy use of your computer but suggest how to being that number down. You download ‘LocalCooling’ its scans your computer and gives you its estimate and suggestions then you can create an account on their website and turn it into a competition of who can save the most.

Christmas is the season of giving…we all know that and DivX knows it too that is why they are offering the DivX Pro Player bundle for FREE! You can save your $20 dollars for something else because this player can be downloaded from the DivX site without costing you a penny. The bundle includes the official DivX converter and DivX Pro codec that allows the quicker encoding and decoding of data when using dual CPU. For those who are not familiar with how DivX Pro works, this makes it possible for users to convert videos into the DivX format. You can also create your own videos with the DivX Pro bundle.