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<title><![CDATA[Must-have Firefox mobile add-ons]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[One ofFirefox's most popular features is its add-on support, with its accompanying deep add-on catalog. The new Firefox 4 Mobile for Android (download) and for Maemo devices (download) also support add-ons, so we've got a collection of Firefox mobile add-on essentials for you that covers the bases, from useful ad blocking to interesting, mobile-specific password helpers.Adblock Plus lets you toggle ad blocking on a per-site basis.(Credit:Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)The best-known add-on that's a must-have is Adblock Plus (download), ported by the developer from Firefox desktop to mobile. If you're not familiar with it, it blocks ads by using blacklists to filter out the ads. Once installed, the extension guides you to a list of filters you can install. It will recommend a filter based on which country you're in. If you do want to see ads on a particular site, you don't have to uninstall the add-on. Tap the favicon of the site you're on and an option will appear in the drop-down to toggle ad blocking for that site.Unfortunately, the mobile version of the excellent JavaScript blocker NoScript isn't ready yet. However, there are other effective security tools for Firefox 4 Mobile.Tapsure (download) is one of those' it provides you with a pattern-based system for typing passwords. Instead of typing out a lengthy password that can be cumbersome to get through on a mobile keyboard, Tapsure lets you associate your passwords with rhythm-based tap patterns.Another good mobile security extension is Less Spam, Please (download). It creates a partially randomized e-mail address that's both disposable and reusable, thus keeping your primary e-mail free of potential spam and clutter, and lessening the likelihood that your main account will get hacked. The add-on relies on Web mail services like YopMail, MailCatch, Humaility, or Mailinator to create the e-mail address on the fly. Then, until you delete that account, your log-in to that Web site is associated with the new dummy e-mail.The radius by which Lazy Click determines if your tap was accurate or not can be changed.(Credit:Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Other mobile add-ons focus on Web site access and readability. URL Fixer (download) autocorrects common typos in the URL bar, so that when you type &quot;.cmo&quot; it knows you meant &quot;.com&quot;. There's an option in the add-on to have it ask you to confirm autocorrections before applying them, providing a level of protection against improper autocorrects.The add-on Bigger Text (download), perhaps unsurprisingly, makes the text of the Web site you're viewing bigger, and it does it in two different ways. In the add-on's Options menu, you can set a new default font size larger than the standard one. It also adds a &quot;Bigger Text&quot; button to the site menu, accessible by tapping the site's favicon. Tap the Bigger Text button and a site's font automatically gets bigger.Tapsure(Credit:Tapsure)Based on the code that powers Readability, Reading List (download) lets you save pages to read for later. It adds a book icon to the toolbar (viewable when you drag your finger from the right edge of the screen to the left), and a Save for Later option to the site menu. Tap the favicon and then the Save for Later button to save a page, and tap the aforementioned book icon to access your sites.Personally, I find this a bit superfluous to just using the bookmark star, but I know that a lot of people like the Readibility-style features and separate organization of sites to read later from their regular bookmark lists.There are some excellent add-ons to extend Firefox Mobile's feature set, too. Phony (download) lets you fake a browser's useragent header, which is the piece of code that Web sites use to determine whether you see the mobile or desktop version of a site. This can be useful if, for example, you want to see the Mac version of Download.com instead of the mobile version.Reading List saves sites to read later in an easy-to-access list.(Credit:Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Mobile Profiles (download) is a simple little add-on that helps you create multiple browsing profiles in Firefox Mobile. This could be very useful for families and other people who share devices, so that each person's browsing information is kept separate. Meanwhile, Lazy Click (download) could wind up being a sleeper hit of an add-on. It fixes missed screen taps by applying them to the closest clickable link or button. The options let you customize the radius of error, and users who've found their Android touch screens to be inaccurate are likely to get the most out of this.Got a favorite Firefox 4 Mobile add-on that I didn't mention here Tell me about it in the comments below.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GE launches hybrid light bulbs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[GE's new hybrid halogen-compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs will be available nationwide by April 22, Earth Day.(Credit:GE)General Electric's new hybrid light bulbs have begun shipping to retailers and are expected to be available nationwide by April 22, Earth Day, the company announced yesterday.The hybrid halogen-compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs, announced in October 2010, look like a spiral frosted CFL light bulb snugly fit inside a clear glass bulb shaped like a typical incandescent light bulb.One selling point is that the bulbs don't take time to light up like many CFLs currently available. When switched on, the hybrid bulb's halogen portion lights up within a half-second. Then once the CFL portion has warmed and brightened to full luminescence, the halogen portion turns itself off, according to GE.GE also claims that each hybrid bulb only contains 1 milligram of mercury. If true, that is significant. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the average CFL light bulb contains about 4 milligrams of mercury.Mercury in light bulbs has been a concern to consumers as the element is widely known to pose a health risk if ingested or inhaled, especially in young children. While the mercury in CFLs poses no danger while contained, there is a risk that people can be exposed to mercury if a CFL bulb, and its tubes containing mercury, are broken. The EPA has guidelines on how broken bulbs should be handled.The hybrid bulbs are expected to retail between $5.99 and $9.99 depending on the wattage and color. GE says its hybrid bulbs have a life of 8,000 hours, the same as its CFL light bulb products. That's significantly more than the average 60-watt incandescent bulb which typically has a lifespan of about 1,000 hours, according to the EPA (PDF).The light bulb announcement comes amid a firestorm of criticism for GE and CEO Jeff Immelt after a March 24 New York Times article revealed that despite making $5.1 billion in U.S. profits, GE claimed a $3.2 million tax benefit on its 2010 federal tax returns.The 2010 tax return was unusual due to losses sustained by GE Capital since the financial crisis, and would be higher in 2011, GE said in a statement. In a speech yesterday at the Economic Club of Washington, Immelt said he welcomed reform for a simplified corporate tax system like in other countries, rather than the current complicated &quot;loophole&quot; system in the U.S.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Docstoc takes Apple&'s subscription plan in stride]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether it falls under Apple CEO Steve Jobs&amp;' definition of a publishing company or not, online document hostDocstoc isn&amp;'t taking any chances. The company will use Apple&amp;'s newest subscription policy for the premium iPad service it launched today.The company hosts documents that are important for smaller businesses that range from applications to launch a web-based company to move-out forms for landlords and tenants. Users can access a lot of the documents for free, but the company&amp;'s newest premium service has more than 10,000 documents that it has deemed mission-critical for smaller and mid-sized businesses.&amp;''We&amp;'re here to host every single document a small business is ever going to need,&amp;'' said Docstoc founder Jason Nazar. &amp;''Whether that&amp;'s from firing people, which (Launch conference host) Jason (Calcanis) knows plenty about, to starting a web business.&amp;''Docstoc offers an online subscription that lets users can pay $20 a month for access to all of its online documents. Users can also pay $20 to view and print individual documents. The company is also launching an iPad application that allows Docstoc users to access its premium documents, view them and print them.But it isn&amp;'t clear where Docstoc falls in Apple&amp;'s new definition of a publishing application. Apple&amp;'s Jobs said that web-based applications hosted on remote servers a4&quot; software-as-a-service, or &amp;''SaaS&amp;'' applications a4&quot;do not fall under the new subscription model.That would include storage apps like Dropbox and enterprise applications like Salesforce. Companies that are classified as being publishers, however, have to pay Apple 30 percent of their subscription fees.Docstoc is distributing content, but it isn&amp;'t necessarily original content a4&quot; they&amp;'re just documents that are used pretty often by smaller and mid-sized businesses. There&amp;'s already a lot of confusion as to what kind of apps fall under the new plan. Docstoc is going to commit to the subscription plan and avoid the risk of getting its app booted off the store. The service will be one of the first to use Apple&amp;'s new subscription plan for iPad users.The company launched three years ago at the TechCrunch 40 conference. The site has around 25 million active visitors and 10 million unique registered users.Next Story: KarmaKey uses phones to build better loyalty programs Previous Story: Five and Fifty brings the Groupon approach to instant dealsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Apple, Documents, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, launch2011, subscription modelCompanies: Apple, Docstoc          Tags: Apple, Documents, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, launch2011, subscription modelCompanies: Apple, DocstocMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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