ExitReality’s 3D web browser Thursday, Sep 18 2008

INTERNET surfers will be able to walk through their favourite websites as if they are characters in a computer game with the launch of the world’s first 3D browser in Australia .

Individual web users are then shown as avatars (virtual people) in the same way as people are featured in virtual games.

ExitReality founder Danny Stefanic said users of the software, which ran in tandem with popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, would be “blown away” by the rendering of traditional two-dimensional web pages as full interactive 3D environments.

“It is the entire web in 3D — making 40 billion virtual worlds — and it will instantly transform 2D content into 3D,” Mr Stefanic said.

Websites such as YouTube can be transformed into movie theatres while social networking pages like MySpace are turned into virtual lounge rooms.

The software also enables people to see other web page visitors as avatars and interact with them, moving the Second Life model from the walled garden of the game to the entire web.

The 3D web concept was first conceived by Mr Stefanic 13 years ago and the team has been working steadily towards the launch since.

The ExitReality software comes as a 3.5MB download for Windows that takes about 20 seconds to install.

The software then allows people to search for sites using the built-in search engine, which then instantly renders pages in 3D.

Thanks:news.com.au

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Firefox to introduce “private mode” in upcoming release of Firefox 3.1 Sunday, Sep 14 2008

Firefox is joining Safari, Internet Explorer 8, and Google Chrome in providing its users with a “private mode” that will not collect any of your browsing history or cookies in the upcoming release of Firefox 3. Firefox does not want its user to be switching to other browser for features like this which cost nothing .

As life safari ,users will be able to open a separate window in Firefox 3.1 that will let them browse the Web in any way they see fit without worrying about the wife or kids entering the History menu and seeing why they spent the last hour in the office with the door locked !!!!! .

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Google chrome Review Thursday, Sep 4 2008

Hi reader , since i was busy with my class exam it took me more time to write my reviews on google chrome. Yet another BETA product from google . This time its fast , elegant browser . I  almost played a day with chrome before publishing my first review on it … Here it goes….

Small sized installation file – The install was small 468k so the download was fast and the install took about 15 seconds so in well under a minute I went from “click” to “play”.

Bug while importing bookmarks first time – I was happy when the installation process  offered to import all my bookmarks from Firefox – something Firefox users like me will be sure to appreciate. But unfortunately it did not work for me at all: It warned me that  I had to close Firefox first for import to happen.

Importing setting – - I did as advised and clicked the “next” button – but no matter how many times I clicked that button no import happened so I had to cancel it finally.
Finally had my bookmarks imported from Firefox (which includes saved passwords and browsing history – since both are incredibly important for the majority of users, I am so sure this functionality must determine probability of people actually migrating).

Elegant Style browser – Finally i had my browser up and running . I have to admit, it is quite a strange feeling for me not to have any menu at all . It gives me feeling like viewing browser in full Screen view but actually its orginal view .

URL Box serves all purpose - This is one of the cool feature.Ever hated having to enter search terms in a separate edit box in the browser?  Not any more, all the features are integrated into the single address/search/history/etc bar.

Every Tab itself a browser ( Crash Control ) – This is other cool feature . If u have 4 tabs opened and you want the third tab alone to be opened in separate browser , just drag that tab alone outside ,that’s it . This is achieved by running Tabs  independently in the browser , so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down i.e Each tab runs it’s own process ( you can see this in your task Manager ).

Incognito Mode – This feature is almost similar to the private browsing feature that came up with safari browser. Pages viewed will not appear in the browser history and they won’t leave any other traces.

Safe Browsing – Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.

Final word : To conclude

” Atlast firefox found its competitor . Browserwar begins again .”

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