Tag: BROWSE

The blogosphere is abuzz this morning, and it's a new Web browser called RockMelt garnering a lot of the attention. While we here at Download Squad haven't been hand-picked to test the beta yet, we're not exactly in a hurry. Why? Because while it's new, we're not sure RockMelt is actually revolutionary. Over at Engadget, Joanna Stern did get to play with the browser. From the looks of her ...

Android's built-in image browser, 'Gallery', isn't fantastic. By default it displays a load of tiny, unwieldy and laggy thumbnails. While you can strongarm it into behaving better, why bother when excellent alternatives like JustPictures are available? From the outset, JustPictures replicates the built-in Android app -- but it's faster, prettier, and less fiddly. You are presented with a simple ...

Facebook is the biggest photo sharing site in the world, so it's pretty likely your friends have some photos posted there. The thing is, nobody's pretending that browsing photos on Facebook is fast or user-friendly. In fact, the whole experience totally, in the parlance of our times, sucks. That's why you should get PhotoBook, a zippy, great-looking Facebook photo browser for Mac. PhotoBook ...

Now you can stay in touch with friends using Facebook for Blackberry, a standalone application. Sure Facebook can be accessed normally through the likes of mobile browsers like Opera, but this new application provides more streamlined and optimized mobile access for Facebook. After installing the application, users can send and view messages, photos, pokes, and wall posts. They will also be able ...

Compete aims to help users by showcasing websites that are trusted, transparent and add value to both the end user and the internet in general. Compete has a few different products running, SnapShot, Toolbar, and Search. Snapshot is a handy service that provides traffic history and competitive analysis (similar to Statsaholic), which is great for search gurus and online marketing individuals. ...

Do you have a birthday coming up and want everyone to know just what gifts they should bring to the surprise party you're pretending not to know about? You can't email your friends and family a long list of "suggestions" since that would be tacky, and the Amazon Wishlist tool won't help if they don't have what you really have your heart set on. Enter Wists, the website that bills itself as a ...

Most online stores are great if you know what you're looking for. Can't find that whazzit at the local Radio Shack? Just type the model number into the search engine of your choice and find it at RadioShack.com, Amazon, or any number of other online retail outlets. But what if you're snowed in and just really want to replicate the experience of going to the mall without actually having to leave ...