Tag: SILENT

Shush! for Android is an extremely tiny app that's making a lot of waves for doing one thing, and doing it well. Just as its name implies, it quickly silences your phone -- but it's the fact that it turns the ringer back on for you that makes this app so special. That, along with a sleek and simple interface and a price tag of "free" have caused over 100,000 people to download it in the short ...

While Firefox 4 is slated to receive a boatload of new features, it looks like silent updates might not be one of them. In notes from a recent Mozilla platform meeting, the Chrome-style update feature has been flagged as "at risk" and could well be dropped. Firefox will still download updates automatically, as it does now, and offer to install them prior to launching the browser. A silent ...

According to Computerworld (they don't cite a source, however), Firefox 4.0 will feature the same 'silent' updating as Google Chrome. Minor updates, say from Firefox 4.0 to 4.0.1, will be carried out in the background after the user opens the browser. Major revisions to 4.5 or 5.0 will still prompt the user before being installed. This could be reactionary -- a recent report [PDF] found that a ...

It happens to everyone with a laptop at some point. You turn on your computer in a library, in a café, or even at home when someone's sleeping, and your blaring startup sound plays for all in the room to hear. Not cool, people. An app called Auto Mute can save you the embarrassment of this little faux-pas by turning off your Windows startup sounds automatically. Not only will your ...