SnowEEE: A custom web-browser for the netbooks

Most of us either use Firefox or Chrome for web-browsing. Some love Chrome as it starts up quickly and does not require any interface-related tweaks for maximizing the screen real estate.

Firefox, on the other hand, takes up quite a lot of pixels and thus less space is left for displaying the content. This forces us to download addons like “tiny menu” and so on.

Now, we have another browser called “Snoweee”. Its maker claims that it is optimized for Eee PCs, but I don’t see any reason why it won’t work on rest of the netbooks.

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Give it a go and let us know your experience

Developers Only: Android 2.0 SDK now available for download

With a slew of Android netbooks coming at the end of year, developers out there must gear themselves up with the latest Android 2.0 SDK.

Click on read more to get the download information and to know what is new in the new SDK!

ARM-Based Netbook with Apple Logo lands in China

At numerous occasions, Apple has stressed on the fact that they are not interested in the netbook market as they think that netbooks do not have the horsepower to run anything other than a web-browser (which is NOT TRUE). But, this has not stopped a local Chinese manufacture to make a FAKE Apple netbook with a ‘glowing’ apple logo. This ‘fake’ netbook uses an ARM CPU and runs Linux or Windows CE. It comes with a 3-cell battery and weighs only 1.7 pounds. All this for an affordable price of $200.

Although it comes with 3-cell battery, but it should still give you long run time as ARM CPU is almost 10-times more power-frugal than the Intel Atom CPU. But, keep in mind that ARM CPU is not x86 compatible and this means that you won’t be able to run desktop OS like Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7.

Safari 4 – Must have for Netbook owners

Apple today released Safari 4 web-browser which brings along numerous advancements over the Safari 3. Apple Safari 4 comes with a Nitro Javascript Engine.

Safari 4 introduces the Nitro JavaScript engine, an advanced bytecode JavaScript engine that makes web browsing even faster. In fact, Safari 4 executes JavaScript up to 6 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and up to 4 times faster than Firefox 3.1.

So, I gave Safari 4 a go on my EEE 1000HE and I must say that I am impressed by Apple’s effort. It does render pages very fast, if not faster than Firefox. I recommend it for every netbook owner out there.

Click on read more to see screenshots taken on my EEE 1000HE

Skyfire Web browser now available for all [Windows Mobile]

Skyfire has made the BETA available to the public for testing and that too for free. Also, it supports almost all the Windows Mobile devices Here is what is new in this new version: New Super Bar that combines search and URL entry into one bar Skyfire can now be set as the default browser [...]