Plug your iPhone into iTunes today and you’ll be able to update your phone to iOS 4.02. The main purpose of the update is to fix a security flaw with PDF files - it had been discovered that downloading a PDF file in Safari could have allowed potentially malicious files access to your phone.
The secondary […]

Google announced that they won’t continue developing Wave, but I can’t say I’ll miss it. I must admit that at the time that Wave was launched, I got caught in the hype around the new Google service and was desperately asking for an invite. Once inside, the question was “OK, so now what?”. And just […]

Chrome and Opera are now the most forward-looking browsers on the market, while Internet Explorer has come a long way and caught up with the open source favorite, Firefox. 

For years, Firefox, Mozilla’s customizable browser, was the browser of choice for the tech savvy. Add-ons weren’t a new thing, but Firefox’s open source community really took […]

 
As soon as it was available last Monday, I updated my iPhone 3GS with iOS 4, Apple’s revamped mobile operating system. I resisted writing about it immediately, as an OS is no small thing and it takes time to form a proper opinion. So was it worth the hype? Here are my reflections after over […]

Windows: Apple’s iconic web browser, available also for Windows, has been updated. The new Safari 5 is faster than ever, with better page caching and DNS prefetching. Other new features include a special Reader tool to view online articles, improved HTML5 support, a Bing option for the browser’s search field and new Safari Developer Tools.
 iPhone: […]

With Apple’s WWDC already well underway and iPhone fever rising, the big news for Safari users on both Mac and Windows is that they can now get their hands on version 5 of Apple’s elegant web browser. Faster than ever and with a new intelligent Reader, Safari 5 looks and works better than ever.
The most […]

After finally implementing a tool to rename folders in Google Reader (what took them so long?!), Google has also introduced a new feature: the option to customize the background image in the Google homepage.

The feature is being slowly rolled out, so don’t worry if you don’t see it yet. For those who already have it […]

If you’re still using the default web browser built into your Android phone then you could be missing out. Granted, it’s fast and functional, but it’s not the easiest way to look at the web on your phone, and it lacks the features of some of the other browsers that are available. Here are some […]

Worried about what your kids are doing on the iPhone? Did you know you can activate parental controls on the iPhone to block them from accessing certain content? It’s easy to forget that with the Apple device connected to the internet it’s possible for little eyes to be seeing all the kind of inappropriate stuff […]

It’s clear to us at Softonic that a huge number of people, after switching from Windows to Mac, still want to use Internet Explorer. Well the bad news for Mac newbies is that Internet Explorer for Mac is absolutely atrocious so you’ll have to say goodbye to it now. In fact, it’s so bad it’s […]

As regular readers will know, I’ve been waiting for the release of Opera Mini for iPhone for quite some time. Finally, Apple has approved the new web browser and it’s available in the App Store from today. But having played around with it all morning I’ve decided not to switch to Opera Mini from Safari, […]

Firefox is notorious for memory leaks - the problem whereby it suddenly starts consuming all of your computer’s resources and either freezes or crashes. Usually, this is not down to Firefox itself, but the many hundreds of extensions that can be installed on it. The problem has improved vastly from the early days of Firefox […]

iPhone owners will be waking up with a big grin on their faces today, following the announcement by Apple of the new iPhone OS 4.0. The upgrade to the operating system includes some very welcome new features that will enhance the iPhone experience no end. However, there are still some things that we were hoping […]

One of the highlights of our trip to this year’s Mobile World Congress was the chance to see the new iPhone version of Opera in action.
The announcement of the Beta version of Opera Mini 5.0 was conducted in a tentative, almost hush-hush manner. Press were not allowed to take photos or video of the software […]

Because they’re amazing, you might think you never have to think about spring cleaning your Mac, but it’s still a good idea to keep things in order. The second Tuesday of February is Clean Out Your Computer Day, so today’s a good day to start!
There are some myths about optimizing your system, and perhaps the […]