Because Flash Game Maximizer is an “experimental” extension, you will need to log in to Mozilla’s add-on site to download it.
A new
Firefox extension aptly named “Flash Game Maximizer” is a must-have for any Flash game enthusiast. It does one thing, and does it well: letting you toggle between standard- and full-screen modes on any [...]

Yahoo announced later in the day that it planned to hold its annual shareholders meeting on August 1 in San Jose, Calif. The meeting was originally scheduled for July 3, but the company announced a delay when one of its board members resigned in May.

“It’s no longer a mystery to me why Microsoft’s offer [...]

The thing is, Apple’s software license for Leopard, and any version of Mac OS X, requires that the operating system only run on Apple hardware. Psytar acknowledged the OSx86 project was the inspiration for the Open Mac, and noted their systems require “minimal patching” to run Leopard, according to MacRumors. By the time I [...]

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The E3 trade show finished up this week in Los Angeles. CNET News’ Daniel Terdiman covered this annual get-together for game developers and he has a wrap-up of the big news–as well as what will be the overarching technology themes to come [...]

Children’s Hospital Corporation supporting Healthmap and ProMED-mail – $3M multi-year grant to combine HealthMap’s digital detection efforts with ProMED-mail’s global network of human, animal, and ecosystem health specialists. Together, these programs will assess current emerging disease reporting systems, expand regional networks in Africa and Southeast Asia, and develop new tools to improve the detection [...]

A serious new flaw was disclosed on Thursday that affects the latest versions of Apple’s QuickTime and iTunes applications.

The announcement comes one week after Apple patched nine security flaws in its media player and fixed Windows Vista problems within its recently updated online music service.

The National Vulnerability Database entry CVE-2008-4116 describes a heap-based buffer overflow [...]

By contrast, the margins on e-books should remain pretty beefy, and you can imagine all the cost savings involved when you don’t have to deal with warehousing and shipping physical books. It’s a great business model.
The bestsellers list in Apple's App Store.

But while we’re doing the math, here’s what makes the razor model so [...]

The real game-changer comes when MySpace offers a full e-commerce store–downloads, CD sales, the works–to every artist with a musician’s page on the site. That way, users would never have to leave the site to buy any music they heard on the site. The challenge would be building the infrastructure, but once things like billing [...]

I can’t imagine that the deal would be overturned just because of a few complaints to the military, but Apple might be forced to figure out a way to transfer that portion of PA Semi’s assets to another chipmaker that could satisfy Uncle Sam’s need for the chips.

EETimes is reporting that PA Semi started telling [...]

If you live in a home where parents/adults have one or more computers, children have their own computer(s), and everyone shares a single Internet connection, then you should consider a second router.
This approach may also apply to a small business if certain computers do work that is judged to be much more important than others. [...]