Posts Tagged ‘Free Open Source’
Namebench Helps You Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Computer

Namebench Helps You Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Computer
Windows/Mac/Linux: Last week Google announced a free DNS service designed to speed up your browsing, but just because Google wants to be fast doesn’t actually mean they’re the best option for you. Namebench finds the fastest DNS server for your connection.
After you download and fire up namebench, just click the Start Benchmark button to test out a handful of free public DNS services, from Google Public DNS to OpenDNS to ..read more
Google Chrome Frame Turns Internet Explorer into a FrankenChrome Browser
Google Chrome Frame Turns Internet Explorer into a FrankenChrome Browser
Google today released a new browser plug-in called Google Chrome Frame that creates an unholy union between Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, rendering web pages in IE using Chrome’s rendering engine.
That rendering technology includes Chrome’s support for HTML5 and its lightning-fast JavaScript engine. How does it turn IE into Chrome? By creating a new frame inside of Internet Explorer that basically embeds the Chrome browser. It’s sort of like the previously ..read more
