New features of the upcoming Photoshop CS6 were revealed in videos posted on YouTube. The most recent of them was that with the new version of Photoshop users will be able to easily add a dashed and dotted line like the ones in Illustrator. In the previews were also shown a new graphics-chip boost for the liquify filter, a darker user interface, a background save option, and new raw-image processing controls.
Read MoreIn the recently announced Mozilla strategy for 2012 the company also included plans for Metro-specific Firefox for Windows 8. The featured goal of Mozilla is to release a new Gecko based browser built for and integrated with the Metro environment. It will be full screen app with an appbar that contains common navigation controls and focused on touch interactions like the other Metro application.
Mozilla announced its strategy for 2012 which main goal is to improve the Web as a foundation for applications, to create open, decentralized Web-app technology, and to build Mozilla's own app store. The company will also focus on building a browser-based mobile operating system, and providing a people-centered experience powered by the Web technology.
Following Opera, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari, with the Aurora build Mozilla finally made it possible for users to get a personalized New Tab experience. In the Firefox 12 Aurora you'll be able to see the most commonly visited sites in your location bar displayed in the new tab page and pin any of them to keep the site there permanently.
Recently Google released a beta version of the Chrome Web browser for Android and announced that they are also working on “G-Drive,” which is a free personal cloud storage service ala Dropbox. Along with that the Chrome 17 keeps getting faster and more secure than the previous versions and the other popular browsers according to the review presented in this article.
Google released new beta version of the Chrome browser for Android devices. Its tabs were redesigned to fit naturally on a small-screen phones as well as on a larger screen tablets and you can navigate trough them using intuitive gestures. But only the users of phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich will be able to get Chrome on their devices for now.
Brand Thunder, which is a company that provides different themes to help people reskin their browsers, acquired its biggest rival, BrowserNation. With this aquisition the company takes its clients from Firefox only and extends themes to their fans on Chrome, the fastest growing browser, and Internet Explorer, the world’s most used browser.
Microsoft announced that a beta version of the Office 15 will be released in late summer. The company also showed technical preview for its Office 15 client, servers and cloud services yesterday. According to the rumors the client suite will include a new application called “Moorea.” It will probably allow testers to navigate and edit notebooks in a new way by providing a high-level canvas-view of all their content.
Bryan O'Neil Hughes, who is an Adobe senior product manager, published a YouTube video that showcase Photoshop CS6 which will be included in the sixth version of Adobe's Creative Suite coming in the first half of 2012. In this sneak preview you can see some of its new features like the dark workspace and raw-image editing tools that are already visible in Lightroom 4.
Mozilla announced that the Firefox 11 beta, that will employ the native Android user interface, is scheduled to be released on January 31 and the final Firefox launch will be on March 13, when will also begin the Firefox 12 beta development. With its new browser version the company is trying to gain a share in the iPhones and iPads market.