add ons

News.blog: Sony unveils PSP add-ons

News Sony announced on Wednesday that it will ship new PlayStation Portable add-ons in October. The add-ons will support voice over Internet Protocol, RSS feeds and Flash games in addition to the existing PSP features.

17 March 2006, 11:01

Piracy check now compulsory for Windows add-ons

News From now on, customers looking to get the latest add-ons to Windows will have to verify that their copy of the operating system is legit. Beginning today, the piracy check will be mandatory for all customers worldwide that want to download add-ons...

26 July 2005, 9:19

Firefox add-on Greasemonkey slips up

News The flaw affects versions of Greasemonkey prior to 0.3.5, including early 0.4 alphas, according to a posting on Mozdev.org, a site where developers post applications and add-ons. Greasemonkey is a popular add-on used to customise the design and...

21 July 2005, 9:04

'Podcessory' market hits 1,000-product mark

News The market for iPod add-ons, already booming, is starting to show signs of maturity. But, he said, the iPod add-ons now make up 20 per cent of Maxell's accessories business. In addition to selling older-model iPods and other companies' accessories...

16 January 2006, 10:14

Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 expected in June

News One of the Firefox's strengths is the collection of hundreds of add-ons, but that also means things move more slowly when programmers must update their projects to be compatible with Firefox 3. We're in a phase where we're letting add-ons get a...

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22 May 2008, 11:17

Code exchanges: We got that open-source feelin'

News IBM has offered its Sandbox site for many years, allowing customers using its Lotus office software to swap add-ons and customisations. There's no evidence, Lordan said, that the presence of free stuff has affected demand for commercial add-ons, a...

14 June 2004, 9:30

Images: Top ten extensions for Firefox 2

News MR Tech Local Install Not only will this extension-manager extension give you comprehensive control over all aspects of your add-ons, it can override the MaxVersionNumber of older extensions that haven't been updated for version 2.

17 November 2006, 10:40

Microsoft pushes for iPod-killing dock

News That makes it difficult for accessory manufacturers, which need to design add-ons that will work with the multiple formats. Buyers who spent several hundred pounds on an iPod can now take that same music and use it in the home and the car through...

1 December 2005, 9:57

Apple steps up iPod accessories 'tax'

News But for Apple, the move is a chance to profit further from the empire it has built on the iPod, given that the market for such add-ons is estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The latest crop of iPods has eliminated the top...

19 October 2005, 8:41

Wringing profits out of the Xbox 360

News The Mad Catz agreement, which refers to the Xbox 360 console by its Xenon code name, also hints at the type of security that Microsoft may use to ensure that third parties work with it to produce Xbox 360 add-ons.

11 August 2005, 9:50

Photos: New features in Firefox 3

News Improved within Firefox 3 are recommended plug-ins, or add-ons, within the browser. Without going to the Firefox Add-on page, you can surf and select new add-ons within the manager. The addons.mozilla.org site contains more than 5,000 add-ons with...

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19 June 2008, 9:18

Plucky start-up adds tools to IE

News Pluck's self-titled package of browser add-ons promises to affix a range of extensions to IE, including expanded Web searching capabilities, live content folder sharing and a so-called rich site summary (RSS) reader.

25 May 2004, 13:50

Apple's tune resonates throughout CES

News Well-known and little-known accessory makers alike were sporting new iPod add-ons. Some expect Apple to add a spreadsheet program to iWork that could be called Numbers, given Apple's trademark of that word.

10 January 2006, 11:05

iPod to transmit to radios?

News Several gadget blogs have speculated that Apple will build the technology into future versions of the iPod, putting pressure on companies that sell iPod add-ons that deliver similar capabilities, such as the popular iTrip from Griffin Technologies.

11 January 2006, 9:33

Adobe to open Lightroom to programmers

News It's the latest rage among Web 2.0 companies -- for example, countless Web sites rely on the Google Maps interface -- but software such as Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXpress have benefited from other companies' add-ons for years.

27 June 2007, 9:45